Colombia at the 2016 Summer Olympics
| Colombia at the 2016 Summer Olympics |
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| IOC code | COL | ||||||||
| NOC | Colombian Olympic Committee | ||||||||
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| Competitors | 147 in 23 sports | ||||||||
| Flag bearer | Yuri Alvear | ||||||||
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Medals Ranked 23rd |
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Colombia competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's nineteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics. The Colombian Olympic Committee (Spanish: Comité Olímpico Colombiano) sent the nation's largest ever delegation to the Games, with 147 athletes, 74 men and 73 women, competing across 23 sports.
Colombia returned home from Rio de Janeiro with a total of eight medals (three gold, two silver, and three bronze), marking the nation's most successful outcome in Summer Olympic history based on the gold medal count. Moreover, it matched the overall medal tally from the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Two of these medals were each awarded to the Colombian team in BMX cycling, boxing, and weightlifting, and one in athletics and judo.
The most significant highlight of the Games came from BMX rider Mariana Pajón, who successfully defended her title in the women's race and set a historic record as the first Colombian to receive two Olympic gold medals. Apart from Pajón, triple jumper Caterine Ibargüen, and weightlifting veteran Óscar Figueroa also helped the Colombians bring home more golds from Rio de Janeiro than ever before, with Figueroa becoming the first male from his country to top the podium at his fourth and final Olympics.
Boxers Yuberjen Martínez (men's light flyweight) and Ingrit Valencia (women's flyweight) collected two of the country's medals in their signature sport for the first time since 1988, while judoka and triple world champion Yuri Alvear joined the elite club made up of Pajon and freestyle wrestler Jackeline Rentería as the only Colombian women with two Olympic medals, upgrading her bronze from London to a silver in the women's 70 kg division. The remaining medals went to BMX rider Carlos Ramirez in the men's race, and weightlifter Luis Javier Mosquera, who received the bronze in the men's 69 kg, following the disqualification of Kyrgyzstan's Izzat Artykov over a doping offense.
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