Equatorial Guinea at the 2016 Summer Olympics
| Equatorial Guinea at the 2016 Summer Olympics |
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| IOC code | GEQ | ||||||||
| NOC | Equatoguinean Olympic Committee | ||||||||
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| Competitors | 2 in 1 sport | ||||||||
| Flag bearer | Reïna-Flor Okori | ||||||||
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Equatorial Guinea competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which was held from 5 to 21 August 2016. The country's participation at Rio marked its ninth appearance in the Summer Olympics since its début in the 1984 Summer Olympics. The delegation included two track and field atheltes, Benjamin Enzema and Reïna-Flor Okori who both qualified for the games via wildcards because their fastest times did not meet the required qualification standards, Okori was selected as the flag bearer for the opening and closing ceremonies. Enzema did not advance beyond the qualification round for the men's 800 metres event and Okori was unable to start the women's 100 metre hurdles contest.
Equatorial Guinea participated in nine Summer Games between its début at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The highest number of athletes sent by Equatorial Guinea to a summer games is seven to the 1992 Olympics. No Equatoguinean athlete has ever won a medal at the Olympic Games. Equatorial Guinea would participate in the Rio Summer Games from 5 to 21 August 2016. The Equatoguinean National Olympic Committee (NOC) selected two athletes via wildcards. Usually, an NOC would be able to enter up to three qualified athletes in each individual event as long as each athlete met the "A" standard, or one athlete per event if they met the "B" standard. However, since Equatorial Guinea had no athletes that met either standard, they were allowed to select two athletes, one of each gender, as wildcards.
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