Germany at the 2016 Summer Olympics
| Germany at the 2016 Summer Olympics |
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| IOC code | GER | ||||||||
| NOC | German Olympic Sports Confederation | ||||||||
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| Competitors | 422 in 27 sports | ||||||||
| Flag bearer |
Timo Boll (opening) Sebastian Brendel (closing) |
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Medals Ranked 5th |
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| Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |||||||||
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1906 Intercalated Games Saar (1952) United Team of Germany (1956–1964) East Germany (1968–1988) West Germany (1968–1988) |
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Germany competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, from 3 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's seventh consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics after its reunification in 1990.
The following German competitors won medals at the Games.
The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games. Note that reserves in fencing, field hockey, football, and handball are not counted as athletes:
Two German archers qualified for both the men's and women's individual recurve by obtaining one of the eight Olympic places available from the 2015 World Archery Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark. Following the completion of internal selections, Florian Floto and Lisa Unruh were named to the German archery team on June 23, 2016.
German athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event): The team will select its athletes with a specific qualifying standard based on the results at the 2015 IAAF World Championships, the 2016 European Championships, Olympic trials, and other events approved by the German Athletics Association.
On May 31, 2016, six marathon runners (three per gender), highlighted by London 2012 Olympian Arne Gabius, were the first batch of German track and field athletes to be selected to the Olympic roster. On July 28, 2016, Arne Gabius declared his withdrawal from the Games due to a hip injury.
Following the end of the qualifying period, a total of 86 athletes (38 men and 48 women) were named to the track and field team for the Games; 28 of them managed to achieve their results at the German Championships (June 19 to 26), while the remainder were added through a discretionary selection criteria by the German Athletics Association. Notable German athletes featured reigning Olympic discus throw champion Robert Harting and his younger brother Christoph, shot put runner-up David Storl, hammer thrower Betty Heidler, pole vaulter Raphael Holzdeppe, Worlds medalists Gesa Felicitas Krause and Christina Schwanitz, and javelin thrower and current world leader Thomas Röhler.
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