Moldova at the 2016 Summer Olympics
| Moldova at the 2016 Summer Olympics |
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| IOC code | MDA | ||||||||
| NOC | National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Moldova | ||||||||
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| Competitors | 23 in 8 sports | ||||||||
| Flag bearer | Nicolae Ceban | ||||||||
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 Russian Empire (1900–1912) Romania (1924–1936) Soviet Union (1952–1988) Unified Team (1992) |
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Moldova (officially the Republic of Moldova) competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's sixth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era.
The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Moldova fielded a squad of 23 athletes, 14 men and 9 women, across eight different sports at the Games. Although its full roster was roughly larger by a single athlete than in London four years earlier, this was still one of Moldova's smallest delegations sent to the Olympics. Among the sports represented by the nation's athletes, Moldova marked its Olympic debut in taekwondo and tennis, as well as its return to sprint canoeing after two decades.
Of the 23 participants, fifteen of them made their Olympic debut in Rio de Janeiro, including flatwater canoeist Oleg Tarnovschi and his younger brother Serghei, who earned Moldova's first ever gold medal at the Youth Olympics in Nanjing two years earlier. Meanwhile, eight of them had past Olympic experience, highlighted by hammer thrower Serghei Marghiev and his older sisters Zalina Marghieva and Marina Nichișenco, shot putter Ivan Emilianov, who qualified for his fourth Games as the oldest and most experienced competitor (aged 39), taekwondo fighter Aaron Cook, who transferred his allegiance from Great Britain after controversially failing to make the London Games in 2012, and freestyle wrestler Nicolae Ceban, who reprised his role of leading the Moldovan team for the second time as the flag bearer in the opening ceremony.
Moldova originally left Rio de Janeiro with only a bronze medal won by the younger Tarnovschi in the men's C-1 1000 metres. On August 18, 2016, he was provisionally suspended from the Games by the International Olympic Committee and International Canoe Federation for failing a pre-competition drug test, and might stand himself to become the third athlete to be stripped of his medal should the ban upheld.
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