Poland at the 2016 Summer Olympics
| Poland at the 2016 Summer Olympics |
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| IOC code | POL | ||||||||
| NOC | Polish Olympic Committee | ||||||||
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| in Rio de Janeiro | |||||||||
| Competitors | 243 in 23 sports | ||||||||
| Flag bearer |
Karol Bielecki (opening) Marta Walczykiewicz (closing) |
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Medals Ranked 33rd |
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| Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |||||||||
| Other related appearances | |||||||||
 Austria (1908–1912) Russian Empire (1912) |
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Poland competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's official debut in 1924, Polish athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games except the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, because of the country's support of the Soviet boycott.
The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games. Note that reserves in fencing and handball are not counted as athletes.
One Polish archer qualified for the women's individual recurve by obtaining one of the eight Olympic places available from the 2015 World Archery Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Polish athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):
On May 6, 2016, the Polish Olympic Committee had selected the first batch of track and field athletes for the Games, featuring double Worlds champion and London 2012 Olympian Paweł Fajdek (hammer throw) and Beijing 2008 silver medalist Piotr Małachowski (discus throw).
Poland has qualified five badminton players for each of the following events into the Olympic tournament. Adrian Dziółko was selected among the top 34 individual shuttlers in the men's singles, while the men's (Cwalina & Wacha) and mixed doubles (Mateusiak & Zięba) had claimed their Olympic spots each with a top 16 finish in the BWF World Rankings as of 5 May 2016.
Poland has entered two boxers to compete in each of the following weight classes into the Olympic boxing tournament. Tomasz Jabłoński was the only Polish boxer to be selected to the Olympic team with a top two finish of his respective division in the World Series of Boxing. Meanwhile, world no. 1 seed Igor Jakubowski had claimed an Olympic place as the winner and sole recipient of the men's heavyweight division at the 2016 AIBA World Qualifying Tournament in Baku.
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