Senegal at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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| IOC code | SEN | ||||||||
| NOC | Comité National Olympique et Sportif Sénégalais | ||||||||
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| Competitors | 22 in 7 sports | ||||||||
| Flag bearer | Isabelle Sambou | ||||||||
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Senegal competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, from August 5 to 21, 2016. This was the nation's fourteenth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics since its debut in 1964.
The Senegalese National Olympic and Sports Committee (French: Comité National Olympique et Sportif Sénégalais, CNOSS) confirmed a team of 22 athletes, 6 men and 16 women, to compete in seven different sports at the Games. The nation's full roster in Rio de Janeiro was roughly nine athletes smaller than those sent to the London Games, and also featured more female athletes than male for the third time in its Summer Olympic history. Women's basketball was the only team-based sport in which Senegal had representatives at the Games, returning to the Olympic scene for the first time since 2000.
The Senegalese roster featured four returning Olympians from London 2012; among them were French-born épée fencer Alexandre Bouzaid, hammer thrower Amy Sene, judoka Hortense Diédhiou, who became the nation's first female athlete to compete in four Olympic Games. Meanwhile, freestyle wrestler Isabelle Sambou, who narrowly missed out the nation's first medal in twenty-four years, led the delegation as the most successful athlete of the previous Games and as Senegal's flag bearer in the opening ceremony.
Senegal left Rio de Janeiro with only bronze medal since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where Amadou Dia Bâ obtained the silver in the men's 400 m hurdles.
Senegalese athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):
Senegal women's basketball team qualified for the Olympics by winning the gold medal and clinching the outright Olympic berth at the AfroBasket Women 2015 in Yaoundé, Cameroon, signifying the nation's return to the sport for the first time since 2000.
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