Singapore at the 2016 Summer Olympics
| Singapore at the 2016 Summer Olympics |
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| IOC code | SGP | ||||||||
| NOC | Singapore National Olympic Council | ||||||||
| Website | www |
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| in Rio de Janeiro | |||||||||
| Competitors | 25 in 7 sports | ||||||||
| Flag bearer |
Derek Wong Zi Liang (opening) Griselda Khng (closing) |
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Medals Ranked 54th |
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| Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |||||||||
| Other related appearances | |||||||||
 Malaysia (1964) |
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Singapore competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's sixteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics.
The Singapore National Olympic Council sent a team of 25 athletes, 9 men and 16 women, to compete in seven different sports at the Games, matching the nation's full roster size with Beijing. For the fourth consecutive time in its Summer Olympic history, the Singaporean roster also featured more female athletes than males. Sailing had the largest team by sport with a total of ten competitors, roughly forty percent of the nation's full roster size; there was only a single competitor in rowing, the country's Olympic debut in Rio de Janeiro.
The Singaporean roster featured nine returning Olympians, with table tennis players Gao Ning and Feng Tianwei, who held a tally of three medals (one silver and two bronze) throughout her Olympic career, headed to their third straight Games. Seven Singaporean athletes, on the other hand, returned for their second appearance in Rio de Janeiro, including rifle shooter Jasmine Ser Xiang Wei, world-ranked butterfly swimmer Joseph Schooling, along with siblings Quah Zheng Wen and Quah Ting Wen, sailors Colin Cheng and Elizabeth Yue Ling Yin, and badminton player Derek Wong Zi Liang, who was selected to lead the delegation as the flag bearer in the opening ceremony, the first by a male since 2004.
Singapore left Rio de Janeiro with its first ever gold medal in Olympic history. It was awarded to Schooling, who did not only beat all-time medal leader and his personal hero Michael Phelps, but also established a new Olympic record to claim the men's 100 m butterfly title.
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