South Korea at the 2016 Summer Olympics
| South Korea at the 2016 Summer Olympics |
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| IOC code | KOR | ||||||||
| NOC | Korean Olympic Committee | ||||||||
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| Competitors | 204 in 24 sports | ||||||||
| Flag bearer |
Gu Bon-gil (opening) Kim Hyeon-woo (closing) |
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Medals Ranked 8th |
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South Korea (officially the Republic of Korea) competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's seventeenth appearance at the Olympics. The Korean Olympic Committee sent the nation's smallest ever delegation to the Games in Olympic history since 1984. A total of 204 athletes, 103 men and 101 women, competed in 24 sports.
The following South Korean competitors won medals at the Games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.
The Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) selected a team of 204 athletes, 103 men and 101 women, to compete in 22 sports; it was the nation's smallest team sent to the Olympics since 1984, just six athletes relatively short of its size. South Korea did not qualify athletes in basketball, rugby sevens, tennis, and triathlon.
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:
South Korean archers qualified each for the men's and women's events after having secured a top eight finish in their respective team recurves at the 2015 World Archery Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark.
With a top eight placement at the Worlds, the spots for the three men and three women from South Korea will be determined in two national selection meets by April 2016. The South Korean archery team, led by London 2012 Olympic champion Ki Bo-bae, was announced on April 19, 2016. On August 5, 2016, South Korea's Kim Woo-jin set a world record by scoring 700/720 in the Men's individual & team ranking rounds.
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