Venezuela at the 2016 Summer Olympics
| Venezuela at the 2016 Summer Olympics |
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| IOC code | VEN | ||||||||
| NOC | Venezuelan Olympic Committee | ||||||||
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| Competitors | 87 in 20 sports | ||||||||
| Flag bearer | Rubén Limardo | ||||||||
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Medals Ranked 65th |
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Venezuela competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's eighteenth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics.
The Venezuelan Olympic Committee (Spanish: Comité Olímpico Venezolano, COV) fielded a team of 87 athletes, 62 men and 25 women, to compete in twenty sports at the Games. It was the nation's second-largest delegation sent to the Olympics, falling short of the record for the most number of athletes achieved in Beijing 2008 (108) by nearly twenty percent. Men's basketball was the only team-based sport in which Venezuela had its representatives at these Games, returning to the Olympic scene for the first time since 1992. Venezuela also marked its debut in golf (new to the 2016 Games) and women's beach volleyball, as well as its return to equestrian, rowing, taekwondo after eight years.
The Venezuelan roster featured 28 returning Olympians, with fencers Silvio Fernández and Alejandra Benítez, along with multiple-stroke swimmer Albert Subirats, headed to their fourth Games as the most experienced competitors of the team. Other notable Venezuelan athletes included artistic gymnast Jessica López, amateur welterweight boxer and Pan American Games champion Gabriel Maestre, 2015 world BMX champion Stefany Hernández, and fencing brothers Francisco and Rubén Limardo, who became the nation's first gold medalist since 1968 at the previous Games. Looking to defend his men's épée title in Rio de Janeiro, the elder Limardo was selected by the public through a nationwide online vote to carry the Venezuelan flag at the opening ceremony, the first by a male after 12 years.
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