Nauru at the 2016 Summer Olympics
| Nauru at the 2016 Summer Olympics | |||||||||
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| IOC code | NRU | ||||||||
| NOC | Nauru Olympic Committee | ||||||||
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| in Rio de Janeiro | |||||||||
| Competitors | 2 in 2 sports | ||||||||
| Flag bearer | Elson Brechtefeld[1] | ||||||||
| Medals |
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| Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |||||||||
Nauru competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's sixth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics.
Nauru National Olympic Committee selected two athletes to compete only in judo and weightlifting for the second straight time.[2] Nauru was one of four nations, alongside Iraq, Monaco, and Tuvalu, at these Games which did not send any female athletes, and also, one of the only two nations, along with Bhutan, whose athletes did not qualify in either the track and field or swimming. This was also the second-largest team sent to the Olympics, tying with Sydney 2000 and London 2012 for the number of athletes.
Among the Nauruan athletes were judoka Ovini Uera in the men's 90 kg category, and weightlifter and 2010 Youth Olympian Elson Brechtefeld (men's 56 kg), who led his delegation as the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony.[1][3]
Nauru, however, has yet to win its first ever Olympic medal. Brechtefeld finished fifteenth in his respective weight category, while Uera produced the nation's best result with an opening-round triumph over Belize's Renick James, before falling short of his next match to Georgia's Varlam Liparteliani.[4]
Judo
Nauru has qualified one judoka for the men's middleweight category (90 kg) at the Games. Ovini Uera earned a continental quota spot from the Oceania region, as Nauru's top-ranked judoka outside of direct qualifying position in the IJF World Ranking List of May 30, 2016.[5]
| Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage | Final / BM | |
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| Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Rank | ||
| Ovini Uera | Men's −90 kg | Bye |  James (BIZ)W 100–000 |
 Liparteliani (GEO)L 000–100 |
Did not advance | ||||
Weightlifting
Nauru has received an unused quota place from IWF to send a male weightlifter to the Olympics.[6]
| Athlete | Event | Snatch | Clean & Jerk | Total | Rank | ||
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| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||||
| Elson Brechtefeld | Men's −56 kg | 98 | 17 | 125 | 15 | 223 | 15 |
References
- 1 2 "The Flagbearers for the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
- ↑ Block, Melissa (14 August 2016). "Nauru's Olympic Team Is An Army Of Two". NPR. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
- ↑ "YOG athletes fly the flag in stunning Opening Ceremony". International Olympic Committee. 6 August 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
- ↑ Peritz, Ingrid (17 August 2016). "Rio Olympics 'a dream come true' for judo athlete from tiny island nation". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
- ↑ "IJF Officially Announces Qualified Athletes for Rio 2016 Olympic Games". International Judo Federation. 23 June 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
- ↑ "Second day of the IWF Executive Board meeting in Tbilisi". International Weightlifting Federation. 23 June 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2016.