| Palestine at the 2016 Summer Olympics | |
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| IOC code | PLE |
| NOC | Palestine Olympic Committee |
| Website | www |
| in Rio de Janeiro | |
| Competitors | 6 in 4 sports |
| Flag bearer | Mayada Al-Sayad[1] |
| Medals |
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| Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Palestine 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.
Palestine Olympic Committee sent the nation's largest ever delegation to the Games. A total of six athletes, four men and two women, were selected to the Palestinian team across four different sports.[2] Four of them were invited to compete in their respective sporting events, with the other two qualifying for the Games on merit. Among the sports represented by the athletes, Palestine marked its Olympic debut in equestrian.
The Palestinian roster featured middle-distance freestyle swimmer Ahmed Gebrel, the lone returning Olympian from London 2012, and three of its athletes being born and raised in Germany: judoka Simon Yacoub (men's 66 kg), Dressage horse rider and dual citizen Christian Zimmermann, and marathon runner Mayada Al-Sayad, who led the delegation as the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony, the second female in history since Sanna Abubkheet did so in 2004.[3] Palestine, whose athletes have been allowed to compete under its flag by the International Olympic Committee only since 1996, has yet to win its first Olympic medal.
- ^ "The Flagbearers for the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
- ^ "Six Palestinian athletes participating in Rio Olympics". Palestine News Network. 2 August 2016. Archived from the original on 14 September 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
- ^ Lieber, Dov (2 August 2016). "Palestinians send 6 athletes to Rio — half of them Germans". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 28 September 2016.