| Montenegro at the 2016 Summer Olympics | |
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| IOC code | MNE |
| NOC | Montenegrin Olympic Committee |
| Website | www |
| in Rio de Janeiro | |
| Competitors | 35 in 7 sports |
| Flag bearer | Bojana Popović[1] |
| Medals |
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| Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |
| Other related appearances | |
 Yugoslavia (1920–1992W) Independent Olympic Participants (1992S) Serbia and Montenegro (1996–2006) | |
Montenegro competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's third consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics since it gained independence from Serbia in 2006.
Montenegrin Olympic Committee sent a team of 35 athletes, 18 women and 17 men, to compete in seven different sports at the Olympics, matching the nation's roster size with London 2012.[2][3] Women's handball and men's water polo were the only team-based sports in which Montenegro had representatives at the Games. Among the sports represented by the athletes, Montenegro marked its Olympic debut in tennis.
The Montenegrin team featured a number of returning Olympians; seven of them have attended in every edition of the Games since Montenegro's official debut eight years earlier, including six water polo players, led by captain Predrag Jokić, and half-middleweight judoka Srđan Mrvaljević (men's 81 kg). Meanwhile, handball team captain Bojana Popović, who helped her fellow players deliver a historic silver-medal finish for Montenegro in London four years earlier, became the nation's first ever female athlete to carry the flag in the opening ceremony.[1]
Montenegro narrowly missed an opportunity to add another medal to its Olympic treasury in Rio de Janeiro, as the men's water polo team, led by Jokić, lost to the Italians for the bronze with a score 10–12.[4][5]
- ^ a b "Bojana Popović nosi zastavu na otvaranju Olimpijskih igara" [Bojana Popović will be the flag bearer at the Olympic opening ceremony] (in Montenegrin). Vijesti. Archived from the original on 26 July 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
- ^ "Balkan na OI: Srbi najbrojniji, Kosovo prvi put" [Balkans at the Olympics: Serbs are the most populated, Kosovars attend for the first time] (in Croatian). Al-Jazeera. 30 July 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
- ^ "Na OI 34 crnogorska sportista" [34 Montenegrin athletes will fly to Olympics] (in Croatian). PCNen. 24 July 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
- ^ Cooper, Cara (21 August 2016). "Italy returns to podium, defeats Montenegro for bronze in men's water polo". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
- ^ "Water polo team finished fourth in Rio". Montenegrin Olympic Committee. 21 August 2016. Archived from the original on 28 March 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2016.