| Morocco at the 2016 Summer Olympics | |
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| IOC code | MAR |
| NOC | Moroccan Olympic Committee Arabic: اللجنة الأولمبية الوطنية المغربية |
| Website | www |
| in Rio de Janeiro | |
| Competitors | 49 in 13 sports |
| Flag bearers | Abdelkebir Ouaddar (opening)[1] Wiam Dislam (closing) |
| Medals Ranked 78th |
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| Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Morocco competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's fourteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics.
Moroccan Olympic Committee (French: Comité Olympique Marocain) fielded a squad of 49 athletes, 29 men and 20 women, across 13 sports at the Games.[2] It was the nation's largest delegation sent to the Olympics without any participants in team-based sports, but third-largest overall in history. Nearly forty percent of the Moroccan delegation competed in the track and field; there was only a single competitor each in slalom canoeing, equestrian, fencing, golf (new to the 2016 Games), and shooting.
Fifteen athletes on the Moroccan roster competed at the previous Olympics in London, with the rest of the field making their Olympic debut in Rio de Janeiro. Among the nation's athletes were 2012 bronze medalist Abdalaati Iguider in distance running, taekwondo fighter Wiam Dislam (women's +67 kg), Greco-Roman wrestler Zied Ayet Ikram, who competed for Tunisia at the previous Games, and 54-year-old show jumper Abdelkebir Ouaddar, who led his delegation as the oldest competitor and flag bearer in the opening ceremony.[1]
For the second Olympics in a row, Morocco left Rio de Janeiro with only a bronze medal, won by world-ranked pro boxer Mohammed Rabii in the men's welterweight division.[3][4] Five Moroccan athletes advanced to the finals of their respective sporting events but narrowly missed out of the podium, including Iguider, Dislam, along with her fellow taekwondo teammates Omar Hajjami and Naima Bakkal, and steeplechaser Soufiane Elbakkali.
- ^ a b "Abdelkébir Ouaddar désigné porte-drapeau du Maroc aux JO de Rio de Janeiro" [Abdelkebir Ouaddar will be the flag bearer for Morocco at the Rio Olympics] (in French). Morocco: Le Matin. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ^ Ichi, Abderrahmane (29 July 2016). "Jeux olympiques de Rio de Janeiro: Le Maroc à fond derrière ses athlètes" [Rio Olympics: Morocco sends off its athletes] (in French). Morocco: Le Matin. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ "Rio Olympics: Morocco's Rabii wins boxing bronze". Al-Bawaba. 16 August 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ "Rio 2016: le Marocain Rabii en bronze en boxe" [Rio 2016: Morocco's Rabii earns a bronze in boxing] (in French). Africa Top Sports. 18 August 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.