Iraq at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Iraq 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 Olympic Games since its debut in 1948.
| Iraq at the 2016 Summer Olympics | |
|---|---|
| IOC code | IRQ |
| NOC | National Olympic Committee of Iraq |
| Website | www |
| in Rio de Janeiro | |
| Competitors | 23 in 5 sports |
| Flag bearer | Waheed Abdul-Ridha |
| Medals |
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| Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |
The National Olympic Committee of Iraq selected a team of 23 male athletes to compete in six sports at the Games, with the men's football squad staging its Olympic comeback for the first time since 2004. Waheed Abdul-Ridha, Iraq's highest-ranked boxer and world no. 31 in the middleweight division, led the Iraqi team as the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony.
Iraq, however, failed to win its first Olympic medal, since the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where Abdul Wahid Aziz took the bronze in men's weightlifting.
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