Equatorial Guinea at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Equatorial Guinea at the 2016 Summer Olympics | ||
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Flag bearer Reïna-Flor Okori | | |
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Background
Equatorial Guinea participated in nine Summer Games between its début at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[1] No Equatoguinean athlete has ever won a medal at the Olympic Games.[1] Equatorial Guinea participated in the Rio Summer Games from 5 to 21 August 2016.[2]
The two athletes that were selected to compete in the Rio Games were athletics competitors Benjamín Enzema and Reïna-Flor Okori.[2] Equatorial Guinea was one of several countries who sent a delegation of two athletes in 2016, with only Tuvalu sending a single competitor.[2] Meanwhile, the number of competitors of Equatoguinean descent representing other nations was even higher than the Equatoguinean itself – they were three, all of them with Spain: judoka María Bernabéu,[3] handball player Marta Mangué[4] and athlete Aauri Bokesa.[5]
Along with the two athletes, the country's delegation was led by the vice-president of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue.[6] The country's Olympic women's football team failed to qualify for the Games following a defeat to South Africa on aggregate in a two-leg playoff match in October 2015.[7] Okori was selected as the flag bearer for both the opening and closing ceremonies.[8][9]
Athletics (track and field)
Benjamin Enzema was the sole male athlete representing Equatorial Guinea at the Rio Games at age 27. He had previously competed at the 2012 Summer Games.[2] Enzema qualified for the Games via a wildcard as his fastest time of 1 minute, 53.35 seconds, set at the 2015 African Games, was 7.55 seconds slower than the qualifying standard for his event, the men's 800 metres.[10][11] He was drawn in the third heat on 12 August, finishing eighth out of nine athletes, with a time of 1 minute, 52.14 seconds. Overall, Enzema finished 50th out of 54 runners,[a] and was unable to advance to the later rounds because he finished 7.15 seconds slower than the slowest competitor in his heat who progressed to the second round.[12]
Reïna-Flor Okori, at age 36, was the only Equatoguinean female competitor. She had previously competed at the previous three Summer Games but with the French Olympic team.[13] She was notable for being the flag bearer for the opening and closing ceremonies.[8][9] Okori qualified for the Games via a wildcard because she had not recorded a qualifying standard time for her event, the women's 100 metre hurdles.[14][13] She spent time training in Equatorial Guinea and France preparing for the Games.[13][15] In an interview before the Games Okori said she aimed to reach the final stage of her event and earn Equatorial Guinea's first Olympic gold medal.[15] She was due to compete in the contest's sixth heat on 16 August alongside seven other participants but was unable to start the event because of a ruptured popliteal cyst.[16][17]
- Key
- Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
- Track & road events
Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | |||
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Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
Benjamín Enzema | Men's 800 m | 1:52.14 | 8 | Did not advance[12] | |||
Reïna-Flor Okori | Women's 100 m hurdles | DNS | Did not advance[16][17] |
Notes
References
- ^ a b "Countries – Equatorial Guinea". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 5 August 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ^ a b c d Stewart, Megan. "Table for one? Meet the 10 smallest delegations at Rio 2016". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 29 July 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
- ^ "Results – Women 70kg – Judo – Rio 2016 – Olympics". BBC Sport.
- ^ "Marta Mangue Gonzalez – Olympic Facts and Results". Olympian Database.
- ^ "Aauri Lorena Bokesa – Olympic Facts and Results". Olympian Database.
- ^ "Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue accompanies athletes to the Olympics in Rio". Guinea Equatorial Press. 8 August 2016. Archived from the original on 7 February 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ Morgan, Liam (11 April 2016). "FIFA ban Equatorial Guinea women from qualifying for Tokyo 2020 over forged documents". Inside the Games. Archived from the original on 7 February 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ a b "Porte-drapeau de la Guinée équatoriale!" [Flag bearer for Equatorial Guinea!]. L'Est Républicain (in French). 2 August 2016. Archived from the original on 4 August 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- ^ a b "Rio 2016 Closing Ceremony – Flag Bearers" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. 21 August 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 November 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
- IAAF. Archivedfrom the original on 28 October 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
- ^ "IAAF Games of the XXX Olympiad – Rio 2016 Entry Standards" (PDF). IAAF. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 April 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
- ^ a b c "2016 Summer Olympics – Results – Athletics – Men's 800m". ESPN. Archived from the original on 7 February 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ a b c Bouys, Gabriel (3 August 2016). "JO 2016: Reina-Flor Okori, quatre Jeux, deux pays" [OJ 2016: Reina-Flor Okori, four Games, two countries]. Radio France Internationale (in French). Agence France-Presse. Archived from the original on 7 February 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ "Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). International Association of Athletic Federations. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
- ^ a b Mangue Alima, Soledad (9 May 2016). "The athlete Reina Okori home for training". Guinea Equatorial Press. Archived from the original on 7 August 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ a b "Olympics-Athletics-Women's 100m hurdles round 1 results". Reuters. 16 August 2016. Archived from the original on 7 February 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ a b Straboni, Julie (21 August 2016). "Ces ultra-marins qui ont vécu les JO de l'intérieur" [These ultra-mariners who lived the Olympics of the interior]. France Info (in French). Archived from the original on 18 February 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
External links
- Equatorial Guinea at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Rio2016.com. at the Wayback Machine (archived 26 August 2016)
- Equatorial Guinea at the 2016 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics (archived)