Azerbaijan's 2016 Rio delegation was its largest ever Olympic team, winning 18 medals for its best Olympic result as an independent nation.
Key Facts
- Athletes fielded
- 56 (42 men, 14 women)
- Sports competed in
- 14
- Total medals
- 18 (1 gold, 7 silver, 10 bronze)
- Olympic debut sports
- Archery, slalom canoeing, track cycling, triathlon
- Consecutive Summer Olympics
- 6th consecutive appearance
- Athletes born outside Azerbaijan
- More than 60 percent of roster
By the Numbers
Location
Cause → Event → Consequence
Azerbaijan's National Olympic Committee selected its largest-ever delegation of 56 athletes for the 2016 Games, surpassing the previous record of 53 set in London 2012. The team included many athletes born outside Azerbaijan, several from Russia and Ukraine, while the weightlifting squad was excluded after the IWF stripped its quota places due to multiple doping violations.
Azerbaijan competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro from 5 to 21 August 2016, fielding athletes across 14 sports including four Olympic debuts. The team of 36 rookies and 20 returning Olympians was led into the opening ceremony by Teymur Mammadov. Radik Isayev secured the nation's sole gold in taekwondo, while wrestling and taekwondo produced the bulk of the medal haul.
Azerbaijan concluded the Rio Games with 18 medals, its most successful Olympic outcome as an independent nation. Nine medals came from wrestling, three from taekwondo, and two each from boxing, sprint canoeing, and judo. Notable performers included Inna Osypenko-Radomska, who earned her fifth career Olympic medal, and Mariya Stadnik, who repeated her London silver in freestyle wrestling.
Result
at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil