Morocco at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 45 in 7 sports | |||||||||||
Medals | Gold 0 |
Silver 0 |
Bronze 0 |
Total 0 |
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Morocco is scheduled to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This will be the nation's fourteenth appearance at the Olympics, with the exception of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of its partial support to the US-led boycott.
Athletics
Moroccan athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):[1][2]
- Men's 100 m – 1 quota place
- Men's 800 m – 3 quota places
- Men's 1500 m – 3 quota places
- Men's 5000 m – 3 quota places
- Men's 10000 m – 1 quota place
- Men's 3000 m steeplechase – 3 quota places
- Men's marathon – 3 quota places
- Women's 800 m – 2 quota places
- Women's 1500 m – 3 quota places
- Women's 400 m hurdles – 1 quota place
- Women's 3000 m steeplechase – 3 quota places
- Women's marathon – 2 quota places
Boxing
Morocco has entered eight boxers to compete in each of the following weight classes into the Olympic boxing tournament. Mohammed Rabii was the only Moroccan to be selected to the Olympic team through the 2015 World Championships, while Achraf Kharroubi finished among the top two of his respective division in the World Series of Boxing.[3]
Three men's boxers (El-Barbari, Harnouf, and Arjaoui) and three women's boxers (Ez-Zahraoui, Lachgar, and El-Mardi) had claimed their Olympic spots at the 2016 African Qualification Tournament in Yaoundé, Cameroon.[4][5]
- Men
Athlete | Event | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |
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Achraf Kharroubi | Flyweight | ||||||
Hamza El-Barbari | Light welterweight | ||||||
Mohammed Rabii | Welterweight | ||||||
Said Harnouf | Middleweight | ||||||
Mohamed Arjaoui | Super heavyweight |
- Women
Athlete | Event | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |
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Opposition Result |
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Zohra Ez-Zahraoui | Flyweight | |||||
Hasnaa Lachgar | Lightweight | |||||
Khadija El-Mardi | Middleweight |
Canoeing
Slalom
Morocco has qualified one canoeist in the women's K-1 class by obtaining a top finish at the 2015 African Canoe Slalom Championships in Sagana, Kenya.[6][7]
Athlete | Event | Preliminary | Semifinal | Final | |||||||
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Run 1 | Rank | Run 2 | Rank | Best | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Hind Jamili | Women's K-1 |
Cycling
Road
Moroccan riders qualified for a maximum of three quota places in the men's Olympic road race by virtue of their top 4 national ranking in the 2015 UCI Africa Tour.[8]
Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
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Men's road race | |||
Men's time trial | |||
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Equestrian
Morocco has entered one jumping rider into the Olympic equestrian competition by virtue of a top national finish from Africa & Middle East in the individual FEI Olympic Rankings.[9]
Jumping
Athlete | Horse | Event | Qualification | Final | Total | ||||||||||||
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Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round A | Round B | |||||||||||||
Penalties | Rank | Penalties | Total | Rank | Penalties | Total | Rank | Penalties | Rank | Penalties | Total | Rank | Penalties | Rank | |||
Abdelkebir Ouaddar | Quickly de Kreisker | Individual |
Fencing
Morocco has entered one fencer into the Olympic competition. Youssra Zekrani had claimed her Olympic spot as the sole winner of the women's foil at the African Zonal Qualifier in Algiers, Algeria.
- Women
Athlete | Event | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / BM | |
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Youssra Zekrani | Individual foil |
Taekwondo
Morocco entered one athlete into the taekwondo competition at the Olympics. Omar Hajjami, Hakima El-Meslahy, and 2012 Olympian Wiam Dislam secured the spots on the Moroccan team respectively in the men's flyweight (58 kg), women's lightweight (57 kg), and women's heavyweight category (+67 kg) by virtue of their top two finish at the 2016 African Qualification Tournament in Agadir.[10]
Athlete | Event | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage | Bronze Medal | Final | |
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Opposition Result |
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Rank | ||
Omar Hajjami | Men's −58 kg | |||||||
Hakima El-Meslahy | Women's −57 kg | |||||||
Wiam Dislam | Women's +67 kg |
Wrestling
Morocco has qualified three wrestlers for each of the following weight classes into the Olympic competition, as a result of their semifinal triumphs at the 2016 African & Oceania Qualification Tournament.[11]
Key:
- VT - Victory by Fall.
- PP - Decision by Points - the loser with technical points.
- PO - Decision by Points - the loser without technical points.
- Men's freestyle
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Repechage 1 | Repechage 2 | Final / BM | |
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Chakir Ansari | −57 kg |
- Men's Greco-Roman
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Repechage 1 | Repechage 2 | Final / BM | |
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Opposition Result |
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Mehdi Messaoudi | −59 kg | ||||||||
Zied Ayet Ikram | −75 kg |
See also
References
- ↑ "iaaf.org – Top Lists". IAAF. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
- ↑ "IAAF Games of the XXX Olympiad – Rio 2016 Entry Standards" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
- ↑ "First 60 boxers from 24 countries confirmed for Rio 2016 as early Olympic quota places taken up". AIBA. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
- ↑ "Weekend’s finalists confirmed as first boxers from African Olympic qualification event secure quota places for Rio". AIBA. 18 March 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
- ↑ "Morocco take all three women’s quota places and nine nations share the men’s titles on final day of African Olympic Qualification". AIBA. 20 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
- ↑ "Le Maroc obtient son ticket pour Rio 2016" [Morocco books its ticket to Rio 2016] (in French). Morocco: Le Matin. 8 November 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
- ↑ "Three more nations enter the Rio race". International Canoe Federation. 10 November 2015. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
- ↑ "UCI announces men's road Olympic quotas". Cyclingnews.com. 18 January 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
- ↑ "Six nations make Olympic and Paralympic débuts at Rio 2016 equestrian events". FEI. 24 March 2016. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
- ↑ "Ten countries secure Rio 2016 places at taekwondo African Qualification Tournament". World Taekwondo Federation. 8 February 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
- ↑ "Wrestling for Rio 2016". United World Wrestling. Retrieved 19 September 2015.