1996 Summer Olympics / Participant (Cook Islands)

COK

-	-	-

The Cook Islands took part in the Olympic Games for the third time at the 1996 Summer Olympics . The team consisted of three athletes, two men and one woman. They started in three competitions in three sports. The youngest participant was track and field athlete Mark Sherwin at 26 years and 186 days, and the oldest was weightlifter Samuel Nunuke Pera at 27 years and 116 days. The Cook Islands flag was carried into the Olympic Stadium by Samuel Nunuke Pera during the opening ceremony on July 19, 1996.

Attendees

Surname	Age	gender	sport	Result (s)
Samuel Nunuke Pera	27	male	Weightlifting	24th place in the heavyweight division
Mark Sherwin	26th	male	athletics	9th place in the twelfth heat over 100 meters
Turia bird	26th	Female	sailing	22nd place in windsurfing

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 .
• Official report on the 1996 Summer Olympics. Part three. ( PDF file; 26.90 MB )

Web links

• The Cook Islands at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )