1996 Summer Olympics / Participant (Rwanda)

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Rwanda participated in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta for the fourth time in the Summer Olympics. The team consisted of four male athletes who competed in four athletics competitions. The youngest participant was Alexis Sharangabo at 17 years and 263 days, the oldest was Mathias Ntawulikura at 32 years and 13 days. During the opening ceremony on July 19, 1996, the flag of Rwanda was carried into the Olympic Stadiumby Parfait Ntukamyagwe .

Attendees

Surname	Age	gender	sport	Result (s)
Patrick Ishyaka	23	male	athletics	marathon
Mathias Ntawulikura	32	male	athletics	8th place over 10,000 meters
Emmanuel Rubayiza	18th	male	athletics	7th place in the fifth heat over 400 meters
Alexis Sharangabo	17th	male	athletics	9th place in the fourth heat over 1500 meters

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

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