2016 Summer Olympics / Participants (Independent Olympians)
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The Team of Independent Olympians , Team IOT for short, was the name of the team of Kuwaiti athletes who started as Independent Olympians at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . The background to this was that the National Olympic Committee of Kuwait was excluded from participation in the Rio Games by the IOC in October 2015 due to political interference.
The Olympic flag and the Olympic anthem were used as symbols of the team . The team was not to be confused with the refugee team , which also ran under the Olympic flag. The most successful Kuwaiti athlete to date, marksman Fehaid Al-Deehani , refused to carry the team's flag when he marched in, as he could only carry the Kuwait flag as a soldier.
Fehaid Al-Deehani won the competition in double trap , making him the first Kuwaiti and also the first independent athlete to win gold and a medal at the Olympic Games. No anthem was played when he won. Abdullah Al-Rashidi also won the bronze medal in the skeet. In the competition he wore an Arsenal jersey .
Participants by sport
fencing
| Athletes | competition | 1 round | 2nd round | Round of 16 | Quarter finals | Semifinals / classification | Final / placement | rank | ||||||
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| opponent | Result | opponent | Result | opponent | Result | opponent | Result | opponent | Result | opponent | Result | |||
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| Abdulaziz Al-Shatti | Epee single |
András Rédli
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13:14 | eliminated | ||||||||||
shoot
| Athletes | competition | qualification | Semifinals | final | Rings / discs |
rank | ||||
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| Rings / discs |
rank | Rings / discs |
rank | Rings / discs |
rank | |||||
| Men | ||||||||||
| Abdulrahman Al-Faihan | Trap | 115 | 14th | eliminated | 115 | 14th | ||||
| Khaled Al-Mudhaf | Trap | 117 | 8th | eliminated | 117 | 8th | ||||
| Ahmad Al-Afasi | Double trap | 128 | 15th | eliminated | 128 | 15th | ||||
| Fehaid Al-Deehani | Double trap | 135 | 6th | 28 | 1 | 26th | 1 | 189 | gold | |
| Abdullah Al-Rashidi | Skeet | 123 | 1 | 14th | 4th | 16 | 3 | 153 | bronze | |
| Saud Habib | Skeet | 117 | 20th | eliminated | 117 | 20th | ||||
swim
| Athletes | competition | leader | Semifinals | final | rank | |||
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| time | rank | time | rank | time | rank | |||
| Women | ||||||||
| Faye Sultan | 50 m freestyle | 26.86 s | 54 | eliminated | 54 | |||
| Men | ||||||||
| Abbas Qali | 100 m butterfly | 54.63 s | 36 | eliminated | 36 | |||
Web links
- Independent Olympic Athletes on rio2016.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ RAN: Kuwait's Olympic hero does not want to be a neutral flag bearer
- ↑ SPIEGEL: First medal for an independent team
- ↑ SPIEGEL: Shooter from Kuwait wins bronze in the FC Arsenal jersey
