Refugee Olympic Team
Refugee Olympic Team , (German Olympic refugee team), ROT for short , was the name of a team that started at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and consisted of athletes who, as recognized refugees, could not compete for their home country. Originally the team was to be called Team Refugee Olympic Athletes ( ROA ), later the final name was used by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The Olympic flag and the Olympic anthem were used as symbols of the team . When the participating athletes marched in during the opening ceremony , the ROT team appeared as the penultimate team immediately before the host country Brazil . The equipment and funding was provided as part of the Olympic Solidarity, an aid program of the IOC.
In order to set up Team RED, the National Olympic Committees were asked by the IOC to name suitable athletes who were both recognized as refugees and who fulfilled the athletic qualifications. The final selection of the athletes and other team members, including a Chef de Mission , coaches and technical officials, was made by the IOC Executive Board.
Members of the team
In June 2016, the IOC named the following ten athletes as members of Team ROT:
Surname | Homeland | Host country | sport | discipline |
---|---|---|---|---|
James Chiengjiek | South Sudan | Kenya | athletics | 400 m (men) |
Yiech Biel | South Sudan | Kenya | athletics | 800 m (men) |
Paulo Amotun Lokoro | South Sudan | Kenya | athletics | 1500 m (men) |
Yona's children | Ethiopia | Luxembourg | athletics | Marathon (men) |
Popole Misenga | DR Congo | Brazil | Judo | Middleweight (men) |
Rami anise | Syria | Belgium | swim | 100 m butterfly (men) |
Rose Lokonyen | South Sudan | Kenya | athletics | 800 m (women) |
Anjelina Lohalith | South Sudan | Kenya | athletics | 1500 m (women) |
Yolande Mabika | DR Congo | Brazil | Judo | Middleweight (women) |
Yusra Mardini | Syria | Germany | swim | 100 m freestyle and 100 m butterfly (women) |
Long-distance runner and former marathon world record holder Tegla Loroupe from Kenya acted as Chef de Mission .
Participants by sport
athletics
Running and walking
Athletes | competition | Round 1 | Semifinals | final | rank | |||
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time | rank | time | rank | time | rank | |||
Women | ||||||||
Rose Lokonyen | 800 m | 2: 16.64 min | 61 | eliminated | 61 | |||
Anjelina Lohalith | 1500 m | 4: 47.38 min | 40 | eliminated | 40 | |||
Men | ||||||||
James Chiengjiek | 400 m | 52.89 s | 50 | eliminated | 50 | |||
Yiech Biel | 800 m | 1: 54.67 min | 54 | eliminated | 54 | |||
Paulo Lokoro | 1500 m | 4: 03.96 min | 39 | eliminated | 39 | |||
Yona's children | marathon | - | - | 2:24:08 h | 90 | 90 |
Judo
Athletes | competition | 1 round | 2nd round | Quarter finals | Semi-finals / consolation round | Final / 3rd place | rank | |||||
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opponent | Result | opponent | Result | opponent | Result | opponent | Result | opponent | Result | |||
Women | ||||||||||||
Yolande Mabika | up to 70 kg | L. Bolder | 000s0: 110s0 | eliminated | 17th | |||||||
Men | ||||||||||||
Popole Misenga | up to 90 kg | A. Singh | 001s0: 000s2 | D. Gwak | 000s2: 100s2 | eliminated | 9 |
swim
Athletes | competition | leader | Semifinals | final | rank | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
time | rank | time | rank | time | rank | |||
Women | ||||||||
Yusra Mardini | 100 m freestyle | 1: 04.66 min | 45 | eliminated | 45 | |||
Yusra Mardini | 100 m butterfly | 1: 09.21 min | 40 | eliminated | 40 | |||
Men | ||||||||
Rami anise | 100 m freestyle | 54.25 s | 56 | eliminated | 56 | |||
Rami anise | 100 m butterfly | 56.23 s | 40 | eliminated | 40 |
Web links
- Rio 2016: Refugees should also start at the Olympic Games . Published on Spiegel Online on March 3, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Refugee Olympic Team to shine spotlight on worldwide refugee crisis. International Olympic Committee , June 3, 2016, accessed July 31, 2019 .
- ^ Team of Refugee Olympic Athletes (ROA) created by the IOC. International Olympic Committee , March 2, 2016, accessed July 31, 2019 .
- ^ "Judo Resultsbook" ( Memento from August 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) Website of the Rio Olympics. Retrieved August 22, 2016. (English).