Ander Elosegi Alkain is a Spanish slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2003.
Takuya Haneda is a Japanese male slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2002. He won a bronze medal in the C1 event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, becoming the first Asian canoeist to win an Olympic medal.
Kazuki Yazawa is a Japanese slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2006.
Sébastien Combot is a French slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2005.
Luuka Jones is a New Zealand slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2006.
Kateřina Minařík Kudějová is a Czech slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2005.
Michael Dawson is a New Zealand slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2004.
Ella Nicholas is a Cook Islands slalom canoeist who has competed since 2007.
Ryan Sissons is a New Zealand triathlete. Born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Sissons represented New Zealand at the 2012 London Olympics in the triathlon where he finished 33rd. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, he finished in 13th in the individual event and was part of the New Zealand mixed relay team that finished in 5th. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he finished in 17th. At the 2017 ITU World series in Hamburg, Ryan finished 3rd. At the age of 32, Ryan retired in 2020 after the Tokyo Olympic Games were postponed, with no guarantees that the games would go ahead in 2021.
Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was contested in two main disciplines: canoe slalom, from 7 to 11 August, and canoe sprint, from 15 to 20 August. The slalom competition was held at the Olympic Whitewater Stadium; whereas the sprint events were staged at Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas in Copacabana. The location for canoeing events was a source of concern for athletes since the Brazilian federal government's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation lab has found the genes of drug-resistant super bacteria in Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon.
Jonáš Kašpar is a Czech slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2007.
Jiří Prskavec is a Czech slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2008.
Cook Islands competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics.
Michal Smolen is a Polish-American slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2008 for the United States.
Niall Williams is a New Zealand rugby sevens player and former New Zealand international touch football captain. She is a member of New Zealand's women's national rugby sevens team and was selected for their squad to the 2016 Summer Olympics, where New Zealand claimed the silver medal behind Australia. In touch football she won gold at the 2005 Youth World Cup and silver at the 2011 Touch Football World Cup.
Felipe Borges da Silva is a Brazilian slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2010.
Tsubasa Sasaki is a Japanese slalom canoeist who has competed at the international since 2010.
Tan Ya is a male Chinese slalom canoeist who has competed since 2008.
Aki Yazawa is a Japanese slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2006.
Jane Nicholas is a slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2009. Jane represented New Zealand from 2009 to 2018, before switching to the Cook Islands for the 2019 season, her father's country of birth.
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