Cyprus at the 2020 Summer Olympics | |
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IOC code | CYP |
NOC | Cyprus Olympic Committee |
Website | www |
in Tokyo, Japan July 23, 2021 – August 8, 2021 | |
Competitors | 15 in 6 sports |
Flag bearers (opening) | Andri Eleftheriou Pavlos Kontides |
Flag bearer (closing) | N/A |
Medals |
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Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Cyprus competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [1] It was the nation's eleventh consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics.
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
Sport | Men | Women | Total |
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Athletics | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Cycling | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Gymnastics | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Sailing | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Shooting | 3 | 1 | 4 |
Swimming | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Total | 9 | 6 | 15 |
Cypriot athletes further achieved the entry standards, either by qualifying time or by world ranking, in the following track and field events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event): [2] [3]
Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | |||
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Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
Milan Trajkovic | Men's 110 m hurdles | 13.59 SB | 4 Q | 14.01 | 8 | did not advance | |
Eleni Artymata | Women's 400 m | 51.91 | 5 q | 50.80 NR | 5 | did not advance |
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||
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Distance | Position | Distance | Position | ||
Apostolos Parellis | Men's discus throw | 62.11 SB | 17 | did not advance |
Cyprus entered one rider to compete in the women's Olympic road race, by virtue of her top 100 individual finish (for women) in the UCI World Ranking. [4]
Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
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Antri Christoforou | Women's road race | did not finish |
Cyprus entered one artistic gymnast into the Olympic competition. Rio 2016 Olympian Marios Georgiou received a spare berth from the men's apparatus events, as one of the seven highest-ranked gymnasts, neither part of the team nor qualified directly through the all-around, at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. [5]
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||||||||||||||
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Apparatus | Total | Rank | Apparatus | Total | Rank | ||||||||||||
F | PH | R | V | PB | HB | F | PH | R | V | PB | HB | ||||||
Marios Georgiou | All-around | 13.466 | 10.666 | 12.766 | 14.100 | 13.666 | 14.333 | 78.997 | 50 | did not advance |
Cypriot sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2018 Sailing World Championships, the class-associated Worlds, and the continental regattas. [6]
Athlete | Event | Race | Net points | Final rank | ||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | M* | ||||
Andreas Cariolou | Men's RS:X | 18 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 17 | 3 | 10 | 14 | EL | 118 | 12 | |
Pavlos Kontides | Men's Laser | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 24 | — | 12 | 88 | 4 | ||
Natasa Lappa | Women's RS:X | 24 | 25 | 19 | 17 | 22 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 12 | 22 | 19 | EL | 218 | 21 | |
Marilena Makri | Women's Laser Radial | 8 | 30 | 26 | 27 | 22 | 31 | 25 | 23 | 35 | — | EL | 227 | 33 |
M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race
Cypriot shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, European Championships or Games, and European Qualifying Tournament, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by May 31, 2020. [7]
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||
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Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
Georgios Achilleos | Men's skeet | 122 | 9 | did not advance | |
Dimitris Konstantinou | 121 | 12 | did not advance | ||
Andreas Makri | Men's trap | 117 | 28 | did not advance | |
Andri Eleftheriou | Women's skeet | 119 | 7 | did not advance |
Cyprus received a universality invitation from FINA to send two top-ranked swimmers (one per gender) in their respective individual events to the Olympics, based on the FINA Points System of June 28, 2021. [8]
Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Nikolas Antoniou | Men's 50 m freestyle | 23.38 | 45 | did not advance | |||
Men's 100 m freestyle | 50.00 | 40 | did not advance | ||||
Kalia Antoniou | Women's 50 m freestyle | 25.41 | =27 | did not advance | |||
Women's 100 m freestyle | 55.38 | 29 | did not advance |
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