Lucia Kimani Mwahiki-Marčetić is a Kenyan-born Bosnian long-distance runner who holds four Bosnian records over different distances.
Elizaveta Ryzih is a German pole vault athlete. Two times an Olympian, she was 6th in London and 10th in Rio Olympic games. She was described by one athletics commentator as a "tall, fast and athletic" pole vaulter, and she has seen good success in European Championships as well as being a constant presence in the world yearly rankings of pole vaulters, placing among the top 10 vaulters in recent years.
Alana Boyd is an Australian Olympic pole vaulter.
Marika Popowicz-Drapała is a Polish track and field athlete who specialises in sprinting. She is a two-time European bronze medalist in the 4 x 100 metres relay.
Yana Karapetovna Egorian is a Russian sabre fencer. She won two gold medals at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Eilidh Doyle is a British track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles and the 4 x 400 metres relay. She represented Great Britain at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, and won an Olympic bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.
In 2011, the foremost athletics event was the 2011 World Championships in Athletics in Daegu. The other major global level competition held in 2011 was the World Cross Country Championships.
Diana Lobačevskė is a Lithuanian long-distance runner who specialises in marathon and half marathon races.
Michelle "Shelly" Jenneke is an Australian hurdler and model. She won a silver medal for the 100 m hurdles at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics and the 100 m hurdles at the 2016 Australian Athletics Championships to qualify for the Rio Olympic Games. In 2012, she received worldwide media attention after her pre-race warm-up dance went viral on the Internet. She was featured in the 2013 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
Denia Caballero Ponce is a Cuban athlete who competes in the discus throw. She has a personal best of 70.65 metres for the event. She won the gold medal at the 2015 and the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships and was the bronze medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Caballero also was the Central American and Caribbean champion in 2011 and the 2011 Pan American Games bronze medallist.
Mandy Marie Brigitte Bujold is an amateur boxer from Canada. She won a gold medal in the women's flyweight category at the 2011 Pan American Games and at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow she won a bronze.
The Refugee Olympic Team competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016, as independent Olympic participants. In March 2016, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach declared that the IOC would choose five to ten refugees to compete at the Rio Olympics, in the context of the "worldwide refugee crisis", of which the European migrant crisis is a prominent part. The athletes competed under the Olympic Flag. Initially, they were labeled "Team of Refugee Olympic Athletes", with the IOC country code ROA, but this was updated to Refugee Olympic Team with the country code ROT.
Laura Marie Müller is a German sprinter. She competed in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2016 European Athletics Championships. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she competed in the women's 4 x 400 metre relay.
Friederike Möhlenkamp is a German sprinter. She competed in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2016 European Athletics Championships and in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Ruth Sophia Spelmeyer is a German sprinter. She competed in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2016 European Athletics Championships. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she competed in the women's 400 metre event and the women's 4 x 400 metre relay.
Diana Sujew is a German athlete who specialises in the middle-distance running. She was the German 1500m champion in 2011. She qualified for 2016 Summer Olympics where she competed in the women's 1500 m. She finished 9th in her semifinal and did not advance to the final.
Sona Poghosyan is an Armenian weightlifter. She competed in the women's 75 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Eva Calvo Gómez is a Spanish taekwondo practitioner who competes in the 57 kg division. She was the European champion in 2014 and won silver medals at the 2015 World Championships and 2016 Olympics. In 2015, she was named Best Female Athlete of the Year by the Spanish National Taekwondo Federation.
Anna Emilie Møller is a Danish athlete competing in the 3000 metres steeplechase. She represented her country at the 2016 Summer Olympics without qualifying for the final. In her heat, however, she set the new national and European junior record in the event.
