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23 world records and 91 Olympic records (exact counts were announced during the closing ceremony) were set in various events at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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23 world records and 91 Olympic records (exact counts were announced during the closing ceremony) were set in various events at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
| Event | Round | Name | Nation | Points | Date | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's Individual | Ranking round | Kim Woo-jin |  South Korea | 700 | 5 August | WR |
| Event | Round | Name | Nation | Time (distance) | Date | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 10,000 metres | Final | Almaz Ayana |  Ethiopia | 29:17.45 | 12 August | WR |
| Men's 400 metres | Final | Wayde van Niekerk |  South Africa | 43.03 | 14 August | WR |
| Women's hammer throw | Final | Anita Włodarczyk |  Poland | 82.29 m | 15 August | WR |
| Men's pole vault | Final | Thiago Braz da Silva |  Brazil | 6.03 m | 15 August | OR |
| 3000m Steeplechase | Final | Conseslus Kipruto |  Kenya | 8:03.28 | 16 August | OR |
| Men's shot put | Final | Ryan Crouser |  United States | 22.52 m | 18 August | OR |
| Men's decathlon | Final | Ashton Eaton | United States | 8893 pts | 18 August | OR |
| Women's 5,000 metres | Final | Vivian Cheruiyot | Kenya | 14:26.17 | 20 August | OR |
| Event | Round | Name | Nation | Time | Date | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's Kayak Single 200m | Final | Lisa Carrington |  New Zealand | 39.864 | 15 August | OR |
| Men's Kayak Single 200m | Final | Yuriy Cheban |  Ukraine | 39.279 | 18 August | OR |
| Event | Round | Name | Nation | Time | Date | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's Team Pursuit | Qualifying | Great Britain |  Great Britain | 4:13.260 | 11 August | OR, WR |
| Men's Team Sprint | Qualifying | Great Britain | Great Britain | 42.562 | 11 August | OR |
| Men's Team Sprint | First Round | New Zealand | New Zealand | 42.535 | 11 August | OR |
| Men's Team Sprint | Finals | Great Britain | Great Britain | 42.440 | 11 August | OR |
| Men's Sprint | Qualifying | Jason Kenny | Great Britain | 9.551 | 12 August | OR |
| Women's Team Sprint | Qualifying | China |  China | 32.305 | 12 August | OR |
| Women's Team Sprint | First Round | China | China | 31.928 | 12 August | OR, WR |
| Men's Team Pursuit | First Round | Great Britain | Great Britain | 3:50.570 | 12 August | OR, WR |
| Men's Team Pursuit | Finals | Great Britain | Great Britain | 3:50.265 | 12 August | OR, WR |
| Women's Team Pursuit | First Round | Great Britain | Great Britain | 4:12.152 | 13 August | OR, WR |
| Women's Team Pursuit | Finals | Great Britain | Great Britain | 4:10.236 | 13 August | OR, WR |
| Omnium Individual Pursuit | Finals | Lasse Norman Hansen |  Denmark | 4:14.982 | 13 August | OR |
| Event | Round | Name | Nation | Points | Date | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's modern pentathlon | Fencing (ranking round) | Aleksander Lesun |  Russia | 268 | 18 August | OR |
| Women's modern pentathlon | Swimming | Gulnaz Gubaydullina | Russia | 2:07:94 | 19 August | OR |
| Women's modern pentathlon | Combined Running/Shooting | Laura Asadauskaitė |  Lithuania | 12:01:01 | 19 August | OR |
| Men's modern pentathlon | Swimming | James Cooke | Great Britain | 1:55:60 | 20 August | OR |
| Event | Round | Name | Nation | Time | Date | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's Single Sculls | Final | Mahé Drysdale | New Zealand | 6:41.34 | 13 August | OR |
| Event | Round | Name | Nation | Score | Date | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 10 metre air rifle | Qualifying | Du Li | China | 420.7 | 6 August | OR |
| Women's 10 metre air rifle | Final | Virginia Thrasher | United States | 208.0 | 6 August | OR |
| Men's 10 metre air pistol | Final | Hoàng Xuân Vinh |  Vietnam | 202.5 | 6 August | OR |
| Women's 10 metre air pistol | Final | Zhang Mengxue | China | 199.4 | 7 August | OR |
| Men's 10 metre air rifle | Qualifying | Niccolò Campriani |  Italy | 630.2 | 8 August | OR |
| Men's skeet | Qualifying | Marcus Svensson Abdullah Al-Rashidi |  Sweden  Independent Olympic Athletes | 123 | 12 August | OR |
| 50m Rifle Prone Men | Qualifying | Sergey Kamenskiy | Russia | 629.0 | 12 August | OR |
| 50m Rifle Prone Men | Finals | Henri Junghänel |  Germany | 209.5 | 12 August | OR |
| 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men | Qualifying | Sergey Kamenskiy | Russia | 1184-67 | 14 August | OR |
| 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men | Finals | Niccolò Campriani | Italy | 458.8 | 14 August | OR |
| Event | Established for | Date | Round | Name | Nationality | Time | Record | Day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 100 metre breaststroke | (same) | 6 August | Heats | Adam Peaty | Great Britain | 57.55 | WR | 1 |
| Men's 100 metre breaststroke | (same) | 7 August | Final | Adam Peaty | Great Britain | 57.13 | WR | 2 |
| Men's 100 metre backstroke | (same) | 8 August | Final | Ryan Murphy | United States | 51.97 | OR | 3 |
| Men's 200 metre breaststroke | (same) | 9 August | Semifinal | Ippei Watanabe |  Japan | 2:07.22 | OR | 4 |
| Men's 100 metre butterfly | (same) | 12 August | Final | Joseph Schooling |  Singapore | 50.39 | OR | 7 |
| Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay | Men's 100 metre backstroke | 13 August | Final | Ryan Murphy | United States | 51.85 r | WR | 8 |
| Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay | (same) | 13 August | Final | Ryan Murphy (51.85) Cody Miller (59.03) Michael Phelps (50.33) Nathan Adrian (46.74) | United States | 3:27.95 | OR | 8 |
Legend: r – First leg of relay
| Event | Date | Round | Name | Nationality | Weight | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 56kg | 7 August | Clean & Jerk | Long Qingquan | China | 170 kg | OR |
| Men's 56kg | 7 August | Total | Long Qingquan | China | 307 kg | WR |
| Men's 77kg | 10 August | Snatch | Lü Xiaojun | China | 177 kg | WR |
| Men's 77kg | 10 August | Clean & Jerk | Nijat Rahimov |  Kazakhstan | 214 kg | WR |
| Men's 85kg | 12 August | Clean & Jerk | Tian Tao | China | 217 kg | OR |
| Men's 85kg | 12 August | Total | Kianoush Rostami |  Iran | 396 kg | WR |
| Men's 105 kg | 16 August | Clean & Jerk | Ruslan Nurudinov |  Uzbekistan | 237 kg | OR |
| Men's +105 kg | 16 August | Snatch | Behdad Salimi | Iran | 216 kg | WR |
| Men's +105 kg | 16 August | Total | Lasha Talakhadze |  Georgia | 473 kg | WR |
| Event | Date | Round | Name | Nationality | Weight | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 53kg | 7 August | Snatch | Li Yajun | China | 101 kg | OR |
| Women's 58kg | 8 August | Snatch | Sukanya Srisurat |  Thailand | 110 kg | OR |
| Women's 63kg | 9 August | Clean & Jerk Total | Deng Wei | China | 147 kg 262 kg | WR |
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| Date | Event | Athlete | Nation | Record description | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2016 | Archery – Men's individual | Kim Woo-jin | South Korea | Scored a world record of 700 in the ranking round | [1] |
| 6 August 2016 | Swimming – Men's 100 metre breaststroke | Adam Peaty | Great Britain | Set a world record time of 57.55 in the heats | [2] |
| 6 August 2016 | Swimming – Women's 400 metre individual medley | Katinka Hosszú |  Hungary | Set a world record time of 4:26.36 in the final | |
| 6 August 2016 | Swimming – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay | Emma McKeon Brittany Elmslie Bronte Campbell Cate Campbell |  Australia | Set a world record time of 3:30.65 in the final | |
| 7 August 2016 | Swimming – Men's 100 metre breaststroke | Adam Peaty | Great Britain | Set a world record time of 57.13 in the final | [3] |
| 7 August 2016 | Swimming – Women's 100 metre butterfly | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | Set a world record time of 55.48 in the final | |
| 7 August 2016 | Swimming – Women's 400 metre freestyle | Katie Ledecky | United States | Set a world record time of 3:56.46 in the final | |
| 7 August 2016 | Weightlifting – Men's 56 kg | Long Qingquan | China | Set a world record total of 307 kg | [4] |
| 9 August 2016 | Weightlifting – Women's 63 kg | Deng Wei | China | Set a world record at clean and jerk of 147 kg Set a world record total of 262 kg | |
| 10 August 2016 | Weightlifting – Men's 77 kg | Lü Xiaojun | China | Set a world record at snatch of 177 kg | |
| 10 August 2016 | Weightlifting – Men's 77 kg | Nijat Rahimov | Kazakhstan | Set a world record at clean and jerk of 214 kg | |
| 11 August 2016 | Cycling – Women's team pursuit | Katie Archibald Laura Trott Elinor Barker Joanna Rowsell | Great Britain | Set a world record time of 4:13.260 in the qualification | |
| 12 August 2016 | Cycling – Women's team sprint | Gong Jinjie Zhong Tianshi | China | Set a world record time of 31.928 in the first round | |
| 12 August 2016 | Cycling – Men's team pursuit | Ed Clancy Steven Burke Owain Doull Bradley Wiggins | Great Britain | Set a world record time of 3:50.570 in the first round | |
| 12 August 2016 | Cycling – Men's team pursuit | Ed Clancy Steven Burke Owain Doull Bradley Wiggins | Great Britain | Set a world record time of 3:50.265 in the final | |
| 12 August 2016 | Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres | Almaz Ayana | Ethiopia | Set a world record time of 29:17.45 in the final | |
| 12 August 2016 | Weightlifting – Men's 85 kg | Kianoush Rostami | Iran | Set a world record total of 396 kg | |
| 12 August 2016 | Swimming – Women's 800 metre freestyle | Katie Ledecky | United States | Set a world record time of 8:04.79 in the final | |
| 14 August 2016 | Athletics - Men's 400 metres | Wayde van Niekerk | South Africa | Set a world record time of 43.03 in the final | |
| 15 August 2016 | Athletics - Women's hammer throw | Anita Włodarczyk | Poland | Set a world record distance of 82.29 m in the final | |
| 16 August 2016 | Weightlifting - Men's +105 kg | Lasha Talakhadze | Georgia | Set a world record at snatch of 215 kg | [5] |
| 16 August 2016 | Weightlifting - Men's +105 kg | Behdad Salimi | Iran | Set a world record at snatch of 216 kg | |
| 16 August 2016 | Weightlifting - Men's +105 kg | Lasha Talakhadze | Georgia | Set a world record total of 473 kg |
The following medal table is a list of National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and one non-NOC team ranked by the number of gold medals won by their athletes during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, from 5 to 21 August 2016.
Deng Wei is a Chinese retired weightlifter. She is an Olympic Champion, five-time World Champion and Asian Champion. She competed in the 58 kg and 63 kg categories until 2018 and 64 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.
Nijat Rahimov is an Azerbaijani-born naturalized Kazakhstani weightlifter. He represented Kazakhstan at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in the category of 77 kg, he placed first, winning the gold medal and setting a new world record with a clean and jerk lift of 214 kilograms. In 2022, the medal was stripped and he was banned when it was revealed he substituted urine samples.
Ross Murdoch is a Scottish competitive swimmer who has represented Great Britain at the Summer Olympics in 2016 and 2020, the FINA World Championships and the LEN European Championships, and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games from 2014 to the present. Between 2014 and 2016, Murdoch became a World, European and Commonwealth champion.
Adam George Peaty is an English competitive swimmer who specialises in the breaststroke. He won the gold medal in the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2016 Summer Olympics, the first by a male British swimmer in 24 years, and retained the title at the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021, the first British swimmer ever to retain an Olympic title. He is also an eight-time World Champion, a sixteen-time European Champion and a four-time Commonwealth Champion. According to FINA itself, Peaty is widely regarded as the dominant breaststroke swimmer of his era, and the most dominant sprint breaststroke swimmer of all time.
Great Britain, or in full Great Britain and Northern Ireland, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016 and the team of selected athletes was officially known as Team GB. British athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, alongside Australia, France, Greece, and Switzerland, though Great Britain is the only country to have won at least one gold medal at all of them. The team represented the United Kingdom, the three Crown Dependencies, and the thirteen British Overseas Territories, ten of whom sent representatives.
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's tenth appearance at the Summer Olympics.
James George Guy is an English competitive swimmer who specialises in freestyle and butterfly. Guy has won multiple gold medals at each of the major international meets available to him, including for Great Britain at the Olympic Games (2), the World (5) and European Championships (7), and England in the Commonwealth Games (2). In addition to further medals in those events, he has also reached the podium at both the World and European short-course championships. With 45 major medals at international championship meets, 19 at global level, he is one of the most decorated swimmers in British history.
The men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place between 6–7 August at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.
The men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place on 12–13 August at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.
Mohamed Ehab Youssef Ahmed Mahmoud, known as Mohamed Mahmoud or Mohamed Ehab, is an Egyptian weightlifter, and World Champion competing in the 77 kg category until 2018 and 81 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.
Duncan William MacNaughton Scott is a Scottish swimmer representing Great Britain at the FINA World Aquatics Championships, LEN European Aquatics Championships, European Games and the Olympic Games, and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games. Scott made history after winning four medals - more than any other British athlete at a single Olympic Games - in Tokyo 2020, simultaneously becoming Great Britain's most decorated swimmer in Olympic history.
Georgia competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's sixth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era.
Great Britain competed at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia between 24 July to 9 August 2015.
Shi Zhiyong is a Chinese weightlifter, two time Olympic Champion, three time World Champion and four time Asian Champion competing in the 69 kg category until 2018 and 73 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.
Stephen Milne is a Scottish swimmer who competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
James Wilby is a British competitive swimmer who specialises in the breaststroke. Wilby is the 2018 Commonwealth Games champion in 200 metre breaststroke, the 2022 Commonwealth Games champion in 100 metre breaststroke, and the 2022 European champion in 200 metre breaststroke. He formed part of the Great Britain team that won World Championship gold in the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay in 2019, and the England team that won the Commonwealth Games Men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay in 2014 and 2022.
Great Britain, or in full Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the team of the British Olympic Association (BOA), which represents the United Kingdom, 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, because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held from 24 to 26 July 2021 at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. It was the event's fourteenth consecutive appearance, having been held at every edition since 1968.
