Moldova at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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Moldova at the
2016 Summer Olympics
Flag of Moldova.svg
IOC code MDA
NOC National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Moldova
Website www.olympic.md  (in Romanian)
in Rio de Janeiro
Competitors23 in 9 sports
Flag bearer Nicolae Ceban [1]
Medals
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
0
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
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Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova, 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.

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The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Moldova fielded a squad of 23 athletes, 14 men and 9 women, across nine different sports at the Games. [2] Although its full roster was larger by a single athlete than in London four years earlier, this was still one of Moldova's smallest delegations sent to the Olympics. Among the sports represented by the nation's athletes, Moldova made its Olympic debut in taekwondo and tennis, as well as a return to sprint canoeing after two decades.

Of the 23 participants, fifteen of them made their Olympic debut in Rio de Janeiro, including flatwater canoeist Oleg Tarnovschi and his younger brother Serghei, who earned Moldova's first ever gold medal at the Youth Olympics in Nanjing two years earlier. [3] The remaining eight athletes on the Moldovan squad had past Olympic experience, highlighted by hammer thrower Serghei Marghiev and his older sisters Zalina Marghieva and Marina Nichișenco, shot putter Ivan Emilianov, who qualified for his fourth Games as the oldest and most experienced competitor (aged 39), taekwondo fighter Aaron Cook, who transferred his allegiance from Great Britain after controversially failing to make the London Games in 2012, and freestyle wrestler Nicolae Ceban, who reprised his role of leading the Moldovan team for the second time as the flag bearer in the opening ceremony. [1] [4]

Moldova originally left Rio de Janeiro with only a bronze medal won by the younger Tarnovschi in the men's C-1 1000 metres. [5] On 19 August 2016, both the International Olympic Committee and International Canoe Federation (ICF) stripped him of his medal for breaching the anti-doping rules, handing it over to the next highest-ranked canoeist Ilia Shtokalov of Russia. [6]

Archery

One Moldovan archer has qualified for the women's individual recurve at the Olympics by virtue of a top six national finish at the 2016 Archery World Cup meet in Antalya, Turkey. [7]

AthleteEventRanking roundRound of 64Round of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / BM
ScoreSeedOpposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Rank
Alexandra Mîrca Women's individual 63627Flag of Mexico.svg  Román  (MEX)
W 6–4		Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Wu Jx  (CHN)
L 0–6		Did not advance

Athletics

Moldovan athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event): [8] [9]

Key
Track & road events
AthleteEventFinal
ResultRank
Roman Prodius Men's marathon 2:27:01105
Lilia Fisicovici Women's marathon 2:34.05 PB27
Field events
Men
AthleteEventQualificationFinal
DistancePositionDistancePosition
Ivan Emilianov Shot put 17.8332Did not advance
Vladimir Letnicov Triple jump 15.2938Did not advance
Serghei Marghiev Hammer throw 74.976 q74.1410
Women
AthleteEventQualificationFinal
DistancePositionDistancePosition
Zalina Marghieva Hammer throw 71.725 q73.505
Marina Nichișenco 65.1924Did not advance
Natalia Stratulat Discus throw 53.2730Did not advance
Dimitriana Surdu Shot put 15.2535Did not advance

Canoeing

Sprint

Moldova has qualified a single boat in men's C-1 1000 m for the Games through the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. [10] Meanwhile, the men's C-2 1000 m crew added their boat to the Moldovan team for the Games, as the International Canoe Federation had decided to revoke its license from Romania due to the canoeists' doping violations at the European Championships. [11]

AthleteEventHeatsSemifinalsFinal
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Oleg Tarnovschi Men's C-1 200 m 40.8522 Q40.7153 FB40.28012
Serghei Tarnovschi Men's C-1 1000 m 4:05.1931 FABye4:00.852DSQ

Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)

Judo

Moldova has qualified one judoka for the men's half-middleweight category (81 kg) at the Games. Valeriu Duminică earned a continental quota spot from the European region, as Moldova's top-ranked judoka outside of direct qualifying position in the IJF World Ranking List of 30 May 2016. [12] [13]

AthleteEventRound of 64Round of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsRepechageFinal / BM
Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Rank
Valeriu Duminică Men's −81 kg ByeFlag of Montenegro.svg  Mrvaljević  (MNE)
W 002–000		Flag of Italy.svg  Marconcini  (ITA)
L 010–110		Did not advance

Swimming

Moldova has received a Universality invitation from FINA to send two swimmers (one male and one female) to the Olympics. [14] [15]

AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinal
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Alexei Sancov Men's 200 m freestyle 1:48.8534Did not advance
Tatiana Chișca Women's 100 m breaststroke 1:11.3736Did not advance

Taekwondo

Moldova entered one athlete into the taekwondo competition for the first time at the Olympics. Aaron Cook, who previously competed for Team GB at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, qualified automatically for the men's welterweight category (80 kg) by finishing in the top 6 WTF Olympic rankings. [16]

AthleteEventRound of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsRepechageFinal / BM
Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Rank
Aaron Cook Men's −80 kg Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Liu W-t  (TPE)
L 2–14 PTG		Did not advance

Tennis

Moldova has entered one tennis player for the first time into the Olympic tournament. Due to the withdrawal of several tennis players from the Games, Radu Albot (world no. 113) received a spare ITF Olympic place to compete in the men's singles as the next highest-ranked eligible player, not yet qualified, in the ATP World Rankings as of 6 June 2016. [17] [18]

AthleteEventRound of 64Round of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / BM
Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Rank
Radu Albot Men's singles Flag of Russia.svg  Gabashvili  (RUS)
W 4–6, 6–4, 6–4		Flag of Croatia.svg  Čilić  (CRO)
L 3–6, 4–6		Did not advance

Weightlifting

Moldovan weightlifters have qualified four men's quota places for the Rio Olympics through the 2014 and 2015 IWF World Championships. The team must allocate these places to individual athletes by 20 June 2016.

On 22 June 2016, the International Weightlifting Federation had decided to strip of two Olympic men's entry places from Moldova because of "multiple positive cases" of doping throughout the qualifying period. [19]

Meanwhile, an unused women's Olympic spot was awarded to the Moldovan team by IWF, as a result of Russia's complete ban from the Games due to the "multiple positive cases" of doping. [20]

Serghei Cechir at the 2016 Olympics Rio 2016 - Weightlifting men's 69 kg (29049351750).jpg
Serghei Cechir at the 2016 Olympics
AthleteEventSnatchClean & JerkTotalRank
ResultRankResultRank
Serghei Cechir Men's −69 kg 144817883226
Alexandru Șpac Men's −77 kg 155719243475
Natalia Prișcepa Women's −75 kg 97121161221312

Wrestling

Moldova has qualified two wrestlers for each of the following weight classes into the Olympic competition, as a result of their wrestle-off triumphs at the initial meet of the World Qualification Tournament in Ulaanbaatar. [21]

On 11 May 2016, United World Wrestling awarded an additional Olympic license to Moldova in women's freestyle 58 kg, as a response to the doping violations on the Ukrainian wrestler at the European Qualification Tournament. [22]

Key:

Men's freestyle
AthleteEventQualificationRound of 16QuarterfinalSemifinalRepechage 1Repechage 2Final / BM
Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Rank
Evgheni Nedealco −74 kg Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Usserbayev  (KAZ)
L 1–4 SP		Did not advance16
Nicolae Ceban −97 kg ByeFlag of Romania.svg  Saritov  (ROU)
L 1–3 PP		Did not advance12
Women's freestyle
AthleteEventQualificationRound of 16QuarterfinalSemifinalRepechage 1Repechage 2Final / BM
Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Rank
Mariana Cherdivara −58 kg Flag of Ecuador.svg  Antes  (ECU)
W 3–0 PO		Flag of India.svg  Malik  (IND)
L 1–3 PP		Did not advance11

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