Angola at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Angola at the 2016 Summer Olympics
IOC code	ANG
NOC	Angolan Olympic Committee
Website	(Portuguese)
in Rio de Janeiro
Competitors	25 in 7 sports
Flag bearer	Luisa Kiala[1]
Medals	Gold Silver Bronze Total 0 0 0 0
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

Angola competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's ninth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics, with the exception of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, because of its support of the Soviet boycott.

The Angolan Olympic Committee (Portuguese: Comité Olímpico Angolano) selected a total of 25 athletes, 8 men and 17 women, for the Games, competing in seven different sports.^[2] The nation's team size was roughly ten athletes smaller than the team sent to London four years earlier, and had the second largest share of women in its Summer Olympic history. Women's handball was the only team-based sport in which Angola had its representation at these Games, unable to send any of the nation's basketball teams to the Olympics for the first time since 1988. Among the sports played by the athletes, Angola marked its debut in rowing and a return in sailing and shooting from a two-decade absence.

Notable Angolan athletes featured three-time judoka Antónia Moreira, medley swimmer Pedro Pinotes, trap shooter João Paulo da Silva, who sought for his Olympic comeback in Rio after a 16-year absence, and four-time Olympian and handball team captain Luísa Kiala, who became the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony.^[1] Angola, however, has yet to win its first ever Olympic medal.

Athletics

Angola has received universality slots from IAAF to send two athletes (one male and one female) to the Olympics.^[3][4][2]

Key

• Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
• Q = Qualified for the next round
• q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
• NR = National record
• N/A = Round not applicable for the event
• Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hermenegildo Leite	Men's 100 m	11.65	7	Did not advance
Liliana Neto	Women's 100 m	13.58	7	Did not advance

Handball

Summary

Key:

• ET – After extra time
• P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Team	Event	Group Stage						Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Angola women's	Women's tournament	Romania W 23–19	Montenegro W 27–25	Norway L 20–30	Brazil L 24–28	Spain L 22–26	4	Russia L 27–31	Did not advance		8

Women's tournament

Angola women's handball team qualified for the Olympics by winning the 2015 Africa Qualification Tournament in Luanda.^[5] They were drawn in Group A of the preliminary round.

Team roster

The following is the Angola roster in the women's handball tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[6]

Head coach: Filipe Cruz

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 1 GK Neyde Barbosa 23 September 1980 (aged 35) 1.77 m 38 1 Progresso do Sambizanga 6 RW Juliana Machado 6 November 1994 (aged 21) 1.70 m 25 48 Primeiro de Agosto 8 CB Lurdes Monteiro 11 July 1984 (aged 32) 1.70 m 32 49 Primeiro de Agosto 9 W Natália Bernardo 25 December 1986 (aged 29) 1.70 m 73 192 Primeiro de Agosto 10 P Albertina Kassoma 12 June 1996 (aged 20) 1.90 m 14 39 Primeiro de Agosto 11 LB Luísa Kiala 25 January 1982 (aged 34) 1.72 m 104 194 Petro de Luanda 12 GK Cristina Branco 15 March 1985 (aged 31) 1.70 m 59 0 Primeiro de Agosto 15 RB Azenaide Carlos 14 June 1990 (aged 26) 1.75 m 50 150 Petro de Luanda 16 GK Teresa Almeida 5 May 1988 (aged 28) 1.78 m 32 0 Petro de Luanda 17 RB Wuta Dombaxe 5 April 1986 (aged 30) 1.73 m 32 64 Primeiro de Agosto 21 RB Magda Cazanga 28 May 1991 (aged 25) 1.84 m 21 28 Petro de Luanda 25 P Liliana Venâncio 19 September 1995 (aged 20) 1.86 m 6 3 Primeiro de Agosto 31 LW Janete dos Santos 10 June 1991 (aged 25) 1.75 m 10 0 Progresso do Sambizanga 90 LB Isabel Guialo 8 April 1990 (aged 26) 1.72 m 33 60 Primeiro de Agosto

Preliminary round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil (H)	5	4	0	1	138	117	+21	8	Quarter-finals
2	Norway	5	4	0	1	141	121	+20	8
3	Spain	5	3	0	2	125	116	+9	6
4	Angola	5	2	0	3	116	128	−12	4
5	Romania	5	2	0	3	108	119	−11	4
6	Montenegro	5	0	0	5	107	134	−27	0

Source: IHF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored; 7) Draw.
(H) Host.

6 August 2016 19:50	Romania	19–23	Angola	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 4,465 Referees: Koo, Lee (KOR)
	Neagu 8	(9–11)	Guialo 5
	2× 2×	Report	5× 3×

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8 August 2016 21:50	Angola	27–25	Montenegro	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Alpaidze, Berekzina (RUS)
	Guialo 7	(12–12)	K. Bulatović 9
	5× 3×	Report	4× 2×

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10 August 2016 16:40	Norway	30–20	Angola	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Bonaventura, Bonaventura (FRA)
	Mørk 8	(16–8)	Guialo 8
	3× 2×	Report	4× 2× 1×

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12 August 2016 09:30	Angola	24–28	Brazil	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Røen, Arntsen (NOR)
	Bernardo 8	(13–13)	Belo 7
	5× 2×	Report	4× 4×

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14 August 2016 19:50	Spain	26–22	Angola	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Pinto, Menezes (BRA)
	Cabral, Martín 7	(13–12)	Guialo 6
	5× 4×	Report	8× 3× 1×

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Quarterfinal

16 August 2016 20:30	Russia	31–27	Angola	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Pinto, Menezes (BRA)
	Kuznetsova 5	(18–14)	Bernardo 8
	5× 2× 1×	Report	4× 3×

Judo

Angola has qualified one judoka for the women's middleweight category (70 kg) at the Games. Remarkably going to her third Olympics, Antónia Moreira earned a continental quota spot from the African region as the highest-ranked Angolan judoka outside of direct qualifying position in the IJF World Ranking List of May 30, 2016.^[7]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Antónia Moreira	Women's −70 kg	Rodríguez (VEN) W 100–000	Koch (GER) L 000–000 S	Did not advance

Rowing

Angola has qualified one boat in the men's lightweight double sculls for the Games at the 2015 African Continental Qualification Regatta in Tunis, Tunisia.^[8][9]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
André Matias Jean-Luc Rasamoelina	Men's lightweight double sculls	6:58.93	5 R	7:29.73	6 SC/D	7:39.59	4 FD	7:01.74	20

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing

Angolan sailors have qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the individual fleet World Championships, and African qualifying regattas, signifying the nation's Olympic return to the sport for the first time since 1992.^[10][11] Another boat was also awarded to the Angolan sailor competing in the men's Laser through a Tripartite Commission invitation.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*
Manuel Lelo	Laser	44	43	45	45	DNF	43	43	38	46	43	EL	390	46
Paixão Afonso Matias Montinho	470	25	26	27	27	26	23	26	26	26	24	EL	229	26

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Shooting

Angola has received an invitation from the Tripartite Commission to send a men's trap shooter to the Olympics, as long as the minimum qualifying score (MQS) was met by March 31, 2016. This also signified the nation's comeback to the sport for the first time since 2000.^[12][13]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
João Paulo de Silva	Men's trap	98	33	Did not advance

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualify for the next round; q = Qualify for the bronze medal (shotgun)

Swimming

Angola has received a Universality invitation from FINA to send two swimmers (one male and one female) to the Olympics.^[14][15][16]

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Pedro Pinotes	Men's 400 m individual medley	4:25.84	25	N/A		Did not advance
Ana Nóbrega	Women's 100 m freestyle	59.23	40	Did not advance

References

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2. "Rio 2016: Caravana angolana aos Jogos Olímpicos fixada em 25 atletas" [Rio 2016: Angolan team sets at 25 athletes for the Olympics] (in Portuguese). ANGOP. 21 July 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
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8. "African qualifying regatta awards 10 more places in Rio 2016 Olympic Games rowing events". Rio 2016. 14 October 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
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10. "Angola books place at Rio 2016". ISAF. 18 January 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
11. "Angola busca a qualificação" [Angola seeks for a qualifying bid]. Jornal dos Desportos. 17 January 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
12. "Quota Places by Nation and Number". www.issf-sports.org/. ISSF. 30 May 2016. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
13. "Tiro aos Pratos: Angolano Paulo Silva confirmado nos Jogos Olímpicos" [Trap shooting: Angola's Paulo Silva confirms for the Olympics] (in Portuguese). ANGOP. 19 April 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
14. "Swimming World Rankings". FINA. Archived from the original on 1 January 1970. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
15. "Rio 2016 – FINA Swimming Qualification System" (PDF). Rio 2016. FINA. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
16. "Nadadora militar conhece a ordem nos Jogos do Rio" [Military swimmer knows the order of the Rio Games] (in Portuguese). Jornal de Angola. 10 July 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2016.