# Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

For the athletics competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics, the following qualification systems were in place. Qualification ended on 11 July 2016.

## Russian disqualification

Because of the suspension of the Russian Athletics Federation by the IAAF, due to widespread doping violations, Russia currently will not qualify as a team for these Olympics or other international competitions, and unless this suspension is lifted in time, Russia will be unable to send an athletics delegation to these Games. While Russia will continue to seek further appeals, the IAAF confirmed its decision on 18 June 2016 after a report by a five-member task force which reported that Russia had failed to fully address its "deep-seeded [sic] culture" of doping. The IAAF did provide for the possibility of accepting individual Russian athletes who have been sufficiently tested outside of the Russian system. One athlete suggested was Yuliya Stepanova for her efforts to expose the scandal.
   The systematic doping that has been ongoing in Russia, it's difficult to pick the clean athletes. As you know, one or two or 100 negative tests does not mean an athlete is clean. History has not shown that is the case.
The IAAF then stated on 24 June, that athletes from Russia seeking "exceptional eligibility for International Competition under Competition Rule 22.1A" will be considered and have the permission to compete, "not for Russia but as a neutral athlete", following guidelines. These athletes have to clearly and convincingly show that they are not co involved in the Russian system (outside the country and subject to other systems). On 1 July 2016, Yuliya Stepanova became the first neutral athlete to be qualified under these rules. Darya Klishina, who lives in the United States, has also been given permission. They will compete as Independent Olympic Athletes. The Court of Arbitration for Sport confirms that verdict and rejects the appeal of 68 Russian athletes, on 21 July 2016. Whistleblower Stepanova was eventually barred from competing by the IOC, and she was called a traitor and received death threats back at home in Russia.

## Qualifying standards

Different from the previous Olympics, a National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter up to 3 qualified athletes in each individual event if all athletes meet the entry standard during the qualifying period. An NOC may also enter a maximum of 1 qualified relay team per event. NOCs may enter athletes regardless of time (1 athlete per sex) if they have no athletes meeting the entry standard. This makes it possible for every nation to have a minimum of two representatives in the sport.
The qualifying time standards may be obtained in various meets during the given period that have the approval of the IAAF. All approved outdoor meets and indoor meets with the exception of 100 m, 200 m and 110/100 m hurdles races are eligible. The qualifying period for the 10,000 m, marathon, walks, and combined events was from 1 January 2015 to 11 July 2016 and for the remaining events, from 1 May 2015 to 11 July 2016.
For the relays, a maximum of sixteen qualified NOCs shall be entitled to each event. The top eight teams in each event at the 2015 IAAF World Relays (held in Nassau, Bahamas on 2–3 May 2015) guaranteed a spot on their respective NOCs for the Olympics. The remaining half in each event are selected according to IAAF World Ranking List as of 12 July 2016 based on the aggregate of the 2 fastest times achieved by NOCs during the given period.
In addition to the qualifying standards below, marathon runners finishing in the top 20 of the 2015 IAAF World Championships or in the top 10 of any IAAF Gold Label marathon within the qualification period are also treated as having earned the A standard.
The NOCs are still allowed to select athletes using their own rules, on the condition that all of them have made the qualifying time. For example, the United States selects athletes based on the result of the 2016 United States Olympic Trials event, but has a policy of entering every athlete so qualified. Sweden only enters athletes good enough to reach at least the eighth position, based on an assessment by the Swedish NOC.
The IAAF Qualifying Standards are as follows:
| Men's events | Men's events | Women's events | Women's events |
| Event | Entry mark | Event | Entry mark |
| 100 m | 10.16 | 100 m | 11.32 |
| 200 m | 20.50 | 200 m | 23.20 |
| 400 m | 45.40 | 400 m | 52.20 |
| 800 m | 1:46.00 | 800 m | 2:01.50 |
| 1500 m | 3:36.20 | 1500 m | 4:07.00 |
| 5000 m | 13:25.00 | 5000 m | 15:24.00 |
| 10,000 m | 28:00.00 | 10,000 m | 32:15.00 |
| 110 m hurdles | 13.47 | 100 m hurdles | 13.00 |
| 400 m hurdles | 49.40 | 400 m hurdles | 56.20 |
| 3000 m steeplechase | 8:30.00 | 3000 m steeplechase | 9:45.00 |
| Marathon | 2:19:00 | Marathon | 2:45:00 |
| 20 km walk | 1:24:00 | 20 km walk | 1:36:00 |
| 50 km walk | 4:06:00 | — | — |
| Long jump | 8.15 | Long jump | 6.70 |
| Triple jump | 16.85 | Triple jump | 14.15 |
| High jump | 2.29 | High jump | 1.93 |
| Pole vault | 5.70 | Pole vault | 4.50 |
| Shot put | 20.50 | Shot put | 17.75 |
| Discus throw | 65.00 | Discus throw | 61.00 |
| Hammer throw | 77.00 | Hammer throw | 71.00 |
| Javelin throw | 83.00 | Javelin throw | 62.00 |
| Decathlon | 8100 | Heptathlon | 6200 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | Top 8 at IWR + 8 from top lists | 4 × 100 m relay | Top 8 at IWR + 8 from top lists |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Top 8 at IWR + 8 from top lists | 4 × 400 m relay | Top 8 at IWR + 8 from top lists |

## Track events
### Men's track events
#### Men's 100 m

Does not include indoor achievements
| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 3 | Bahamas | Adrian Griffith Shavez Hart Jamial Rolle |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 3 | Canada | Aaron Brown Andre De Grasse Akeem Haynes |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 3 | China | Su Bingtian Zhang Peimeng Xie Zhenye |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 3 | Great Britain | James Dasaolu James Ellington Chijindu Ujah |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 3 | Jamaica | Nickel Ashmeade Yohan Blake Usain Bolt |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 3 | Japan | Yoshihide Kiryū Asuka Cambridge Ryota Yamagata |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 3 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | Kim Collins Antoine Adams Brijesh Lawrence |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 3 | South Africa | Henricho Bruintjies Akani Simbine Anaso Jobodwana |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 3 | Trinidad and Tobago | Richard Thompson Rondell Sorrillo Keston Bledman |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 3 | Turkey | Emre Zafer Barnes Ramil Guliyev Jak Ali Harvey |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 3 | United States | Justin Gatlin Trayvon Bromell Marvin Bracy |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 2 | Antigua and Barbuda | Daniel Bailey Cejhae Greene |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 2 | Barbados | Ramon Gittens Levi Cadogan |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 2 | Bahrain | Andrew Fisher Kemarley Brown |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 2 | France | Jimmy Vicaut Christophe Lemaitre |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 2 | Germany | Lucas Jakubczyk Julian Reus |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 2 | Iran | Reza Ghasemi Hassan Taftian |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 2 | Ivory Coast | Hua Wilfried Koffi Ben Youssef Meïté |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 2 | Netherlands | Solomon Bockarie Churandy Martina |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 3 | Nigeria | Monzavous Edwards Seye Ogunlewe Ogho-Oghene Egwero |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | Australia | Josh Clarke |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | Brazil | Vitor Hugo dos Santos |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | Botswana | Karabo Mothibi |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | Cayman Islands | Kemar Hyman |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | Cuba | Roberto Skyers |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | Dominican Republic | Yancarlos Martinez |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | Ghana | Sean Safo-Antwi |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | Haiti | Darrell Wesh |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | Italy | Jacques Riparelli |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | Lesotho | Mosito Lehata |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | Liberia | Emmanuel Matadi |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | Morocco | Aziz Ouhadi |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | Oman | Barakat Mubarak Al-Harthi |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | Qatar | Femi Ogunode |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | Portugal | Yazaldes Nascimento |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | Saint Lucia | Jahvid Best |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | Saudi Arabia | Abdullah Abkar Mohammed |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | South Korea | Kim Kuk-young |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | Spain | Bruno Hortelano |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | Suriname | Jurgen Themen |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | Ukraine | Serhiy Smelyk |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | Zambia | Gerald Phiri |
| Entry standard – 10.16 | 1 | Zimbabwe | Gabriel Mvumvure |
| Invitational places | 1 | Palestine | Mohammed Abu Khoussa |
| Universality places | 1 | Afghanistan | Abdul Wahib Zahiri |
| Universality places | 1 | American Samoa | Isaac Silafau |
| Universality places | 1 | Angola | Hermenegildo Leite |
| Universality places | 1 | Bangladesh | Mezbahuddin Ahmed |
| Universality places | 1 | Brunei | Mohamed Fakhri Ismail |
| Universality places | 1 | Federated States of Micronesia | Kitson Kapiriel |
| Universality places | 1 | Gabon | Wilfried Bingangoye |
| Universality places | 1 | Guinea | Mohamed Lamine Dansoko |
| Universality places | 1 | Guinea-Bissau | Holder da Silva |
| Universality places | 1 | Honduras | Rolando Palacios |
| Universality places | 1 | Indonesia | Sudirman Hadi |
| Universality places | 1 | Kiribati | John Ruuka |
| Universality places | 1 | Maldives | Hassan Saaid |
| Universality places | 1 | Malta | Luke Bezzina |
| Universality places | 1 | Marshall Islands | Richson Simeon |
| Universality places | 1 | Mauritania | Jidou El Moctar |
| Universality places | 1 | Palau | Rodman Teltull |
| Universality places | 1 | Tonga | Siueni Filimone |
| Universality places | 1 | Singapore | Timothee Yap |
| Universality places | 1 | Sierra Leone | Ishmail Kamara |
| Universality places | 1 | Benin | Didier Kiki |
| Universality places | 1 | Macedonia | Riste Pandev |
| Universality places | 1 | Tuvalu | Etimoni Timuani |
| Total | 88 | | |
As of 10 July 2016

#### Men's 200 m

Does not include indoor achievements
| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 3 | Brazil | Aldemir da Silva Junior Vitor Hugo dos Santos Jorge Vides |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 3 | Canada | Aaron Brown Andre De Grasse Brendon Rodney |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 3 | Great Britain | Adam Gemili Danny Talbot Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 3 | Italy | Eseosa Desalu Davide Manenti Matteo Galvan |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 3 | Jamaica | Nickel Ashmeade Yohan Blake Usain Bolt |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 3 | Japan | Kenji Fujimitsu Shota Iizuka Kei Takase |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 3 | South Africa | Anaso Jobodwana Wayde van Niekerk Akani Simbine |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 3 | United States | Justin Gatlin LaShawn Merritt Ameer Webb |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 2 | Bahamas | Shavez Hart Demetrius Pinder |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 2 | Barbados | Levi Cadogan Burkheart Ellis |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 2 | Botswana | Thebe Baboloki Isaac Makwala |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 2 | Colombia | Bernardo Baloyes Diego Palomeque |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 2 | Cuba | Roberto Skyers Reynier Mena |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 2 | Dominican Republic | Yancarlos Martínez Stanly del Carmen |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 2 | Kenya | Carvin Nkanata Mike Mokamba |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 2 | Mexico | José Carlos Herrera César Ramírez |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 2 | Netherlands | Churandy Martina Solomon Bockarie |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 2 | Nigeria | Tega Odele Ejowvokoghene Oduduru |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 2 | Trinidad and Tobago | Kyle Greaux Rondel Sorrillo |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Antigua and Barbuda | Miguel Francis |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Australia | Alex Hartmann |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Belgium | Jonathan Borlée |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Bermuda | Harold Houston |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Greece | Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | India | Dharambir Singh |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Ivory Coast | Hua Wilfried Koffi |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | France | Christophe Lemaitre |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | The Gambia | Adama Jammeh |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Germany | Alexio-Platini Menga |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Lesotho | Mosito Lehata |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Panama | Alonso Edward |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Poland | Karol Zalewski |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Qatar | Femi Ogunode |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | Antoine Adams |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Samoa | Jeremy Dodson |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Spain | Bruno Hortelano |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Turkey | Ramil Guliyev |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Costa Rica | Nery Brenes |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Ukraine | Serhiy Smelyk |
| Invitational places | 1 | Papua New Guinea | Theo Piniau |
| Universality places | 1 | Belize | Brandon Jones |
| Total | 71 | | |
As of 19 July 2016

#### Men's 400 m

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 3 | Botswana | Isaac Makwala Onkabetse Nkobolo Thebe Baboloki |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 3 | Great Britain | Matthew Hudson-Smith Rabah Yousif Martyn Rooney |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 3 | Jamaica | Fitzroy Dunkley Javon Francis Rusheen McDonald |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 3 | Kenya | Alphas Kishoyian Raymond Kibet Alex Sampao |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 3 | Trinidad and Tobago | Machel Cedenio Lalonde Gordon Deon Lendore |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 3 | United States | LaShawn Merritt Gil Roberts David Verburg |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 2 | Bahamas | Chris Brown Steven Gardiner |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 2 | Belgium | Jonathan Borlée Kevin Borlée |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 2 | Cuba | Yoandys Lescay Raidel Acea |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 2 | Dominican Republic | Gustavo Cuesta Luguelín Santos |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 2 | Grenada | Kirani James Bralon Taplin |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 2 | Japan | Yuzo Kanemaru Julian Walsh |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 1 | Bahrain | Abubakar Abbas |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 1 | Brazil | Hederson Estefani |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 1 | Colombia | Diego Palomeque |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 1 | Costa Rica | Nery Brenes |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 1 | Czech Republic | Pavel Maslák |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 1 | Guyana | Winston George |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 1 | India | Muhammad Anas |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 1 | Israel | Donald Sanford |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 1 | Italy | Matteo Galvan |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 1 | Netherlands | Liemarvin Bonevacia |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 1 | Nigeria | Erayokan Orukpe |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 1 | Poland | Rafał Omelko |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 1 | Qatar | Abdelalelah Haroun |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 1 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Brandon Valentine-Parris |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 1 | Saudi Arabia | Yousef Ahmed Masrahi |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 1 | Slovenia | Luka Janežič |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 1 | South Africa | Wayde van Niekerk |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 1 | Ukraine | Vitaliy Butrym |
| Entry standard – 45.40 | 1 | Venezuela | Alberth Bravo |
| Invitational places | 1 | Refugee Olympic Team | James Chiengjiek |
| Universality places | 1 | Chad | Bachir Mahamat |
| Universality places | 1 | Niger | Ousseini Djibo |
| Universality places | 1 | Pakistan | Mehboob Ali |
| Total | 55 | | |
As of 26 June 2016

#### Men's 800 m

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 3 | Algeria | Taoufik Makhloufi Yassine Hathat Amine Belferar |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 3 | Australia | Peter Bol Luke Mathews Jeff Riseley |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 3 | Kenya | Alfred Kipketer Ferguson Rotich David Rudisha |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 3 | Spain | Daniel Andújar Álvaro de Arriba Kevin López |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 3 | United States | Boris Berian Charles Jock Clayton Murphy |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 2 | Brazil | Kléberson Davide Lutimar Paes |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 2 | Canada | Brandon McBride Anthony Romaniw |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 2 | Great Britain | Michael Rimmer Elliot Giles |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 2 | Morocco | Amine El Manaoui Mostafa Smaili |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 2 | Poland | Adam Kszczot Marcin Lewandowski |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 2 | Puerto Rico | Andrés Arroyo Wesley Vázquez |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 2 | Qatar | Abubaker Haydar Abdalla Abdulrahman Musaeb Balla |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 2 | South Africa | André Olivier Reinhardt van Rensburg |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 1 | Bahrain | Abraham Rotich |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 1 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Amel Tuka |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 1 | Botswana | Nijel Amos |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 1 | Burundi | Antoine Gakeme |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 1 | Colombia | Rafith Rodríguez |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 1 | Czech Republic | Jakub Holuša |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 1 | Denmark | Andreas Bube |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 1 | Djibouti | Ayanleh Souleiman |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 1 | Ethiopia | Mohammed Aman |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 1 | France | Pierre-Ambroise Bosse |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 1 | Ghana | Alex Amankwah |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 1 | India | Jinson Johnson |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 1 | Ireland | Mark English |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 1 | Italy | Giordano Benedetti |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 1 | Saudi Arabia | Ali Saad Al-Daran |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 1 | Slovakia | Jozef Repčík |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 1 | Slovenia | Žan Rudolf |
| Entry standard – 1:46.00 | 1 | Sweden | Andreas Almgren |
| Invitational places | 1 | Luxembourg | Charles Grethen |
| Invitational places | 1 | Monaco | Brice Etès |
| Invitational places | 1 | Refugee Olympic Team | Yiech Biel |
| Universality places | 1 | Andorra | Pol Moya |
| Universality places | 1 | Central African Republic | Francky-Edgard Mbotto |
| Universality places | 1 | Cook Islands | Alex Beddoes |
| Universality places | 1 | Equatorial Guinea | Benjamín Enzema |
| Universality places | 1 | Guam | Joshua Ilustre |
| Universality places | 1 | Kosovo | Musa Hajdari |
| Total | 58 | | |
As of 11 July 2016

#### Men's 1500 m

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 3:36.20 | 3 | Kenya | Asbel Kiprop Elijah Manangoi Ronald Kwemoi |
| Entry standard – 3:36.20 | 3 | Morocco | Fouad Elkaam Abdalaati Iguider Brahim Kaazouzi |
| Entry standard – 3:36.20 | 3 | New Zealand | Nick Willis Hamish Carson Julian Matthews |
| Entry standard – 3:36.20 | 3 | United States | Robby Andrews Ben Blankenship Matthew Centrowitz Jr. |
| Entry standard – 3:36.20 | 2 | Algeria | Taoufik Makhloufi Salim Keddar |
| Entry standard – 3:36.20 | 2 | Canada | Charles Philibert-Thiboutot Nathan Brannen |
| Entry standard – 3:36.20 | 2 | Djibouti | Ayanleh Souleiman Abdi Waiss Mouhyadin |
| Entry standard – 3:36.20 | 2 | Great Britain | Charlie Grice Chris O'Hare |
| Entry standard – 3:36.20 | 2 | Spain | David Bustos Adel Mechaal |
| Entry standard – 3:36.20 | 1 | Azerbaijan | Hayle Ibrahimov |
| Entry standard – 3:36.20 | 1 | Bahrain | Benson Seurei |
| Entry standard – 3:36.20 | 1 | Belgium | Pieter-Jan Hannes |
| Entry standard – 3:36.20 | 1 | Brazil | Thiago André |
| Entry standard – 3:36.20 | 1 | Czech Republic | Jakub Holuša |
| Entry standard – 3:36.20 | 1 | France | Florian Carvalho |
| Entry standard – 3:36.20 | 1 | Germany | Homiyu Tesfaye |
| Entry standard – 3:36.20 | 1 | Norway | Henrik Ingebrigtsen |
| Entry standard – 3:36.20 | 1 | Peru | David Torrence |
| Entry standard – 3:36.20 | 1 | Qatar | Mohamad Al-Garni |
| Entry standard – 3:36.20 | 1 | Turkey | İlham Tanui Özbilen |
| Entry standard – 3:36.20 | 1 | Uganda | Ronald Musagala |
| Invitational places | 1 | Nicaragua | Erick Rodríguez |
| Invitational places | 1 | Refugee Olympic Team | Paulo Lokoro |
| Universality places | 1 | South Sudan | Santino Kenyi |
| Total | 38 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Men's 5000 m

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 13:25.00 | 3 | Eritrea | Abrar Osman Aron Kifle Awet Nftalem Kibrab |
| Entry standard – 13:25.00 | 3 | Ethiopia | Muktar Edris Dejen Gebremeskel Hagos Gebrhiwet (Abadi Hadis) |
| Entry standard – 13:25.00 | 3 | Great Britain | Andrew Butchart Mo Farah Tom Farrell |
| Entry standard – 13:25.00 | 3 | Kenya | Caleb Ndiku Isiah Koech Cyrus Rutto |
| Entry standard – 13:25.00 | 3 | Morocco | Soufiyan Bouqantar Abdalaati Iguider Younes Essalhi |
| Entry standard – 13:25.00 | 3 | Spain | Antonio Abadía Ilias Fifa Adel Mechaal |
| Entry standard – 13:25.00 | 3 | Uganda | Phillip Kipyeko Ronald Musagala Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei |
| Entry standard – 13:25.00 | 3 | United States | Paul Chelimo Bernard Lagat Hassan Mead |
| Entry standard – 13:25.00 | 2 | Bahrain | Aweke Ayalew Albert Kibichii Rop |
| Entry standard – 13:25.00 | 2 | Canada | Mohammed Ahmed Lucas Bruchet |
| Entry standard – 13:25.00 | 2 | Germany | Richard Ringer Florian Orth |
| Entry standard – 13:25.00 | 2 | Japan | Kota Murayama Suguru Osako |
| Entry standard – 13:25.00 | 2 | South Africa | Stephen Mokoka Elroy Gelant |
| Entry standard – 13:25.00 | 1 | Australia | Brett Robinson |
| Entry standard – 13:25.00 | 1 | Belgium | Bashir Abdi |
| Entry standard – 13:25.00 | 1 | Burundi | Olivier Irabaruta |
| Entry standard – 13:25.00 | 1 | Italy | Jamel Chatbi |
| Entry standard – 13:25.00 | 1 | Jamaica | Kemoy Campbell |
| Entry standard – 13:25.00 | 1 | Norway | Sindre Buraas |
| Entry standard – 13:25.00 | 1 | Peru | David Torrence |
| Entry standard – 13:25.00 | 1 | Turkey | Ali Kaya |
| Invitational places | | | |
| Universality places | 1 | Malawi | Kefasi Chitsala |
| Universality places | 1 | Myanmar | San Naing |
| Universality places | 1 | Nepal | Hari Rimal |
| Universality places | 1 | São Tomé and Príncipe | Romário Leitão |
| Universality places | 1 | Solomon Islands | Rosefelo Siosi |
| Universality places | 1 | Somalia | Mohamed Daud Mohamed |
| Total | 48 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Men's 10,000 m

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 28:00.00 | 3 | Eritrea | |
| Entry standard – 28:00.00 | 3 | Ethiopia | Yigrem Demelash Abadi Hadis Tamirat Tola (Ibrahim Jeilan) |
| Entry standard – 28:00.00 | 3 | Great Britain | Mo Farah Ross Millington Andy Vernon |
| Entry standard – 28:00.00 | 3 | Japan | Kota Murayama Suguru Osako Yuta Shitara |
| Entry standard – 28:00.00 | 3 | Kenya | Paul Kipngetich Tanui Charles Muneria Yosei Geoffrey Kamworor |
| Entry standard – 28:00.00 | 3 | United States | Galen Rupp Shadrack Kipchirchir Leonard Essau Korir |
| Entry standard – 28:00.00 | 2 | Australia | David McNeill Ben St. Lawrence |
| Entry standard – 28:00.00 | 2 | South Africa | Stephen Mokoka Gladwin Mzazi |
| Entry standard – 28:00.00 | 2 | Turkey | Ali Kaya Polat Kemboi Arıkan |
| Entry standard – 28:00.00 | 2 | Uganda | Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei Timothy Toroitich |
| Entry standard – 28:00.00 | 1 | Bahrain | El Hassan El-Abbassi |
| Entry standard – 28:00.00 | 1 | Belgium | Bashir Abdi |
| Entry standard – 28:00.00 | 1 | Burundi | Olivier Irabaruta |
| Entry standard – 28:00.00 | 1 | Canada | Mohammed Ahmed |
| Entry standard – 28:00.00 | 1 | Morocco | |
| Entry standard – 28:00.00 | 1 | New Zealand | Zane Robertson |
| Entry standard – 28:00.00 | 1 | Peru | Luis Ostos |
| Entry standard – 28:00.00 | 1 | Tunisia | Wissem Hosni |
| Invitational places | | |
| Universality places | | | |
| Total | 33 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Men's 110 m hurdles

Do not include indoor achievements
| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 3 | Cuba | Yordan O'Farrill Dayron Robles Jhoanis Portilla |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 3 | France | Pascal Martinot-Lagarde Dimitri Bascou Wilhem Belocian |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 3 | Germany | Alexander John Gregor Traber Matthias Bühler |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 3 | Jamaica | Omar McLeod Deuce Carter Hansle Parchment Andrew Riley *including alternates |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 3 | United States | Devon Allen Ronnie Ash Jeff Porter |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 2 | Barbados | Shane Brathwaite Greggmar Swift |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 2 | Brazil | João Vítor de Oliveira Éder Souza |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 2 | Canada | Johnathan Cabral Sekou Kaba |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 2 | Great Britain | Lawrence Clarke Andrew Pozzi |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 2 | Poland | Damian Czykier Artur Noga |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 2 | Spain | Yidiel Contreras Orlando Ortega |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 1 | Cayman Islands | Ronald Forbes |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 1 | China | Xie Wenjun |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 1 | Colombia | Yeison Rivas |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 1 | Cyprus | Milan Trajkovic |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 1 | Czech Republic | Petr Svoboda |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 1 | Greece | Konstadinos Douvalidis |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 1 | Haiti | Jeffrey Julmis |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 1 | Hungary | Balázs Baji |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 1 | Japan | Wataru Yazawa |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 1 | Nigeria | Antwon Hicks |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 1 | Serbia | Milan Ristić |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 1 | South Africa | Antonio Alkana |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 1 | Trinidad and Tobago | Mikel Thomas |
| Entry standard – 13.47 | 1 | Virgin Islands | Eddie Lovett |
| Invitational places | 1 | Lebanon | Ahmad Hazer |
| Universality places | 1 | Laos | Xaysa Anousone |
| Total | 42 | | |
As of 4 August 2016

#### Men's 400 m hurdles

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 3 | Brazil | Hederson Estefani Mahau Suguimati Marcio Teles |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 3 | Jamaica | Annsert Whyte Jaheel Hyde Roxroy Cato Romel Lewis *including alternates |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 3 | Kenya | Aron Koech Boniface Mucheru Kiprono Kosgei |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 3 | United States | Kerron Clement Byron Robinson Michael Tinsley |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 2 | Algeria | Abdelmalik Lahoulou Miloud Rahmani |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 2 | Estonia | Rasmus Mägi Jaak-Heinrich Jagor |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 2 | Great Britain | Jack Green Seb Rodger |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 2 | Japan | Yuki Matsushita Keisuke Nozawa |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 2 | Puerto Rico | Javier Culson Eric Alejandro |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 2 | South Africa | L.J. van Zyl Cornel Fredericks |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 1 | Bahamas | Jeffery Gibson |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 1 | Belgium | Michaël Bultheel |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 1 | Cape Verde | Jordin Andrade |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 1 | Cuba | Omar Cisneros |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 1 | Ireland | Thomas Barr |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 1 | Kazakhstan | Dmitriy Koblov |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 1 | Nigeria | Miles Ukaoma |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 1 | Philippines | Eric Cray |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 1 | Poland | Patryk Dobek |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 1 | Spain | Sergio Fernández |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 1 | Switzerland | Kariem Hussein |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 1 | Chinese Taipei | Chen Chieh |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 1 | Trinidad and Tobago | Jehue Gordon |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 1 | Tunisia | Mohamed Sghaier |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 1 | Turkey | Yasmani Copello |
| Entry standard – 49.40 | 1 | Uruguay | Andrés Silva |
| Invitational places | 1 | Germany | Tobias Giehl |
| Invitational places | 1 | Mozambique | Kurt Couto |
| Universality places | 1 | Seychelles | Ned Azemia |
| Total | 42 | | |
As of 18 June 2016

#### Men's 3000 m steeplechase

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 8:30.00 | 3 | Algeria | Hicham Bouchicha Bilal Tabti Ali Messaoudi |
| Entry standard – 8:30.00 | 3 | Canada | Taylor Milne Chris Winter Matthew Hughes |
| Entry standard – 8:30.00 | 3 | Ethiopia | Hailemariyam Amare Chala Beyo Tafese Seboka (Birhan Getahun) |
| Entry standard – 8:30.00 | 3 | Kenya | Brimin Kipruto Conseslus Kipruto Ezekiel Kemboi |
| Entry standard – 8:30.00 | 3 | Morocco | Soufiane Elbakkali Hamid Ezzine Hicham Sigueni |
| Entry standard – 8:30.00 | 3 | Spain | |
| Entry standard – 8:30.00 | 3 | United States | Hillary Bor Donn Cabral Evan Jager |
| Entry standard – 8:30.00 | 3 | Turkey | Tarık Langat Akdağ Halil Akkaş Aras Kaya |
| Entry standard – 8:30.00 | 2 | France | Yoann Kowal Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad |
| Entry standard – 8:30.00 | 1 | Bahrain | John Kibet Koech |
| Entry standard – 8:30.00 | 1 | Brazil | Altobeli da Silva |
| Entry standard – 8:30.00 | 1 | Bulgaria | Mitko Tsenov |
| Entry standard – 8:30.00 | 1 | Colombia | Gerard Giraldo |
| Entry standard – 8:30.00 | 1 | Djibouti | Mohamed Ismail Ibrahim |
| Entry standard – 8:30.00 | 1 | Great Britain | Rob Mullett |
| Entry standard – 8:30.00 | 1 | Italy | Jamel Chatbi |
| Entry standard – 8:30.00 | 1 | Poland | Krystian Zalewski |
| Entry standard – 8:30.00 | 1 | Tunisia | Amor Ben Yahia |
| Entry standard – 8:30.00 | 1 | Uganda | Benjamin Kiplagat |
| Entry standard – 8:30.00 | 1 | Venezuela | Jose Peña |
| Invitational places | 2 | Italy | Yuri Floriani Abdoullah Bamoussa |
| Invitational places | 1 | Belgium | Jeroen D'Hoedt |
| Invitational places | 1 | Denmark | Ole Hesselbjerg |
| Invitational places | 1 | Sudan | Abdalla Targan |
| Invitational places | 1 | Estonia | Kaur Kivistik |
| Universality places | | | |
| Total | 35 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

### Women's track events
#### Women's 100 m

Does not include indoor achievements
| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 3 | Brazil | Franciela Krasucki Rosângela Santos Ana Cláudia Lemos |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 3 | Great Britain | Asha Philip Daryll Neita Desirèe Henry |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 3 | Jamaica | Elaine Thompson Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Christania Williams |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 3 | Trinidad and Tobago | Michelle-Lee Ahye Semoy Hackett Kelly-Ann Baptiste |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 3 | Ukraine | Nataliya Pohrebnyak Olesya Povh Hrystyna Stuy |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 3 | United States | English Gardner Tianna Bartoletta Tori Bowie |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 2 | Bahamas | Shaunae Miller Tynia Gaither |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 2 | China | Wei Yongli Yuan Qiqi |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 2 | Colombia | Evelyn Rivera Eliecith Palacios |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 2 | Ecuador | Ángela Tenorio Narcisa Landázuri |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 2 | Ivory Coast | Murielle Ahouré Marie-Josée Ta Lou |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 2 | Germany | Rebekka Haase Tatjana Pinto |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 2 | Kazakhstan | Olga Safronova Viktoriya Zyabkina |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 2 | Nigeria | Blessing Okagbare Peace Uko |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 2 | Poland | Ewa Swoboda Marika Popowicz |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 2 | South Africa | Carina Horn Alyssa Conley |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 1 | Australia | Melissa Breen |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 1 | British Virgin Islands | Tahesia Harrigan-Scott |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 1 | Bulgaria | Ivet Lalova |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 1 | Canada | Crystal Emmanuel |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 1 | Croatia | Andrea Ivančević |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 1 | Cuba | Arialis Gandulla |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 1 | Gabon | Ruddy Zang Milama |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 1 | Ghana | Flings Owusu-Agyapong |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 1 | Guyana | Brenessa Thompson |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 1 | India | Dutee Chand |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 1 | Japan | Chisato Fukushima |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 1 | Netherlands | Dafne Schippers |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 1 | Norway | Ezinne Okparaebo |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 1 | Portugal | Lorène Bazolo |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 1 | Switzerland | Mujinga Kambundji |
| Entry standard – 11.32 | 1 | Uzbekistan | Nigina Sharipova |
| Invitational places | 1 | Papua New Guinea | Toea Wisil |
| Universality places | 1 | Afghanistan | Kamia Yousufi |
| Universality places | 1 | American Samoa | Jordan Mageo |
| Universality places | 1 | Angola | Liliana Neto |
| Universality places | 1 | Bangladesh | Shirin Akter |
| Universality places | 1 | Brunei | Maizurah Abdul Rahim |
| Universality places | 1 | Chad | Bibiro Ali Taher |
| Universality places | 1 | Cook Islands | Patricia Taea |
| Universality places | 1 | Federated States of Micronesia | Larissa Henry |
| Universality places | 1 | Fiji | Sisilia Seavula |
| Universality places | 1 | Guinea | Makoura Keita |
| Universality places | 1 | Guam | Regine Tugade |
| Universality places | 1 | Kiribati | Karitaake Tewaaki |
| Universality places | 1 | Laos | Laenly Phoutthavong |
| Universality places | 1 | Marshall Islands | Mariana Cress |
| Universality places | 1 | Sierra Leone | Hafsatu Kamara |
| Universality places | 1 | Tuvalu | Asenate Manoa |
| Total | 69 | | |
As of 25 June 2016

#### Women's 200 m

Does not include indoor achievements
| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 3 | Bahamas | Shaunae Miller Anthonique Strachan Tynia Gaither |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 3 | Brazil | Vitória Cristina Rosa Rosângela Santos Kauiza Venâncio |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 3 | Canada | Crystal Emmanuel Kimberly Hyacinthe |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 3 | Germany | Nadine Gonska Lisa Mayer Gina Lückenkemper |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 3 | Jamaica | Veronica Campbell Brown Kali Davis-White Simone Facey Elaine Thompson *including alternates |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 3 | Trinidad and Tobago | Michelle-Lee Ahye Semoy Hackett Reyare Thomas |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 3 | Ukraine | Hrystyna Stuy Nataliya Pohrebnyak Viktoriya Pyatachenko |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 3 | United States | Tori Bowie Jenna Prandini Deajah Stevens |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 2 | Armenia | Gayane Chiloyan Diana Khubeseryan |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 2 | Cyprus | Eleni Artymata Ramona Papaioannou |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 2 | Great Britain | Dina Asher-Smith Jodie Williams |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 2 | Italy | Libania Grenot Gloria Hooper |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 2 | Ivory Coast | Murielle Ahouré Marie-Josée Ta Lou |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 2 | Netherlands | Tessa van Schagen Dafne Schippers |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 2 | Slovenia | Maja Mihalinec Sabina Veit |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 2 | South Africa | Alyssa Conley Justine Palframan |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | Australia | Ella Nelson |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | Bahrain | Salwa Eid Naser |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | Barbados | Sada Williams |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | Belgium | Cynthia Bolingo |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | British Virgin Islands | Ashley Kelly |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | Bulgaria | Ivet Lalova |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | Chile | Isidora Jiménez |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | Cuba | Arialis Gandulla |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | Ecuador | Ángela Tenorio |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | The Gambia | Gina Bass |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | Greece | Maria Belibasaki |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | Guyana | Brenessa Thompson |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | India | Srabani Nanda |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | Japan | Chisato Fukushima |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | Kazakhstan | Viktoriya Zyabkina |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | Nigeria | Blessing Okagbare |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | Poland | Anna Kiełbasińska |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | Portugal | Lorène Bazolo |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | Puerto Rico | Celiangeli Morales |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | Tameka Williams |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | Spain | Estela García |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | Switzerland | Mujinga Kambundji |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | Venezuela | Nercelis Soto |
| Entry standard – 23.20 | 1 | Zambia | Kabange Mupopo |
| Invitational places | | | |
| Universality places | 1 | Cape Verde | Lidiane Lopes |
| Universality places | 1 | Maldives | Afa Ismail |
| Universality places | 1 | South Sudan | Margret Rumat Rumar Hassan |
| Total | 68 | | |
As of 26 June 2016

#### Women's 400 m

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 3 | Canada | Alicia Brown Kendra Clarke Carline Muir |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 3 | Great Britain | Seren Bundy-Davies Emily Diamond Christine Ohuruogu |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 3 | Jamaica | Stephenie Ann McPherson Christine Day Shericka Jackson |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 3 | Nigeria | Regina George Patience Okon George Tosin Adeloye |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 3 | Poland | Małgorzata Hołub Justyna Święty Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 3 | South Africa | Justine Palframan Caster Semenya Tsholofelo Thipe |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 3 | United States | Allyson Felix Phyllis Francis Natasha Hastings |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 2 | Australia | Morgan Mitchell Anneliese Rubie |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 2 | Botswana | Christine Botlogetswe Lydia Jele |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 2 | Brazil | Geisa Coutinho Jailma de Lima |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 2 | France | Floria Gueï |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 2 | Italy | Libania Grenot Maria Benedicta Chigbolu |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 2 | Kenya | Margaret Nyairera Wambui Maureen Jelagat Maiyo |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 2 | Ukraine | Olha Zemlyak Nataliya Pyhyda |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 1 | Bahamas | Shaunae Miller |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 1 | Bahrain | Kemi Adekoya |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 1 | Barbados | Sada Williams |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 1 | China | Yang Huizhen |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 1 | Cuba | Lisneidy Veitia |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 1 | Germany | Ruth Sophia Spelmeyer |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 1 | Guyana | Aliyah Abrams |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 1 | India | Nirmala Sheoran |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 1 | Latvia | Gunta Latiševa-Čudare |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 1 | Namibia | Tjipekapora Herunga |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 1 | Portugal | Cátia Azevedo |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 1 | Romania | Bianca Răzor |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 1 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Kineke Alexander |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 1 | Serbia | Tamara Salaški |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 1 | Slovakia | Iveta Putálová |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 1 | Spain | Aauri Bokesa |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 1 | Vietnam | Nguyễn Thị Huyền |
| Entry standard – 52.20 | 1 | Zambia | Kabange Mupopo |
| Invitational places | 1 | Grenada | Kanika Beckles |
| Universality places | 1 | Kosovo | Vijona Kryeziu |
| Universality places | 1 | Mali | Djénébou Danté |
| Universality places | 1 | Niger | Mariama Mahamatou Itatou |
| Universality places | 1 | Pakistan | Najma Parveen |
| Universality places | 1 | Somalia | Maryan Nuh Muse |
| Total | 60 | | |
As of 2 July 2016

#### Women's 800 m

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 3 | Cuba | Rose Mary Almanza Sahily Diago Lisneidy Veitía |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 3 | Ethiopia | Habitam Alemu Tigist Assefa Gudaf Tsegay |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 3 | Jamaica | Simoya Campbell Natoya Goule Kenia Sinclair |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 3 | Kenya | Margaret Nyairera Wambui Eunice Sum Winnie Chebet |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 3 | Poland | Angelika Cichocka Joanna Jóźwik Sofia Ennaoui |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 3 | Ukraine | Nataliya Lupu Anastasiya Tkachuk Olha Lyakhova |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 3 | United States | Kate Grace Ajeé Wilson Chrishuna Williams |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 2 | France | Rénelle Lamote Justine Fedronic |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 2 | Germany | Christina Hering Fabienne Kohlmann |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 2 | Great Britain | Shelayna Oskan-Clarke Lynsey Sharp |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 2 | Morocco | Malika Akkaoui Rababe Arafi |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 2 | Romania | Florina Pierdevara Claudia Bobocea |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | Australia | Selma Kajan |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | Belarus | Maryna Arzamasova |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | Belgium | Renée Eykens |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | Benin | Noélie Yarigo |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | Brazil | Flávia de Lima |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | Burundi | Francine Niyonsaba |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | Canada | Melissa Bishop |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | China | Wang Chunyu |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | Iceland | Aníta Hinriksdóttir |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | India | Tintu Lukka |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | Ireland | Ciara Everard |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | Italy | Yusneysi Santiusti |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | Lithuania | Eglė Balčiūnaitė |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | Luxembourg | Charline Mathias |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | Netherlands | Sifan Hassan |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | New Zealand | Angie Petty |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | Serbia | Amela Terzić |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | Slovakia | Lucia Klocová |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | South Africa | Caster Semenya |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | Spain | Esther Guerrero |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | Sweden | Abeba Aregawi |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | Switzerland | Selina Büchel |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | Uganda | Docus Ajok |
| Entry standard – 2:01.50 | 1 | Uruguay | Déborah Rodríguez |
| Invitational places | 1 | Refugee Olympic Team | Rose Lokonyen |
| | 1 | Independent Olympic Athletes | Yuliya Stepanova |
| Universality places | 1 | Central African Republic | Elisabeth Mandaba |
| Universality places | 1 | Mauritania | Houleye Ba |
| Universality places | 1 | Myanmar | Swe Li Myint |
| Total | 57 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Women's 1500 m

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 4:07.00 | 3 | Australia | Jenny Blundell Zoe Buckman Linden Hall |
| Entry standard – 4:07.00 | 3 | Canada | Nicole Sifuentes Gabriela Stafford Hilary Stellingwerff |
| Entry standard – 4:07.00 | 3 | Ethiopia | Genzebe Dibaba Besu Sado Dawit Seyaum (Gudaf Tsegay) |
| Entry standard – 4:07.00 | 3 | Germany | Konstanze Klosterhalfen Maren Kock Diana Sujew |
| Entry standard – 4:07.00 | 3 | Kenya | Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon Nancy Chepkwemoi Violah Lagat |
| Entry standard – 4:07.00 | 3 | Morocco | Rababe Arafi Malika Akkaoui Siham Hilali |
| Entry standard – 4:07.00 | 3 | Poland | Sofia Ennaoui Angelika Cichocka Danuta Urbanik |
| Entry standard – 4:07.00 | 3 | United States | Jennifer Simpson Shannon Rowbury Brenda Martinez |
| Entry standard – 4:07.00 | 2 | Bahrain | Mimi Belete Tigist Gashaw |
| Entry standard – 4:07.00 | 2 | Great Britain | Laura Muir Laura Weightman |
| Entry standard – 4:07.00 | 2 | Netherlands | Sifan Hassan Maureen Koster |
| Entry standard – 4:07.00 | 2 | Sweden | Abeba Aregawi Meraf Bahta |
| Entry standard – 4:07.00 | 1 | Albania | Luiza Gega |
| Entry standard – 4:07.00 | 1 | Colombia | Muriel Coneo |
| Entry standard – 4:07.00 | 1 | Ireland | Ciara Mageean |
| Entry standard – 4:07.00 | 1 | Italy | Margherita Magnani |
| Entry standard – 4:07.00 | 1 | Jamaica | Aisha Praught |
| Entry standard – 4:07.00 | 1 | New Zealand | Nikki Hamblin |
| Entry standard – 4:07.00 | 1 | Portugal | Marta Pen |
| Entry standard – 4:07.00 | 1 | Serbia | Amela Terzić |
| Entry standard – 4:07.00 | 1 | Ukraine | Natalia Pryshchepa |
| Entry standard – 4:07.00 | 1 | United Arab Emirates | Betlhem Desalegn |
| Invitational places | 1 | Refugee Olympic Team | Anjelina Lohalith |
| Universality places | 1 | Nepal | Saraswati Bhattarai |
| Universality places | 1 | São Tomé and Príncipe | Celma Bonfim da Graça |
| Total | 42 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Women's 5000 m

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 15:24.00 | 3 | Australia | Madeline Hills Genevieve LaCaze Eloise Wellings |
| Entry standard – 15:24.00 | 3 | Ethiopia | Almaz Ayana Senbere Teferi Ababel Yeshaneh (Tirunesh Dibaba) |
| Entry standard – 15:24.00 | 3 | Great Britain | Eilish McColgan Steph Twell Laura Whittle |
| Entry standard – 15:24.00 | 3 | Japan | Misaki Onishi Ayuko Suzuki Miyuki Uehara |
| Entry standard – 15:24.00 | 3 | Kenya | Vivian Cheruiyot Hellen Obiri Mercy Cherono |
| Entry standard – 15:24.00 | 3 | United States | Kim Conley Shelby Houlihan Molly Huddle |
| Entry standard – 15:24.00 | 2 | Canada | Jessica O'Connell Andrea Seccafien |
| Entry standard – 15:24.00 | 2 | Netherlands | Maureen Koster Susan Kuijken |
| Entry standard – 15:24.00 | 2 | Sweden | Meraf Bahta Sarah Lahti |
| Entry standard – 15:24.00 | 2 | Turkey | Yasemin Can Meryem Akda |
| Entry standard – 15:24.00 | 2 | Uganda | Juliet Chekwel Stella Chesang |
| Entry standard – 15:24.00 | 1 | Austria | Jennifer Wenth |
| Entry standard – 15:24.00 | 1 | Bahrain | Mimi Belete |
| Entry standard – 15:24.00 | 1 | Belgium | Louise Carton |
| Entry standard – 15:24.00 | 1 | Italy | Veronica Inglese |
| Entry standard – 15:24.00 | 1 | New Zealand | Nikki Hamblin |
| Entry standard – 15:24.00 | 1 | Norway | Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal |
| Entry standard – 15:24.00 | 1 | Saudi Arabia | Tariq Ahmed Al-Amri |
| Invitational places | | | |
| Universality places | 1 | Solomon Islands | Sharon Firisua |
| Total | 32 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Women's 10,000 m

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 3 | Ethiopia | Almaz Ayana Gelete Burka Tirunesh Dibaba (Netsanet Gudeta) |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 3 | Great Britain | Jess Andrews Beth Potter Jo Pavey |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 3 | Japan | Hanami Sekine Ayuko Suzuki Yuka Takashima |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 3 | Portugal | Ana Dulce Félix Sara Moreira Carla Salomé Rocha |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 3 | United States | Molly Huddle Emily Infeld Marielle Hall |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 2 | Canada | Natasha Wodak Lanni Marchant |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 2 | Kenya | Vivian Cheruiyot Betsy Saina |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 2 | Netherlands | Susan Kuijken Jip Vastenburg |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 1 | Australia | Eloise Wellings |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 1 | Brazil | Tatiele de Carvalho |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 1 | Burundi | Diane Nukuri |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 1 | Finland | Johanna Peiponen |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 1 | Greece | Alexia Pappas |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 1 | Ireland | Fionnuala McCormack |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 1 | Italy | Veronica Inglese |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 1 | Kyrgyzstan | Daria Maslova |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 1 | Mexico | Brenda Flores |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 1 | Peru | Inés Melchor |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 1 | South Africa | Dominique Scott |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 1 | Spain | Trihas Gebre |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 1 | Sweden | Sarah Lahti |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 1 | Turkey | Yasemin Can |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 1 | Uganda | Juliet Chekwel |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 1 | Ukraine | Olga Skrypak |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 1 | United Arab Emirates | Alia Saeed Mohammed |
| Entry standard – 32:15.00 | 1 | Uzbekistan | Sitora Hamidova |
| Invitational places | | | |
| Universality places | | | |
| Total | 40 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Women's 100 m hurdles

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 3 | Bahamas | Devynne Charlton Adanaca Brown Ivanique Kemp |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 3 | Canada | Phylicia George Nikkita Holder Angela Whyte |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 3 | Germany | Pamela Dutkiewicz Nadine Hildebrand Cindy Roleder |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 3 | Jamaica | Monique Morgan Shermaine Williams Nickiesha Wilson Megan Simmonds *including alternates |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 3 | United States | Nia Ali Kristi Castlin Brianna Rollins |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 2 | Barbados | Kierre Beckles Akela Jones |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 2 | Brazil | Maíla Machado Fabiana Moraes |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 2 | Colombia | Lina Flórez Brigitte Merlano |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 2 | France | Cindy Billaud Sandra Gomis |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 2 | Great Britain | Cindy Ofili Tiffany Porter |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 2 | Ukraine | Anastasiya Mokhnyuk Hanna Platitsyna |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 1 | Australia | Michelle Jenneke |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 1 | Austria | Beate Schrott |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 1 | Belarus | Alina Talay |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 1 | Belgium | Anne Zagré |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 1 | China | Wu Shuijiao |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 1 | Croatia | Andrea Ivančević |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 1 | Nigeria | Tobi Amusan |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 1 | Norway | Isabelle Pedersen |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 1 | Panama | Yvette Lewis |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 1 | Poland | Karolina Kołeczek |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 1 | Puerto Rico | Jasmine Quinn |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 1 | Spain | Caridad Jerez |
| Entry standard – 13.00 | 1 | Switzerland | Noemi Zbären |
| Invitational places | | | |
| Universality places | 1 | Belize | Katy Sealy |
| Universality places | 1 | Burkina Faso | Marthe Koala |
| Universality places | 1 | Equatorial Guinea | Reïna-Flor Okori |
| Total | 44 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Women's 400 m hurdles

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 3 | Canada | Noelle Montcalm Sage Watson Chanice Chase |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 3 | Great Britain | Eilidh Doyle |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 3 | Italy | Yadisleidy Pedroso Marzia Caravelli Ayomide Folorunso |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 3 | Jamaica | Ristananna Tracey Leah Nugent Janieve Russell Kaliese Spencer *including alternates |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 3 | United States | Sydney McLaughlin Dalilah Muhammad Ashley Spencer |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 2 | Armenia | Lilit Harutyunyan |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 2 | Czech Republic | Zuzana Hejnová Denisa Rosolová |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 2 | Denmark | Sara Petersen Stina Troest |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 2 | Switzerland | Léa Sprunger Petra Fontanive |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 2 | Trinidad and Tobago | Janeil Bellille Sparkle McKnight |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 2 | Ukraine | Hanna Titimets Hanna Ryzhykova |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 2 | Poland | Emilia Ankiewicz Joanna Linkiewicz |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 1 | Australia | Lauren Wells |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 1 | Bahrain | Adekoya Oluwakemi |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 1 | Barbados | Tia-Adana Belle |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 1 | Belgium | Axelle Dauwens |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 1 | Cuba | Zurian Hechavarria |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 1 | France | Phara Anacharsis |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 1 | Germany | Jackie Baumann |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 1 | Lithuania | Eglė Staišiūnaitė |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 1 | Morocco | Hayat Lambarki |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 1 | Nigeria | Amaka Ogoegbunam |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 1 | Portugal | Vera Barbosa |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 1 | Puerto Rico | Grace Claxton |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 1 | South Africa | Wenda Nel |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 1 | Sweden | Elise Malmberg |
| Entry standard – 56.20 | 1 | Vietnam | Nguyễn Thị Huyền |
| Invitational places | 1 | Costa Rica | Sharolyn Scott |
| Universality places | | | |
| Total | 44 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Women's 3000 m steeplechase

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 3 | Australia | Madeline Heiner Genevieve LaCaze Victoria Mitchell |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 3 | Canada | Maria Bernard Geneviève Lalonde Erin Teschuk |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 3 | Ethiopia | Sofia Assefa Hiwot Ayalew Etenesh Diro (Weynshet Ansa) |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 3 | Germany | Gesa Felicitas Krause Sanaa Koubaa Maya Rehberg |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 3 | Ireland | Sara Treacy Michelle Finn Kerry O'Flaherty |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 3 | Kenya | Hyvin Kiyeng Beatrice Chepkoech Lydia Rotich |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 3 | Turkey | Tuğba Güvenç Özlem Kaya Meryem Akda |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 3 | United States | Emma Coburn Courtney Frerichs Colleen Quigley |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 2 | China | Li Zhenzhu Zhang Xinyan |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 2 | India | Lalita Babar Sudha Singh |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 2 | Morocco | Salima Elouali Alami Fadwa Sidi Madane |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 2 | Sweden | Klara Bodinson Charlotta Fougberg |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 1 | Algeria | Amina Bettiche |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 1 | Argentina | Belén Casetta |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 1 | Bahrain | Ruth Jebet |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 1 | Belarus | Sviatlana Kudzelich |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 1 | Brazil | Juliana Paula dos Santos |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 1 | Bulgaria | Silvia Danekova |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 1 | Colombia | Muriel Coneo |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 1 | Czech Republic | Lucie Sekanová |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 1 | Finland | Sandra Eriksson |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 1 | Great Britain | Lennie Waite |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 1 | Jamaica | Aisha Praught |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 1 | Poland | Matylda Kowal |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 1 | Romania | Ancuța Bobocel |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 1 | Slovenia | Maruša Mišmaš |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 1 | Spain | Diana Martín |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 1 | Switzerland | Fabienne Schlumpf |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 1 | Tunisia | Habiba Ghribi |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 1 | Uganda | Peruth Chemutai |
| Entry standard – 9.45.00 | 1 | Ukraine | Mariya Shatalova |
| Invitational places | 1 | Madagascar | Eliane Saholinirina |
| Universality places | | | |
| Total | 59 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

## Road events
### Men's road events
#### Men's marathon

Qualifying for the Kenyan marathon team is the most competitive. 427 Kenyan men achieved the qualification standard.
| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Algeria | Hakim Saadi Haim Saadi El Hadi Lameche |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Argentina | Federico Bruno Mariano Mastromarino Luis Molina |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Australia | Liam Adams Scott Westcott Michael Shelley |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Belgium | |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Brazil | Marílson Gomes dos Santos Paulo Roberto Paula Solonei Rocha da Silva |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Chile | Victor Aravena Daniel Estrada Enzo Yáñez |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | China | Dong Guojian Duo Bujie Zhu Renxue |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Colombia | Diego Colorado Gerard Giraldo Andrés Ruiz |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Denmark | Abdi Hakim Ulad |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Ecuador | Miguel Ángel Almachi Segundo Jami Byron Piedra |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Eritrea | |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Ethiopia | Tesfaye Abera Lemi Berhanu Feyisa Lelisa (Lelisa Desisa) |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Germany | Arne Gabius Hendrik Pfeiffer Philipp Pflieger |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Great Britain | Callum Hawkins Derek Hawkins Tsegai Tewelde |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | India | Nitender Singh Rawat Thonakal Gopi Kheta Ram |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Ireland | Kevin Seaward Mick Clohisey Paul Pollock |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Israel | Tesama Moogas Marhu Teferi Ageze Guadie |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Italy | Ruggero Pertile Daniele Meucci Stefano La Rosa |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Japan | Suehiro Ishikawa Hisanori Kitajima Satoru Sasaki |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Kenya | Eliud Kipchoge Stanley Biwott Wesley Korir |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Mongolia | |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | North Korea | |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Peru | Willy Canchanya Raúl Machacuay Raúl Pacheco |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Poland | Artur Kozłowski Yared Shegumo Henryk Szost |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | South Africa | Lusapho April Lungile Gongqa Sibusiso Nzima |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | South Korea | |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Spain | Carles Castillejo Jesús España Javier Guerra |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Tanzania | Mohamed Ikoki Msandeki Saidi Makula Alphonce Felix Simbu |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Turkey | Bekir Karayel Serkan Kaya Ercan Muslu |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Uganda | |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Ukraine | Oleksandr Sitkovskyy Ihor Olefirenko Serhiy Lebid |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | United States | Galen Rupp Meb Keflezighi Jared Ward |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Uruguay | Martín Cuestas Nicolás Cuestas Aguelmis Rojas |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 3 | Zimbabwe | Wirimai Juwawo Pardon Ndhlovu Cuthbert Nyasango |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 2 | Belarus | Vladislav Pryamov Stsiapan Rahautsou |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 2 | Burundi | Pierre-Célestin Nihorimbere Abraham Niyonkuru |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 2 | Canada | Reid Coolsaet Eric Gillis |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 2 | Estonia | Roman Fosti Tiidrek Nurme |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 2 | Greece | Michalis Kalomiris Christoforos Merousis |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 2 | Hungary | Gáspár Csere Gábor Józsa |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 2 | Lithuania | Remigijus Kančys Valdas Dopolskas |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 2 | Morocco | Abdelmajid El Hissouf Rachid Kisri |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 2 | Norway | Sondre Nordstad Moen Asbjorn Ellefsen Persen |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 2 | Portugal | Ricardo Ribas Rui Pedro Silva |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 2 | Romania | Marius Ionescu Nicolae Soare |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 2 | Sweden | Mikael Ekvall David Nilsson |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 2 | Switzerland | Tadesse Abraham Christian Kreienbühl |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Bahrain | Alemu Bekele |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Cambodia | Neko Hiroshi |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Cuba | Richer Pérez |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Djibouti | Mumin Gala |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Georgia | Daviti Kharazishvili |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Guatemala | José Amado García |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Iran | Mohammad Jafar Moradi |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Jordan | Hamad Marouf |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Kazakhstan | |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Latvia | Valērijs Žolnerovičs |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Lesotho | |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Mauritius | David Carver |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Mexico | Ricardo Ramos |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Moldova | Roman Prodius |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Namibia | Mynhardt Kawanivi |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Netherlands | Abdi Nageeye |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Panama | Jorge Castelblanco |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Paraguay | Derlys Ayala |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Qatar | Essa Ismail Rashed |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Rwanda | Ambroise Uwiragyie |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Slovenia | Tone Kosmač |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Sri Lanka | Anuradha Cooray |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Chinese Taipei | Ho Chin-Ping |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Tunisia | Abdulaziz Charfi |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Uzbekistan | Andrey Petrov |
| Entry standard – 2:19:00 | 1 | Venezuela | Luis Orta |
| Universality places | 1 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Makorobondo Salukombo |
| Universality places | 1 | Refugee Olympic Team | Yonas Kinde |
| Universality places | 1 | Kyrgyzstan | Ilya Tyapkin |
| Universality places | 1 | South Sudan | Guor Marial |
| Total | 162 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Men's 20 km walk

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 3 | Australia | Dane Bird-Smith Rhydian Cowley Jared Tallent |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 3 | Belarus | Dzianis Simanovich Aliaksandr Liakhovich Yauheni Zalesski |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 3 | Brazil | José Alessandro Bagio Caio Bonfim Moacir Zimmermann |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 3 | Canada | Inaki Gomez Benjamin Thorne Evan Dunfee |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 3 | China | Chen Ding Cai Zelin Wang Zhen |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 3 | Colombia | Éider Arévalo Manuel Esteban Soto Luis Fernando López |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 3 | Ecuador | Mauricio Arteaga Andrés Chocho Brian Pintado |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 3 | Germany | Nils Brembach Christopher Linke Hagen Pohle |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 3 | Guatemala | Erick Barrondo Mario Bran José Raymundo |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 3 | India | Gurmeet Singh Irfan Kolothum Thodi Baljinder Singh |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 3 | Italy | Matteo Giupponi |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 3 | Japan | Eiki Takahashi Isamu Fujisawa Daisuke Matsunaga |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 3 | Mexico | Pedro Daniel Gómez Julio César Salazar Ever Palma |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 3 | South Korea | |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 3 | Poland | Artur Brzozowski Jakub Jelonek Łukasz Nowak |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 3 | Spain | Francisco Arcilla Miguel Ángel López Álvaro Martín |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 3 | Ukraine | Ruslan Dmytrenko Ihor Hlavan Nazar Kovalenko |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 2 | Ireland | Rob Heffernan Alex Wright |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 2 | Kazakhstan | Georgiy Sheiko Vitaliy Anichkin |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 2 | Kenya | Samuel Gathimba Simon Wachira |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 2 | Lithuania | Marius Šavelskis Marius Žiūkas |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 2 | Norway | Håvard Haukenes Erik Tysse |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 2 | Portugal | João Vieira Sérgio Vieira |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 2 | Slovakia | Matej Tóth Anton Kučmín |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 2 | South Africa | Lebogang Shange Wayne Snyman |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 2 | Sweden | Perséus Karlström Anatole Ibáñez |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 2 | Turkey | Mert Atlı Ersin Tacir |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 1 | Argentina | Juan Manuel Cano |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 1 | Bolivia | Marco Antonio Rodríguez |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 1 | Chile | Yerko Araya |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 1 | France | Kévin Campion |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 1 | Great Britain | Tom Bosworth |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 1 | Greece | Alexandros Papamichail |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 1 | Hungary | Máté Helebrandt |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 1 | Iran | Hamid Reza Zouravand |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 1 | New Zealand | Quentin Rew |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 1 | Peru | Pavel Chihuán |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 1 | Tunisia | Hassanine Sebei |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 1 | Venezuela | Richard Vargas |
| Entry standard – 1:24:00 | 1 | Vietnam | Nguyễn Thành Ngưng |
| Universality places | | | |
| Total | 86 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Men's 50 km walk

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 3 | Australia | Chris Erickson Jared Tallent Brendon Reading |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 3 | Brazil | Jonathan Riekmann Mário José dos Santos Junior Caio Bonfim |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 3 | China | Wang Zhendong Han Yucheng Yu Wei |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 3 | Colombia | James Rendón José Leonardo Montaña Jorge Armando Ruiz |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 3 | Ecuador | Jonathan Cáceres Andrés Chocho Claudio Villanueva |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 3 | Finland | Aku Partanen Aleksi Ojala Jarkko Kinnunen |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 3 | Guatemala | Erick Barrondo Jaime Quiyuch Luis Ángel Sánchez |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 3 | Hungary | Máté Helebrandt Sándor Rácz Miklós Srp |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 3 | Ireland | Alex Wright Rob Heffernan Brendan Boyce |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 3 | Italy | Matteo Giupponi Marco De Luca Teodorico Caporaso |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 3 | Japan | Takayuki Tanii Kōichirō Morioka Hirooki Arai |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 3 | Mexico | |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 3 | Poland | Rafał Augustyn Adrian Błocki Rafał Fedaczyński |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 3 | Portugal | Miguel Carvalho João Vieira Pedro Isidro |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 3 | Serbia | Nenad Filipović Predrag Filipović Vladimir Savanović |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 3 | Slovakia | Matej Tóth Martin Tišťan Dušan Majdán |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 3 | Spain | José Ignacio Díaz Jesús Ángel García Miguel Ángel López |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 3 | Ukraine | Ivan Banzeruk Serhiy Budza Ihor Saharuk |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 2 | Belarus | Ivan Trotski Pavel Yarokhau |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 2 | Canada | Mathieu Bilodeau Evan Dunfee |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 2 | Germany | Carl Dohmann Hagen Pohle |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 2 | India | Sandeep Kumar Manish Singh Rawat |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 2 | Lithuania | Tadas Šuškevičius Arturas Mastianica |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 2 | Romania | Marius Cocioran Narcis Mihăilă |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 2 | South Korea | |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 1 | Bolivia | Ronald Quispe |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 1 | Chile | Edward Araya |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 1 | Czech Republic | Lukáš Gdula |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 1 | El Salvador | Luis Menjivar |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 1 | France | Yohann Diniz |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 1 | Great Britain | Dominic King |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 1 | Greece | Alexandros Papamichail |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 1 | Latvia | Arnis Rumbenieks |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 1 | New Zealand | Quentin Rew |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 1 | Norway | Håvard Haukenes |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 1 | South Africa | Marc Mundell |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 1 | Sweden | Anders Hansson |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 1 | Switzerland | Alex Flórez |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 1 | United States | John Nunn |
| Entry standard – 4:06:00 | 1 | Venezuela | Yereman Salazar |
| Universality places | | | |
| Total | 84 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

### Women's road events
#### Women's marathon

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Algeria | Kenza Dahmani Barkahoum Drici Souad Aït Salem |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Argentina | Viviana Chávez Rosa Godoy María de los Ángeles Peralta |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Australia | Milly Clark Jessica Trengove Lisa Weightman |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Bahrain | |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Belarus | |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Belgium | |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Brazil | Adriana Aparecida dos Santos Marily dos Santos Graciete Santana |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | China | Liu Ruihuan |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Colombia | Kellys Arias Angie Orjuela Erika Abril |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Denmark | Anna Holm Baumeister Jessica Draskau-Petersson |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Ecuador | Maria Elena Calle Rosa Chacha Silvia Paredes |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Estonia | Leila Luik Liina Luik Lily Luik |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Ethiopia | Mare Dibaba Tirfi Tsegaye Tigist Tufa (Aberu Kebede) |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Germany | Anja Scherl Lisa Hahner Anna Hahner |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Greece | Ourania Rebouli Sofia Riga Panagiota Vlachaki |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Hungary | Zsófia Erdélyi Krisztina Papp Tünde Szabó |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | India | O. P. Jaisha Sudha Singh Kavita Raut |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Ireland | Breege Connolly Lizzie Lee Fionnualla McCormack |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Italy | Valeria Straneo Anna Incerti Catherine Bertone |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Japan | Kayoko Fukushi Mai Ito Tomomi Tanaka |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Kenya | Jemima Sumgong Helah Kiprop Visiline Jepkesho |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Kyrgyzstan | Iuliia Andreeva Mariya Korobitskaya Viktoriia Poliudina |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Latvia | Jeļena Prokopčuka Ilona Marhele Ariana Hilborn |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Lithuania | Rasa Drazdauskaitė Diana Lobačevskė Vaida Žūsinaitė |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Mexico | Vianney de la Rosa Margarita Hernández Madaí Pérez |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Morocco | |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | North Korea | |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Peru | Wilma Arizapana Jovana de la Cruz Inés Melchor |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Poland | Katarzyna Kowalska Iwona Lewandowska Monika Stefanowicz |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Portugal | Jéssica Augusto Ana Dulce Félix Sara Moreira |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | South Africa | Christine Kalmer Diana-Lebo Phalula Irvette van Blerk |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | South Korea | |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Spain | Alessandra Aguilar Azucena Díaz Estela Navascués |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Sweden | Isabellah Andersson Annelie Johansson Louise Wiker |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Chinese Taipei | Chen Yu-Hsuan Hsieh Chien-Ho Hsu Yu-Fang |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Turkey | Nilay Esen Sultan Haydar Meryem Erdoğan |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | Ukraine | Olha Kotovska Olena Burkovska Tetyana Vernyhor |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 3 | United States | Amy Cragg Desiree Linden Shalane Flanagan |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 2 | Canada | Krista DuChene Lanni Marchant |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 2 | Chile | Érika Olivera Natalia Romero |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 2 | Croatia | Marija Vrajić Trošić Matea Matošević |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 2 | Finland | Anne-Mari Hyryläinen |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 2 | Great Britain | Alyson Dixon Sonia Samuels |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 2 | Israel | Lonah Chemtai Salpeter Maor Tiyouri |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 2 | Kazakhstan | Gulzhanat Zhanatbek Irina Smolnikova |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 2 | Mongolia | |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 2 | Namibia | Helalia Johannes Beata Naigambo |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 2 | Romania | Daniela Carlan Paula Todoran |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 2 | Serbia | Ana Subotić Olivera Jevtić |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 2 | Switzerland | Martina Strähl Patricia Morceli Bühler |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 2 | Uganda | Adero Nyakisi Nancy Rotich |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 2 | Uzbekistan | Sitora Hamidova Marina Khmelevskaya |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Austria | Andrea Mayr |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Bolivia | Rosmery Quispe |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Lucija Kimani |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Bulgaria | Militsa Mircheva |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Burundi | Diane Nukuri |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Cuba | Dailín Belmonte |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Czech Republic | Eva Vrabcová-Nývltová |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | France | Christelle Daunay |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Lebanon | Chirine Njeim |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Moldova | Lilia Fiscovici |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Montenegro | Slađana Perunović |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Netherlands | Andrea Deelstra |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Norway | Marthe Katrine Myhre |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Palestine | Mayada Al-Sayad |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Paraguay | Carmen Martínez |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Philippines | Mary Joy Tabal |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Puerto Rico | Beverly Ramos |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Rwanda | Claudette Mukasakindi |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Singapore | Neo Jie Shi |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Slovakia | Katarína Berešová |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Slovenia | Daneja Grandovec |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Sri Lanka | Niluka Geethani Rajasekara |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Tanzania | Sara Ramadhani |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Venezuela | Yolimar Pineda |
| Entry standard – 2:45:00 | 1 | Zimbabwe | Rutendo Nyahora |
| Universality places | 1 | Cambodia | Nary Ly |
| Universality places | 1 | Malawi | Tereza Master |
| Universality places | 1 | Saudi Arabia | Sarah Attar |
| Total | 171 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Women's 20 km walk

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 3 | Australia | Rachel Tallent Regan Lamble Tanya Holliday |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 3 | Belarus | |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 3 | Bolivia | Claudia Balderrama Ángela Castro Wendy Cornejo |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 3 | China | Liu Hong Lu Xiuzhi Qieyang Shenjie |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 3 | Colombia | Sandra Arenas Sandra Galvis Yeseida Carrillo |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 3 | Ecuador | Magaly Bonilla Gabriela Cornejo Paola Pérez |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 3 | Greece | Antigoni Drisbioti Despina Zapounidou Panayióta Tsinopoúlou |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 3 | Guatemala | Mayra Carolina Herrera Mirna Ortiz Maritza Poncio |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 3 | Hungary | Viktória Madarász Barbara Kovács Rita Récsei |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 3 | Italy | Eleonora Giorgi Antonella Palmisano Elisa Rigaudo |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 3 | Japan | Kumiko Okada |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 3 | Kazakhstan | |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 3 | Lithuania | Brigita Virbalytė-Dimšienė Živilė Vaiciukevičiūtė Neringa Aidietytė |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 3 | Mexico | María Guadalupe González Alejandra Ortega María Guadalupe Sánchez |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 3 | Poland | Paulina Buziak Agnieszka Dygacz Agnieszka Szwarnóg |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 3 | Portugal | Inês Henriques Ana Cabecinha Daniela Cardoso |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 3 | Romania | Claudia Ștef Ana Veronica Rodean Andreea Arsine |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 3 | South Korea | |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 3 | Spain | Raquel González Beatriz Pascual Julia Takacs |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 3 | Ukraine | Lyudmyla Olyanovska Nadiya Borovska Inna Kashyna |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 2 | Brazil | Érica de Sena Cisiane Lopes |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 2 | Ethiopia | Yehualeye Beletew Askale Tiksa |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 2 | India | Khushbir Kaur Sapna Punia |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 2 | Peru | Kimberly García Jessica Hancco |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 2 | Slovakia | Mária Czaková Mária Gáliková |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 2 | United States | Maria Michta-Coffey Miranda Melville |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 1 | Czech Republic | Anežka Drahotová |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 1 | France | Emilie Menuet |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 1 | Kenya | Grace Wanjiru |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 1 | Latvia | Agnese Pastare |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 1 | New Zealand | Alana Barber |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 1 | South Africa | Anél Oosthuizen |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 1 | Switzerland | Laura Polli |
| Entry standard – 1:36:00 | 1 | Tunisia | Chahinez Nasri |
| Universality places | 1 | El Salvador | Yesenia Miranda |
| Total | 83 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

## Field events
### Men's field events
#### Men's long jump

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 8.15 | 3 | China | Gao Xinglong Li Jinzhe Wang Jianan |
| Entry standard – 8.15 | 3 | South Africa | Zarck Visser Luvo Manyonga Rushwahl Samaai |
| Entry standard – 8.15 | 3 | United States | Jeff Henderson Jarrion Lawson Mike Hartfield |
| Entry standard – 8.15 | 2 | Australia | Fabrice Lapierre Henry Frayne |
| Entry standard – 8.15 | 2 | Germany | Alyn Camara Fabian Heinle |
| Entry standard – 8.15 | 2 | Jamaica | Damar Forbes Aubrey Smith |
| Entry standard – 8.15 | 1 | Azerbaijan | Nazim Babayev |
| Entry standard – 8.15 | 1 | Belarus | Kanstantsin Barycheuski |
| Entry standard – 8.15 | 1 | Bermuda | Tyrone Smith |
| Entry standard – 8.15 | 1 | Brazil | Higor Alves |
| Entry standard – 8.15 | 1 | Cuba | Maykel Demetrio Massó |
| Entry standard – 8.15 | 1 | Czech Republic | Radek Juška |
| Entry standard – 8.15 | 1 | France | Kafétien Gomis |
| Entry standard – 8.15 | 1 | Georgia | Bachana Khorava |
| Entry standard – 8.15 | 1 | Great Britain | Greg Rutherford |
| Entry standard – 8.15 | 1 | Greece | Miltos Tentoglou |
| Entry standard – 8.15 | 1 | India | Ankit Sharma |
| Entry standard – 8.15 | 1 | Iran | Mohammad Arzandeh |
| Entry standard – 8.15 | 1 | South Korea | Kim Deok-hyeon |
| Entry standard – 8.15 | 1 | Spain | Jean Marie Okutu |
| Entry standard – 8.15 | 1 | Sweden | Michel Tornéus |
| Entry standard – 8.15 | 1 | Uruguay | Emiliano Lasa |
| Invitational places | | | |
| Universality places | 1 | Albania | Izmir Smajlaj |
| Total | 27 | | |
As of 6 July 2016

#### Men's triple jump

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 3 | China | Dong Bin Xu Xiaolong Cao Shuo |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 3 | Cuba | Pedro Pablo Pichardo Alexis Copello Lázaro Martínez |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 3 | United States | Chris Benard Will Claye Christian Taylor |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 2 | Bahamas | Latario Collie-Minns Leevan Sands |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 2 | Bulgaria | Georgi Tsonov Rumen Dimitrov |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 2 | France | Benjamin Compaoré Harold Correa |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 2 | Italy | Fabrizio Donato Fabrizio Schembri |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | Armenia | Levon Aghasyan |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | Azerbaijan | Nazim Babayev |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | Colombia | Jhon Murillo |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | Dominica | Yordanis Duranona |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | Georgia | Lasha Torgvaidze |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | Germany | Max Heß |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | Guyana | Troy Doris |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | India | Renjith Maheshwary |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | Jamaica | Clive Pullen |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | Japan | Daigo Hasegawa |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | Kazakhstan | Roman Valiyev |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | Mauritius | Jonathan Drack |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | Mexico | Alberto Álvarez |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | Netherlands | Fabian Florant |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | Nigeria | Tosin Oke |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | Poland | Karol Hoffmann |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | Portugal | Nelson Évora |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | Romania | Marian Oprea |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | South Africa | Godfrey Khotso Mokoena |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | South Korea | Kim Deok-hyeon |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | Turkey | Şeref Osmanoğlu |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | Spain | Pablo Torrijos |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | Ukraine | Viktor Kuznyetsov |
| Entry standard – 16.85 | 1 | Virgin Islands | Muhammad Halim |
| Invitational places | | | |
| Universality places | 1 | Burkina Faso | Hugues Fabrice Zango |
| Universality places | 1 | Mali | Mamadou Chérif Dia |
| Total | 43 | | |
As of 11 July 2016

#### Men's high jump

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 3 | Bahamas | Donald Thomas Trevor Barry Jamal Wilson |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 3 | Italy | Marco Fassinotti Gianmarco Tamberi Silvano Chesani |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 3 | Ukraine | Bohdan Bondarenko Andriy Protsenko Dmytro Yakovenko |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 3 | United States | Erik Kynard Ricky Robertson Bradley Adkins |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 2 | Australia | Brandon Starc Joel Baden |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 2 | Belarus | Andrei Churyla Dzmitry Nabokau |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 2 | Canada | Derek Drouin Michael Mason |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 2 | China | Wang Yu Zhang Guowei |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 2 | Cyprus | Kyriakos Ioannou Dimítrios Chondrokoúkis |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 2 | Germany | Eike Onnen Mateusz Przybylko |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 2 | Great Britain | Chris Baker Robbie Grabarz |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 2 | Greece | Antonios Mastoras Konstantinos Baniotis |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 2 | Poland | Sylwester Bednarek Wojciech Theiner |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 2 | Puerto Rico | Luis Castro David Adley Smith II |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 1 | Brazil | Talles Silva |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 1 | Bulgaria | Tihomir Ivanov |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 1 | Czech Republic | Jaroslav Bába |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 1 | Israel | Dmitry Kroytor |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 1 | Japan | Takashi Eto |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 1 | Malaysia | Nauraj Singh Randhawa |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 1 | Mexico | Edgar Rivera |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 1 | Peru | Arturo Chávez |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 1 | Qatar | Mutaz Essa Barshim |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 1 | Romania | Mihai Donisan |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 1 | Slovakia | Matúš Bubeník |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 2 | South Korea | Yun Seung-hyun Woo Sang-hyeok |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 1 | Syria | Majed Aldin Ghazal |
| Entry standard – 2.29 | 1 | Chinese Taipei | Hsiang Chun-Hsien |
| Invitational places | | | |
| Universality places | | | |
| Total | 45 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Men's pole vault

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 5.70 | 3 | China | Huang Bokai Xue Changrui Yao Jie |
| Entry standard – 5.70 | 3 | France | Stanley Joseph Renaud Lavillenie Kévin Menaldo |
| Entry standard – 5.70 | 3 | Germany | Tobias Scherbarth Karsten Dilla Raphael Holzdeppe |
| Entry standard – 5.70 | 3 | Poland | Piotr Lisek Robert Sobera Paweł Wojciechowski |
| Entry standard – 5.70 | 3 | United States | Logan Cunningham Cale Simmons Sam Kendricks |
| Entry standard – 5.70 | 2 | Brazil | Thiago Braz da Silva Augusto Dutra de Oliveira |
| Entry standard – 5.70 | 2 | Czech Republic | Michal Balner Jan Kudlička |
| Entry standard – 5.70 | 2 | Japan | Hiroki Ogita Seito Yamamoto |
| Entry standard – 5.70 | 2 | Latvia | Mareks Ārents Pauls Pujāts |
| Entry standard – 5.70 | 1 | Argentina | Germán Chiaraviglio |
| Entry standard – 5.70 | 1 | Australia | Kurtis Marschall |
| Entry standard – 5.70 | 1 | Canada | Shawnacy Barber |
| Entry standard – 5.70 | 1 | Croatia | Ivan Horvat |
| Entry standard – 5.70 | 1 | Great Britain | Luke Cutts |
| Entry standard – 5.70 | 1 | Greece | Konstantinos Filippidis |
| Entry standard – 5.70 | 1 | Slovenia | Robert Renner |
| Entry standard – 5.70 | 1 | Sweden | Melker Svärd Jacobsson |
| Invitational places | 1 | Kazakhstan | Nikita Filippov |
| Universality places | | | |
| Total | 32 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Men's shot put

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 3 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Hamza Alić Kemal Mešić Mesud Pezer |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 3 | Poland | Konrad Bukowiecki Michał Haratyk Tomasz Majewski |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 3 | United States | Ryan Crouser Joe Kovacs Darrell Hill |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 2 | Croatia | Filip Mihaljević Stipe Žunić |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 2 | Germany | Tobias Dahm David Storl |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 2 | New Zealand | Tomas Walsh Jacko Gill |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 2 | Romania | Andrei Gag Andrei Toader |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 2 | Spain | Carlos Tobalina Borja Vivas |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Argentina | Germán Lauro |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Australia | Damien Birkinhead |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Belarus | Pavel Lyzhyn |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Brazil | Darlan Romani |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Bulgaria | Georgi Ivanov |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Canada | Tim Nedow |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Czech Republic | Tomáš Stanek |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Georgia | Benik Abramyan |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Greece | Nikólaos Skarvélis |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | India | Inderjeet Singh |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Jamaica | O'Dayne Richards |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Kazakhstan | Ivan Ivanov |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Moldova | Ivan Emilianov |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Nigeria | Stephen Mozia |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Portugal | Tsanko Arnaudov |
| Entry standard – 20.50 | 1 | Serbia | Asmir Kolašinac |
| Invitational places | | | |
| Universality places | 1 | British Virgin Islands | Eldred Henry |
| Universality places | 1 | Republic of the Congo | Franck Elemba |
| Total | 36 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Men's discus throw

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 65.00 | 3 | Germany | Christoph Harting Robert Harting Daniel Jasinski |
| Entry standard – 65.00 | 3 | United States | Tavis Bailey Andrew Evans Mason Finley |
| Entry standard – 65.00 | 2 | Australia | Matt Denny Benn Harradine |
| Entry standard – 65.00 | 2 | Austria | Gerhard Mayer Lukas Weißhaidinger |
| Entry standard – 65.00 | 2 | Estonia | Gerd Kanter Martin Kupper |
| Entry standard – 65.00 | 2 | Iran | Ehsan Haddadi Mahmoud Samimi |
| Entry standard – 65.00 | 2 | Poland | Piotr Małachowski Robert Urbanek |
| Entry standard – 65.00 | 2 | Spain | Frank Casañas Lois Maikel Martínez |
| Entry standard – 65.00 | 2 | Sweden | Daniel Ståhl Axel Härstedt |
| Entry standard – 65.00 | 1 | Belgium | Philip Milanov |
| Entry standard – 65.00 | 1 | Colombia | Mauricio Ortega |
| Entry standard – 65.00 | 1 | Cuba | Jorge Fernández |
| Entry standard – 65.00 | 1 | Cyprus | Apostolos Parellis |
| Entry standard – 65.00 | 1 | Hungary | Zoltán Kővágó |
| Entry standard – 65.00 | 1 | India | Vikas Gowda |
| Entry standard – 65.00 | 1 | Jamaica | Fedrick Dacres |
| Entry standard – 65.00 | 1 | Lithuania | Andrius Gudžius |
| Entry standard – 65.00 | 1 | Samoa | Alex Rose |
| Entry standard – 65.00 | 1 | South Africa | Victor Hogan |
| Entry standard – 65.00 | 1 | Ukraine | Oleksiy Semenov |
| Invitational places | | | |
| Universality places | | | |
| Total | 30 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Men's hammer throw

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 77.00 | 3 | Great Britain | Chris Bennett Mark Dry Nick Miller |
| Entry standard – 77.00 | 2 | Iran | Kaveh Mousavi Pejman Ghalenoei |
| Entry standard – 77.00 | 2 | Egypt | Mostafa Al-Gamel Hassan Mahmoud |
| Entry standard – 77.00 | 2 | Poland | Pawel Fajdek Wojciech Nowicki |
| Entry standard – 77.00 | 1 | Azerbaijan | Dzmitry Marshin |
| Entry standard – 77.00 | 1 | Brazil | Wagner Domingos |
| Entry standard – 77.00 | 1 | Costa Rica | Roberto Sawyers |
| Entry standard – 77.00 | 1 | Cuba | Roberto Janet |
| Entry standard – 77.00 | 1 | Greece | Mihail Anastasakis |
| Entry standard – 77.00 | 1 | Hungary | Krisztián Pars |
| Entry standard – 77.00 | 1 | Israel | Oleksandr Drygol |
| Entry standard – 77.00 | 1 | Italy | Marco Lingua |
| Entry standard – 77.00 | 1 | Mexico | Diego del Real |
| Entry standard – 77.00 | 1 | Moldova | Serghei Marghiev |
| Entry standard – 77.00 | 1 | Qatar | Ashraf Amgad Elseify |
| Entry standard – 77.00 | 1 | Slovakia | Marcel Lomnický |
| Entry standard – 77.00 | 1 | Tajikistan | Dilshod Nazarov |
| Entry standard – 77.00 | 1 | Spain | Javier Cienfuegos |
| Entry standard – 77.00 | 1 | Ukraine | Yevhen Vynohradov |
| Entry standard – 77.00 | 1 | Uzbekistan | Suhrob Khodjaev |
| Invitational places | 3 | United States | Conor McCullough Kibwé Johnson Rudy Winkler |
| Universality places | | | |
| Total | 20 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Men's javelin throw

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 83.00 | 3 | Czech Republic | Petr Frydrych Jakub Vadlejch Vitezslav Veselý |
| Entry standard – 83.00 | 3 | Estonia | Tanel Laanmäe Magnus Kirt Risto Mätas |
| Entry standard – 83.00 | 3 | Finland | Tero Pitkämäki Antti Ruuskanen Ari Mannio |
| Entry standard – 83.00 | 3 | Germany | Thomas Röhler Johannes Vetter Julian Weber |
| Entry standard – 83.00 | 3 | United States | Sam Crouser Cyrus Hostetler Sean Furey |
| Entry standard – 83.00 | 2 | Australia | Hamish Peacock Joshua Robinson |
| Entry standard – 83.00 | 2 | Latvia | Rolands Štrobinders Zigismunds Sirmais |
| Entry standard – 83.00 | 2 | Poland | Łukasz Grzeszczuk Marcin Krukowski |
| Entry standard – 83.00 | 2 | Ukraine | Oleksandr Pyatnytsya Dmytro Kosynskyy |
| Entry standard – 83.00 | 1 | Argentina | Braian Toledo |
| Entry standard – 83.00 | 1 | Brazil | Júlio César de Oliveira |
| Entry standard – 83.00 | 1 | Egypt | Ihab Abdelrahman |
| Entry standard – 83.00 | 1 | Japan | Ryohei Arai |
| Entry standard – 83.00 | 1 | Kenya | Julius Yego |
| Entry standard – 83.00 | 1 | New Zealand | Stuart Farquhar |
| Entry standard – 83.00 | 1 | South Africa | Rocco van Rooyen |
| Entry standard – 83.00 | 1 | Sri Lanka | Sumeda Ranasinghe |
| Entry standard – 83.00 | 1 | Chinese Taipei | Huang Shih-Feng |
| Entry standard – 83.00 | 1 | Trinidad and Tobago | Keshorn Walcott |
| Entry standard – 83.00 | 1 | Uzbekistan | Bobur Shokirjonov |
| Invitational places | | | |
| Universality places | 1 | Fiji | Leslie Copeland |
| Total | 30 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

### Women's field events
#### Women's long jump

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 3 | Germany | Sosthene Moguenara Alexandra Wester Malaika Mihambo |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 3 | Great Britain | Shara Proctor Jazmin Sawyers Lorraine Ugen |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 3 | Spain | Juliet Itoya María del Mar Jover Concepción Montaner |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 3 | United States | Tianna Bartoletta Janay DeLoach Brittney Reese |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 2 | Australia | Chelsea Jaensch Brooke Stratton |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 2 | Belarus | Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova Volha Sudarava |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 2 | Brazil | Keila Costa Eliane Martins |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 2 | Sweden | Khaddi Sagnia Erica Jarder |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 1 | Armenia | Amaliya Sharoyan |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 1 | Bahamas | Bianca Stuart |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 1 | Barbados | Akela Jones |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 1 | Canada | Christabel Nettey |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 1 | Cuba | Yarianny Arguelles |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 1 | Estonia | Ksenija Balta |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 1 | Greece | Haido Alexouli |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 1 | Indonesia | Maria Natalia Londa |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 1 | Japan | Konomi Kai |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 1 | Mexico | Yvonne Treviño |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 1 | Romania | Alina Rotaru |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 1 | Serbia | Ivana Španović |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 1 | South Africa | Lynique Prinsloo |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 1 | Turkey | Karin Melis Mey |
| Entry standard – 6.70 | 1 | Ukraine | Krystyna Hryshutyna |
| Invitational places | 1 | Independent Olympic Athletes | Darya Klishina |
| Universality places | | | |
| Total | 36 | | |
As of 2 July 2016

#### Women's triple jump

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 3 | United States | Christina Epps Andrea Geubelle Keturah Orji |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 2 | Belarus | Kseniya Dziatsuk Iryna Vaskouskaya |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 2 | Brazil | Keila Costa Núbia Soares |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 2 | Colombia | Caterine Ibargüen Yosiris Urrutia |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 2 | Germany | Kristin Gierisch Jenny Elbe |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 2 | Italy | Dariya Derkach Simona La Mantia |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 2 | Jamaica | Kimberly Williams Shanieka Thomas |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 2 | Kazakhstan | Irina Ektova Olga Rypakova |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 2 | Portugal | Susana Costa Patrícia Mamona |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 2 | Romania | Cristina Bujin Elena Andreea Panţuroiu |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 1 | Bulgaria | Gabriela Petrova |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 1 | China | Li Xiaohong |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 1 | Cuba | Liadagmis Povea |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 1 | Finland | Kristiina Mäkelä |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 1 | France | Jeanine Assani Issouf |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 1 | Greece | Paraskevi Papachristou |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 1 | Israel | Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 1 | Lithuania | Dovilė Dzindzaletaitė |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 1 | Poland | Anna Jagaciak-Michalska |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 1 | Slovakia | Dana Velďáková |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 1 | Spain | Patricia Sarrapio |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 1 | Ukraine | Olga Saladukha |
| Entry standard – 14.15 | 1 | Venezuela | Yulimar Rojas |
| Invitational places | 1 | Dominica | Thea LaFond |
| Universality places | 1 | Cameroon | Joëlle Mbumi Nkouindjin |
| Total | 37 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Women's high jump

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 1.93 | 3 | Ukraine | Iryna Herashchenko Oksana Okuneva Yuliya Chumachenko |
| Entry standard – 1.93 | 3 | United States | Vashti Cunningham Chaunté Lowe Inika McPherson |
| Entry standard – 1.93 | 2 | Croatia | Ana Šimić Blanka Vlašić |
| Entry standard – 1.93 | 2 | Great Britain | Morgan Lake |
| Entry standard – 1.93 | 2 | Italy | Alessia Trost Desirée Rossit |
| Entry standard – 1.93 | 2 | Saint Lucia | Jeanelle Scheper Levern Spencer |
| Entry standard – 1.93 | 2 | Sweden | Erika Kinsey Sofie Skoog |
| Entry standard – 1.93 | 2 | Uzbekistan | Svetlana Radzivil Nadezhda Dusanova |
| Entry standard – 1.93 | 1 | Australia | Eleanor Patterson |
| Entry standard – 1.93 | 1 | Barbados | Akela Jones |
| Entry standard – 1.93 | 1 | Bulgaria | Mirela Demireva |
| Entry standard – 1.93 | 1 | Canada | Alyxandria Treasure |
| Entry standard – 1.93 | 1 | Cyprus | Leontia Kallenou |
| Entry standard – 1.93 | 1 | Czech Republic | Michaela Hrubá |
| Entry standard – 1.93 | 1 | Germany | Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch |
| Entry standard – 1.93 | 1 | Hungary | Barbara Szabó |
| Entry standard – 1.93 | 1 | Lithuania | Airinė Palšytė |
| Entry standard – 1.93 | 1 | Nigeria | Doreen Amata |
| Entry standard – 1.93 | 1 | Poland | Kamila Lićwinko |
| Entry standard – 1.93 | 1 | Romania | Daniela Stanciu |
| Entry standard – 1.93 | 1 | Spain | Ruth Beitia |
| Invitational places | | | |
| Universality places | 1 | Seychelles | Lissa Labiche |
| Total | 32 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Women's pole vault

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 4.50 | 3 | Canada | Annika Newell Alysha Newman Kelsie Ahbe |
| Entry standard – 4.50 | 3 | Germany | Lisa Ryzih Annika Roloff Martina Strutz |
| Entry standard – 4.50 | 3 | United States | Sandi Morris Jenn Suhr Alexis Weeks |
| Entry standard – 4.50 | 2 | Brazil | Fabiana Murer Joana Costa |
| Entry standard – 4.50 | 2 | China | Li Ling Ren Mengqian |
| Entry standard – 4.50 | 2 | Czech Republic | Jiřina Svobodová Romana Maláčová |
| Entry standard – 4.50 | 2 | Finland | Minna Nikkanen Wilma Murto |
| Entry standard – 4.50 | 2 | Greece | Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou Ekaterini Stefanidi |
| Entry standard – 4.50 | 2 | Portugal | Marta Onofre Leonor Tavares |
| Entry standard – 4.50 | 2 | Sweden | Angelica Bengtsson Michaela Meijer |
| Entry standard – 4.50 | 1 | Australia | Alana Boyd |
| Entry standard – 4.50 | 1 | Cuba | Yarisley Silva |
| Entry standard – 4.50 | 1 | France | Vanessa Boslak |
| Entry standard – 4.50 | 1 | Great Britain | Holly Bradshaw |
| Entry standard – 4.50 | 1 | Ireland | Tori Pena |
| Entry standard – 4.50 | 1 | Italy | Sonia Malavisi |
| Entry standard – 4.50 | 1 | Netherlands | Femke Pluim |
| Entry standard – 4.50 | 1 | New Zealand | Eliza McCartney |
| Entry standard – 4.50 | 1 | Puerto Rico | Diamara Planell |
| Entry standard – 4.50 | 1 | Slovenia | Tina Šutej |
| Entry standard – 4.50 | 1 | Switzerland | Nicole Büchler |
| Entry standard – 4.50 | 1 | Venezuela | Robeilys Peinado |
| Invitational places | | | |
| Universality places | | | |
| Total | 36 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Women's shot put

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 3 | Belarus | Aliona Dubitskaya Yuliya Leantsiuk Natallia Mikhnevich |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 3 | China | Gao Yang Gong Lijiao Guo Tianqian |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 3 | United States | Michelle Carter Felisha Johnson Raven Saunders |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 2 | Canada | Brittany Crew Taryn Suttie |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 3 | Germany | Sara Gambetta Christina Schwanitz Lena Urbaniak |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 2 | Great Britain | |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 2 | Ukraine | Halyna Obleshchuk Olha Holodna |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 1 | Brazil | Geisa Arcanjo |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 1 | Bulgaria | Radoslava Mavrodieva |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 1 | Chile | Natalia Duco |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 1 | Colombia | Sandra Lemos |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 1 | Cuba | Yaniuvis López |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 1 | Hungary | Anita Márton |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 1 | India | Manpreet Kaur |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 1 | Iran | Leyla Rajabi |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 1 | Italy | Chiara Rosa |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 1 | Jamaica | Danniel Thomas |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 1 | Moldova | Dimitriana Surdu |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 1 | Netherlands | Melissa Boekelman |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 1 | New Zealand | Valerie Adams |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 1 | Poland | Paulina Guba |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 1 | Trinidad and Tobago | Cleopatra Borel |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 1 | Turkey | Emel Dereli |
| Entry standard – 17.75 | 1 | Venezuela | Ahymara Espinoza |
| Invitational places | | | |
| Universality places | 1 | Cameroon | Auriol Dongmo |
| Universality places | 1 | Guinea-Bissau | Jéssica Inchude |
| Total | 36 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Women's discus throw

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 61.00 | 3 | China | Lu Xiaoxin Tan Jian Su Xinyue |
| Entry standard – 61.00 | 3 | Germany | Julia Fischer Nadine Müller Shanice Craft |
| Entry standard – 61.00 | 3 | Jamaica | Tarasue Barnett Shadae Lawrence Kellion Knibb |
| Entry standard – 61.00 | 3 | United States | Whitney Ashley Kelsey Card Shelbi Vaughan |
| Entry standard – 61.00 | 2 | Brazil | Andressa de Morais Fernanda Martins |
| Entry standard – 61.00 | 2 | Cuba | Denia Caballero Yaime Pérez |
| Entry standard – 61.00 | 2 | France | Mélina Robert-Michon Pauline Pousse |
| Entry standard – 61.00 | 1 | Argentina | Rocio Comba |
| Entry standard – 61.00 | 1 | Australia | Dani Samuels |
| Entry standard – 61.00 | 1 | Chile | Karen Gallardo |
| Entry standard – 61.00 | 1 | Croatia | Sandra Perković |
| Entry standard – 61.00 | 1 | Great Britain | Jade Lally |
| Entry standard – 61.00 | 1 | Greece | Chrysoula Anagnostopoulou |
| Entry standard – 61.00 | 1 | India | Seema Punia |
| Entry standard – 61.00 | 1 | Lithuania | Zinaida Sendriūtė |
| Entry standard – 61.00 | 1 | Moldova | Natalia Stratulat |
| Entry standard – 61.00 | 1 | Poland | Żaneta Glanc |
| Entry standard – 61.00 | 1 | Portugal | Irina Rodrigues |
| Entry standard – 61.00 | 1 | Serbia | Dragana Tomašević |
| Entry standard – 61.00 | 1 | Spain | Sabina Asenjo |
| Entry standard – 61.00 | 1 | Ukraine | Nataliya Semenova |
| Invitational places | | | |
| Universality places | | | |
| Total | 31 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Women's hammer throw

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 71.00 | 3 | China | Liu Tingting Wang Zheng Zhang Wenxiu |
| Entry standard – 71.00 | 3 | Germany | Betty Heidler Kathrin Klaas Charlene Woitha |
| Entry standard – 71.00 | 3 | Poland | Joanna Fiodorow Malwina Kopron Anita Włodarczyk |
| Entry standard – 71.00 | 3 | United States | Gwen Berry Amber Campbell DeAnna Price |
| Entry standard – 71.00 | 2 | Belarus | Aksana Miankova Alena Sobaleva |
| Entry standard – 71.00 | 2 | Moldova | Marina Marghieva Zalina Marghieva |
| Entry standard – 71.00 | 1 | Argentina | Jennifer Dahlgren |
| Entry standard – 71.00 | 1 | Azerbaijan | Hanna Skydan |
| Entry standard – 71.00 | 1 | Canada | Heather Steacy |
| Entry standard – 71.00 | 1 | Cuba | Yirisleydi Ford |
| Entry standard – 71.00 | 1 | Czech Republic | Kateřina Šafránková |
| Entry standard – 71.00 | 1 | France | Alexandra Tavernier |
| Entry standard – 71.00 | 1 | Great Britain | Sophie Hitchon |
| Entry standard – 71.00 | 1 | Jamaica | Daina Levy |
| Entry standard – 71.00 | 1 | Slovakia | Martina Hrašnová |
| Entry standard – 71.00 | 1 | Turkey | Kıvılcım Kaya |
| Entry standard – 71.00 | 1 | Ukraine | Iryna Novozhylova |
| Entry standard – 71.00 | 1 | Venezuela | Rosa Rodríguez |
| Invitational places | | | |
| Universality places | | | |
| Total | 29 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

#### Women's javelin throw

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 62.00 | 3 | Australia | Kimberley Mickle Kelsey-Lee Roberts Kathryn Mitchell |
| Entry standard – 62.00 | 3 | China | Li Lingwei Liu Shiying Lü Huihui |
| Entry standard – 62.00 | 3 | Germany | Christin Hussong Christina Obergföll Linda Stahl |
| Entry standard – 62.00 | 2 | Latvia | Madara Palameika Sinta Ozoliņa-Kovala |
| Entry standard – 62.00 | 2 | United States | Maggie Malone Brittany Borman |
| Entry standard – 62.00 | 1 | Belarus | Tatsiana Khaladovich |
| Entry standard – 62.00 | 1 | Canada | Elizabeth Gleadle |
| Entry standard – 62.00 | 1 | Colombia | Flor Ruiz |
| Entry standard – 62.00 | 1 | Croatia | Sara Kolak |
| Entry standard – 62.00 | 1 | Cuba | Yulenmis Aguilar |
| Entry standard – 62.00 | 1 | Czech Republic | Barbora Špotáková |
| Entry standard – 62.00 | 1 | Estonia | Liina Laasma |
| Entry standard – 62.00 | 1 | Finland | Sanni Utriainen |
| Entry standard – 62.00 | 1 | France | Mathilde Andraud |
| Entry standard – 62.00 | 1 | Great Britain | |
| Entry standard – 62.00 | 1 | Iceland | Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir |
| Entry standard – 62.00 | 1 | Israel | Marharyta Dorozhon |
| Entry standard – 62.00 | 1 | Japan | Yuki Ebihara |
| Entry standard – 62.00 | 1 | Poland | Maria Andrejczyk |
| Entry standard – 62.00 | 1 | Slovenia | Martina Ratej |
| Entry standard – 62.00 | 1 | South Africa | Sunette Viljoen |
| Entry standard – 62.00 | 1 | Ukraine | Kateryna Derun |
| Invitational places | 1 | Nicaragua | Dalila Rugama |
| Universality places | | | |
| Total | 31 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

## Combined events
### Men's decathlon

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 8100 | 3 | Germany | Kai Kazmirek Arthur Abele Rico Freimuth |
| Entry standard – 8100 | 3 | United States | Ashton Eaton Jeremy Taiwo Zach Ziemek |
| Entry standard – 8100 | 2 | Cuba | Yordanis García Leonel Suárez |
| Entry standard – 8100 | 2 | Estonia | Maicel Uibo Karl Robert Saluri |
| Entry standard – 8100 | 2 | France | Bastien Auzeil Kevin Mayer |
| Entry standard – 8100 | 2 | Grenada | Kurt Felix Lindon Victor |
| Entry standard – 8100 | 2 | Japan | Keisuke Ushiro Akihiko Nakamura |
| Entry standard – 8100 | 2 | Netherlands | Pieter Braun Eelco Sintnicolaas |
| Entry standard – 8100 | 1 | Algeria | Larbi Bourrada |
| Entry standard – 8100 | 1 | Australia | Cedric Dubler |
| Entry standard – 8100 | 1 | Austria | Dominik Distelberger |
| Entry standard – 8100 | 1 | Belarus | Andrei Krauchanka |
| Entry standard – 8100 | 1 | Belgium | Thomas Van der Plaetsen |
| Entry standard – 8100 | 1 | Brazil | Luiz Alberto de Araújo |
| Entry standard – 8100 | 1 | Canada | Damian Warner |
| Entry standard – 8100 | 2 | Czech Republic | Adam Helcelet Jiří Sýkora |
| Entry standard – 8100 | 1 | Poland | Paweł Wiesiołek |
| Entry standard – 8100 | 1 | Serbia | Mihail Dudaš |
| Entry standard – 8100 | 1 | South Africa | Willem Coertzen |
| Entry standard – 8100 | 1 | Spain | Pau Tonnesen |
| Entry standard – 8100 | 1 | Ukraine | Oleksiy Kasyanov |
| Entry standard – 8100 | 1 | Uzbekistan | Leonid Andreev |
| Invitational places | 1 | Madagascar | Ali Kame |
| Universality places | | | |
| Total | 34 | | |
As of 10 June 2016

### Women's heptathlon

| Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Nominated athletes |
| Entry standard – 6200 | 3 | Germany | Claudia Rath Carolin Schäfer Jennifer Oeser |
| Entry standard – 6200 | 3 | Netherlands | Nadine Broersen Anouk Vetter Nadine Visser |
| Entry standard – 6200 | 3 | United States | Barbara Nwaba Heather Miller-Koch Kendell Williams |
| Entry standard – 6200 | 2 | Belarus | Yana Maksimava Katsiaryna Netsviatayeva |
| Entry standard – 6200 | 2 | Czech Republic | Kateřina Cachová Eliška Klučinová |
| Entry standard – 6200 | 2 | Great Britain | Jessica Ennis-Hill Katarina Johnson-Thompson |
| Entry standard – 6200 | 2 | Hungary | Xénia Krizsán Györgyi Farkas |
| Entry standard – 6200 | 2 | Ukraine | Alina Fyodorova Hanna Melnychenko |
| Entry standard – 6200 | 1 | Austria | Ivona Dadic |
| Entry standard – 6200 | 1 | Barbados | Akela Jones |
| Entry standard – 6200 | 1 | Belgium | Nafissatou Thiam |
| Entry standard – 6200 | 1 | Canada | Brianne Theisen-Eaton |
| Entry standard – 6200 | 1 | Colombia | Evelis Aguilar |
| Entry standard – 6200 | 1 | Cuba | Yorgelis Rodríguez |
| Entry standard – 6200 | 1 | Estonia | Grit Šadeiko |
| Entry standard – 6200 | 1 | France | Antoinette Nana Djimou Ida |
| Entry standard – 6200 | 1 | Latvia | Laura Ikauniece |
| Entry standard – 6200 | 1 | Nigeria | Uhunoma Osazuwa |
| Entry standard – 6200 | 1 | Uzbekistan | Ekaterina Voronina |
| Invitational places | 1 | Brazil | Vanessa Spinola |
| Invitational places | 1 | Poland | Karolina Tymińska |
| Universality places | | | |
| Total | 33 | | |
As of 13 July 2016

## Relay events

* IAAF Qualified Relay Teams

### Men's 4 × 100 m relay

| Qualification standard | No. of teams | Qualified teams |
| 2015 IAAF World Relays | 8 | United States Jamaica Japan Brazil France Saint Kitts and Nevis Trinidad and Tobago Germany |
| IAAF World Ranking List (as of July 12, 2016) | 8 | Antigua and Barbuda Canada China Cuba Dominican Republic Great Britain Netherlands Turkey |

### Men's 4 × 400 m relay

| Qualification standard | No. of teams | Qualified teams |
| 2015 IAAF World Relays | 8 | United States Bahamas Belgium Jamaica Brazil Great Britain Trinidad and Tobago Botswana |
| IAAF World Ranking List (as of July 12, 2016) | 8 | Colombia Cuba Dominican Republic France India Japan Poland Venezuela |

### Women's 4 × 100 m relay

| Qualification standard | No. of teams | Qualified teams |
| 2015 IAAF World Relays | 8 | Jamaica United States Great Britain Canada Trinidad and Tobago Brazil Nigeria Switzerland |
| IAAF World Ranking List (as of July 12, 2016) | 8 | China France Germany Ghana Kazakhstan Netherlands Poland Ukraine |

### Women's 4 × 400 m relay

| Qualification standard | No. of teams | Qualified teams |
| 2015 IAAF World Relays | 8 | United States Jamaica Great Britain France Poland Canada Australia Brazil |
| IAAF World Ranking List (as of July 12, 2016) | 8 | Bahamas Germany India Italy Netherlands Nigeria Romania Ukraine Cuba |