Venezuela at the Olympics
List of medalists -- Summer Olympics
Table:
Medal

Name

Games

Sport

Event

Bronze
Asnoldo Devonish
1952 Helsinki
Athletics
Men's triple jump

Bronze
Enrico Forcella
1960 Rome
Shooting
Men's 50 metre rifle prone

Gold
Francisco Rodríguez
1968 Mexico City
Boxing
Men's light flyweight

Silver
Pedro Gamarro
1976 Montreal
Boxing
Men's welterweight

Silver
Bernardo Piñango
1980 Moscow
Boxing
Men's bantamweight

Bronze
Marcelino Bolívar
1984 Los Angeles
Boxing
Men's light flyweight

Bronze
Omar Catari
1984 Los Angeles
Boxing
Men's featherweight

Bronze
Rafael Vidal
1984 Los Angeles
Swimming
Men's 200 metre butterfly

Bronze
Adriana Carmona
2004 Athens
Taekwondo
Women's +67 kg

Bronze
Israel Jose Rubio
2004 Athens
Weightlifting
Men's 62 kg

Bronze
Dalia Contreras
2008 Beijing
Taekwondo
Women's 49 kg

Gold
Rubén Limardo
2012 London
Fencing
Men's épée

Silver

Yulimar Rojas

2016 Rio de Janeiro

Athletics

Women's triple jump

Silver

Yoel Finol

2016 Rio de Janeiro

Boxing

Men's flyweight

Bronze

Stefany Hernandez

2016 Rio de Janeiro

Cycling

Women's BMX

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Asnoldo Vicente Devonish Romero ( June 15 , 1932 - January 1 , 1997 ) was a track and field athlete from Venezuela , who won the first Olympic medal for his native country . At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki , he finished third in the Men 's Triple Jump Final , with a distance of 15 metres and 52 centimetres , behind Adhemar da Silva ( Brazil ) and Leonid Shcherbakov ( Soviet Union ) . In 1990 , he was awarded the Olympic Order .
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( Finnish : Kesäolympialaiset 1952 ; Swedish : Olympiska sommarspelen 1952 ) , officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad , were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki , Finland , from July 19 to August 3 , 1952 . Helsinki had been earlier selected to host the 1940 Summer Olympics , which were cancelled due to World War II . It is the northernmost city at which a summer Olympic Games have been held . These were the first games to be held in a non-Indo-European language speaking country . It was also the Olympic Games at which the most number of world records were broken until it was surpassed by the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . The Soviet Union , the People 's Republic of China , Hong Kong , Indonesia , Israel , Thailand , and Saarland made their Olympic debuts in Helsinki 1952 . The United States won the most gold and overall medals .
At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki , 33 athletics events were contested , 24 for men and 9 for women . There were a total number of 963 participating athletes from 57 countries .
The Men 's triple jump at the 1952 Olympic Games took place on 23 July at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium . Brazilian athlete Adhemar da Silva won the gold medal .
Enrico Forcella Pelliccioni ( October 18 , 1907 - October 25 , 1989 ) was a Venezuelan shooter . He competed at the 1960 , 1964 and 1968 Olympics in the small-bore rifle , prone position , 50 m and finished in 3rd , 15th and 44th place , respectively .
The 1960 Summer Olympics , officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( Italian : Giochi della XVII Olimpiade ) , was an international multi-sport event that was held from August 25 to September 11 , 1960 , in Rome , Italy . The city of Rome had previously been awarded the administration of the 1908 Summer Olympics , but following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1906 , Rome had no choice but to decline and pass the honour to London . The Soviet Union won the most gold and overall medals .
Shooting at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome comprised six events , all for men only . They were held between 3 and 10 September 1960 .
The 50 metre rifle prone position rifle shooting event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on September 9 & 10 .
Francisco Antonio Rodríguez Brito ( born September 20 , 1945 ) is a retired Venezuelan boxer . At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City he won the gold medal in the inaugural men 's light flyweight ( - 48 kg ) division , after having claimed the gold as well at the 1967 and 1971 Pan American Games . He carried the flag for his native country at the opening ceremony at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , West Germany .
The 1968 Summer Olympics ( Spanish : Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968 ) , officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad , was an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City , Mexico , from October 12 to the 27th . These were the first Olympic Games to be staged in Latin America and the first to be staged in a Spanish-speaking country . They were the first Games to use an all-weather ( smooth ) track for track and field events instead of the traditional cinder track . The 1968 Games were the third to be held in the last quarter of the year , after the 1956 Games in Melbourne and the 1964 Games in Tokyo . The Mexican Student Movement of 1968 happened concurrently and the Olympic Games were correlated to the government 's repression . The United States won the most gold and overall medals for the last time until 1984 .
The boxing programme of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City , Mexico was held at the Arena México . Medals were awarded in eleven events , with each event corresponding to a recognized weight division of male boxers . Two bronze medals were awarded , with both losing semi-finalists receiving a bronze medal , with no further play-off .
Pedro Gamarro ( January 8 , 1955 - May 7 , 2019 ) was an Venezuelan amateur boxer . Gamarro represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal , Quebec , Canada . There , he won the silver medal in the welterweight division ( - 67 kg ) after having lost to Jochen Bachfeld of East Germany in the final . Gamarro 's medal was the only one won by the South American nation in Montreal . A year earlier , Gamarro have had won a bronze medal at the 1975 Pan American Games . In between , he also won a bronze medal at the 1983 Pan American Games held in his home country . Gamarro died in 2019 at the age of 64 .
The 1976 Summer Olympics , officially called the Games of the XXI Olympiad ( French : Les XXIes olympiques d'été ) , was an international multi-sport event in Montreal , Quebec , Canada , in 1976 , and the first Olympic Games held in Canada . Montreal was awarded the rights to the 1976 Games on May 12 , 1970 , at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam , over the bids of Moscow and Los Angeles . It was the first and , so far , only Summer Olympic Games to be held in Canada . Calgary and Vancouver later hosted the Winter Olympic Games in 1988 and 2010 , respectively . Twenty-nine countries , mostly African , boycotted the Montreal Games when the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) refused to ban New Zealand , after the New Zealand national rugby union team had toured South Africa earlier in 1976 in defiance of the United Nations ' calls for a sporting embargo . The Soviet Union won the most gold and overall medals .
There were eleven boxing events at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal , Quebec , Canada . The competition was held from 18 to 31 July with the participation of 266 fighters from 54 countries .
José Bernardo Piñango ( born February 9 , 1960 in Caracas ) is a retired professional boxer from Venezuela who held the WBA ( twice ) , The Ring and lineal bantamweight titles . As an amateur boxer , he won a silver medal in the bantamweight division ( -54 kg ) at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow . In the final he lost to Cuba 's Juan Hernández on points ( 0-5 ) .
The 1980 Summer Olympics , officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad ( Russian : И́гры XXII Олимпиа́ды , tr . Igry XXII Olimpiady ) , was an international multi-sport event held in Moscow , Soviet Union , in present-day Russia . The 1980 Games were the first Olympic Games to be staged in Eastern Europe , and remain the only Summer Olympics held there , as well as the first Olympic Games to be held in a Slavic language-speaking country . They were also the only Olympic Games to be held in a communist country until 2008 in China . These were the final Olympic Games under the IOC Presidency of Michael Morris , 3rd Baron Killanin . Eighty nations were represented at the Moscow Games - the smallest number since 1956 . Led by the United States , 66 countries boycotted the games entirely because of the Soviet-Afghan War . Some athletes from some of the boycotting countries ( they are not included in the list of 66 countries that boycotted the games entirely ) participated in the games under the Olympic Flag . The Soviet Union would later boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics . The Soviet Union won the most gold and overall medals , with the USSR and East Germany winning 127 out of 204 available golds .
Boxing at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place at the Indoor Stadium of the Olympiski Sports Complex in Moscow from 20 July to 2 August . Eleven boxing events ( all men 's individual ) were contested with the participation of 271 fighters from 51 countries .
José Marcelino Bolivar ( born July 14 , 1964 in Ciudad Bolívar ) is a retired minimumweight boxer from Venezuela , who won the bronze medal in the flyweight division at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , California . He also represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul , South Korea .
The 1984 Summer Olympics , officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad , was an international multi-sport event that was held from July 28 to August 12 , 1984 , in Los Angeles , California , United States ( and other venues around the United States ) . This was the second time that Los Angeles had hosted the Games , the first being in 1932 . California was the home state of then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan , who officially opened the Games . The logo for the 1984 Games , branded Stars in Motion , featured red , white and blue stars arranged horizontally and struck through with alternating streaks . The official mascot of the Games was Sam the Olympic Eagle . These were the first Summer Olympic Games under the IOC presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch . The 1984 Games were boycotted by a total of fourteen Eastern Bloc countries , including the Soviet Union and East Germany , in response to the American-led boycott of the previous 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan ; Romania was the only Eastern Bloc nation that opted to attend the Games . Iran and Libya also chose to boycott the Games for unrelated reasons . Despite the field being depleted in certain sports due to the boycott , 140 National Olympic Committees took part , which was a record at the time . The United States won the most gold and overall medals , followed by Romania and West Germany . The 1984 Summer Olympics are widely considered to be the most financially successful modern Olympics and served as an example of how to run the model Olympic Games . As a result of low construction costs , coupled with a reliance on private corporate funding , the 1984 Olympic Games generated a profit of more than $ 250 million .
Boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics took place in the Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles , California , United States . The boxing schedule began on July 29 and ended on August 11 . Twelve boxing events were contested with the participation of 354 fighters from 81 countries . A Soviet-led boycott resulted in the withdrawals of the Soviet Union , Cuba , East Germany , Bulgaria and other Eastern Bloc nations from boxing competitions . At the 1980 Summer Olympics , that was impacted by an American-led boycott , Cuban boxers won 10 medals , with 6 of them being gold , and had again been expected to do well . However , the nation withdrew from the games following the announcement of the Soviet boycott . Teófilo Stevenson , who was going to try for his fourth Olympic gold medal before the boycott was officially announced , had previously defeated Tyrell Biggs twice ( one by knockout ) and Hermenegildo Báez had previously defeated Henry Tillman . Soviet Alexander Yagubkin defeated both Biggs and Tillman during the USA-USSR duals . Cuban and Soviet boxers , however , were more seasoned than their American counterparts . While US athletes typically turned pro after the Olympics , while still in their early twenties , Cubans and the Soviets were not allowed to do so and stayed on in the amateurs , participating in multiple Olympic cycles . Journalist George Vecsey remarked after the conclusion of the games that Despite all the flag-waving euphoria in the United States over all those medals in Los Angeles , the Summer Games were a made-in-Disneyland reproduction of the Games because there were no Soviet runners , no Cuban boxers , no East German swimmers . Soviet runners and East German swimmers decades later were revealed to have been part of their respective nations ' state-sponsored doping schemes .
Omar Catarí Peraza ( born April 25 , 1964 in Barquisimeto , Lara ) is a former Venezuelan boxer . At the 1984 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal in the men 's featherweight division ( - 57 kg ) , along with Türgüt Aykaç of Turkey .
Rafael Antonio Vidal Castro ( January 6 , 1964 - February 12 , 2005 ) was a Venezuelan competition swimmer , Olympic medalist and sports commentator . Vidal was born in Caracas , Venezuela in 1964 . At age 20 , he became the first Venezuelan swimmer to win an Olympic medal in the 200-meter butterfly competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , California . Although he was one of the smallest men in the pool at 5-foot-11 , Vidal was well ahead of West Germany 's 6-foot-7 Michael Gross at the finish . However , one of Gross ' elongated arms managed to touch the poolside first , robbing Vidal of silver . That heroic bronze-medal finish made him a national celebrity , with his image splashed on magazine and newspaper covers throughout Venezuela . His mark ranks him as the eighth of the top ten swimmers in the 200-meter butterfly of all time . A year later , Vidal left Venezuela to pursue a career in administration and earned his bachelor 's degree in computer and information sciences from the University of Florida in Gainesville , Florida , where he swam for the Florida Gators swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) competition under coach Randy Reese from 1981 to 1985 . Vidal was a member of the Gators ' NCAA national championship teams in 1983 and 1984 , and received six All-American honors . After returning to Venezuela , Vidal was employed by a local television channel as a sports commentator and became a well-known television personality . In 1998 , he founded Platinum with Cheche Vidal , a pioneer in the application of marketing in Venezuela . Early on the morning of February 12 , 2005 , Vidal was killed in a traffic accident when another driver crashed his speeding Hummer into Vidal 's car .
Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics , held at the McDonald 's Olympic Swim Stadium , located on the USC campus . There was a total of 494 participants from 67 countries competing . This was the first Olympic games at which only two swimmers per country , per event , were permitted . Previously , three swimmers were allowed and many countries would sweep the medal stand .
The final of the men 's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1984 Summer Olympics was held in the McDonald 's Olympic Swim Stadium in Los Angeles , California , on August 3 , 1984 . The first eight qualified for the final , the next eight for the B-final .
Adriana Carmona ( born December 3 , 1972 in Puerto La Cruz ) is a Venezuelan taekwondo practitioner and Olympic medalist .
The 2004 Summer Olympics ( Greek : Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004 , Therinoí Olympiakoí Agónes 2004 ) , officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad and commonly known as Athens 2004 , was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens , Greece , from 13 to 29 August 2004 with the motto Welcome Home . The Games saw 10,625 athletes compete , some 600 more than expected , accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries . There were 301 medal events in 28 different sports . Athens 2004 marked the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics that all countries with a National Olympic Committee were in attendance . 2004 also marked the return of the Olympic Games to the city where they began . Having previously hosted the Olympics in 1896 , Athens became one of only four cities to have hosted the Summer Olympic Games on two separate occasions at the time ( together with Paris , London , and Los Angeles ) . A new medal obverse was introduced at these Games , replacing the design by Giuseppe Cassioli that had been used since the 1928 Games . This rectified the long lasting mistake of using a depiction of the Roman Colosseum rather than a Greek venue . The new design features the Panathenaic Stadium . The 2004 Summer Games were hailed as unforgettable , dream games by IOC President Jacques Rogge , and left Athens with a significantly improved infrastructure , including a new airport , ring road , and subway system . There have been arguments ( mostly in popular media ) regarding the cost of the 2004 Athens Summer Games and their possible contribution to the 2010-2018 Greek government-debt crisis , however , there is little or no evidence for such a correlation . The 2004 Olympics were generally deemed to be a success , with the rising standard of competition amongst nations across the world .
Taekwondo at the 2004 Summer Olympics were held in the Sports Pavilion at the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex in Athens , Greece where 124 competitors competed in eight events , four each for men and women .
The women 's +67 kg competition in taekwondo at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens took place on August 29 at the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex . China 's Chen Zhong capped off the final day of the Games with a perfect culmination for her national squad , as she defended her Olympic title from Sydney in the women 's heavyweight division over France 's Myriam Baverel with a satisfying 12-5 record . Returning to her second Olympic stint along with Chen and Baverel , Venezuela 's Adriana Carmona thrashed her Brazilian opponent Natália Falavigna 7-4 to pick up a bronze .
Israel José Rubio Rivero ( born 11 January 1981 ) is a Venezuelan weightlifter . Rubio originally placed 4th in the men 's 62kg weightlifting competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , Greece , but was moved to third place and received a bronze medal when the previous bronze medalist , Leonidas Sampanis , was stripped of his medal following a doping scandal . At the 2008 Summer Olympics he ranked 13th in the men 's 69kg weightlifting competition , lifting a total of 306 kg . Rubio was arrested on January 25 , 2012 in the city of Pescara , Italy , for alleged possession of narcotics .
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , fifteen events in weightlifting were contested , in eight classes for men and seven for women . Competition was held in the Nikaia Olympic Weightlifting Hall .
The men 's 62 kg weightlifting event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , Greece took place at the Nikaia Olympic Weightlifting Hall on 16 August . Total score was the sum of the lifter 's best result in each of the snatch and the clean and jerk , with three lifts allowed for each lift . In case of a tie , the lighter lifter won ; if still tied , the lifter who took the fewest attempts to achieve the total score won . Lifters without a valid snatch score did not perform the clean and jerk .
Dalia María Contreras Rivero ( born September 20 , 1983 ) is a Venezuelan taekwondo practitioner . She won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in taekwondo . She also competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics , finishing 8th in her weight class . She won a Silver Medal at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo In the 2002 South American Games in Brazil she finished in the second place in her category ( Finweight -47 kg ) , but the South American Sports Organization ( ODESUR ) gave only Gold Medal in that category . Finally , in the 2006 South American Games in Buenos Aires she won the Gold Medal . Notwithstanding , that year ODESUR gave the silver and bronze medals
The 2008 Summer Olympics , officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad ( Chinese : 第二十九届夏季奥林匹克运动会 ; pinyin : Dì Èrshíjiǔ Jiè Xiàjì Àolínpǐkè Yùndònghuì ) and commonly known as Beijing 2008 , was an international multi-sport event that was held from 8 to 24 August 2008 in Beijing , China . [ b ] A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees ( NOCs ) competed in 28 sports and 302 events ( one event more than those scheduled for the 2004 Summer Olympics ) . This was the first time that China had hosted the Summer Olympics , but the third time that the Games had been held in East Asia , following the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo , Japan , and the Seoul 1988 Summer Olympics . These were the second summer Olympic Games staged in a Communist country , after the Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics and the third in a developing country after the Mexico City 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics in the Soviet Union and the first overall Olympics to be hosted by a Communist state since the former Yugoslavia hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo . Beijing was awarded the 2008 Games over four competitors on 13 July 2001 , having won a majority of votes from members of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) after two rounds of voting . The Government of the People 's Republic of China promoted the Games and invested heavily in new facilities and transport systems . A total of 37 venues were used to host the events , including twelve constructed specifically for the 2008 Olympics . The equestrian events were held in Hong Kong , making this the third Olympics for which the events were held under the jurisdiction of two different NOCs . [ c ] The sailing events were contested in Qingdao , while the football events took place across several different cities . The official logo for the 2008 Games , titled Dancing Beijing , featured a stylised calligraphic character jīng ( 京 , means capital ) in reference to the host city . The Beijing Olympics was watched by 3,500,000,000 people worldwide and featured the longest distance for an Olympic Torch relay . The event sets numerous world and Olympics records in the history of sports , and is also the most expensive Summer Olympics of all time and second-most expensive overall , after the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi .
Taekwondo competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 20 to August 23 at the Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium . 128 Taekwondo practitioners , 64 men and 64 women , competed in 8 events . For the first time ever two bronze medals were awarded per event .
The women 's 49 kg competition in taekwondo at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . It took place on August 20 , 2008 at the Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium .
Rubén Dario Limardo Gascón ( born August 3 , 1985 ) is a Venezuelan épée fencer . Limardo won a gold medal for his native country at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the individual épée competition . Five years earlier , he won the gold medal in the individual épée competition at the 2007 Pan American Games . His younger brother , Francisco , also competes in fencing on the international level . In 2015 he was elected to the National Assembly for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela .
The 2012 Summer Olympics , formally the Games of the XXX Olympiad and commonly known as London 2012 , was an international multi-sport event that was held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London , United Kingdom . The first event , the group stage in women 's football , began on 25 July at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff , followed by the opening ceremony on 27 July . 10,768 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees ( NOCs ) participated . Following a bid headed by former Olympic champion Sebastian Coe and then-Mayor of London Ken Livingstone , London was selected as the host city on 6 July 2005 during the 117th IOC Session in Singapore , defeating bids from Moscow , New York City , Madrid , and Paris . London became the first city to host the modern Olympics three times , having previously hosted the Summer Games in 1908 and in 1948 . Construction for the Games involved considerable redevelopment , with an emphasis on sustainability . The main focus was a new 200-hectare ( 490-acre ) Olympic Park , constructed on a former industrial site at Stratford , East London . The Games also made use of venues that already existed before the bid . The Games received general praise for their organisation , with the volunteers , the British military and public enthusiasm praised particularly highly . The opening ceremony , directed by Danny Boyle , received widespread acclaim throughout the world , particular praise from the British public and a minority of widely ranging criticisms from some social media sites . During the Games , Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time , winning his 22nd medal . Saudi Arabia , Qatar , and Brunei entered female athletes for the first time , so that every currently eligible country has sent a female competitor to at least one Olympic Games .
The fencing competitions at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held from 28 July to 5 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre . Ten events ( six individual , four team ) were contested . The International Fencing Federation ( FIE ) had pushed for the inclusion of two more team events , but the International Olympic Committee voted to keep the current format of ten events .
The men 's épée competition in fencing at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on 1 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre . Rubén Limardo of Venezuela won the gold medal - the country 's only medal of the 2012 Games . Norway 's Bartosz Piasecki won silver and Jung Jin-Sun from South Korea took bronze .
Yulimar Andrea Rojas Rodríguez ( also known as Yolimar Rojas ; born 21 October 1995 ) is a Venezuelan athlete . She is the Olympic silver medallist ( 2016 Rio de Janeiro ) , two time World Champion ( 2017 London and 2019 Doha ) and two time World Indoor Championship ( 2016 Portland and 2018 Birmingham ) in Triple jump . Her Personal best , 15.41 meters ( 50 6 3/4 ) , is a Venezuela record and ranks as the # 2 mark in history .
The 2016 Summer Olympics ( Portuguese : Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016 ) , [ a ] officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( Portuguese : Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada ) and commonly known as Rio 2016 , was an international multi-sport event that was held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August . These were the first Olympic Games ever to be held in South America and the fourth to be held in a developing country , after the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico , the 1980 Summer Olympics in the Soviet Union , and the 2008 Summer Olympics in China . More than 11,000 athletes from 205 National Olympic Committees took part , including first time entrants Kosovo , South Sudan , and the Refugee Olympic Team . With 306 sets of medals , the games featured 28 Olympic sports , including rugby sevens and golf , which were added to the Olympic program in 2009 . These sporting events took place at 33 venues in the host city and at five separate venues in the Brazilian cities of São Paulo , Belo Horizonte , Salvador , Brasília , and Manaus . These were the first Summer Olympic Games to take place under the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) presidency of Thomas Bach . The host city Rio de Janeiro was announced at the 121st IOC Session in Copenhagen , Denmark , on 2 October 2009 . Rio became the first South American city ever to host the Olympic Games . These were the first games to be held in a Portuguese-speaking country , the first summer edition to be held entirely in the host country 's winter season , the first since 1968 to be held in Latin America , and the first since 2000 to be held in the Southern Hemisphere . The United States topped the medal table , winning the most gold and overall medals , 46 and 121 , as well as its 1,000th Summer Olympic gold medal overall . Great Britain finished second and became only the second country in modern Olympic history to increase its tally of medals in the Olympiad immediately after it had been host nation . China finished third .
Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics were held during the last 10 days of the games , from 12-21 August 2016 , at the Olympic Stadium . The sport of athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics was made into three distinct sets of events : track and field events , road running events , and racewalking events .
The Women 's triple jump competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil . The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 13-14 August .
Yoel Segundo Finol Rivas ( born 21 September 1996 ) is a Venezuelan flyweight boxer . He won a bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Games . Finol will compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics .
The boxing tournaments at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 21 August 2016 at the Pavilion 6 of Riocentro .
The men 's flyweight boxing competition at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics was held from 13 to 21 August at the Riocentro . The medals for the competition were presented by Irena Szewinska , Poland , IOC member , and the gifts were presented by Wu Ching-kuo , President of the AIBA .
Stefany Hernández ( born 13 June 1991 at Ciudad Guayana , Venezuela ) is a Venezuelan racing cyclist who represents Venezuela in BMX . She represented Venezuela at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women 's BMX event . She was fifth in her semifinal heat and not succeed to qualify into the final . Her final standing was ninth . She became BMX World Champion on 25 July 2015 at Zolder , Belgium . [ citation needed ] She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympic in Rio de Janeiro in the women 's BMX event . She won the bronze medal with a time of 34.755 . She was the flag bearer for Venezuela during the closing ceremony .
The cycling competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro were held at four venues scheduled to host Eighteen events between 6 August and 21 August . The venues were Fort Copacabana in the Copacabana venues were in Clusters for the start and finish of the road cycling road race , Pontal in the Barra Cluster for the road cycling time trial competitions , the Rio Olympic Velodrome , also in the Barra Cluster for track cycling , the Olympic BMX Center for BMX and the Mountain Bike Centre for mountain biking , both in the Deodoro Cluster . Cycling competitions had been contested in every Summer Olympics programme since the first modern Olympiad in 1896 alongside athletics , artistic gymnastics , fencing and swimming . Since the 1896 contests which featured five track events and an 87 km road race from Athens to Marathon and back , Olympic cycling had gradually evolved to include women 's competitions , mountain bike and BMX to arrive at the current eighteen events . In February 2013 , the International Cycling Union ( UCI ) announced its intention to petition the IOC to extend the cycling programme by three events for both men and women : the return of the points races ( track event ) , a BMX freestyle event and a mountain bike eliminator but in August 2013 the IOC stated that the cycling programme will be the same as in 2012 . No changes were made to the 2016 Olympic cycling programme compared to the cycling at the 2012 Olympics .
The women 's BMX competition at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro took place on 17 and 19 August 2016 at the Olympic BMX Centre . The medals were presented by Camiel Eurlings , IOC member , Netherlands and Brian Cookson , President of the UCI .