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2016 Quiz Olympiad

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Host city
  
Athens

Nations participating
  
26

Athletes participating
  
201

Country
  
Greece

Debuting countries
  
26

Events
  
44

Organised by the International Quizzing Association and held from the 3rd to 6th November 2016, the 2016 Quiz Olympiad in Athens was the inaugural Quiz Olympiad. Replacing the annual European Quizzing Championships, the event was open to quizzers from all over the world, with representatives of 26 nations competing.

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Event

The event hosted quizzes that combined awarded 132 medals.

Quizzes

The following were the official quizzes at the 2016 Quiz Olympiad:

Some quizzes have similar standing with IOC demonstration sports. These were awarded medals, but do not feature on the overall medals table:

Participants

There were 201 participants from 26 nations at the 2016 Quiz Olympiad. Some notable participants included Nico Pattyn and Ronny Swiggers of Belgium; Dorjana Širola of Croatia; Kevin Ashman, Olav Bjortomt, Pat Gibson, Ian Bayley, David Stainer, Paul Sinha and Jenny Ryan of England; Tero Kalliolevo of Finland; Holger Waldenberger of Germany; Anne Hegerty and Barry Simmons of Scotland; Ed Toutant, Ken Jennings, and Shane Whitlock of the United States; and David Edwards of Wales.

Medalists

The results were:

Medal table

The total medal table was:

References

2016 Quiz Olympiad Wikipedia