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Nauru competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's sixth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics.
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Nauru National Olympic Committee selected two athletes to compete only in judo and weightlifting for the second straight time. Nauru was one of four nations, alongside Iraq, Monaco, and Tuvalu, at these Games which did not send any female athletes, and also, one of the only two nations, along with Bhutan, whose athletes did not qualify in either the track and field or swimming. This was also the second-largest team sent to the Olympics, tying with Sydney 2000 and London 2012 for the number of athletes.
Among the Nauruan athletes were judoka Ovini Uera in the men's 90 kg category, and weightlifter and 2010 Youth Olympian Elson Brechtefeld (men's 56 kg), who led his delegation as the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony.
Nauru, however, has yet to win its first ever Olympic medal. Brechtefeld finished fifteenth in his respective weight category, while Uera produced the nation's best result with an opening-round triumph over Belize's Renick James, before falling short of his next match to Georgia's Varlam Liparteliani.
Judo
Nauru has qualified one judoka for the men's middleweight category (90 kg) at the Games. Ovini Uera earned a continental quota spot from the Oceania region, as Nauru's top-ranked judoka outside of direct qualifying position in the IJF World Ranking List of May 30, 2016.
Weightlifting
Nauru has received an unused quota place from IWF to send a male weightlifter to the Olympics.