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|image = 2016 Summer Olympics logo.svg
|image_size = 200
|caption = Emblem of the
|host_city = [[Rio de Janeiro]], Brazil
|motto = ''A New World''<br />({{lang-pt|Um mundo novo}})
|nations = 207 (including [[Independent Olympic Athletes at the 2016 Summer Olympics|IOA]] and [[Refugee Olympic Team at the 2016 Summer Olympics|EOR]] teams)<ref name="olympic.org/rio-2016" />
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|opened_by = [[Vice President of Brazil|Vice President]] [[Michel Temer]]{{efn|As acting president, discharging the powers and duties of the office of [[President of Brazil|President of the Federative Republic of Brazil]] in place of incumbent President [[Dilma Rousseff]], who was suspended from her duties as President during [[Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff|her impeachment trial]].{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}}}
|cauldron = [[Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima]]
|stadium = [[Maracanã Stadium|
|summer_prev = [[2012 Summer Olympics|London 2012]]
|summer_next = [[2020 Summer Olympics|Tokyo 2020]]
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{{2016 Summer Olympics}}
The '''2016 Summer Olympics''' ({{lang-pt|Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016}}),{{efn|The [[Brazilian Portuguese]] pronunciation is {{IPA-pt|ˈʒɔɡuz oˈlĩpikuz dʒi veˈɾɐ̃w dʒi ˈdojz ˈmiw i dʒizeˈsejs|}}, in Brazil's standard pronunciation.}} officially the '''Games of the XXXI Olympiad''' ({{lang-pt|Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada}}) and officially branded as '''Rio 2016''', were an international [[multi-sport event]] held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in [[Rio de Janeiro]],
11,238 athletes from 207 nations took part in the 2016 Games, including first-time entrants [[Kosovo at the 2016 Summer Olympics|Kosovo]], [[South Sudan at the 2016 Summer Olympics|South Sudan]], and the [[Refugee Olympic Team at the 2016 Summer Olympics|Refugee Olympic Team]].<ref name="Olympic Athletes">{{Cite web |url=https://www.rio2016.com/en/athletes |title=Olympic Athletes |website=Rio2016.com |publisher=Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games |access-date=21 August 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821031645/https://www.rio2016.com/en/athletes |archive-date=21 August 2016}}</ref><ref name="Rio2016">{{cite web |url=http://rio2016olympicswiki.com/about-rio-2016-summer-olympics/ |title=About Rio 2016 Summer Olympics |work=Rio 2016 Olympics Wiki |access-date=31 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908075307/http://rio2016olympicswiki.com/about-rio-2016-summer-olympics/ |archive-date=8 September 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 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, Bahia|Salvador]], [[Brasília]], and [[Manaus]].
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