Kazakhstan competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. It was the nation's sixth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era. The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan fielded a roster of 104 athletes, 55 men and 49 women, to compete across seventeen different sports at these Games, the smallest Summer Olympic team since the nation's debut in Atlanta 1996. Moreover, Kazakhstan did not send teams in any of the team sports for the first time in twenty years. Track and field accounted for the largest number of athletes on the Kazakh squad, with 25 entries. There was a single competitor each in slalom canoeing, track cycling, fencing, and table tennis (for the first time after an eight-year absence).
Four of the nation's Olympic medalists from London 2012 returned, defending triple jump champion Olga Rypakova, Russian-born wrestling veteran Guzel Manyurova, and boxers Adilbek Niyazymbetov (light heavyweight) and Ivan Dychko (super heavyweight). Triple jumper and 2006 Asian Games runner-up Roman Valiyev was the most experience Kazakh athlete, participating in his fourth Games. Along with Rypakova and Manyurova, six more athletes also made their third Olympic appearance, including boxing quarterfinalist Birzhan Zhakypov in the men's light flyweight division, and sprint kayaker Natalya Sergeyeva (aged 40), the oldest athlete of the roster. Heavyweight taekwondo fighter Ruslan Zhaparov was nominated by the committee to carry the Kazakh flag at the opening ceremony.
Kazakhstan returned home from Rio de Janeiro with 18 medals (three golds, five silver, and ten bronze), marking its most successful outcome in Summer Olympic history. As expected, most of the medals were distributed to the Kazakh athletes in both boxing and weightlifting, including a gold each from Youth Olympian Nijat Rahimov (men's 77 kg) and welterweight boxer Daniyar Yeleussinov. The remaining gold medal, however, went to swimmer Dmitriy Balandin, who surprisingly outlasted the favorites from the outside in the men's 200 m breaststroke to hand the Kazakhs their historic first Olympic swimming title.
Apart from the winners, other medalists also included fellow boxers Niyazymbetov and Dychko, who managed to repeat their London 2012 feats in their respective weight divisions; Rypakova, who scored another medal with a bronze in the women's triple jump, bowing out of her title defense to Colombia's Caterine Ibargüen; Manyurova, who wrestled her way towards a runner-up finish in the women's 75 kg, adding a silver to her career hardware of three medals; and weightlifter Denis Ulanov, who received the bronze in the men's 85 kg, following the disqualification of Romania's Gabriel Sîncrăian over a doping offense.
Medalists
| width=78% align=left valign=top | Medal Name Sport Event Date Dmitriy Balandin Swimming Men's 200 m breaststroke Daniyar Yeleussinov Boxing Men's welterweight Yeldos Smetov Judo Men's 60 kg Zhazira Zhapparkul Weightlifting Women's 69 kg Vasiliy Levit Boxing Men's heavyweight Adilbek Niyazymbetov Boxing Men's light heavyweight Guzel Manyurova Wrestling Women's 75 kg Galbadrakhyn Otgontsetseg Judo Women's 48 kg Farkhad Kharki Weightlifting Men's 62 kg Karina Goricheva Weightlifting Women's 63 kg Denis Ulanov Weightlifting Men's 85 kg Olga Rypakova Athletics Women's triple jump Alexandr Zaichikov Weightlifting Men's 105 kg Elmira Syzdykova Wrestling Women's 69 kg Yekaterina Larionova Wrestling Women's 63 kg Ivan Dychko Boxing Men's super heavyweight Dariga Shakimova Boxing Women's middleweight | width="22%" align="left" valign="top" |
Medals by sportSport TotalBoxing1225Weightlifting 0146Swimming1001Wrestling0123Judo 0112Athletics0011Total251018
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Competitors The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games: SportMenWomenTotalArchery 1 1 2Athletics 5 19 24Boxing 10 2 12Canoeing 7 5 12Cycing 3 0 3Fencing 1 0 1Gymnastics 1 1 2Judo 4 2 6Modern pentathlon 1 1 2Rowing 1 1 2Shooting 3 2 5Swimming 2 1 3Synchronized swimming 0 2 2Table tennis 1 0 1Taekwondo 1 2 3Tennis 0 2 2Weightlifting 5 3 8Wrestling 8 4 12 Total 54 48 102
Archery
Two Kazakh archers qualified each for both the men's and women's individual recurve by obtaining one of the three Olympic places available from the 2015 Asian Archery Championships in Bangkok, Thailand.
AthleteEventRanking roundRound of 64Round of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / ScoreSeedOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankSultan DuzelbayevMen's individual64848W 6–4L 0–6Did not advanceLuiza SaidiyevaWomen's individual62536L 0–6Did not advance
Athletics
Kazakh athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):
Track & road events Men AthleteEventHeat SemifinalFinalResultRankResultRankResultRankDmitriy Koblov400 m hurdles49.876Did not advanceMihail KrassilovMarathoncolspan=4 2:26:11101Georgiy Sheiko20 km walkcolspan=4 1:23:3134
Women AthleteEventHeat QuarterfinalSemifinalFinalResultRankResultRankResultRankResultRankRima Kashafutdinova100 mcolspan=2 11.847Did not advanceOlga Safronova100 mcolspan=2 11.505Did not advance200 m23.294colspan=2 Did not advanceViktoriya Zyabkina100 mcolspan=2 11.695Did not advance200 m23.347colspan=2 Did not advanceAnastassya Kudinova400 m56.037colspan=2 Did not advanceElina Mikhina53.836colspan=2 Did not advanceMargarita Mukasheva800 m2:00.975colspan=2 Did not advanceAnastassiya Pilipenko100 m hurdles13.298colspan=2 Did not advanceAleksandra Romanova400 m hurdles59.368colspan=2 Did not advanceIrina SmolnikovaMarathoncolspan=6 3:00:31122Gulzhanat Zhanatbekcolspan=6 Diana Aydosova20 km walkcolspan=6 1:44:4962Polina Repinacolspan=6 Svetlana IvanchukovaRima KashafutdinovaAnastassiya PilipenkoYuliya RakhmanovaOlga SafronovaAnastassiya TulapinaViktoriya Zyabkina4 × 100 m relaycolspan=4 Did not advance
Field events Men AthleteEventQualificationFinalDistancePositionDistancePositionRoman ValiyevTriple jump—Did not advanceIvan IvanovShot put17.3833Did not advanceYevgeniy LabutovDiscus throw55.5431Did not advance
Women AthleteEventQualificationFinalDistancePositionDistancePositionIrina EktovaTriple jump13.3316Did not advanceYekaterina Ektova13.5115Did not advanceOlga Rypakova14.392 Q14.74Mariya TelushkinaDiscus throw45.3332Did not advance
Boxing
Kazakhstan has entered twelve boxers (10 men and 2 women) to compete in each of the following weight classes into the Olympic boxing tournament. Berik Abdrakhmanov and two-time Olympian Birzhan Zhakypov were the first Kazakhs to be selected to the Olympic team with a top two finish in the AIBA Pro Boxing series, while Vasiliy Levit did so in the World Series of Boxing.
2012 Olympian Daniyar Yeleussinov was the only Kazakh boxer qualifying through the 2015 World Championships. Meanwhile, seven further boxers (Yeraliyev, Sattibayev, Zhussupov, Alimkhanuly, Niyazymbetov, Dychko, and Shakimova) had claimed their Olympic spots at the 2016 Asia & Oceania Qualification Tournament in Qian'an, China.
Zhaina Shekerbekova rounded out the Kazakh boxing roster with a quarterfinal victory in women's flyweight division at the World Championships in Astana.
Men AthleteEventRound of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinalOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankBirzhan ZhakypovLight flyweightW 3–0L 0–3Did not advanceOlzhas SattibayevFlyweightW 2–1L 0–3Did not advanceKairat YeraliyevBantamweightW 2–1L 0–3Did not advanceBerik AbdrakhmanovLightweightL 0–3Did not advanceAblaikhan ZhussupovLight welterweightL 1–2Did not advanceDaniyar YeleussinovWelterweightW 3–0W 3–0W 3–0W 3–0Zhanibek AlimkhanulyMiddleweightW 3–0W 3–0L 1–2Did not advanceAdilbek NiyazymbetovLight heavyweightW 3–0W 3–0W 3–0L 0–3Vasiliy LevitHeavyweightW W 3–0W 3–0L 0–3Ivan DychkoSuper heavyweightW 3–0W 3–0L 0–3Did not advance
Women AthleteEventRound of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinalOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankZhaina ShekerbekovaFlyweightL 0–3Did not advanceDariga ShakimovaMiddleweightW 2–1W 3–0L 0–3Did not advance
Canoeing
Slalom Kazakh canoeists have qualified a maximum of one boat in each of the following classes through the 2015 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships and the 2016 Asian Championships.
AthleteEventPreliminarySemifinalFinalRun 1RankRun 2RankBestRankTimeRankTimeRankYekaterina SmirnovaWomen's K-1127.6419119.8014119.8019Did not advance
Sprint Kazakh canoeists have qualified one boat in each of the following events through the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. The sprint canoeing squad, highlighted by London 2012 Olympians Natalya Sergeyeva and kayak duo of Yevgeniy Alexeyev and Alexey Dergunov, were officially named to the Kazakhstan roster on July 24, 2016.
Men AthleteEventHeatsSemifinalsFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankAlexey DergunovK-1 200 m36.6478Did not advanceIlya GolendovK-1 1000 m3:37.953 7Did not advanceTimur KhaidarovC-1 200 m40.4924 Q41.0795 FB40.54914C-1 1000 m5:30.030 6 Q5:33.919 8Did not advanceYevgeniy AlexeyevAlexey DergunovK-2 1000 m3:30.4336 Q3:18.8584 FB3:20.82711Sergii TokarnytskyiAndrey YerguchyovK-2 200 m33.8075 Q35.1515 FB35.42712Ilya GolendovSergii TokarnytskyiAlexandr YemelyanovAndrey YerguchyovK-4 1000 m3:04.8837 Q3:00.5924 FB3:08.71510
Women AthleteEventHeatsSemifinalsFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankZoya AnanchenkoK-1 500 m1:58.1365 Q2:01.6607Did not advanceInna KlinovaK-1 200 m41.0304 Q40.3813 FA41.5218Irina PodoinikovaNatalya SergeyevaK-2 500 m1:45.369 3 Q1:43.5773 FA1:48.3617Zoya AnanchenkoInna KlinovaIrina PodoinikovaNatalya SergeyevaK-4 500 m1:36.1274 Q1:37.4235 FB1:39.41910 Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)
Cycling
Road Kazakh riders qualified for a maximum of two quota places in the men's Olympic road race by virtue of their top 4 national ranking in the 2015 UCI Asia Tour. NOC Kazakhstan had named rookies Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev and Alexey Lutsenko to the Olympic team on June 29, 2016.
On July 30, 2016, Lutsenko withdrew from the Games due to a foot injury sustained from a car accident during his training in France, so his spot was awarded to a fellow cyclist Andrey Zeits.
AthleteEventTimeRankBakhtiyar KozhatayevMen's road race6:30:0561Andrey ZeitsMen's road race6:10:308Men's time trial1:18:47.6324
Track Following the completion of the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Kazakhstan has entered one rider to compete in the men's omnium at the Olympics, by virtue of his final individual UCI Olympic ranking in that event.
Omnium AthleteEventScratch raceIndividual pursuitElimination raceTime trialFlying lapPoints raceTotal pointsRankRankPointsTimeRankPointsRankPointsTimeRankPointsTimeRankPointsPointsRankArtyom ZakharovMen's omnium12224:32.50315125321:03.941102213.44613167811110
Fencing
Kazakhstan has entered one fencer into the Olympic competition. Ilya Mokretsov claimed his Olympic spot in the men's sabre with a top-three finish at the Asian Zonal Qualifier in Wuxi, China.
AthleteEventRound of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalSemifinalFinal / OppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankIlya MokretsovMen's sabreL 11–15Did not advance
Gymnastics
Rhythmic Kazakhstan has qualified one rhythmic gymnast in the individual all-around for the Games by claiming one of eight available Olympic spots at the Olympic Test Event in Rio de Janeiro.