Percentage of athletes competing at the Rio 2016 summer olympics by country and by sport groups. The dotted horizontal lines correspond to the proportion of athletes over all nations competing for that sport. The different sport groups are shown under by order of athletes number importance.
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Team Sports
Basketball, football, handball, hockey, rugby-sevens, volleyball, water-polo
Athletics
Aquatics
Diving, marathon-swimming, swimming, synchronised-swimming
Combat Sports
Boxing, judo, taekwondo, wrestling
Rowing
Racquet Sports
Badminton, table-tennis, tennis
Cycling
Bmx, mountain-bike, cycling-road, cycling-track
Other Sports
Archery, beach-volleyball, weightlifting, golf
Gymnastics
Artistic-gymnastics, rhythmic-gymnastics, trampoline-gymnastics
Shooting
Sailing
Canoe
canoe-slalom, canoe-sprint
Fencing
Equestrian
Pentathlon & Triathlon
Source: www.rio2016.com (data on 2016-08-05, 11397 athletes), Wikimedia (sport icons), R ggiraph (code) | swissinfo.ch |
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