2016 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualified players, Singles
Marin Čilić began his season with a quarterfinal showing at the Brisbane International losing to Dominic Thiem. He was then upset by Roberto Bautista Agut in the third round of the Australian Open. His struggle continues losing in the first round of Open Sud de France to Alexander Zverev and the quarterfinal of the Rotterdam Open to Philipp Kohlschreiber. He reached his first final of the year at the Open 13 but lost to Nick Kyrgios.


2016 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualified players, Singles
Čilić next events were average losing in the first round of Abierto Mexicano Telcel to Ryan Harrison, quarterfinals of the Indian Wells Masters to David Goffin and third round of the Miami Masters to Gilles Simon. He didn't play any event until the Geneva Open due to a knee injury where he reached the final losing to Stan Wawrinka. At the French Open, he suffered a shocking upset to qualifier Marco Trungelliti in the first round. He began his grass court season with a loss to Radek Štěpánek at the MercedesCup but bounced back with a semifinal showing at the Queen's Club Championships losing to Andy Murray. At the Wimbledon Championships, he reached the quarterfinals falling to Roger Federer.


2016 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualified players, Singles
He then suffered an opening round loss at the Rogers Cup this time to compatriot Ivo Karlović. Representing Croatia at the Rio Olympics, Čilić reached the third round losing to Gaël Monfils. However, he bounced back by winning his first title of the year and his first Master event title of his career, when he won the Western & Southern Open defeating Murray in the final. With his first Masters title in the bag, he again received an upset loss in the third round of the US Open to Jack Sock in straight sets.


2016 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualified players, Singles
At the Asian swing, he reached the semifinals of the Japan Open losing again to Goffin. He then fell in his opening round match at the Shanghai Rolex Master to Zverev. At the Swiss Indoors, Čilić claimed his second title of the year, when he defeated Nishikori in the final. At the BNP Paribas Masters, Čilić defeated Novak Djokovic for the first time in his career to reach the semi-finals, where he subsequently lost to John Isner


2016 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualified players, Singles
On November 4, Dominic Thiem qualified for the first time to the year-end finals.


2016 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualified players, Singles
Dominic Thiem started the year with a semifinal run at the Brisbane International but losing to Roger Federer in straight sets. He then received a bye into the second round of the Sydney International, where he retired against Gilles Müller due to a recurring right foot blister. Thiem reached the third round of the Australian Open, his best run yet, but lost to world number 16 David Goffin in four sets. Thiem next competed at the Argentina Open, where he upset defending champion Rafael Nadal in three sets after saving match point in the semifinals.


2016 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualified players, Singles
Thiem went on to win his fourth ATP title by defeating Nicolás Almagro in three sets. He next competed at the Rio Open, reaching the semifinals where he was defeated by Guido Pella. Thiem then won his first hard court title and ATP 500 title at the Mexican Open defeating Bernard Tomic in the final. In the first Masters events of the year, Thiem had back-to-back third round defeats against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the Indian Wells Masters, to Novak Djokovic at the Miami Open and to Nadal at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters.


2016 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualified players, Singles
At the BMW Open he reached the final but lost to German Philipp Kohlschreiber. At the Mutua Madrid Masters, he lost Argentine Juan Martín del Potro in the first round. He then competed in the Italian Open, where in the quarterfinals, Thiem lost to sixth seed Kei Nishikori in straight sets. at the Open de Nice Côte d'Azur, Thiem successfully defended his title, beating Alexander Zverev, having not lost a set until the final. At the French Open, Thiem reached the semi-finals of a major for the first time in his career, where he lost to No. 1 and eventual champion Novak Djokovic. By reaching this semifinal he also made his debut inside the Top 10 of ATP Rankings as world No. 7.


2016 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualified players, Singles
Thiem started his grass season at the MercedesCup, he defeated Philipp Kohlschreiber to win his first ever grass court tournament. His next event was at the Gerry Weber Open where he lost to eventual champion Florian Mayer in the semifinals. Thiem didn't have much luck at the Wimbledon Championships, as in the second round he was defeated by Jiri Vesely. He then suffered back-to-back opening round loses to Jürgen Melzer at the Generali Open Kitzbühel and at the Rogers Cup retiring against Kevin Anderson.


2016 ATP World Tour Finals, Qualified players, Singles
He bounced back by reaching the quarterfinals of the Western & Southern Open losing to Milos Raonic. At the U.S. Open, Thiem reached the fourth round, where he retired against Juan Martín del Potro because his right knee was bothering him. Thiem then reached the final at the Moselle Open but lost against Lucas Pouille. In the Asian swing, he was suffered back-to-back loses to Albert Ramos-Viñolas in the second round of the Chengdu Open and was upset by Alexander Zverev in the first round of the China Open in 3 sets. In the indoor events of Erste Bank Open and BNP Paribas Masters, he suffered early loses in the second round to Viktor Troicki and in the first round to Jack Sock, respectively.


2016 ATP World Tour Finals, Points Breakdown, Singles
The following players qualified for the 2016 World Tour Finals.


2016 ATP World Tour Finals, Points Breakdown, Doubles
The following teams qualified for the 2016 World Tour Finals.


2016 ATP World Tour Finals, Champions, Doubles
Henri Kontinen /  John Peers def. Raven Klaasen /  Rajeev Ram, 2–6, 6–1, [10–8]


2016 ATP World Tour Finals – Doubles
Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecău were the defending champions, but they failed to qualify this year.


2016 ATP World Tour Finals – Doubles
Henri Kontinen and John Peers won the title, defeating Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram in the final, 2–6, 6–1, [10–8].


2016 ATP World Tour Finals – Doubles, Draw, Group Fleming/McEnroe
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, then percentage of games won, then head-to-head records; 5) ATP rankings


2016 ATP World Tour Finals – Doubles, Draw, Group Edberg/Jarryd
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, then percentage of games won, then head-to-head records; 5) ATP rankings


2016 ATP World Tour Finals – Singles
Andy Murray defeated the four-time defending champion Novak Djokovic in the final, 6–3, 6–4, to win the Singles title at the 2016 ATP World Tour Finals. With the win, Murray attained the year-end No. 1 ranking for the first time.


2016 ATP World Tour Finals – Singles
Roger Federer, whose season was curtailed by injury, did not qualify for the ATP year-end championships for the first time since 2001, thus ending his record streak of 14 consecutive appearances. He also fell to number 16 in the ATP rankings as a result, the first time he was ranked out of the top 10 since August 12, 2002, thus ending his streak of 734 consecutive weeks in the top 10. Rafael Nadal qualified, but withdrew due to injury. Gaël Monfils, Dominic Thiem and David Goffin (as an alternate replacing Monfils) made their debuts in the event.


2016 ATP World Tour Finals – Singles, Draw, Group John McEnroe
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, then percentage of games won, then head-to-head records; 5) ATP rankings


2016 ATP World Tour Finals – Singles, Draw, Group Ivan Lendl
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, then percentage of games won, then head-to-head records; 5) ATP rankings


2016 ATP World Tour Masters 1000
The twenty-seventh edition of the ATP Masters Series. The champion of each Masters event is awarded a 1,000 rankings points.


2016 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour
The 2016 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour was a domestic professional beach volleyball circuit organized in the United States by the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) for the 2016 beach volleyball season.


2016 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour, Schedule
This is the complete schedule of events on the 2016 calendar, with team progression documented from the semifinals stage. All tournaments consisted of single-elimination qualifying rounds followed by a double-elimination main draw.


2016 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour, Awards
The season's top performers were chosen based on statistics, player votes and AVP national ranking points earned during the year.


2016 AYA Bank Cup
The 2016 AYA Bank Cup was a four-nation football tournament hosted in Yangon, Myanmar from 3–6 June 2016.


2016 AYA Bank Cup
The tournament followed a straight knockout format with Vietnam and Hong Kong facing in the first semi-final and the first match of the tournament followed by a match between hosts Myanmar and Singapore.


2016 AYA Bank Cup
Ayeyarwady Bank was the title sponsor of the tournament which signed a contract with the Myanmar Football Federation on 4 May 2016.


2016 AZ8
2016 AZ8 is a sub-kilometer asteroid and near-Earth object of the Apollo group, at least 400 meters (1,300 feet) in diameter. It was first observed on 3 January 2016, by the WISE telescope with precovery images found back in 2012.


2016 AZ8
The potentially hazardous asteroid is a binary system with a minor-planet moon in its orbit. The discovery was made by astronomers at Arecibo Observatory on 4 January 2019, while 2016 AZ8 was passing within 4,460,000 kilometers (0.0298 AU) of the Earth. The binary has a secondary-to-primary diameter ratio of at least 0.3.


2016 AZ8, Orbit and classification
2016 AZ8 orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.85–1.8 AU once every 18 months (554 days; semi-major axis of 1.32 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.36 and an inclination of 6° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with a precovery taken at the Siding Spring Survey in July 2012, more than three years prior to its official discovery observation.


2016 Aalesunds FK season
The 2016 season was Aalesunds FK's tenth consecutive season in the Tippeligaen.


2016 Aalesunds FK season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2016 Aalesunds FK season, Transfers, Winter
In:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2016 Aalesunds FK season, Transfers, Winter
Out:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2016 Aalesunds FK season, Transfers, Summer
In:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2016 Aalesunds FK season, Transfers, Summer
Out:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2016 Abierto Mexicano Telcel
The 2016 Mexican Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 23nd edition of the men's tournament (16th for the women), and part of the 2016 ATP World Tour and the 2016 WTA Tour. It took place in Acapulco, Mexico between 22 and 27 February 2016, at the Princess Mundo Imperial.


2016 Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Points and prize money, Prize money
1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money* per team


2016 Abierto Mexicano Telcel – Men's Doubles
Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo were the defending champions, but chose to compete in Dubai and São Paulo, respectively, instead. Treat Huey and Max Mirnyi won the title, defeating Philipp Petzschner and Alexander Peya in the final, 7–6(7–5), 6–3.


2016 Abierto Mexicano Telcel – Men's Singles
David Ferrer was the defending champion, but lost to Alexandr Dolgopolov in the second round.


2016 Abierto Mexicano Telcel – Men's Singles
Dominic Thiem won the title, defeating Bernard Tomic in the final, 7–6(8–6), 4–6, 6–3.


2016 Abierto Mexicano Telcel – Women's Doubles
Lara Arruabarrena and María Teresa Torró Flor were the defending champions, but chose not to compete together. Arruabarrena played alongside Paula Cristina Gonçalves, but lost in the quarterfinals to María Irigoyen and Paula Kania. Torró Flor was scheduled to team up with Shahar Pe'er, but withdrew before their first round match. Anabel Medina Garrigues and Arantxa Parra Santonja won the title, defeating Kiki Bertens and Johanna Larsson in the final, 6–0, 6–4.


2016 Abierto Mexicano Telcel – Women's Singles
Timea Bacsinszky was the defending champion, but chose to compete in Doha instead.


2016 Abierto Mexicano Telcel – Women's Singles
Sloane Stephens won the title, defeating Dominika Cibulková in the final, 6–4, 4–6, 7–6(7–5).


2016 Abierto Tampico
The 2016 Abierto Tampico was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 4th edition of the tournament and part of the 2016 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000+H in prize money. It took place in Tampico, Mexico, on 24–30 October 2016.


2016 Abierto Tampico, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received a wildcard into the singles main draw:


2016 Abierto Tampico – Doubles
María Irigoyen and Barbora Krejčíková were the defending champions, but chose not to participate.


2016 Abierto Tampico – Doubles
Mihaela Buzărnescu and Elise Mertens won the title, defeating Usue Maitane Arconada and Katie Swan in the final, 6–0, 6–2.


2016 Abierto Tampico – Singles
Lourdes Domínguez Lino was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.


2016 Abierto Tampico – Singles
Sofya Zhuk won the title, defeating Varvara Flink in an all-Russian final, 6–4, 6–3.


2016 Abierto de Puebla
The 2016 Abierto de Puebla was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 15th edition of the tournament, but the first since 2009, and was part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2016 ITF Women's Circuit, offering prize money of $100,000+H (ATP) and $25,000 (ITF) on 7–13 March 2016. It took place in Puebla, Mexico.


2016 Abierto de Puebla, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2016 Abierto de Puebla, ITF singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2016 Abierto de Puebla, ITF singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry by a lucky loser spot:


2016 Abierto de Puebla – Doubles
This was the first edition of the tournament since 2009.


2016 Abierto de Puebla – Doubles
Marcus Daniell and Artem Sitak won the title, defeating Santiago González and Mate Pavić 3–6, 6–2, [12–10] in the final.


2016 Abierto de Puebla – Singles
This was the first edition of the tournament since 2009.


2016 Abierto de Puebla – Singles
Eduardo Struvay won the title, defeating Peđa Krstin 4–6, 6–4, 6–4 in the final.


2016 Abilene Christian Wildcats football team
The 2016 Abilene Christian Wildcats football team represented Abilene Christian University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Wildcats were  in their final transition season at the FCS level. They were led by fifth-year head coach Ken Collums. They played their home games at Shotwell Stadium. The 2016 season was to be the final season for the Wildcats at Shotwell Stadium. Beginning with the 2017 season, the Wildcats' home will be the on-campus Wildcat Stadium which is currently under construction. They finished the season 2–9, 2–7 in Southland play to finish in tenth place.


2016 Abilene Christian Wildcats football team, Previous season
The Wildcats finished the 2015 season 3–8, 3–6 in Southland play to finish in a three-way tie for eighth place.


2016 Abilene Christian Wildcats football team, TV and radio
All Abilene Christian games will be broadcast on KTLT, also known as , and in Dallas on  as part of the Abilene Christian Wildcats Cumulus radio network.


2016 Abilene Christian Wildcats football team, TV and radio
Video of all home games (except those broadcast via ASN or ESPN3) will be offered live through Stretch Internet via , a paid subscription service. Audio of all road games will also be available through ACU TV at no charge. ASN games will be streamed on the Southland Conference Digital Network.


2016 Abkhazian Cup
The 2016 Abkhazian Cup was the 23rd edition of Abkhazian Cup organized by Football Federation of Abkhazia. The competition was held in the month of May.


2016 Abkhazian Cup, Participating Teams
This edition of the competition was attended by 10 teams:


2016 Abkhazian Cup, Participating Teams
The Abkhazia Cup champion team qualifies for the Abkhazia Super Cup final and face the Abkhazian Premier League champion team.


2016 Abkhazian Cup, Participating Teams
The final of the Abkhazia Cup took place on October 12, 2016. The two teams qualified for the grand final match were Nart Sukhum and FC Gagra. Nart Sukhum won by the score of 2x1.


2016 Abkhazian Cup, Games by Stage, Quarterfinals
[ Aug 17]Football Club Yertsakhu Ochamchira 11-1 Football Club Abazg Sukhum


2016 Abkhazian Cup, Games by Stage, Quarterfinals
[ Sep 27]Football Club Abazg Sukhum      0-3 Football Club Yertsakhu Ochamchira


2016 Abkhazian early presidential elections referendum
A referendum on holding early presidential elections was held in Abkhazia on 10 July 2016. The referendum was declared invalid due to low turnout (1.23%), after both sides decided to boycott it.


2016 Abkhazian early presidential elections referendum, Background
A petition calling for a referendum was started by an initiative group in March 2016, who were required to obtain 10,000 signatures. On 22 April, the initiative group handed over the petition to the Central Election Commission with 19,314 signatures, stating that it had collected 21,226 signatures but had omitted those that were invalid because the information of the signatory was incomplete. The referendum was approved by a decree signed by President Raul Khajimba on 1 June. On 28 June, CEC Chairman Batal Tabagua announced that there would be no polling stations outside Abkhazia.


2016 Abkhazian early presidential elections referendum, Interior Ministry crisis
In the run-up to the referendum, Interior Minister Leonid Dzapshba gave a speech to officials at the Ministry that angered opposition activists, who claimed Dzapshba had pressured the officials not to participate in the referendum and threatened them with dismissal. On 20 June, three of Dzapshba's predecessors as Interior Minister, Abesalom Beia, Otar Khetsia and Raul Lolua, called upon President Khajimba to dismiss him. On 5 July, some opposition activists stormed the Ministry and demanded i.a. Dzapshba's resignation. As a concession to the protestors, Khajimba suspended Dzapshba for the duration of an investigation into the matter by the Prosecutor General.


2016 Abkhazian early presidential elections referendum, Results
The referendum was declared invalid due to low turnout (1.23%) as it was boycotted by both the government and the opposition. Of those who voted, a majority was against holding an early election.


2016 Abkhazian early presidential elections referendum, Results
Do you consider it necessary to hold early election of President of the Republic of Abkhazia?


2016 Abkhazian local elections
On 3 April 2016, Abkhazia held local elections for the 6th convocations of its local assemblies in all districts except Gali.


2016 Abkhazian local elections, Background
The terms of the 5th convocations had originally been set to expire in February 2015, but were extended on 17 December 2014 by the People's Assembly. On 3 February 2016, the People's Assembly extended elections in Gali District once again, until 12 February 2017, because of the unresolved passport situation.


2016 Abkhazian local elections, Sukhumi
The election for Sukhumi City Council was contested by 82 candidates. Originally, 88 candidates had been nominated but three refused to stand as candidate. Of the remaining 85 candidates, twelve were nominated by United Abkhazia, one by the Abkhazian Railways and the rest by initiative groups. 18 were women. 14 of the candidates were incumbent deputies. All but one of the candidates were successfully registered. Two further candidates withdrew at a later date.


2016 Abkhazian local elections, Sukhumi, Results
Turnout was 14,718 out of 39,070 eligible voters (38%). The elections in constituencies no. 21 and 23 were declared invalid, as voter turnout was below 25%. Reruns in these constituencies were held on 29 May. One of the elected council members was a woman.


2016 Abkhazian local elections, Gagra District
65 candidates were nominated in 25 constituencies, 6 of whom women. Preliminary turnout was 46%. One of the elected deputies was a woman and only four were incumbents.


2016 Abkhazian local elections, Gagra District
The new assembly elected Astan Agrba as its chairman and Aleksandr Tsyshba as its deputy chairman.


2016 Abkhazian local elections, Gagra District, Pitsunda
15 candidates were nominated in 9 constituencies, 1 of whom a woman, who was not elected.


2016 Abkhazian local elections, Gudauta District
55 candidates were nominated in 29 constituencies, 6 of whom women. All candidates were nominated by initiative groups. Turnout was reported as 41.5% and 55%. One of the women was elected. Among the elected deputies was long time New Athos mayor Feliks Dauta, who declared that after 13 years as mayor he wanted try his hand at being a deputy.


2016 Abkhazian local elections, Gudauta District
The new council elected Roman Bazba as its chairman and Inal Tsveiba as its deputy chairman.


2016 Abkhazian local elections, Gudauta District, New Athos
13 candidates were nominated in 9 constituencies, 4 of whom women. Of the elected deputies, one was a woman.


2016 Abkhazian local elections, Gudauta District, New Athos
The new assembly re-elected Ramaz Smyr as its chairman and Temur Otyrba as its deputy chairman.


2016 Abkhazian local elections, Sukhumi District
28 candidates were nominated in 15 constituencies, 3 of whom women. The election in constituency no. 12 was declared invalid because turnout was less than 25%. Overall turnout was 42% out of 6611 registered voters. Of the elected deputies, one was a woman. All had been nominated by initiative groups.


2016 Abkhazian local elections, Sukhumi District
The new assembly elected Zaur Sangulia as its chairman and Rudolf Tarba as its deputy chairman.


2016 Abkhazian local elections, Gulripshi District
23 candidates were nominated in 16 constituencies, 4 of whom women. All candidates were nominated by initiative groups. Turnout was 4268 out of 11,099 registered voters (39.6%). Of the elected deputies, two were women. The election in constituency no. 7 was declared invalid because two additional ballots were found, it will be repeated on 29 May.


2016 Abkhazian local elections, Gulripshi District
The new assembly re-elected Igor Mikvabia as its new chairman and Andronik Kondakchyan as its deputy chairman.


2016 Abkhazian local elections, Ochamchira District
60 candidates were nominated in 32 constituencies, 7 of whom women. Turnout was reported as 54.4% and 55.5%. Among the elected deputies were 4 women and only about 10% were incumbents.


2016 Abkhazian local elections, Ochamchira District
The new assembly elected Adgur Kvitsinia as its chairman and Omari Shat-ipa as its deputy chairman.


2016 Abkhazian local elections, Tkvarcheli District
30 candidates were nominated in 15 constituencies, 5 of whom women. Turnout was 46.4%. The election in constituency no. 14 (Chkhortol) was declared invalid because the two highest scoring candidates had received the same number of votes. None of the 14 winning candidates were incumbents, 2 were women, 2 had been nominated by Amtsakhara and 12 by initiative groups.


2016 Abkhazian local elections, Tkvarcheli District
The new Assembly elected Damir Gorzolia as its chairman and Melis Jinjolia as its deputy chairman.


2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
The 2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix (officially known as the 2016 Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 27 November 2016 at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The race was the twenty first and final round of the 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship and determined the 2016 World Drivers' Championship. It marked the eighth running of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and the eighth time that the race had been run as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in 1950.


2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
The previous year's race winner Nico Rosberg entered the round with a twelve-point lead over his teammate Lewis Hamilton in the World Drivers' Championship. Their team, Mercedes, held a lead of two hundred and seventy-six points over Red Bull Racing in the World Constructors' Championship. Rosberg required a podium finish to secure the championship; Hamilton required a podium to remain in mathematical contention. Hamilton started the race from pole and went on to win the race, while Rosberg finished second, securing his maiden World Drivers' Championship title. Sebastian Vettel completed the podium in third.


2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
A week after the Grand Prix, Rosberg announced his retirement from Formula One, making this Grand Prix his last. This was also the last Grand Prix for the Manor team, as the team folded before the start of the 2017 season, reducing the grid to 20 drivers. As well as being Rosberg's last Grand Prix, this would also prove to be the last Grand Prix for Esteban Gutiérrez and Felipe Nasr.


2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Background
Lewis Hamilton entered the final race of the season 12 points behind Nico Rosberg, therefore both came into the final race with a possibility of winning the world championship.


2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Race
Lewis Hamilton held the lead from a cautious Nico Rosberg at the first corner of the race. Kimi Räikkönen gained third position from Daniel Ricciardo, with Vettel, Pérez, Hülkenberg, Alonso, Massa and Bottas completing the top ten positions at the end of the first lap. Max Verstappen spun and fell to 19th position after gently touching Nico Hülkenberg's Force India at the start. The RBR cars started the race on the more durable super soft tyres unlike the other top 10 cars who all started on ultra softs. By the 5th lap of the race, Verstappen had recovered to 13th position and only 19 seconds behind the leader, Hamilton.


2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Race
Kevin Magnussen, who had pitted in the first lap with a broken nose after a touch in the start, retired from the race on lap 5 with suspension damage. The Force India and Williams teammates were fighting hard for 6th and 9th positions, respectively with Alonso holding position between the two teams' drivers. Bottas was forced to retire on lap 6 with a suspension issue.


2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Race
Mercedes and Ferrari brought their lead cars (Hamilton and Räikkönen) in for their first pitstop on lap 7, and their following cars (Rosberg and Vettel) in subsequent laps. Red Bull also chose to react by pitting Ricciardo at this time, fitting the yellow-walled Soft tyres as did all the other front running cars at this point. The Mercedes of Rosberg had a 1.6s gap to the Ferrari of Räikkönen and maintained his position to the Ferrari after the pit stop, but now finding the yet to pit Red Bull of Verstappen between himself and Hamilton leading the race.


2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Race
In what was at the time expected to be his last Formula One race, Jenson Button was forced to retire with broken right front suspension on lap 12 from 8th position. Daniil Kvyat was the next retirement from the race with gearbox problems on lap 14, from 16th position.


2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Race
Meanwhile, Rosberg was advised by the Mercedes pitwall to not take any risks with Verstappen, believing that he will pit soon allowing Rosberg to emerge back into clean air. However, RBR took advantage of this conservative approach from Mercedes and chose to run Verstappen as long as they could in the first stint in order to complete the race on a 1-stop strategy and holding up Rosberg in the process. The risk posed by Verstappen's strategy to Rosberg became apparent soon, with Räikkönen following Rosberg close by and Vettel fast approaching this group. Rosberg was urged to attack and pass Verstappen on track, which he managed to do on lap 20 and began to catch Hamilton, with Räikkönen having pitted by lap 25 to cover for Verstappen and Ricciardo, who both pitted on laps 22 and 24 respectively.


2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Race
The Mercedes drivers pitted on laps 28 and 29 for their final stint on the soft tyres. Rosberg now had a safe gap of 4 seconds to Verstappen, with Ricciardo and Räikkönen further behind. However, now Vettel was leading the race and going longer than all of the front runners with a view to driving a short final stint on the faster red–walled super soft tyres, while all other drivers were on the slower and older soft tyres.


2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Race
With Vettel yet to stop for the last time, Mercedes had concerns about the slow pace of Hamilton who was lapping as fast as Vettel who driving on much older tyres in the 1min46s, asking on lap 32: “Just wondering why you’re so slow? Currently unsafe to Vettel.” Hamilton immediately responded with a 1min45.3s, to which his race engineer replied that they were happy with this pace. Rosberg protested on lap 35 that this pace is too slow for a late race safety car. With 18 laps remaining, Vettel pitted to take the super soft tyres.


2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Race
He fell to 6th place, however his pace was alarming to Mercedes. At lap 41, Hamilton inquired the Mercedes pit wall about the pace of the cars around them. Vettel had lapped at 1min44.6s, and a 1-stopping Verstappen was much slower at 1min45.9s. Hamilton now began to slow the pace down much more dramatically, lapping in the 1min46s, in a bid to allow the chasing group to catch up to them while holding Rosberg around 1 second behind - the difficult to overtake layout of the track helping Hamilton not being overtaken himself. At this point individuals within the Mercedes pit wall, namely his race engineer and the team Executive Director Paddy Lowe began to issue repeated orders to Hamilton to increase his pace, but Hamilton continued to rebuff their requests.


2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Race
Shortly after, as the leaders were lapping Carlos Sainz Jr and Jolyon Palmer, the Renault driver missed the braking point and rear-ended the STR of the Spaniard. Sainz Jr suffered problems due to this contact and retired from the race. Palmer was penalized with 5 seconds for the incident.


2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Race
Vettel passed Räikkönen, Ricciardo and Verstappen and was less than a second behind Rosberg by lap 50. Hamilton’s actions also allowed Verstappen who was 3.5 seconds away from Rosberg to be 1 second behind Vettel by this time.


2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Report, Race
In the penultimate lap, Vettel attacked Rosberg, who defended his position, with RBR also encouraging Verstappen to push up to Vettel’s DRS to take advantage of a mistake by Vettel or Rosberg. Had Rosberg been passed for a podium finish, Hamilton would have won the World Championship Drivers' title and denied Rosberg his first title. Toto Wolff, the Mercedes Team Principal was able to see two sides to Hamilton’s actions, while not condoning his insubordination, understood the racer’s mentality in this situation. Others have supported him, going with the principle that "drivers are free to race".


2016 Abu Dhabi Tour
The second edition of the Abu Dhabi Tour took place from 20 to 23 October 2016. It was part of the 2016 UCI Asia Tour, ranked as a 2.HC category event.


2016 Abu Dhabi Tour, Teams
Eighteen teams entered the race. Each team had a maximum of six riders.


2016 Abu Dhabi Tour, Route
The race consisted of four stages in the United Arab Emirates.


2016 Abu Kamal offensive
The 2016 Abu Kamal offensive, also known as Operation Day of Wrath, was launched on the town of Abu Kamal on the Syrian–Iraqi border led by the US-backed New Syrian Army (NSA).


2016 Abu Kamal offensive, The offensive
On 28 June 2016, the New Syrian Army rebels launched the offensive from at-Tanf and occupied the village of al-Sukkariya (north of Abu Kamal), the nearby Hamdan Military Airfield, the Ayshat al-Khayri Hospital (in northern Abu Kamal) all of which were unguarded by ISIL. They also established several positions in the desert between the Tanf border crossing and Abu Kamal. Some NSA troops were airlifted to the area by three Coalition helicopters while a sizable convoy of US provided vehicles made its way from the at-Tanf garrison toward Abu Kamal.


2016 Abu Kamal offensive, The offensive
The NSA advance was aided by FSA covert supporters inside the city. At the same time as the operation started, it was reported that Iraqi Federal Police forces were preparing to simultaneously attack the town of al-Qa'im, on the Iraqi side of the border. However, Iraqi Sunni tribesmen were the ones in fact involved in the operation, and acted ”precipitously and insufficiently in their role”, alerting ISIL of the offensive. ISIL then proceeded to cut power and communications in Abu Kamal, followed by digging trenches around the city.


2016 Abu Kamal offensive, The offensive
On the next day, US air support was withdrawn to take part in the Battle of Fallujah. ISIL recaptured the airbase, pushed the rebels back from the outskirts of Abu Kamal, and attacked the supply lines of the NSA through the empty desert. ISIL fighters encircled the rebels in a surprise ambush. They inflicted heavy casualties on the rebels NSA weapons and vehicles were seized by the jihadists. The rebels initially retreated to the outlying desert areas, before fully pulling back to their base at the at-Tanf border crossing, 200 miles away. The lack of US air support was blamed as the key factor contributing to the NSA's defeat, but without coalition air controllers on the ground, it was unlikely the air support would have made any significant contribution.


2016 Abu Kamal offensive, The offensive
The offensive was described by some as a ”crippling defeat” and a ”Bay-of-Pigs-style fiasco” for the rebels, while the SOHR director stated after the defeat that the whole operation ”was more a media show than anything else”. The U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter stated, in regards to the pulling back of the air support for the rebels, ”We missed an opportunity”.


2016 Abu Kamal offensive, Losses
In an ISIL propaganda video, the NSA suffered 2 known deaths on the battlefield along with 3 fighters from the Ahmad al-Abdo Martyr group who were killed in an ISIL ambush while retreating from Abu Kamal. ISIL, however, claimed 40 NSA deaths and 15 captured along with the seizure of a large amount of weaponry consisting of mostly heavy machine guns, mortars, and assault rifles. In addition, ISIL suffered 20 deaths according to the NSA in a combination of a total of 13 Coalition air-strikes and their ground offensive operation. In one instance, a pro-NSA sleeper cell group in Abu Kamal detonated a car bomb that killed 3 ISIL fighters.


2016 Accra floods
The 2016 Accra floods were heavy rainfalls in Accra, the capital of Ghana in June 2016. The flood began on June 9, 2016. As of June 15, 2016, at least 10 people have been killed.


2016 Aceh earthquake
The 2016 Aceh earthquake (Indonesian: Gempa Aceh 2016) struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra with a Mw of 6.5 in Aceh province on 7 December 2016, at 05:03 WIB (22:03 UTC 6 December 2016). The shock was reported to be at a depth of 13 km, categorized as a strong, shallow earthquake. The epicentre was located near the village of Reuleut in Pidie Jaya Regency, 164 km (102 mi) southeast of the province's capital, Banda Aceh. 104 people died in the quake, with at least 1,000 people injured. It was the deadliest earthquake in Aceh since the 2005 Nias–Simeulue earthquake and the deadliest in Sumatra since the 2010 Mentawai earthquake and tsunami.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Earthquake
The earthquake struck at 05:03 a.m while many people were still sleeping or preparing for morning prayer. Hundreds of people panicked and ran through the streets as the earthquake struck, with eyewitnesses stating that most people were crying and screaming as their memories of the massive earthquake in 2004 were triggered. Many stated that the shaking was similar to the 2004 quake. Hundreds of people evacuated to higher ground, fearing that a tsunami would occur.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Earthquake
Even though the earthquake was categorized as a shallow earthquake, the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics stated that there was no potential for a tsunami to occur. The shaking was strongly felt in Pidie and Pidie Jaya Regency and lasted for 10 – 15 seconds. The quake could be felt within the entire Aceh region.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Earthquake
The Deputy of Prevention and Alertness of the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management, Wisnu Widjaja, stated that the energy released by the quake was equivalent to that released in the 1945 nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. The Head of the Geology Office, Ego Syahrial, stated that Pidie Jaya Regency was included as one of the most earthquake-prone cities in Aceh and was in the red zone.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Impact
In the initial hours after the earthquake, structures across Aceh were reported to have been severely damaged. The dome of the Samalanga Mosque, Pidie's central mosque, had collapsed. Massive power outages occurred throughout Pidie and Pidie Jaya as telephone poles and electrical poles tumbled. Several houses collapsed during the quake. Roads were also damaged. Preliminary data suggest that 14 structures had collapsed during the quake, including a minimarket in Pidie. Photos of destroyed houses and buildings were circulated on social media. Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management later [stated that] "many structures" were damaged, of which 25 suffered heavy damage.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Impact
Detailed information revealed that 72 stores had collapsed, 15 houses had been destroyed, 1 mall had collapsed, 5 mosques appeared destroyed and an Islamic school also had collapsed. It was reported that dozens of Islamic students were trapped under an Islamic School in Bireun Regency. Later reports revealed that 249 structures had been damaged in the quake, including 14 mosques and a hospital. The Indonesian National Disaster Management Board later confirmed that 686 structures were either destroyed or damaged.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Impact
At least 108 aftershocks followed the main shock in Aceh, with the largest measuring 5.3 Mw occurring in the mid-morning hours of 11 December 2016 at a depth of 20 km. The magnitude of the earthquake was also revised by the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics from 6.4 Mw to 6.5 Mw.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Impact
The regent of Pidie Jaya, Aiyub Abbas, stated that approximately 30% of the area of Pidie Jaya was severely affected by the quake and also stated that he will travel back to Pidie Jaya after his duty visit to Istana Negara.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Search and rescue efforts
Emergency services were overwhelmed in the aftermath of the quake. At least 30 people, including some children, were admitted to the nearest hospital for bone fractures. Search and rescue teams were immediately assembled and deployed to the scene, including the Disaster Victims Identification team (DVI). Coordination centres were set up in the hardest-hit areas. The Indonesian Volcanology and Geologic Disaster Mitigation departments, and the Ministry of Energy and Human Resources were also sent to the disaster area. One person was reportedly killed due to falling debris. Further search and rescue operations discovered more deaths in Pidie Jaya.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Search and rescue efforts
The Vice Regent of Pidie Jaya Regency, Said Mulyadi, stated that at least 18 people were killed in the quake, with dozens trapped under rubble. The number reportedly injured was increased to 500, while treatment of the injured was initially limited to the streets as treating patients indoors was prohibited for fear of aftershocks. As local hospitals were overwhelmed, more survivors were transported to other main hospitals, including Pidie Jaya Hospital (outdoor, as the indoor section were heavily damaged) and Chik Di Tiro Hospital. Severely injured people were transported by helicopters to Banda Aceh, the provincial capital.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Search and rescue efforts
Indonesian President Joko Widodo ordered the Presidential Chief of Staff Teten Masduki to travel to Aceh in response to the quake. He later added that other presidential officials were ordered to Aceh. The Indonesian Government will set up tents, shelters, and camps for the survivors of the quake. The State Electricity Company (Perusahaan Listrik Negara) deployed 20 personnel to the disaster zone to check the electrical conditions in the area. The National Search and Rescue Agency deployed special teams in response to the quake, consisting of 2 teams of 20 staff each. The Indonesian Red Cross sent 500 family kits, 500 hygiene kits, 1,000 blankets, 1,000 mats, and 200 body bags, plus 2 ambulances. A search and rescue team from Medan, North Sumatra, deployed 2 teams to Aceh to assist rescuers.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Search and rescue efforts
The acting governor of Aceh Soedarmo ordered all agencies to work in the hardest hit areas and stated that deploying heavy equipment and distribution of aid supplies were the first priorities. The Ministry of Public Works also sent several personnel to Aceh, including its General Director. The Minister of Social Affairs, Khofifah Indar Parawansa, will travel to Aceh in order to help the survivors The ministry had deployed Taruna Siaga Bencana in response to the quake. Khofifah then stated that evacuation and refugee centres had been set up in the areas affected by the quake, and that the ministry will deploy 33,000 additional volunteers to assist in aid efforts. The Indonesian Navy sent a ship to Aceh for logistic deployment.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Search and rescue efforts
The Aceh Government later declared a state of emergency for 14 days in response to the quake, as the government needed immediate help from the central government in Jakarta. Chief of the Aceh Regional Police Rio S Djambak stated that the hardest hit areas in Pidie Jaya were in Ulee Glee and Meureudu, with 23 fatalities confirmed in the area. Volunteers in Aceh stated that Pidie Jaya medical resources were overwhelmed due to a lack of medical staff in the city, which resulted in many injured being untreated.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Search and rescue efforts
At noon on 7 December 2016, the death toll was revised by Indonesian authorities to 45, according to the Head of Health Instance of Pidie Jaya, later rose to 49. The Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management sent around 740 personnel to Pidie Jaya from Pidie, consisting of the Indonesian National Army and Pidie Regency's Tagana. The death toll was later revised again to 52, as rescuers retrieved more bodies under the rubble. Most of the dead were residents in Pidie Jaya Regency. The death toll increased to 54 when 2 additional fatalities were reported in Bireuën Regency. On the afternoon of 7 December, the death toll jumped to 92, while army official had told Metro TV that 97 people were killed in the quake. On the evening, the death toll was revised to 97.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Search and rescue efforts
Indonesian authorities confirmed that 73 people were seriously injured in the incident. At least 80 critically injured people were transported to Bireun Hospital as hospitals in Pidie and Pidie Jaya were overwhelmed. An additional 38 doctors were placed on standby. As the hospital lacks an intensive care unit, treatment could only be done outdoors in tents. Hospital officials later stated that they only accepted those with serious injuries, while people with minor injuries such as cuts were denied treatment. On 8 December 2016 the hospital stated that they will treat all injured for free.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Search and rescue efforts
Social Minister Khofifah Indar Parawanasa had sent several rounds of donation and assistance from Central and Regional Storage of Sumatra to the victims. Based on official statements from the ministry, it had sent 40 family tents, 3,000 mats, 1,200 tents, 15 multi-functional tents, 2 psycho-social tents and 2,000 blankets. The ministry also sent 250 family kits, 150 sets of children's clothing, and 121,000 boxes of instant noodles. These supplies were scheduled to arrive in Pidie Jaya on 9 December. The aid received by the survivors on 7 December came from the Social Office in Pidie Jaya.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Search and rescue efforts
The Yogyakarta Regional Disaster Management Board sent a 7-person search and rescue team to assist the evacuation process in Pidie Jaya. The North Sumatra Regional Police also sent several of its members to the disaster site. The Indonesian army deployed 1,000 personnel, and also planned to send 80 additional medical personnel to Aceh.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Search and rescue efforts
On 8 December 2016, the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management deployed a team of experts specializing in collapsed buildings to the region. The Board will also ship medicine and food to the region via air, courtesy of the Indonesian Air Force. The commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces Gatot Nurmantyo stated that it will send 218 personnel to the affected region. It was later confirmed that Nurmantyo will travel to the disaster area to survey the damage. The Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management later stated that 100 bodies had been evacuated with 1 person listed as missing. Indonesian soldiers made a temporary hospital in Pidie Jaya Regency and appointed 24 specialists. The head of the Regional Police of North Sumatra Rycko Amelza Dahniel deployed several units of its forces for humanitarian purposes in Aceh.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Search and rescue efforts
On 12 December 2016, National Search and Rescue Agency confirmed that the search and rescue operation was officially ended.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Aftermath
Immediately after the quake, the #PrayForAceh went viral on Twitter, with most people offering condolences and prayers to the victims of the quake. By 8 December 2016, the hashtag had reached a total number of 250.000 tweets. Rumah Lembang, a campaign house for Basuki Tjahaja Purnama and Djarot Saiful Hidayat that were competing for the 2017 Jakarta Governor election, held a minute of silence to honor the victims. The President of Indonesia Joko Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla conducted an emergency meeting in the aftermath of the quake.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Aftermath
Joko Widodo, alongside Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the Head of Regional People's Representatives Council Mohammad Saleh, and the Head of the People's Consultative Assembly, Zulkifli Hasan, sent condolences to the victims of the quake. Anies Baswedan, competing for the 2017 gubernatorial election, also sent his sincere condolences to the victims and asked Indonesian people to unite and help the victims in Pidie.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Aftermath
Many Islamic agencies and political parties opened charity programs and solidarity programs for the victims of the earthquake. The Central Administrator Council agreed to open a crisis centre for the people affected by the quake in Pidie Jaya. Ambulances, medicines and medics were sent to aid the victims. The Prosperous Justice Party (Bahasa Indonesia: Partai Keadilan Sejahtera) sent their sincere condolences and issued a solidarity program to the victims. The party also set up a crisis centre in the disaster area. The Head of the People's Representative Council, Setya Novanto, sent condolences to the victims and asked his fellow co-workers and representatives to help the victims.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Aftermath
Former Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono sent his deepest sympathy to the victims and also asked his fellow politicians in the Democratic Party to help with efforts. The party has coordinated with the local Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management and the Indonesian telecommunication giant Indosat Ooredoo. Officials have also stated that they are coordinating with Indonesian Students Legislative Council Forum. The Indonesian telecommunication company Telkomsel offered free calling services and phone facility services in Meurudu and Ulee Glee, and added that they are coordinating with the local government to assist the victims.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Aftermath
The National Mandate Party (Bahasa Indonesia: Partai Amanat Nasional) had also offered its help to the victims. The party's Secretary General, Eddy Suparno, stated that the party is willing to help the people of Aceh, and will set up a crisis centre in Aceh. The chief of staff of the party immediately ordered his staff in Aceh to visit the hardest hit areas.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Aftermath
The Islamic Defenders Front opened a crisis centre in Aceh and also sent volunteers to assist with efforts. Muhammadiyah, alongside with several local Islamic organisations in Aceh also joined the solidarity program. The Navy Base in Belawan had one ship on standby for helping the victims of the quake. The ship, KRI Sibolga, is on standby to assist the volunteers and social workers in dealing with the aftermath of the quake.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Aftermath
Multiple Indonesian artists and journalists engaged in gestures of solidarity for the victims. Indonesian singer Tompi, who was born in Aceh, opened a charity line for the victims. Raisa, a famous Indonesian singer, sent her condolences to the victims, alongside Haruka Nakagawa, from JKT48. A message of condolence was also sent from Vidi Aldiano.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Aftermath
The mayor of Surabaya Tri Rismaharini offered medical assistance to help the evacuation process in Pidie Jaya. She immediately delegated her assistant to coordinate between her government and the Aceh government. She will also send funds to the National Disaster Mitigation Centre in Aceh. During a press conference, Jusuf Kalla confirmed that President Joko Widodo will visit the disaster zone after a state visit in Bali. Jusuf Kalla also sent condolences to the victims.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Aftermath
Social Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa stated that relatives of the victims of the disaster will be given financial compensation for their losses. Relatives will be given Rp.15,000,000 per person killed, and Rp. 5,000,000 for each person seriously injured. She later sent her deepest sympathy to the victims and offered "her best performance" to assist the victims affected by the quake. The ministry sent a trauma team to the region to assist with traumatized people, particularly children. Social Minister Khofifah stated that in an emergency situation such as this, the local government could send emergency food and supplies of up to 100-200 tonnes for survivors and displaced persons.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Aftermath
The Russian President Vladimir Putin, Singaporean President Tony Tan Keng Yam and Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong offered condolences to Indonesia. Malaysia also sent a condolence letter, stating that they are ready to help Aceh if needed. Singapore also stated its willingness to help Aceh. In a different statement, the Singapore Civil Defence Force will deploy 2 of its personnel to Indonesia. The Japanese Government had also offered its condolence to Indonesia in response to the quake and stated that Japan is ready to help Aceh, according to the statement released by Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida. Australian government had also sent a message of condolence to Indonesia. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop stated that Australia will provide 1 million Australian dollars ($750,000) of humanitarian aid through the Indonesian Red Cross. The Indian Government had also sent its condolence to Indonesia alongside with Cuba and China.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Aftermath
Before the start of the semifinal match of the 2016 AFF Suzuki Cup Championship between Indonesia and Vietnam on 7 December, a minute of silence was observed.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Aftermath
On 8 December 2016, Interior Minister Tjahjo Kumolo visited Aceh to observe the damage. Acehnese students in Yogyakarta held solidarity program throughout the city. Indonesian telecommunication company XL Axiata sent donations of school equipments and logistics to the areas affected. XL had also set up a crisis centre in Aceh and opened charity line for the victims. Riau Government and Pekanbaru Government sent a tonne of aids to Pidie Jaya. The aids would be flown from Roesmin Nurjadin Airstrip in Pekanbaru, Riau's provincial capital.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Aftermath
On the noon of 8 December, Indonesian President Joko Widodo arrived in Pidie Jaya and immediately held a search and rescue coordination meeting attended by Health Minister Nila Moeloek, Minister of Public Work and Houses Basuki Hadimuljono, Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung, Commander of the Indonesian Armed Forces Gatot Nurmantyo, Head of Indonesian National Police Tito Karnavian, Acting President Teten Masduki and Aceh Acting Governor Soedarmo. He later visited hospitals and spoke to the survivors of the quake about their needs. He would observe the evacuation process of the victims, logistics distribution and infrastructures in Aceh.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Aftermath
Aids were also sent by West Sumatra Red Cross and the Singaporean Red Cross. The Singaporean Red Cross sent donations worth S$. 50,000 (Rp. 470,000,000) to Aceh. Indonesian Disaster Management Board sent aids worth of Rp. 3.5 billion including 10 emergency generators to the disaster zone. Logistics were also sent by Indonesian Disaster Management Board via air. They later deployed life detectors and search and rescue dogs to the area affected. Consequently, 4 airlines, which were Indonesia AirAsia, Lion Air, Tri-MG Intra Asia Airlines, and Sriwijaya Air offered free logistics distribution to Aceh. Transportation Ministry deployed 7 of its ships to Aceh.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Aftermath
Vigils and prayers service for the victims were held throughout Indonesia. In Surabaya, dozens of artists held a 1.000 candles vigil. In Pamekasan, East Java, dozens of kindergarten students attended a prayer service and charity work. In Klaten, Central Java, hundreds of elementary school students attended prayer for the dead.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Aftermath
On 12 December 2016, a tonne of rendang from West Sumatra arrived in Pidie Jaya. Government of Central Aceh Regency had also sent funds of Rp. 90 million and two vegetable trucks.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Aftermath
On 14 December 2016, Spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Geng Shuang confirmed that the Chinese Government will send funds of $1.000.000 to Indonesia. The Chinese Red Cross will also send an additional $100.000 to Aceh through the Indonesian Red Cross. The Japanese Government, through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will also send 500 tents to Aceh.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Aftermath
On 15 December 2016, President Joko Widodo revisited Aceh immediately after his visit in Iran. He stated that he would observe the handling of the survivors and the quake victims. The Mayor of Hirogawa in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan; Toshiki Nishioka, sent funds of 1 million yen to the victims of the quake. The funds were retrieved by the Aceh Regional Secretary, Dermawan.


2016 Aceh earthquake, Aftermath
On 16 December 2016, Indonesian President Joko Widodo held another closed meeting with Vice President Jusuf Kalla for the handling of the survivors of the quake.


2016 Acht van Westerveld
The 2016 Acht van Westerveld was the tenth running of the women's Drentse Acht van Westerveld, a women's bicycle race. It was held on 13 March 2016 over a distance of 140.5 kilometres (87.3 miles). It was rated by the UCI as a 1.2 category race.


2016 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships
The 2016 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships was the 25th edition of acrobatic gymnastics competition and were held in Putian, China from April 1 to April 3, 2016.


2016 Ad Dair shooting
On February 11, 2016, a gunman identified as 30-year-old teacher Abdullah Jaber Al-Malki, killed seven people and wounded three others at an education office in Ad Dair, in Saudi Arabia's Jizan Province bordering Yemen. Five of the victims died at the scene while two of the injured later died at the Al-Dair General Hospital.


2016 Adelaide Football Club season
The 2016 AFL season was the 26th season in the Australian Football League contested by the Adelaide Football Club.


2016 Adelaide Football Club season
Following the conclusion of the 2015 season which was marred by the mid-season passing of previous head coach Phil Walsh due to an alleged murder, former assistant coach Don Pyke was named as the club's new head coach for the 2016 season on 9 October 2015. Scott Camporeale had acted as interim head coach between Walsh's death and Pyke's appointment, but after electing not to apply for the full-time coaching role, reverted to his previous role of midfield coach for the new season.


2016 Adelaide Football Club season, Playing list changes
The following summarises all player changes between the conclusion of the 2015 season and the beginning of the 2016 season.


2016 Adelaide Football Club season, Coaching panel changes
The following summarises all coaching changes between the conclusion of the 2015 season and the beginning of the 2016 season.


2016 Adelaide Football Club season, Season summary, Home and away season
Players written in bold received Brownlow Medal votes for their game.


2016 Adelaide Football Club season, Awards, Other Awards
Crows Children's Foundation Community Leadership Award: Kyle Hartigan and Charlie Cameron


2016 Adelaide Football Club season, Individual awards and records, Debuts
1They had previously played for another club but played their first match for Adelaide.


2016 Adelaide Football Club season, Reserves, Regular season
Players written in bold received Magarey Medal votes for their game.


2016 Aden car bombing
At least 27 people were killed in a triple suicide car bomb explosion, that hit roadblocks manned by loyalist forces in Aden, the largest city in southern Yemen, where several jihadist organizations are active. Two car bombs exploded in al-Shaab, west of Aden, and an ambulance exploded near a checkpoint in the center of the city of Mansoura, declared "provisional" capital of Yemen, since its resumption in July 2015 by pro-government forces, after their fight against the Shiite Houthi rebels. The Yemeni branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for the attack.


2016 Adjaran legislative election
The legislative election in Adjara, an autonomous republic within Georgia, was held on 8 October 2016. Adjara elected its 18-member parliament, Supreme Council, in the region's 7th local legislative election since Georgia declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.


2016 Adjaran legislative election, Background
The 21-member Supreme Council of Adjara is elected for a 4-year term. Six of its members are elected through the majoritarian contest in single-mandate constituencies and the remaining 15 seats are filled through the proportional contest from those parties or blocs which clear a 5% threshold.


2016 Adjaran legislative election, Results
The election was held simultaneously with the nationwide parliamentary election on 8 October 2016. The ruling Georgian Dream party received 45.13% of votes in the proportional, party-list contest, followed by the opposition United National Movement party with 29.62%, Nino Burjanadze's Democratic Movement with 5.89%, and the Alliance of Patriots of Georgia with 5.7%, winning respectively eight, five, one and one seat each. A majoritarian election in Adjara's all six single-mandate constituencies went into run-off on 30 October 2016, which were won by the Georgian Dream candidates, securing a 14-seat majority in the Supreme Council of Adjara.


2016 Adriatic Challenger
The 2016 Adriatic Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Fano, Italy from 8 to 14 August 2016.


2016 Adriatic Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2016 Adriatic Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:


2016 Adriatic Challenger – Doubles
Riccardo Ghedin and Alessandro Motti won the title after defeating Lucas Miedler and Mark Vervoort 6–4, 6–4 in the final.


2016 Adriatic Challenger – Singles
João Souza won the title after defeating Nicolás Kicker 6–4, 6–7(12–14), 6–2 in the final.


2016 Adur District Council election
The 2016 Adur District Council elections took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of Adur District Council in West Sussex, England. Half of the council was up for election, and the Conservative Party remained in overall control of the council. The  Labour Party  trebled their number of seats from one to three.


2016 Advantage Cars Prague Open
The 2016 Advantage Cars Prague Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 3rd edition, for men, and 2nd edition, for women, of the tournament and part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2016 ITF Women's Circuit, offering totals of €42,500, for men, and $50,000, for women, in prize money. It took place in Prague, Czech Republic, on 25–31 July 2016.


2016 Advantage Cars Prague Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received a wildcard into the singles main draw:


2016 Advantage Cars Prague Open, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received a wildcard into the singles main draw:


2016 Advantage Cars Prague Open, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry by a lucky loser spot:


2016 Advantage Cars Prague Open – Men's Doubles
Wesley Koolhof and Matwé Middelkoop were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.


2016 Advantage Cars Prague Open – Men's Doubles
Julian Knowle and Igor Zelenay won the title after defeating Facundo Argüello and Julio Peralta 6–4, 7–5 in the final.


2016 Advantage Cars Prague Open – Men's Singles
Rogério Dutra Silva was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2016 Advantage Cars Prague Open – Men's Singles
Santiago Giraldo won the title after defeating Uladzimir Ignatik 6–4, 3–6, 7–6(7–2) in the final.


2016 Advantage Cars Prague Open – Women's Doubles
Kateřina Kramperová and Bernarda Pera were the defending champions, but Pera chose not to participate. Kramperová partnered Amandine Hesse, but they lost in the first round.


2016 Advantage Cars Prague Open – Women's Doubles
Demi Schuurs and Renata Voráčová won the title, defeating Sílvia Soler Espinosa and Sara Sorribes Tormo in the final, 7–5, 3–6, [10–4].


2016 Advantage Cars Prague Open – Women's Singles
María Teresa Torró Flor was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Denisa Allertová.


2016 Advantage Cars Prague Open – Women's Singles
Antonia Lottner won the title, defeating Carina Witthöft in the final, 7–6(8–6), 1–6, 7–5.


2016 Aegon Championships
The 2016 Aegon Championships, also known as the Queen's Club Championships, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 114th edition of those championships and part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2016 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Queen's Club in London, United Kingdom from 13 June until 19 June 2016. First-seeded Andy Murray won the singles tour.


2016 Aegon Championships, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2016 Aegon Championships, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:


2016 Aegon Championships, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2016 Aegon Championships – Doubles
Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut were the defending champions and successfully defended their title, defeating Chris Guccione and André Sá in the final, 6–3, 7–6(7–5).


2016 Aegon Championships – Singles
Andy Murray was the defending champion and successfully defended his title, defeating Milos Raonic in the final, 6–7(5–7), 6–4, 6–3. This was Murray's fifth title at Queen's, an all-time record. This would be the first of two consecutive ATP finals on grass between Murray and Raonic as the two players also met in the final of Wimbledon, just over two weeks later, with Murray again prevailing to win his second Wimbledon (and third Grand Slam) title.


2016 Aegon Classic Birmingham
The 2016 Aegon Classic Birmingham was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 35th edition of the event, and a Premier tournament on the 2016 WTA Tour. It took place at the Edgbaston Priory Club in Birmingham, United Kingdom, on 13–19 June 2016.


2016 Aegon Classic Birmingham, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2016 Aegon Classic Birmingham – Doubles
Garbiñe Muguruza and Carla Suárez Navarro were the defending champions, but they chose not to participate this year.


2016 Aegon Classic Birmingham – Doubles
Karolína Plíšková and Barbora Strýcová won the title, defeating Vania King and Alla Kudryavtseva in the final, 6–3, 7–6(7–1).


2016 Aegon Classic Birmingham – Singles
Angelique Kerber was the defending champion, but she lost to Carla Suárez Navarro in the quarterfinals.


2016 Aegon Classic Birmingham – Singles
Madison Keys won the title, defeating Barbora Strýcová in the final, 6–3, 6–4.


2016 Aegon Eastbourne Trophy
The 2016 Aegon Eastbourne Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the second edition of the tournament and part of the 2016 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money. It took place in Eastbourne, United Kingdom, on 30 May–5 June 2016.


2016 Aegon Eastbourne Trophy, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received a wildcard into the singles main draw:


2016 Aegon Eastbourne Trophy, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry by a lucky loser spot:


2016 Aegon Eastbourne Trophy – Doubles
Shelby Rogers and Coco Vandeweghe were the defending champions, but chose not to participate.


2016 Aegon Eastbourne Trophy – Doubles
Yang Zhaoxuan and Zhang Kailin won the title, defeating Asia Muhammad and Maria Sanchez in the final, 7–6(7–1), 6–1.


2016 Aegon Eastbourne Trophy – Singles
Anett Kontaveit was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.


2016 Aegon Eastbourne Trophy – Singles
Alison Riske won the title, defeating Tara Moore in the final, 4–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–3.


2016 Aegon Ilkley Trophy
The 2016 Aegon Ilkley Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the second edition of the tournament for both men and women. It was part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2016 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total prize money of €42,500 for men and $50,000 for women. It took place in Ilkley, United Kingdom, on 13–19 June 2016.


2016 Aegon Ilkley Trophy, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2016 Aegon Ilkley Trophy, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry as a special exemption into the singles main draw:


2016 Aegon Ilkley Trophy, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received a wildcard into the singles main draw:


2016 Aegon Ilkley Trophy, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry by a lucky loser spot:


2016 Aegon Ilkley Trophy – Men's Doubles
Marcus Daniell and Marcelo Demoliner were the defending champions, but played with different partners. Daniell partnered Dennis Novikov while Demoliner played with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi. Daniell lost in the first round to Johan Brunström and Andreas Siljeström. Demoliner also failed to defend his title, losing in the final to Wesley Koolhof and Matwé Middelkoop 7–6(7–5), 0–6, [10–8].


2016 Aegon Ilkley Trophy – Men's Singles
Denis Kudla was the defending champion, but chose not to defend his title.


2016 Aegon Ilkley Trophy – Men's Singles
Lu Yen-hsun won the title after defeating Vincent Millot 7–6(7–4), 6–2 in the final.


2016 Aegon Ilkley Trophy – Women's Doubles
Raluca Olaru and Xu Yifan were the defending champions, but both players chose not to participate.


2016 Aegon Ilkley Trophy – Women's Doubles
Yang Zhaoxuan and Zhang Kailin won the title, defeating An-Sophie Mestach and Storm Sanders in the final, 6–3, 7–6(7–5).


2016 Aegon Ilkley Trophy – Women's Singles
Anna-Lena Friedsam was the defending champion, but chose to participate in Mallorca instead.


2016 Aegon Ilkley Trophy – Women's Singles
Evgeniya Rodina won the title, defeating Rebecca Šramková in the final, 6–4, 6–4.


2016 Aegon International Eastbourne
The 2016 Aegon International was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 42nd edition of the event, and a WTA Premier tournament on the 2016 WTA Tour. The event took place at the Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club in Eastbourne, United Kingdom from 19 June through 25 June 2016.


2016 Aegon International Eastbourne, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2016 Aegon International Eastbourne – Doubles
Caroline Garcia and Katarina Srebotnik were the defending champions, but Garcia chose not to participate this year. Srebotnik played alongside Andreja Klepač, but lost in the first round to Anna-Lena Grönefeld and Květa Peschke.


2016 Aegon International Eastbourne – Doubles
Darija Jurak and Anastasia Rodionova won the title, defeating Chan Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan in the final, 5–7, 7–6(7–4), [10–6].


2016 Aegon International Eastbourne – Singles
Belinda Bencic was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Elena Vesnina.


2016 Aegon International Eastbourne – Singles
Dominika Cibulková won the title, defeating Karolína Plíšková in the final, 7–5, 6–3.


2016 Aegon International Eastbourne – Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2016 Aegon Manchester Trophy
The 2016 Aegon Manchester Trophy is a professional tennis tournament played on grass courts. It is the 2nd edition of the revived tournament, forming part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour. It will take place in Manchester, United Kingdom between 29 May and 5 June 2016.


2016 Aegon Manchester Trophy, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2016 Aegon Manchester Trophy – Doubles
Chris Guccione and André Sá are the defending champions, but chose not to participate.


2016 Aegon Manchester Trophy – Doubles
Purav Raja and Divij Sharan won the title after defeating Ken Skupski and Neal Skupski 6–3, 3–6, [11–9] in the final.


2016 Aegon Manchester Trophy – Singles
Sam Groth was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Denis Kudla.


2016 Aegon Manchester Trophy – Singles
Dustin Brown won the title after defeating Lu Yen-hsun 7–6(7–5), 6–1 in the final.


2016 Aegon Surbiton Trophy
The 2016 Aegon Surbiton Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the thirteenth edition of the tournament for the men and the fourteenth edition of the tournament for the women. It was part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2016 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total prize money of €42,500 for men and $50,000 for women. It took place in Surbiton, United Kingdom, on 6–12 June 2016.


2016 Aegon Surbiton Trophy, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2016 Aegon Surbiton Trophy, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:


2016 Aegon Surbiton Trophy, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received a wildcard into the singles main draw:


2016 Aegon Surbiton Trophy, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry by a lucky loser spot:


2016 Aegon Surbiton Trophy – Men's Doubles
Ken Skupski and Neal Skupski were the defending champions but failed to defend their title, losing in the finals to Purav Raja and Divij Sharan 6–4, 7–6(7–3).


2016 Aegon Surbiton Trophy – Men's Singles
Matthew Ebden was the defending champion, but chose not to defend his title.


2016 Aegon Surbiton Trophy – Men's Singles
Lu Yen-hsun won the title after defeating Marius Copil 7–5, 7–6(13–11) in the final.


2016 Aegon Surbiton Trophy – Women's Doubles
Lyudmyla Kichenok and Xenia Knoll were the defending champions, but chose not to participate.


2016 Aegon Surbiton Trophy – Women's Doubles
Sanaz Marand and Melanie Oudin won the title, defeating Robin Anderson and Alison Bai in the final, 6–4, 7–5.


2016 Aegon Surbiton Trophy – Women's Singles
Vitalia Diatchenko was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.


2016 Aegon Surbiton Trophy – Women's Singles
Marina Melnikova won the title, defeating Stéphanie Foretz in the final, 6–3, 7–6(8–6).


2016 Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships
The 14th Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships took place in Incheon, South Korea from June 17 to 19, 2016. The 7th World Age Group Competitions were held at the same place between June 13 and 15.


2016 Aesthetic Group Gymnastics World Cup series
The 2016 IFAGG World Cup series in Aesthetic Group Gymnastics is a series of competitions officially organized and promoted by the International Federation of Aesthetic Group Gymnastics.


2016 Afghan Premier League
The 2016 Afghan Premier League is the fifth season of Afghan Premier League, the Afghan league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 2012. De Spin Ghar Bazan F.C. are the defending champions of the Premier League. The season started on 25 August 2016 with the 8 teams again in two groups. Shaheen Asmayee F.C. won the final of the Afghan Premier League against De Maiwand Atalan F.C. and qualified for the 2017 AFC Cup, the first time an Afghan team compete in the AFC Cup.


2016 Afghanistan earthquake
The 2016 Afghanistan earthquake was a magnitude 6.6 earthquake which struck 39 km (24 mi) west-southwest of Ashkasham on April 10, at a depth of 210.4 km (130.7 mi). The shock had a maximum intensity of V (Moderate). The earthquake killed at least 4 people in Pakistan. The tremors shook up Peshawar, Chitral, Swat, Gilgit, Faisalabad and Lahore. The Himalayas region is one of earth's most seismically active regions. The tremors were felt in Delhi, National Capital Region, Kashmir and Uttarakhand. In Delhi, some 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from the epicentre, the Delhi Metro was temporarily halted.


2016 Afghanistan earthquake
So far, 2 aftershocks have been felt, with magnitudes of 4.1 and 4.2. There were additionally at least 10 foreshocks felt, with the largest having a magnitude of 4.5 on April 8, 2016.


2016 Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations
The 2016 Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations, also known as the 2016 CAF Beach Soccer Championship, was a beach soccer tournament which took place in Lagos, Nigeria in December, to determine the best beach soccer nation in Africa and doubles as a qualification event for the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, with the two finalists progressing to the finals in the Bahamas. This was the first time that the tournament is held in Nigeria.


2016 Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations, Qualification
The 2016 Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations qualifying rounds decide the participating teams of the final tournament.


2016 Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations, Qualification
Due to being just 14 teams in qualifying compared to 19 at the previous edition, there was only one round of qualifiers this year where seven teams emerged to join host Nigeria for the final tournament.


2016 Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations, Qualification
Qualification ties are played on a home-and-away, two-legged basis. If the sides are level on aggregate after the second leg, the away goals rule is applied, and if still level, the tie proceeds directly to a penalty shoot-out (no extra time is played).


2016 Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations, Qualification, Matches
The first legs were scheduled for 26–28 August 2016, and the second legs were scheduled for 16–18 September 2016.


2016 Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations, Qualified teams and draw
The draw for the final tournament of the competition took place on 24 September 2016, 16:00 UTC+2, at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four. For the draw, the hosts Nigeria are seeded in position A1 and the defending champions Madagascar were seeded in position B1. The remaining six teams were seeded based on their results in the 2015 CAF Beach Soccer Championship.


2016 Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations, Group stage
Each team earns three points for a win in regulation time, two points for a win in extra time, one point for a win in a penalty shoot-out, and no points for a defeat. The top two teams from each group advance to the semi-finals.


2016 Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations, Placement stage (5th–8th place), Bracket (5th–8th place)
Libya withdrew from the placement stage due to administrative reasons.


2016 Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations, Awards, Individual awards
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.


2016 Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations, Final ranking, Qualified teams for FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
The following two teams from CAF qualified for the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.


2016 Africa Continental Team Badminton Championships
The 2016 Africa Continental Team Badminton Championships were held in Beau-Bassin Rose-Hill, Mauritius, between 15–21 February and were organised by Badminton Confederation of Africa. South Africa was the defending champion. This tournament serves as qualification stage for African countries for the 2016 Thomas & Uber Cup.


2016 Africa Cup
The 2016 Africa Cup was the sixteenth edition of the Africa Cup, an annual international rugby union competition for African nations organised by Rugby Africa.


2016 Africa Cup
The competition was split into four divisions – Division 1A, Division 1B, Division 1C and Division 2, with promotion and relegation between the divisions.


2016 Africa Cup, Division 1A
The 2016 Africa Cup Division 1A was decided on a round-robin format. The matches was played between 2 July and 6 August 2016. The top two teams from 2015, Namibia and Zimbabwe played two home matches each, while Kenya (who finished third in 2015) and Uganda (who were promoted from Division 1B) hosted one match each. The log leader after the round-robin matches was crowned the Division 1A champions, while the team ranked last was relegated to Division 1B for 2017.


2016 Africa Cup, Division 1A, Teams
The following teams took part in the 2016 Africa Cup Division 1A:


2016 Africa Cup, Division 1A, Teams
Uganda were promoted from the 2015 Africa Cup Division 1B.


2016 Africa Cup, Division 1A, Standings
The final log for the 2016 Africa Cup Division 1A were:


2016 Africa Cup, Division 1A, Matches
The following matches were played in the 2016 Africa Cup Division 1A:


2016 Africa Cup, Division 1B
The 2016 Africa Cup Division 1B consisted of two round-robin tournaments, with the winners of each tournament playing each other in the final. The six teams were divided into two pools, with three teams in each pool. The Pool B tournament between Madagascar, Senegal and Zambia was played in Antananarivo, Madagascar between 12 June and 19 June 2016, while the Pool A tournament between Botswana, Ivory Coast and Tunisia was played in Tunis, Tunisia between 26 June and 2 July 2016. The pool winners met in the final on 16 July 2016, with the winner of that match earning promotion to Division 1A. The team ranked last was relegated to Division 1C for 2017.


2016 Africa Cup, Division 1B, Teams
The following teams took part in the 2016 Africa Cup Division 1B:


2016 Africa Cup, Division 1B, Teams
Tunisia were relegated from the 2015 Africa Cup Division 1A, while Zambia were promoted from the 2015 Africa Cup Division 1C.


2016 Africa Cup, Division 1B, Standings
The final log for the 2016 Africa Cup Division 1B were:


2016 Africa Cup, Division 1C
The matches of Division 1C was played between 10 and 16 July 2016 at Stade du C.O.C. in Casablanca, Morocco. Teams from Mauritius, Morocco and Nigeria played in a round robin format. Cameroon was originally scheduled to compete, but withdrew due to internal problems with the union


2016 Africa Cup, Division 1C
This division also doubles as the first qualification phase for the 2019 Rugby World Cup. The winner of 2016 Africa Cup Division 1C will win promotion to the 2017 Africa Cup Division 1B, the second phase of the Rugby World Cup qualification process.


2016 Africa Cup, Division 1C, Teams
The following teams took part in the 2016 Africa Cup Division 1C:


2016 Africa Cup, Division 1C, Teams
Morocco remained in Division 1C despite not playing in the 2015 Africa Cup, while Mauritius were relegated from the 2015 Africa Cup Division 1B.


2016 Africa Cup, Division 2
The 2016 Africa Cup Division 2 was split into two regions. In the East region, Burundi, Lesotho, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda played in a tournament in Kigali, Rwanda between 17 and 20 May 2016. In the West region, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Togo played in a rugby sevens tournament in Lomé, Togo on 27 May 2016.


2016 Africa Cup, Division 2, Teams
The following teams took part in the 2016 Africa Cup Division 2:


2016 Africa Cup, Division 2, Teams
Congo, Lesotho, Malawi and Swaziland were not included in the 2016 Africa Cup.


2016 Africa Cup, Division 2, Matches, East
Lesotho were originally schedule to play in the semi-finals against DR Congo, but travel delays caused them to miss the first round, forfeiting the match.


2016 Africa Cup Sevens
The 2016 RA Africa Cup Sevens is a rugby sevens tournament held in Safaricom Stadium, Nairobi, Kenya on 23–24 September 2016. It was the 4th championship in a series that began in 2013.


2016 Africa Cup Sevens
The top two placed teams (excluding Kenya) will qualify to the 2017 Hong Kong Sevens, where they will have a chance to earn core team status in the Sevens World Series


2016 Africa Cup Sevens, Pool Stage
Teams ranked 1-4 qualify to Cup Semi-finalsTeams ranked 5-8 qualify to Plate semi-finalsTeams ranked 9-12 go into relegation semi-finals


2016 Africa Eco Race
The 2016 Africa Eco Race was the 8th edition of the rally-raid which replaced the Dakar Rally after its departure to South-America.


2016 Africa Eco Race
Paul Ullevalseter (with KTM, won 9 of the 11 contested stages) and Anton Shibalov (with Kamaz, won 7 of the 12 stages), like in 2015, dominated completely the race in bikes and trucks categories, while Kanat Shagirov took the race lead yet in Morocco and keep it to the end.


2016 Africa Eco Race, Summary, Bikes
The race was marked by high hardness on the stages of the great soft dunes in Mauritania which caused major changes in the overall classification, particularly in stages 9 and 10. As in 2015, Pål Ullevalseter completely dominated the race, finishing with a lead over 6  hours, being followed by the amazing Andrew Newland, a civil-contraceur. Anastasiya Nifontova has always been in the podium places until she had an accident in stage 9. The Portuguese Jose Fernando Moreira de Sousa (father) and José Fernando de Jesus Sousa Jr. (son) worked as a team and achieved five podiums and finished 7th and 8th respectively .


2016 Africa Eco Race, Summary, Cars
The Kazakh driver Sazonov dominated the start of the competition with his Hummer until he had an accident during 4th stage, giving way to his compatriot Shagirov in Toyota Hilux Overdrive, which managed to keep the lead until the end, despite the attacks of buggys, more effective in the dunes which ended in the following positions. The last year's winner Jean Antoine Sabatier was only 4th place. Sazonov was 7 between the cars and the 2nd best 4WD. Ricardo Leal dos Santos started the race with a 3rd place, but soon had mechanical problems finishing only 12th in cars, 3rd among the 4WD.


2016 Africa Eco Race, Summary, Trucks
In trucks category, complete domination by Kamaz and defending champion Anton Shibalov, only interrupted by Tomas Tomecek in stages 9 and 10 (when  Kamaz faced problems), despite the problems he had in the 4th stage (2 flat tyres and broken shock-absorber) and early loss of his assistance truck due to mechanical issues. A breakdown in the 2nd Kamaz of Kuprianov would put him out of the podium completed by Elisabete Jacinto making of regularity her main weapon.


2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations
The 2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations was the 5th edition of the Africa Futsal Cup of Nations, the quadrennial international futsal championship organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for the men's national teams of Africa. The tournament was held in South Africa between 15–24 April 2016. A total of eight teams played in the tournament.


2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations
Same as previous editions, the tournament acted as the CAF qualifiers for the FIFA Futsal World Cup (except for 2012 when a separate qualifying tournament was organized as the 2011 African Futsal Championship was cancelled). The top three teams of the tournament qualified for the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup in Colombia as the CAF representatives.


2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations
On 6 August 2015, the CAF Executive Committee decided to change the name of the tournament from the African Futsal Championship to the Africa Futsal Cup of Nations, similar to the football version, Africa Cup of Nations.


2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations
Champions Morocco, runners-up Egypt and third-placed Mozambique qualified for the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup as the CAF representatives.


2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations, Qualification
South Africa qualified automatically as hosts, and Egypt also qualified automatically as the highest-placed African team in the 2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup, while the remaining six spots were determined by the qualifying rounds, which took take place in December 2015.


2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations, Venues
The matches were played at the Ellis Park Arena and the Wembley Indoor Stadium in Johannesburg.


2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations, Group stage
The draw for the final tournament of the competition took place on 17 February 2016, 11:00 UTC+2, at the Southern Sun Hotel OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four. For the draw, the hosts South Africa were seeded in position A1 and Egypt were seeded in position B1. The remaining six teams were drawn from one pot to fill the other positions in the two groups.


2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations, Group stage
The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals.


2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations, Group stage
The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order:


2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations, Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, extra time would be played (two periods of 5 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by kicks from the penalty mark to determine the winner, except for the third place match where no extra time would be played.


2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations, Tournament ranking
The three best ranked teams qualified for the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup.


2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations, Tournament ranking, Qualified teams for FIFA Futsal World Cup
The following three teams from CAF qualified for the FIFA Futsal World Cup.


2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations qualification
The 2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations qualification was a men's futsal competition which decided the participating teams of the 2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations.


2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations qualification
A total of eight teams qualified to play in the final tournament, including South Africa who qualified automatically as hosts, and Egypt who qualified automatically as the highest-placed African team in the 2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup.


2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations qualification, Format
Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the away goals rule would be applied, and if still level, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (no extra time would be played).


2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations qualification, Format
The six winners of the preliminary round qualified for the final tournament.


2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations qualification, Goalscorers
There were 48 goals scored in 6 matches, for an average of 8 goals per match.


2016 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards
The 2016 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCA) was held on March 5, 2016 at the Eko Hotels and Suites in Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. It was hosted by Ikponmwosa Osakioduwa and Minnie Dlamini.


2016 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards
Nominees were revealed on December 11, 2015 by Kenyan journalist Larry Madowo and Nigerian comedian Chigurl.


2016 Africa T20 Cup
The 2016 Africa T20 Cup was the second edition of the Africa T20 Cup, a Twenty20 cricket tournament that was held in South Africa from 2 September to 1 October 2016, as a curtain-raiser to the 2016–17 South African domestic season. Organised by Cricket South Africa, it featured thirteen South African provincial teams, as well as the national sides of Kenya, Namibia and Zimbabwe.


2016 Africa T20 Cup
The sixteen participating teams were split into four pools of four, with the teams from each pool playing all of their matches at one ground across a single weekend. Defending champions Northerns were drawn in Pool B.


2016 Africa T20 Cup
In Pool C four of the six matches were abandoned due to rain. Under the rules of the tournament, all the matches in that group were declared null and void. An elimination draw was then conducted with the captains of each team in the group, with Zimbabwe progressing to the finals section of the cup.


2016 Africa T20 Cup
The Recreation Ground in Oudtshoorn was chosen at the venue for the semi-finals and final.


2016 Africa T20 Cup
Eastern Province won the tournament, beating Northern Cape by 31 runs in the final.


2016 Africa T20 Cup, Pool C, Points table
With four of the games being abandoned, an elimination draw was done with Zimbabwe progressing to the finals stage.


2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations
The 2016 Women Africa Cup of Nations was the 12th edition of the Africa Women Cup of Nations, the biennial international football championship organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for the women's national teams of Africa. The tournament was held in Cameroon between 19 November and 3 December 2016. The initial dates were 8–22 October 2016, but were changed due to weather considerations. A total of eight teams played in the tournament.


2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations
On 6 August 2015, the CAF Executive Committee decided to change the name of the tournament from the African Women's Championship to the Africa Women Cup of Nations, similar to the men's version, Africa Cup of Nations.


2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations, Qualification
Cameroon qualified automatically as hosts, while the remaining seven spots were determined by the qualifying rounds, which took place from March to April 2016.


2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations, Qualification, Qualified teams
The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament. Mali replaced Equatorial Guinea after they were disqualified for fielding an ineligible player.


2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations, Draw
The draw for the final tournament of the competition took place on 18 September 2016, 16:00 UTC+1, at the Palais Polyvalent des Sports in Yaoundé. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four. For the draw, the hosts Cameroon were seeded in position A1 and the defending champions Nigeria were seeded in position B1. The remaining six teams were seeded based on their results in the three most recent final tournaments.


2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations, Group stage
The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals.


2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations, Group stage
The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:


2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations, Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time is played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by kicks from the penalty mark to determine the winner, except for the third place match where no extra time is played.


2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations, Awards
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:


2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
The 2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification was a women's football competition which decided the participating teams of the 2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations.


2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
A total of eight teams qualified to play in the final tournament, including Cameroon who qualified automatically as hosts.


2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification, Teams
A total of 23 CAF member national teams entered the qualifying rounds.


2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification, Teams
1 Initially Togo entered the qualification but withdrew and were replaced by Ethiopia. Togo were sanctioned by the CAF and excluded from participating in the 2018 tournament.


2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification, Format
Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the away goals rule would be applied, and if still level, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (no extra time would be played).


2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification, Format
The seven winners of the second round qualified for the final tournament.


2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification, Schedule
The second round was initially scheduled to be played on 8–10 April (first leg) and 22–24 April (second leg), but was later changed to be played during the FIFA International Match Calendar dates of 4–12 April.


2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification, Second round
Equatorial Guinea won 3–2 on aggregate. Mali were awarded the tie after Equatorial Guinea were disqualified for fielding an ineligible player.


2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification, Goalscorers
* includes a goal scored at Egypt vs. Libya match, which has no goal scorers references.


2016 African & Oceania Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament
The 2016 Olympic Wrestling African & Oceania Qualification Tournament was the third regional qualifying tournament for the 2016 Olympics.


2016 African & Oceania Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament
The top two wrestlers in each weight class earn a qualification spot for their nation.


2016 African Archery Championships
The 2016 African Archery Championships was the 11th edition of the African Archery Championships. The event was held in Windhoek, the capital city of Namibia from 28 January to 31 January 2016.


2016 African Archery Championships
The men's and women's individual recurve tournaments also served as continental qualifying tournaments for the 2016 Summer Olympics. 3 individual qualifying spots for each gender were available.


2016 African Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament
The 2016 African Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament for the boxing tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was held in Yaoundé, Cameroon from March 11 to March 19, 2016.


2016 African Championships in Athletics
The 20th African Championships in Athletics was held in Durban, South Africa from 22 to 26 June 2016. It was the second time that Durban and South Africa hosted this competition. 720 athletes from 43 African national federations participated.


2016 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres
The men's 10,000 metres event at the 2016 African Championships in Athletics was held on 22 June in Kings Park Stadium.


2016 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres
The men's 100 metres event at the 2016 African Championships in Athletics was held on 22 and 23 June in Kings Park Stadium.


2016 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


2016 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres, Results, Heats
Wind:Heat 1: +0.8 m/s, Heat 2: +2.0 m/s, Heat 3: +0.5 m/s, Heat 4: +2.3 m/s, Heat 5: +1.5 m/s, Heat 6: +1.6 m/s


2016 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


2016 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres, Results, Semifinals
Wind:Heat 1: +1.3 m/s, Heat 2: +0.6 m/s, Heat 3: +2.1 m/s