2016 GEICO 500, Race, First half, Second quarter
During that wreck, Chris Buescher flipped multiple times, causing the car to land back on all fours. Michael Annett, Jimmie Johnson, Carl Edwards, and Austin Dillon were also involved. Buescher said afterwards that the wreck "was so quick I never had any time to react. We got clipped in the right rear and as soon as it turned it went up on its lid. I thought we were clear of the wreck. I saw it happening in front of us and checked up and the next thing I knew I was upside down. I am pretty sick and tired of speedway racing at this point. It has been a rough year for that. We felt we were decent this race. We were holding our own and waiting but here we are. It is unfortunate. I really hate it for the guys.”


2016 GEICO 500, Race, Second half, Halfway
The race restarted on lap 103. Kevin Harvick took over the lead on lap 101. Elliott took the lead on lap 104. Harvick took back the lead on lap 108. Trevor Bayne took the race lead on lap 110. The fourth caution of the race flew with 79 laps to go for a multi-car wreck in turn 1, involving Earnhardt Jr. and Carl Edwards after he suffered a right-front tire blowout and slammed the wall collecting Earnhardt.


2016 GEICO 500, Race, Second half, Halfway
Edwards said afterwards that something on his car "just let go there and you hate to collect anybody, so definitely sorry to the 88 guys for getting their car involved in that. We had something torn up there, drove down into turn one, and I just felt the right front fall down and that was it. You’re kind of just along for the ride.” Earnhardt would go on to finish 40th.


2016 GEICO 500, Race, Second half, Halfway
The race restarted with 73 laps to go. Harvick beat Bayne to the line to take the lead with 72 laps to go. Bayne worked his way back to the lead on the bottom with 70 laps to go. Harvick retook it with 69 to go. Bayne took back the lead with 65 laps to go. The fifth caution of the race flew with 62 laps to go for a single-car spin in turn 4 involving Kahne.


2016 GEICO 500, Race, Second half, Halfway
The race restarted with 55 laps to go. Kyle Larson used the middle line to take the lead with 51 laps to go. Bayne retook it with 49 laps to go. Larson pulled ahead of Bayne the next lap. Kenseth pulled ahead to the lead with 43 laps to go. The sixth caution of the race flew with 35 laps to go after David Ragan blew an engine in turn 2.


2016 GEICO 500, Race, Second half, Fourth quarter
The race restarted with 33 laps to go. Bayne retook the lead with 32 laps to go. Keselowski retook the lead with 31 laps to go. The seventh caution of the race flew with 26 laps to go for a multi-car wreck in turn 1 that collected 21 cars.


2016 GEICO 500, Race, Second half, Fourth quarter
The race restarted with 22 laps to go. Logano took the lead with 20 to go. Debris in turn 2 brought out the eighth caution of the race with 19 laps to go.


2016 GEICO 500, Race, Second half, Fourth quarter
The race restarted with 17 laps to go. Keselowski retook the lead with 16 laps to go. The ninth caution of the race flew with six laps to go for a multi-car wreck on the backstretch that collected 12 cars. Danica Patrick, who slammed the wall head-on at a high speed, said she "would say that's probably the most scared (I've been), trying to hop out of a car with the fire on the inside. I haven't had fire on the inside before. I've seen it on the outside. Honestly, I was thinking about my hair.


2016 GEICO 500, Race, Second half, Fourth quarter
I've got a lot of hair and I don't want to lose it. I've had a couple of practice rounds now of getting out of the car as quickly as possible, but that was the worst one so far. At Daytona a couple of years ago on the front straight without a SAFER barrier was probably one of the hardest impacts, but this one was probably worse."


2016 GEICO 500, Race, Second half, Fourth quarter
Kenseth, whose car blew over and slid down the backstretch, said that Logano "ran me off the race track and that got me way behind so I thought we were done with that, but maybe we aren't. So he ran me off the track and honestly I was just going straight here and just got ran into and then I was just hanging on."


2016 GEICO 500, Race, Second half, Fourth quarter
The race restarted with four laps to go and Keselowski scored the victory as the field wrecked behind him in the tri-oval. Involving Kevin Harvick  who nearly flipped, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. , A. J. Allmendinger, and Martin Truex and Cole Whitt.


2016 GEICO 500, Media, Television
Fox Sports covered their 16th race at the Talladega Superspeedway. Mike Joy, six-time Talladega winner – and all-time restrictor plate race winner – Jeff Gordon and four-time Talladega winner Darrell Waltrip had the call in the booth for the race. Jamie Little, Chris Neville, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum handled the action on pit road for the television side.


2016 GEICO 500, Media, Radio
MRN had the radio call for the race which was also simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Joe Moore, Jeff Striegle and Rusty Wallace called the race in the booth when the field raced through the tri-oval. Dave Moody called the race from the Sunoco spotters stand outside turn 2 when the field raced through turns 1 and 2. Mike Bagley called the race from a platform inside the backstretch when the field raced down the backstretch. Kyle Rickey called the race from the Sunoco spotters stand outside turn 4 when the field raced through turns 3 and 4. Alex Hayden, Winston Kelley and Steve Post worked pit road for the radio side.


2016 GFA Premier Division
The 2016 GFA Premier Division was the 33rd season of top-division football in Grenada. The regular season competition began on 10 June 2016 and concluded on 23 October 2016.


2016 GFA Premier Division
The playoffs were scheduled to begin in December 2016, with the first legs of the semifinals being held on 11 December 2016 and the second legs on 14 December 2016. The final and consolation matches were scheduled for 18 December 2016, but were not played. This was due to a double forfeit between Mount Rich and Paradise FC International as both their games were unplayed. By default, Hard Rock won the league title after beating St. John's Sports 4–0 on aggregate in their semifinal series. St. John's was the default runner-up.


2016 GFA Premier Division
Both St. John's and Hard Rock earned berths into the 2017 CFU Club Championship, but ended up not participating in the competition.


2016 GFA Premier Division, Teams
A total of 10 teams are taking part in the league. New Hampshire United and GBSS were relegated to the GFA First Division. The two clubs that replaced them were Mount Rich and Gouyave. Mount Rich is returned to the top flight for the first time since 2014, while Gouyave was making their inaugural campaign in the top division.


2016 GFA Premier Division, Post-season, Relegation Playoff
The 7th and 8th placed 2016 GFA Premier Division teams, Chantimelle and Fontenoy United, respectively played in a two-leg aggregate series against the third and fourth-place finishers of the 2016 GFA First Division, Eagles Super Strikers and North Stars, respectively.


2016 GFA Premier Division, Post-season, Relegation Playoff, Results
Eagles Super Strikers won 2–1 on aggregate and were promoted to the GFA Premier Division.


2016 GFA Premier Division, Post-season, Relegation Playoff, Results
Chantimelle won 9–1 on aggregate and remained in the GFA Premier Division.


2016 GP Miguel Induráin
The 2016 GP Miguel Induráin was the 63rd edition of the GP Miguel Induráin cycle race and was held on 2 April 2016. The race started and finished in Estella. The race was won by Ion Izagirre.


2016 GP2 Series
The 2016 GP2 Series season was the fiftieth season of the second-tier of Formula One feeder championship and also twelfth and final season under the GP2 Series moniker, a motor racing feeder series that was run in support of the 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship. It was the final season run under the "GP2 Series" name, with the championship being rebranded as the FIA Formula 2 Championship from 2017.


2016 GP2 Series
It was also originally scheduled to be the final season for the Dallara GP2/11 chassis that was introduced in 2011 and the Mecachrome 4.0 litre V8 normally-aspirated engine package that débuted in the maiden season of the series in 2005 before a brand new chassis and engine package was introduced for 2017, however due to another cost-cutting, the series announced it would keep the current chassis and engine package for one more season.


2016 GP2 Series
ART Grand Prix started the season as the defending teams' champions after securing the title–their fourth in the championship–at the series' second visit to the Bahrain International Circuit in 2015. Prema Racing won the Teams' championship, their first in the series and first attempt, while Pierre Gasly won the Drivers' championship.


2016 GP2 Series
Pierre Gasly took 4 race wins and the Championship. The most races were won by Gasly’s teammate Antonio Giovinazzi, who took 5 victories, Sergey Sirotkin took victories at Mogyoród in the sprint race, and in Hockenheim - he took pole position and won the race. Alex Lynn got 3 sprint races wins, Racing Engineering drivers Jordan King and Norman Nato took 2 race wins each, and Luca Ghiotto, Artem Markelov, Mitch Evans and Nobuharu Matsushita each got 1 race win.


2016 GP2 Series, Calendar
On 4 March 2016, the full calendar was revealed with eleven rounds taking place.


2016 GP2 Series, Results and standings, Scoring system
Points were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers in the Feature race, and to the top 8 classified finishers in the Sprint race. The pole-sitter in the feature race also received four points, and two points were given to the driver who set the fastest lap inside the top ten in both the feature and sprint races. No extra points were awarded to the pole-sitter in the sprint race.


2016 GP3 Series
The 2016 GP3 Series was the seventh season of the third-tier of Formula One feeder championship and also seventh season under the moniker of GP3 Series, a motor racing feeder series that runs in support of the 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship and sister series GP2. In keeping with the series' philosophy of updating its technical regulations every three years, the Dallara GP3/13 chassis introduced in the 2013 season was discontinued and Dallara supplied all teams with a new model known as the GP3/16, which will be used until 2018.


2016 GP3 Series
Mecachrome took over as official engine supplier of the series from 2016 onwards, replacing AER after three years but the 3.4-litre V6 naturally-aspirated would remain.


2016 GP3 Series
ART Grand Prix started the season as the defending teams' champions, and successfully defended their title, securing the championship after the first race at Monza. Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc, who drove for ART Grand Prix, won the drivers' title after the first race in the final round in Abu Dhabi.


2016 GP3 Series
The most races were won by runner-up Alexander Albon, who scored 4 race wins, he lost the title by 25 points to his ART Grand Prix teammate Charles Leclerc who took 3 feature race wins; Antonio Fuoco took 2 race wins, Jake Dennis and Nyck de Vries also took 2 podiums each on the top step. Jake Hughes took 2 sprint race wins; he won in Hockenheim and Yas Marina. Jack Aitken, Matthew Parry, and Ralph Boschung each took 1 race win during the season.


2016 GP3 Series, Teams and drivers
Teams are allowed to run four cars to compensate for the drop in the number of entries. The starting grid for any individual race meeting may contain a possible maximum of 28 cars across seven teams.


2016 GP3 Series, Calendar
On 4 March 2016, the full calendar was revealed with nine rounds taking place.


2016 GP3 Series, Championship standings, Scoring system
Points were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers in the race 1, and to the top 8 classified finishers in the race 2. The pole-sitter in the race 1 also received four points, and two points were given to the driver who set the fastest lap inside the top ten in both the race 1 and race 2. No extra points were awarded to the pole-sitter in the race 2.


2016 GP3 Series, Championship standings, Teams' championship
Only three best-finishing cars are allowed to score points in the championship.


2016 GPL Spring
The 2016 GPL Spring was the ninth edition of the Garena Premier League, a Riot Games-organised tournament for League of Legends, the multiplayer online battle arena video game. The 2016 GPL Spring  is a fully professional League of Legends league over all of the Southeast Asia region, with 6 teams from 6 countries/areas to determine which team is the best in the region, and  is the qualification tournament for Southeast Asian teams to play at the 2016 International Wildcard Invitational.


2016 GPL Spring, Results, Group Stage
Double Round Robin. Top 4 teams advance to Bracket Stage.


2016 GSOC Tour Challenge
The 2016 GSOC Tour Challenge was held from November 8 to 13 at the Western Financial Place and the Cranbrook Memorial Arena in Cranbrook, British Columbia. This was the second Grand Slam of the 2016–17 curling season.


2016 GSOC Tour Challenge
The men's tier 1 final was the first ever men's Grand Slam final to feature two non-Canadian teams, as Sweden's Niklas Edin rink defeated Scotland's Kyle Smith team. Val Sweeting defeated Michelle Englot in the women's tier 1 final to win her second grand slam event.


2016 GSOC Tour Challenge
The tier 2 winners Greg Balsdon and Jacqueline Harrison qualified for the 2017 Meridian Canadian Open later in the season.


2016 GT Asia Series
The 2016 GT Asia Series was the seventh season of the GT Asia Series championship. It began on 14 May at the Korea International Circuit and ended at Shanghai International Circuit on 19-20 October, 2016 after 12 championship rounds.


2016 GT Asia Series, Race calendar and results
The full calendar for the 2016 season was released on 12 January 2016. The series will consist of 12 championship rounds held in pairs on six circuits across Korea, Thailand, Japan and China. The 3-hour race at Sepang International Circuit will be discontinued after teams voted against it. Also, the non-championship round at the Circuito da Guia in Macau does not feature in the calendar, now the main event of the FIA GT World Cup. The championship would have concluded at the new Zhejiang International Circuit, but delays in the final stages of construction had seen Motorsport Asia Limited make alternate plans. On September 9, it was decided to return to Shanghai for the last two rounds, both run on Thursday 20 October.


2016 GT3 Le Mans Cup
The 2016 Michelin GT3 Le Mans Cup was the inaugural season of the GT3 Le Mans Cup. It begun on 15 May at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari and finished on 23 October at the Autódromo do Estoril.


2016 GT3 Le Mans Cup, Calendar
The provisional 2016 calendar was announced at 16 December 2015. All rounds supported the European Le Mans Series (excepting Silverstone) and 24 Hours of Le Mans.


2016 GT4 European Series
The 2016 Competition102 GT4 European Series was the ninth season of the GT4 European Series, a sports car championship created and organised by the Stéphane Ratel Organisation (SRO). The season began on 23 April at Autodromo Nazionale Monza and finished on 9 October at Circuit Park Zandvoort after six race weekends.


2016 GT4 European Series, Calendar
On 21 January 2016, the series announced the 2016 calendar.


2016 GT4 European Series, Entry list
For the rounds held in conjunction with British GT, GT4 European Series contenders entered with their usual car numbers, but with 100 added up to it.


2016 GT4 European Series, Championship standings
Points were awarded based on finishing positions as shown in the chart below. Entries were required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points.


2016 Gabonese presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Gabon on 27 August 2016. Incumbent President Ali Bongo Ondimba ran for re-election and was challenged by former Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean Ping. On 31 August, the electoral commission proclaimed Bongo's re-election with a margin of less than two percent. Large protests broke out in the capital Libreville after the results were announced. Numerous irregularities and the official results from Haut-Ogooue (the Bongo family's native province) showing that 99.9% of the electorate had voted and Bongo had received 95.5% of the votes led observers to question the impartiality of the electoral commission.


2016 Gabonese presidential election, Electoral system
The President of Gabon is elected for a seven-year term in a single round of voting by plurality; whichever candidate places first is deemed elected, regardless of whether the candidate secured an absolute majority of votes. This system is thought to be a disadvantage to the fractious opposition, which would appear to have little chance of winning unless it unites behind a single candidate.


2016 Gabonese presidential election, Candidates
Nineteen prospective candidates submitted applications to stand, and the Autonomous and Permanent National Electoral Commission (CENAP) announced on 15 July 2016 that fourteen of them had been deemed eligible. President Ali Bongo Ondimba announced in Port-Gentil on 29 February 2016 that he would stand for re-election. CENAP approved the candidacy of President Bongo despite a long-standing controversy about his eligibility; his opponents claimed that he was not Gabonese by birth and was an adopted rather than biological son of Omar Bongo. Due to the presence of representatives of the opposition, there was no consensus regarding Bongo's candidacy, and it was therefore approved by majority vote.


2016 Gabonese presidential election, Candidates
Jean Ping, a prominent diplomat standing as the candidate of the Union of the Forces of Change, and viewed by some as Bongo's most serious challenger, was also approved to stand. The other candidates to be approved were Casimir Oye Mba of the National Union, Paul Mba Abessole of the Rally for Gabon, Pierre Claver Maganga Moussavou of the Social Democratic Party, Augustin Moussavou King of the Gabonese Socialist Party, and several independent candidates: Guy Nzouba Ndama, Raymond Ndong Sima, Bruno Ben Moubamba, Laurent Désiré Aba'a Minko, Gérard Ella Nguema, Abel Mbombe Nzoudou, Dieudonné Minlama Mintogo, and Léon Paul Ngoulakia.


2016 Gabonese presidential election, Campaign
The official campaign period began on 13 August 2016. Speaking at a campaign rally, Bongo dismissed the controversy about his parentage, noting that "the burden of proof rests on the one who makes the accusation" and arguing that the opposition was focusing on the issue "because they don't have a good program". In an interview he criticized the opposition's focus on "ridiculous things" rather than his record as President over the previous seven years. While campaigning, he spoke about fighting corruption and highlighted his record of infrastructure development. His campaign slogan was "Let's change together".


2016 Gabonese presidential election, Campaign
Eventually, in mid-August, key opposition candidates decided to unite behind Jean Ping in order to improve the opposition's chances of defeating Bongo, as holding the vote in a single round would presumably work heavily to Bongo's advantage as long as the opposition remained fragmented. Guy Nzouba Ndama, Casimir Oye Mba, Léon Paul Ngoulakia, and Aba'a Minko withdrew their candidacies to support Ping. The government criticized the move to rally behind Ping as "horse trading whose only aim is to share out privilege and power".


2016 Gabonese presidential election, Campaign
As the main opposition leaders had served prominently under Omar Bongo (and then gone into opposition after his death), Ping was characterized as the candidate of "the old guard of Bongo senior's cronies". Having already been abandoned by many of Omar Bongo's top associates in 2009, Bongo was undermined in subsequent years by the continuing defection of prominent politicians from the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party, such as Guy Nzouba Ndama and Léon Paul Ngoulakia. A weakening economy due to the decline in oil prices was thought to have contributed to dissatisfaction with the government and was considered a factor that could improve the opposition's chances.


2016 Gabonese presidential election, Official results
The election was held on 27 August 2016. On the day after the elections, Ping declared victory and said that he was "waiting for the outgoing president to call to congratulate me", although no results had been officially announced. Only the electoral commission was legally permitted to announce results, and the Minister of the Interior, Pacôme Moubelet-Boubeya, accused Ping of "attempt[ing] to manipulate the democratic process", while Bongo said that "you must not sell the skin of the bear before you've killed him". Nevertheless, Bongo's spokesman, Alain Claude Bilie By Nzé, asserted that Bongo was ahead and would be re-elected. Official results were scheduled to be announced on 30 August, but on that date it was stated that the announcement would be delayed by a few hours.


2016 Gabonese presidential election, Official results
Results were finally announced on 31 August, showing a narrow victory for Bongo, who won 49.8% of the vote against 48.2% for Ping. Turnout was placed at 59.5%. The opposition's representatives on the electoral commission refused to confirm the results, and they were therefore confirmed by a vote in which the opposition members abstained. Ping's supporters maintained that the mostly complete results they had independently collected showed their candidate beating Bongo by a large margin, 59% to 38%. Notably, the official results from Haut-Ogooue (the Bongo family's native province) showed Bongo receiving 95.5% of the vote on an alleged 99.9% turnout, an impossible result sparking widespread protests. Bongo, noting that the vote was close, stressed the importance of peacefully respecting this outcome.


2016 Gabonese presidential election, Aftermath
Following the announcement of official results, protests broke out in Libreville on 31 August, with attempts made to storm the election commission's offices. Police were out in force and tried to disperse the protesters. The Parliament building was set on fire later in the day. The following day, Ping claimed that the presidential guard had bombed his party's headquarters, killing two people. By 2 September at least five people had been killed in the capital and 1,000 more has been arrested. The United Nations expressed "deep concern" about the violence. Along with France and the United States, it called for de-escalation on both sides of the dispute and pressed for more transparent detail on the vote outcome.


2016 Gabonese presidential election, Aftermath
Although he had previously criticized the Constitutional Court for allegedly favoring the government, Ping appealed the results to the Court on 8 September, hoping to force a recount in Haut-Ogooue Province. Ping warned on 9 September that if the Court did not rule in favor of a recount, "profound and sustained instability" could follow.


2016 Gabonese presidential election, Aftermath
The Constitutional Court announced its ruling—anxiously awaited by a public mindful of the prospect of further violence—at around midnight on the night of 23–24 September, upholding Bongo's victory. The Court annulled votes cast at 21 Libreville polling stations, while lowering Bongo's disputed score in Haut-Ogooue to 83.2% (on a 98% turnout). In the modified final results, Bongo's overall score increased slightly to 50.66%. The Court noted that it was impossible to physically recount the individual votes because they had already been destroyed. It also dismissed a request for Ping to be barred from running for President for 10 years for allegedly inciting his supporters to violence in the wake of the announcement of results.


2016 Gabonese presidential election, Aftermath
Bongo promptly called for the opposition to participate in a dialogue. Anticipating possible violence, security forces were deployed to key points around Libreville, but the city reportedly remained calm on 24 September. On the same day, Ping branded the Court's ruling as "unjust" and vowed that "we will ensure the choice of the Gabonese people is respected." Meanwhile, Bongo said in an interview that he hoped to form an inclusive government that could include opposition leaders. He also said that the involvement of the international community in mediating the dispute was not necessary: "Among Gabonese, we know how to talk to each other."


2016 Gabonese presidential election, Aftermath
Bongo was sworn in for another term as President on 27 September 2016. He appointed Emmanuel Issoze Ngondet, a diplomat who previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, as Prime Minister on 28 September. Ping said on 29 September that he would hold an "inclusive national dialogue ... to put in place the foundations of a new republic" and called for international sanctions to be imposed on those responsible for allegedly rigging the election.


2016 Gabonese presidential election, Aftermath
A new government headed by Issoze Ngondet was appointed on 2 October 2016. Despite Bongo's earlier statements about forming an inclusive government, representatives of the opposition were largely absent; although Bruno Ben Moubamba, who placed a distant third in the election, was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister, no one associated with Jean Ping was included in the 40-member government. Ping's supporters ridiculed the claims that the government would be "inclusive", while observers noted the lack of any meaningful opposition participation.


2016 Gabonese protests
After the 27 August 2016 presidential election in Gabon, in which President Ali Bongo Ondimba was narrowly re-elected against opposition candidate Jean Ping, armed clashes between supporters of Ping, who claimed victory, and police erupted, resulting in the authorities blocking the internet in Libreville.


2016 Gabonese protests, Events
Violence broke out in at least nine of Libreville's neighborhoods when official results were announced on 31 August 2016, showing a narrow victory for President Bongo, and protesters set the national parliament building ablaze. Rioting and violence continued on 1 September. Ping's headquarters were surrounded and bombed by a presidential guard helicopter, killing two people. Gunfire and explosions were heard in the neighborhood of Nkembo. According to a local resident, government forces attacked an opposition radio and television station. Some looting was reported. Around 1,100 people were said to have been arrested as security forces fought to suppress the riots.


2016 Gabonese protests, Events
Pacome Moubelet Boubeya, the Minister of the Interior, condemned the violence and accused Ping and other opposition leaders of orchestrating it; he also claimed that the rioters were armed with AK-47s and grenades, although the opposition denied that. President Bongo labelled the opposition leaders as "a small group whose only aim is to take power for themselves."


2016 Gabonese protests, Events
On 31 August, the major telecom companies in Gabon cut off Internet access.


2016 Gabonese protests, Events
Also on 1 September, Jean Ping again claimed to have won the election and declared that "the only solution is that Bongo recognizes defeat". He said that he would not bother appealing to the Constitutional Court because it was "a tool of the governing authority" that merely followed orders; instead, he appealed to the international community to intervene in the face of the government crackdown. Dismissing calls to publish the results for each individual polling station, the government said that could only be done if the opposition followed the legal process and appealed to the Constitutional Court.


2016 Gabonese protests, Events
By 2 September life in Libreville appeared to be beginning to return to normal, although there was a heavy presence of security forces maintaining order. Meanwhile, Ping held a press conference and declared himself to be President. He called for a general strike to begin on 5 September: "I ask you from today onward not to use violence but to resist by blocking the country's economy". Nevertheless, business in Libreville was reported to be proceeding relatively normally. Internet access was restored though sources claim it is barely stable and hardly operates. Also on 5 September, Séraphin Moundounga, the Second Deputy Prime Minister for Justice, resigned to protest the government's unwillingness to conduct a recount, which he argued was leading to violence.


2016 Gabonese protests, Events
Despite his previous criticism of the Constitutional Court, Ping appealed the results to the Court on 8 September, hoping to force a recount in Haut-Ogooue Province. Ping warned on 9 September that if the Court did not rule in favor of a recount, "profound and sustained instability" could follow.


2016 Gabonese protests, Events
Following the election, the government planned to hold an "inclusive political dialogue" to help resolve the ongoing discord. While about 50 political parties and 1,200 organizations were expected to attend the dialogue, Jean Ping and his supporters, gathered together in the Coalition for the New Republic, refused to participate. The dialogue was scheduled to begin on 28 March 2017.


2016 Gagarin Cup playoffs
The 2016 Gagarin Cup playoffs of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) began on February 21, 2016, with the top eight teams from each of the conferences, following the conclusion of the 2015–16 KHL regular season.


2016 Gagarin Cup playoffs, Playoff seeds
After the regular season, the standard 16 teams qualified for the playoffs. The Western Conference regular season winners and Continental Cup winners are CSKA Moscow with 127 points. Avangard Omsk are the Eastern Conference regular season winners with 106 points.


2016 Gagarin Cup playoffs, Draw
The playoffs started on February 21, 2016, with the top eight teams from each of the conferences and ended with the last game of the Gagarin Cup final on April 19, 2016.


2016 Gagarin Cup playoffs, Sibir vs Metallurg Game 4 controversy
In the fourth game of Sibir — Metallurg series, on 37th minute a scored goal was confirmed after the episode when a player of Sibir, while leaving the ice during substitution, made physical contact with a player of Metallurg when the substituting player of Sibir was already on the ice (violation of clause (b) of rule 411 of the Hockey Game Rules for 2015/2016).


2016 Gagarin Cup playoffs, Sibir vs Metallurg Game 4 controversy
In the overtime the game-winning goal scored by Metallurg was confirmed after the episode when Metallurg started their substitution in violation of clause (a) item 1 of rule 411 of the Hockey Game Rules for 2015/2016 (the player to be substituted is on the ice outside the substitution area), however the league's Officiating Department chose to explain the officials action by another clause of rule 411 (player involved in a substitution being hit by the puck), leaving the violation of clause (a) unexplained.


2016 Gagarin Cup playoffs, Sibir vs Metallurg Game 4 controversy
In response to an appeal filed by Sibir demanding the cancellation of the game result, according to Sibir GM Kirill Fastovsky, the KHL noted "there was no refereeing error".


2016 Gagarin Cup playoffs, Sibir vs Metallurg Game 4 controversy
According to the KHL, this demand of Sibir about the cancellation of the game result "could not be considered as an appeal" because "the appeal procedure was not strictly followed" by Sibir (mandatory note in the official game sheet by the club representative after the end of the game about their intention to appeal against the game result, followed by filing the appeal within 24 hours along with required supporting evidence). The message from the KHL also referenced Clause 77 of the KHL Sports Regulations and noted the impossibility to accept for consideration appeals based on complaints to refereeing.


2016 Gainesville mayoral election
The 2016 Gainesville mayoral election was held on March 15, 2016 to elect the Mayor of Gainesville. The election coincided with the Democratic and Republican presidential primaries.


2016 Gainesville mayoral election
City Commissioner Lauren Poe defeated an Incumbent Ed Braddy by a huge margin.


2016 Galician regional election
The 2016 Galician regional election was held on Sunday, 25 September 2016, to elect the 10th Parliament of the autonomous community of Galicia. All 75 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with a regional election in the Basque Country.


2016 Galician regional election
Alberto Núñez Feijóo announced the election would be brought forward to September, after initially scheduling to hold it throughout October, following Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu's announcement of a Basque election for 25 September. Feijóo defended his decision in that it would make "no sense" to hold the election only weeks after the Basque poll, specially considering the state of political instability in Spain over the government formation process after the general election in June.


2016 Galician regional election
The election took place in a situation in which the Spanish political landscape had undergone a major transformation within a short time, with a decrease in support for the People's Party (PP) and the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) nationally and the emergence of new parties such as Podemos and Citizens (C's).


2016 Galician regional election
Feijóo's PP, with 47.6% and 41 seats, went on to secure a third consecutive absolute majority, the only one at the time in Spain after the 2015 electoral cycle. The Podemos-supported En Marea list, which had already achieved major breakthroughs in the region at the 2015 and 2016 general elections, placed narrowly ahead of the Socialists' Party of Galicia (PSdeG–PSOE) which scored the worst result of its history in a Galician regional election. Concurrently, the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) saw a slight drop in support but was able to outperform opinion poll predictions of an electoral meltdown. Finally, with 3.4%, Cs fell well below their aspirations of entering parliament, failing to secure any seat.


2016 Galician regional election
The results of the Basque and Galician elections, both of which saw very poor PSOE's performances after being overtaken by the Podemos-led alliances and polling at record-low levels of support, prompted dissenters within the party—led by Andalusian president Susana Díaz—to call for Pedro Sánchez's resignation as PSOE secretary-general.


2016 Galician regional election
Sánchez's refusal to resign and his announcement of a party congress for later in the year—amid an ongoing government formation process and with the growing risk of a third general election in a row being held in Spain—led to an attempt from his critics to force his downfall, triggering a severe party crisis and a break down of party discipline which led to Sánchez's ousting on 1 October 2016, a divided PSOE abstaining in Mariano Rajoy's investiture on 29 October and a subsequent party leadership election in 2017 which would see Sánchez returning to his post of secretary-general and taking full control over the party.


2016 Galician regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The Parliament of Galicia was the devolved, unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of Galicia, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution of 1978 and the regional Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a regional president.


2016 Galician regional election, Overview, Electoral system
Voting for the Parliament was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in Galicia and in full enjoyment of their political rights. Additionally, Galicians abroad were required to apply for voting before being permitted to vote, a system known as "begged" or expat vote (Spanish: Voto rogado). The 75 members of the Parliament of Galicia were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each constituency. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra, with each being allocated an initial minimum of 10 seats and the remaining 35 being distributed in proportion to their populations.


2016 Galician regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The use of the D'Hondt method might result in a higher effective threshold, depending on the district magnitude.


2016 Galician regional election, Overview, Election date
The term of the Parliament of Galicia expired four years after the date of its previous election, unless it was dissolved earlier. The election decree was required to be issued no later than the twenty-fifth day prior to the date of expiry of parliament and published on the following day in the Official Journal of Galicia (DOG), with election day taking place between the fifty-fourth and the sixtieth day from publication. The previous election was held on 21 October 2012, which meant that the legislature's term would have expired on 21 October 2016. The election decree was required to be published in the DOG no later than 27 September 2016, with the election taking place up to the sixtieth day from publication, setting the latest possible election date for the Parliament on Saturday, 26 November 2016.


2016 Galician regional election, Overview, Election date
The president had the prerogative to dissolve the Parliament of Galicia and call a snap election, provided that it did not occur before one year had elapsed since a previous dissolution under this procedure. In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the first ballot, the Parliament was to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called.


2016 Galician regional election, Background
While the People's Party (PP) under Alberto Núñez Feijóo had been able to remain at the helm of the Xunta de Galicia following the 2012 regional election, the party struggled to maintain its electoral standing in the ensuing years as a result of the corruption scandals beleaguering the party at the national level.


2016 Galician regional election, Background
In the 2014 European Parliament election, the PP obtained its worst result since 1989 up until that time, securing 35.2% of the vote though remaining in first place regionally as a result of a collapse in the vote for the opposition Socialists' Party of Galicia (PSdeG–PSOE) and Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG).


2016 Galician regional election, Background
The emergence of Podemos and Citizens (C's) and the reorganization of the political space of non-Galician nationalists to the left of the PSOE, including the late Galician Left Alternative (AGE) comprising United Left (EU) and Anova, into the local "tides" (Spanish: mareas)—popular unity candidacies established at the local level to contest the 2015 local elections, such as Marea Atlántica, Compostela Aberta or Ferrol en Común, among others—brought about the PP's downfall from the local governments of the main Galician urban centres and in left-from-centre parties securing much of the local power in Galicia, with the mareas newly found popularity coming at the expense of both the PSdeG and the BNG. The establishment of the En Marea alliance between Podemos, EU and Anova would see the PP seeing off its worst electoral result in a general election on 20 December 2015, although the party would see a slight recovery in the next general election held in June 2016.


2016 Galician regional election, Background
After his defeat in the 2012 election, Pachi Vázquez announced his intention to abandon the PSdeG's leadership within a year and to allow for a primary election to be held to elect his successor. The primaries were held on 7 September 2013, with José Ramón Gómez Besteiro emerging as the winner with 77% of the votes, subsequently ratified at a special party congress held on 29 September.


2016 Galician regional election, Background
Gómez Besteiro came under public scrutiny after being indicted on 3 July 2015 for four crimes, including influence peddling, bribery, prevarication and a crime against regional planning, allegedly committed during Besteiro's time in the local government of Lugo in 2005. On 12 March 2016, Besteiro was accused of six further crimes—new bribery, prevarication and influence peddling crimes, as well as abuse of public administrations, subsidy fraud and embezzlement of public funds—which prompted him to announce the following day his declination to be the party's leading candidate to the Xunta de Galicia in the next regional election. Mounting pressure from his party's colleagues, however, eventually led to Besteiro also resigning as party leader on 18 March. Xoaquín Fernández Leiceaga was elected on 28 May through a primary election to be Besteiro's replacement as candidate to the Xunta, while a management committee took charge of the party.


2016 Galician regional election, Background
The national PSOE was also beleaguered by an internal crisis over Pedro Sánchez's leadership as a result of the party having secured its worst electoral results since the Spanish transition to democracy in the 2015 and 2016 general elections, with Sánchez himself having announced an early party congress, to be held at some point following the Basque and Galician elections, in which he would be running for re-election. The PSOE branches in both regions were widely seen as being supportive of Sánchez, prompting dissenters to frame the elections as a test on Sánchez and of the broader political mood in Spain after nine months of political impasse over the government formation process.


2016 Galician regional election, Parliamentary composition
The Parliament of Galicia was officially dissolved on 2 August 2016, after the publication of the dissolution decree in the Official Journal of Galicia. The table below shows the composition of the parliamentary groups in the chamber at the time of dissolution.


2016 Galician regional election, Parties and candidates
The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.


2016 Galician regional election, Parties and candidates
Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:


2016 Galician regional election, Opinion polls
The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font. 38 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Parliament of Galicia.


2016 Galician regional election, Opinion polls
Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls  Exit poll


2016 Galician regional election, Aftermath
Under Article 15 of the Statute, investiture processes to elect the president of the Regional Government of Galicia required of an absolute majority—more than half the votes cast—to be obtained in the first ballot. If unsuccessful, a new ballot would be held 24 hours later requiring only of a simple majority—more affirmative than negative votes—to succeed. If the proposed candidate was not elected, successive proposals were to be transacted under the same procedure.


2016 Galkayo bombings
On 21 August 2016, a double suicide bombing occurred in Galkayo, Mudug, Somalia. It killed 20 people and injured another 30. The first was a truck bombing which targeted local government headquarters in the city. The second was a car bombing which targeted the emergency services responding to the first bombing. Islamist group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the double bombing.


2016 Galkayo bombings
Al-Shabaab also carried out mass murders in Galkayo on 26 November 2018 and 21 December 2019.


2016 Galway Senior Football Championship
The 2016 Galway Senior Football Championship is the 121st edition of the Galway GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Galway, Ireland. The tournament consists of 21 teams (N.U.I.G. only enter at the Preliminary Quarter-Final Stage), with the winner going on to represent Galway in the Connacht Senior Club Football Championship. The championship has a back-door format for the first two rounds before proceeding to a knock-out format. Generally, any team to lose two matches will be knocked out of the championship.


2016 Galway Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland champions Corofin were the defending champions after they defeated Mountbellew/Moylough in the previous years final, and they claimed a 3-in-a-row of titles when defeating Salthill/Knocknacarra 0-16 to 0-11 in the final at Pearse Stadium on 23 October.


2016 Galway Senior Football Championship
This was Moycullen's return the senior grade after 2 years in the Intermediate grade.


2016 Galway Senior Football Championship
Cárna-Caiseal were relegated back to the I.F.C. for 2017 after 4 years as a senior club.


2016 Galway Senior Football Championship, Team Changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2015 championship season.


2016 Galway Senior Football Championship, Round 1
All 20 teams enter the competition in this round. The 10 winners progress to Round 2A while the 10 losers progress to Round 2B.


2016 Galway Senior Football Championship, Round 2, Round 2A
The 10 winners from Round 1 enter this round. The 5 winners will enter the draw for the Preliminary Quarter Finals while the 5 losers will play in Round 3.


2016 Galway Senior Football Championship, Round 2, Round 2B
The 10 losers from Round 1 enter this round. The 5 winners will go into the Round 3 while the 5 losers will enter the Relegation Playoffs.


2016 Galway Senior Football Championship, Round 3
The 5 losers from Round 2A enter this round and they play the 5 winners from Round 2B. The 5 winners will go into the draw for the Preliminary Quarter-Finals while the 5 losers will enter the Relegation Playoffs.


2016 Galway Senior Football Championship, Preliminary Quarter-Finals
The 5 Round 2A winners, the 5 Round 3 winners and N.U.I.G. enter the competition at this stage. A draw was conducted to choose 6 of these teams to play in this round. The 3 winners (along with the 5 teams who receive byes) will proceed to the Quarter-Finals.


2016 Galway Senior Football Championship, Quarter-Finals
The 3 winners from the Preliminary Quarter-Finals (along with the 5 teams who received byes) enter the Quarter-Finals.


2016 Galway Senior Football Championship, Relegation Playoffs
The 5 Round 2B losers and 5 Round 3 losers enter the Relegation Playoff.


2016 Galway Senior Football Championship, Relegation Playoffs, Relegation Preliminary Round
A draw was conducted and 4 teams were chosen to play in the Relegation Preliminary Round. The 2 winners earn their place in the S.F.C. for 2017 while the losers enter the Relegation Quarter-Finals along with the 6 clubs who received byes.


2016 Galway Senior Football Championship, Relegation Playoffs, Relegation Quarter-Finals
The 2 Relegation Preliminary Round losers enter the Relegation Quarter-Finals along with the 6 clubs who received byes. The 4 winners will earn their place in the 2017 S.F.C. while the 2 losers will enter the Relegation Semi-Finals.


2016 Galway Senior Football Championship, Relegation Playoffs, Relegation Semi-Finals
The 4 Relegation Quarter-Final losers play against each other in this round. The 2 winners will earn their place in the 2017 S.F.C. while the 2 losers will enter the Relegation Final.


2016 Galway Senior Football Championship, Relegation Playoffs, Relegation Final
The winner will earn their place in the 2017 S.F.C. while the  loser will be relegated to the Intermediate grade.


2016 Galway Senior Hurling Championship
The 2016 Galway Senior Hurling Championship was the 119th staging of the Galway Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment in 1887. Sarsfields were the reigning champions. Abbeyknockmoy and Moycullen participated in the senior championship having been promoted from the intermediate competition in 2015.


2016 Galway Senior Hurling Championship, Fixtures/Results, Group Stage
The Senior A and Senior B Group Stage draw was made on 8 March 2016 broadcast live on Galway Bay FM.


2016 Galway Senior Hurling Championship, Fixtures/Results, Group Stage, Senior A
Senior A consists of 12 teams divided into two groups of 6. The top 2 teams from each group will automatically qualify for the quarter finals. The 3rd and 4th teams from each group will play in preliminary quarter finals. The bottom two teams from each group will cross play with the losers playing in the Senior B competition in 2017.


2016 Galway Senior Hurling Championship, Fixtures/Results, Group Stage, Senior B
Senior B consists of 12 teams divided into two groups of 6. The top teams from each group will qualify for preliminary quarter finals and play in the Senior A competition in 2017. The four 2nd and 3rd placed teams will cross play with the winners also qualifying for preliminary quarter finals.


2016 Galway county football team season
In the 2016 season, Galway started their campaign winning their 6th FBD Insurance League title with a win over Roscommon. Galway ended Mayo's bid for a 6th consecutive Connacht Senior Football Championship title with an unlikely 3 point victory in McHale Park. In the All-Ireland quarter-final Galway were defeated by Tipperary.


2016 Galway county football team season, National Football League Division 2, Table
Compete in Division 2 final and automatic promotion to Division 1  Automatic relegation to Division 3


2016 Galway county football team season, National Football League Division 2, Table
1Fermanagh, Meath, Derry and Armagh are ranked by scoring difference.


2016 Gamba Osaka season
The 2016 Gamba Osaka season was Gamba Osaka's 23rd season in the J1 League and 29th overall in the Japanese top flight. Like the previous season, the 2016 campaign was split into two stages, with the first stage running from February to June, the second stage being held between July and November and finally a Championship stage in late November.


2016 Gamba Osaka season
With city-rivals Cerezo Osaka failing to gain promotion from J2, Gamba's main rivalry match was the Hanshin derby against Vissel Kobe with an away game held in round 4 on the 19th March and the return home match in round 26 on August 20. Gamba finished in 6th place in the first stage of the season and 4th place in the second stage for an overall 4th-place finish.


2016 Gamba Osaka season
Gamba's position as runner-up in the 2015 J1 League Championship saw them automatically qualify for the 2016 AFC Champions League, their eighth appearance in the competition. Looking to improve on their run to the semi-finals in 2015, they were drawn into the tough looking Group G along with Australian side Melbourne Victory, South Korea's Suwon Samsung Bluewings and big-spending Chinese outfit Shanghai SIPG. The group stage kicked off on Wednesday 24 February and concluded on Tuesday 3 May with all sides in the group playing each other home and away in a round-robin basis. Gamba were eliminated at the group stage with only 2 points from 6 games to show for their efforts.


2016 Gamba Osaka season
As winners of the 2015 Emperor's Cup, Gamba competed in the season opening Japanese Super Cup, held in Yokohama on 20 February. The annually held match pitted Gamba against Sanfrecce Hiroshima, the side who defeated them in the final of the 2015 J1 League Championship. This was Gamba's 6th appearance in the Super Cup, however they were unable to build on their previous victories in 2007 and 2015 and lost 3-1. Trailing 2-0 due to early second half goals from Satō and Asano, top scorer of the previous 3 campaigns Takashi Usami pulled one back, however Utaka added a third for Hiroshima shortly afterwards to seal the win.


2016 Gamba Osaka season
Later on in the season, Gamba entered the 2016 J.League Cup and 2016 Emperor's Cup. Due to their AFC Champions League commitments, they were given a bye past the J.League Cup group stage and entered in the quarter-finals. Similarly they entered the Emperor's Cup in the 4th round. They went all the way to the final of the J.League cup for the 3rd time in a row, however they lost out to the Urawa Red Diamonds in a penalty shoot-out. In the Emperor's Cup, they bowed out to Yokohama F. Marinos in the quarter-finals meaning that this would be their first season without any silverware since 2012.


2016 Gamba Osaka season
This was Gamba's first season playing at the newly opened Suita City Football Stadium which was built in the same park as Osaka Expo '70 Stadium, their home from 1980–2015. The first official game to be held in the new stadium was on 14 February 2016, the pre-season Panasonic Cup match between Gamba and Nagoya Grampus which the home side won 3-1. The first league match was held in front of 32,463 spectators on 28 February against Kashima Antlers. It resulted in a 1-0 defeat against the team which went on to win the first stage of the 2016 J1 League   The move to the new stadium was a huge success in terms of increasing attendance with average league attendances increasing from 15,999 in 2015 to 25,342 in 2016.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, Transfers
Coming off the back of a draining 2015 season which saw them play 60 games in all competitions, Gamba sought to add depth to their squad. In came experienced former Shimizu S-Pulse, Nagoya Grampus, Yokohama F. Marinos and Japan national team midfielder Jungo Fujimoto to compete for a right-wing slot with Hiroyuki Abe and Kotaro Omori. Ademilson who had spent the previous campaign as Fujimoto's teammate in Yokohama, moved west to Osaka on a season-long loan deal from São Paulo FC in his homeland. He is expected to battle with Shu Kurata for a place playing just off target-man Patric.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, Transfers
In addition, Hiroto Goya, a prolific scorer at varsity level for Kwansei Gakuin University signed up for his first shot at professional football and two youngsters, Hiroki Noda and Kazunari Ichimi joined from Otsu High School in Kumamoto Prefecture. Noda, a native of Kumamoto has actually turned out for his local side Roasso Kumamoto on 5 occasions over the previous 2 seasons despite his tender age of just 18.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, Transfers
There were fewer departures than arrivals during the close season and crucially no starting-eleven members from the previous year were amongst those to leave. Veteran midfielder Tomokazu Myojin made a surprising move to Nagoya Grampus at the ripe-old age of 38 following 10 years of sterling service to the club. Brazilian attacker Lins was also released.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, Transfers
A promising debut season in 2014 which saw him net 8 times in 39 games including several crucial late winners gave way to a disappointing 2015 in which he started only 8 games and could only net 4 goals in 36 games in all competitions, therefore it was no surprise when his departure was announced. Finally, Shingo Akamine a close-season signing from Vegalta Sendai the previous year and who, like Lins had endured a frustrating 2015, announced he would be joining J2 side Fagiano Okayama on loan for 2016.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, Transfers
In addition to those main transfers; Kenya Okazaki, Naoki Ogawa and Shōhei Ogura rejoined the club following loan spells at Ehime FC, Fujieda MYFC and Montedio Yamagata respectively while Yuto Uchida who spent the 2015 season with Tokushima Vortis made his loan move into a permanent one.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, Transfers
In the summer transfer window, the big news was the departure of star attacker Takashi Usami to German Bundesliga side Augsburg. The move came 3 years after Usami had returned to Gamba following spells abroad with Bayern Munich and Hoffenheim. He had finished as the club's leading goalscorer in 2013, 2014 and 2015 and was again leading the Gamba goalscoring charts with 6 goals at the time of his departure. Veteran midfielder Takahiro Futagawa, who had spent most of the first half of the season with Gamba's Under-23 side in J3, also moved on and joined Tokyo Verdy on loan for the remaining six months of the campaign.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, Transfers
Brazilian forward Patric, who had endured a hugely disappointing campaign, injured his knee in October and was released by the club in order to complete his rehabilitation in his native country. Also in October, Patric's compatriot, Ademilson, turned his loan move from São Paulo into a permanent one.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, Japanese Super Cup
As winners of the 2015 Emperor's Cup, Gamba squared off against reigning J1 League champions Sanfrecce Hiroshima at Nissan Stadium, Yokohama. The match ended up in a 3-1 defeat for Gamba, with Hisato Satō opening the scoring for Sanfrecce in the 52nd minute and Takuma Asano adding a second from the penalty spot 5 minutes later. Takashi Usami pulled a goal back for Gamba in the 68th minute but it wasn't enough as Sanfrecce's new Nigerian signing Peter Utaka wrapped up the game with 17 minutes remaining.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, Japanese Super Cup
The result means that Gamba have now won just 2 of their 6 appearances in the Japanese Super Cup with victories in 2007 and 2015 and defeats in 2006, 2009, 2010 and 2016. One other point to note is that this game saw the competitive debuts in a Gamba shirt for attacking midfielders Ademilson and Jungo Fujimoto, both of whom joined from Yokohama F. Marinos in the close season.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, J1 League First Stage
The first half of the 2016 J1 League season was a disappointing one for Gamba and ended up in a 6th-place finish. Results were wildly inconsistent with 7 wins 3 draws and 7 defeats. Goalscoring was a real issue, especially early on, with only 9 goals in their first 10 games. They also failed to score more than once in 11 out of their 17 games.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, J1 League First Stage
Gameweeks 11-17 which fell after their exit from the AFC Champions League brought more goals but, also saw what had been a pretty solid defence become more porous. 3-3 draws at home to two struggling sides, Shonan Bellmare and Nagoya Grampus, summed up this stage of the campaign.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, J1 League First Stage
In terms of team selection, the early weeks of the season where Gamba had to balance J1 League and Champions League commitments saw coach Kenta Hasegawa rotate his squad a lot. The full back and attacking midfield berths saw the most instability. While an injury to South Korean full-back Oh Jae-suk and the game time allowed to youngster Ryo Hatsuse with Gamba's Under-23 side in J3 saw Koki Yonekura and Hiroki Fujiharu become the established right-back and left-back respectively, the strongest combination of attacking midfielders in the favoured 4-2-3-1 formation was never determined.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, J1 League First Stage
Takashi Usami, Shu Kurata, Hiroyuki Abe and Kotaro Omori had all been retained from the previous year, where the latter 3 tended to be rotated. However, the close-season signings of Ademilson and Jungo Fujimoto from Yokohama F. Marinos gave Gamba excessive depth in that area. Ademilson acquitted himself well with 4 goals which came both from attacking midfield and also centre-forward, however Fujimoto struggled to establish himself and had to turn out occasionally for Gamba U-23 to get game time after Gamba's Champions League elimination.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, J1 League First Stage
Returning to the theme of goalscoring, perhaps the biggest concern from the first half of the season was the poor goal return of Patric who failed to find the target in 13 appearances. Following two goal-laden seasons in which he and Usami had scored 50 goals between them, they could only muster 6 goals during the first 17 games of this campaign. Indeed, Patric often found himself playing off the bench with his compatriot Ademilson or the tall Shun Nagasawa starting in his place. In light of this, Usami's departure for Germany in mid-season would prove to be a major worry for Gamba going forward.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, J1 League First Stage, Match Day Line-Ups
The following players appeared for Gamba Osaka during the 2016 J1 League First Stage:


2016 Gamba Osaka season, J1 League Second Stage
Freed from Asian Champions League commitments, Gamba performed much better during the second stage of the 2016 J1 League season finishing with a record of 10 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats which saw them come home in 4th place in both the second stage and overall league tables. Impressive away victories over Kashima Antlers and Kawasaki Frontale bookended what was a half of the season largely full of positives.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, J1 League Second Stage
The mid-season departure of Takashi Usami was not felt as keenly as first feared with the team netting 31 times in 17 games, Shun Nagasawa found the back of the net 6 times, Ademilson 5 and impressive central-midfielder Yosuke Ideguchi, buoyed by his appearance in the Olympics provided 4 in what was a great overall team effort.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, J1 League Second Stage
The only negatives were the disappointing 0-0 draw at home to league whipping boys Avispa Fukuoka, the painful 1-0 derby defeat against Vissel Kobe in which Ademilson missed a penalty which would have salvaged a draw and also the chastening 4-0 reverse away to second stage champions Urawa Red Diamonds.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, J1 League Second Stage
Gamba's 4th-place finish in the overall standings left them waiting on the result of the Emperor's Cup to know whether or not they had qualified for the following season's Champions League.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, J1 League Second Stage, Match Day Line-Ups
The following players appeared for Gamba Osaka during the 2016 J1 League Second Stage:


2016 Gamba Osaka season, AFC Champions League
Gamba were drawn in Group G along with Australian side Melbourne Victory, Korean outfit Suwon Samsung Bluewings and China's Shanghai SIPG. It was to prove a disappointing campaign for them culminating in an exit at the group stage, a strong contrast with the previous season's run to the semi-finals. An inability to find the back of the net which had plagued their early form in J1 also proved to be their downfall in the Champions League with only 4 goals scored in 6 games.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, AFC Champions League
Draws in their opening two games away to Samsung and at home to Melbourne were to prove the high points as they were followed by a run of four defeats in a row, three of which came by a solitary goal. As it happened, Sven-Göran Eriksson's Shanghai side ran out group winners with 12 points, 3 ahead of both Melbourne and Samsung on 9. It was Melbourne who advanced with them, with their final round win over a largely second string Gamba side giving them the points they required to overtake Suwon due to having a better head-to-head record in matches played between the two sides. Gamba finished fourth and last in the group.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, AFC Champions League, Match Day Line-Ups
The following players appeared for Gamba Osaka during the 2016 AFC Champions League:


2016 Gamba Osaka season, J.League Cup
As a result of their qualification for the AFC Champions League, Gamba were given a bye into the quarter-finals of the League Cup, where they were paired against Sanfrecce Hiroshima in a two-legged encounter. A 1-1 draw in Hiroshima was followed by an emphatic 6-3 home win for Gamba which saw them qualify for the semi-finals and a tie against Yokohama F. Marinos in October.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, J.League Cup
The first leg, held in Osaka, finished 0-0 and the second leg was also a draw, this time 1-1 which saw Gamba through on away goals and paved the way for a 3rd league cup final appearance in 3 years. The final was played against Urawa Red Diamonds at Saitama Stadium 2002 on Saturday 15 October 2016.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, J.League Cup
A solo run by Ademilson gave Gamba a first half lead which lasted until the 76th minute when Tadanari Lee's header squared things up. Extra-time followed and Gamba came agonisingly close to netting the winner in the 120th minute when Hiroto Goya's shot was deflected past the goalkeeper and onto the post, it then proceeded to roll along the goal line before being swept to safety by Urawa defender Ryota Moriwaki. It was perhaps an omen as following 3 successful penalty kicks for each side, Goya had his spot-kick saved by Shusaku Nishikawa. This proved to be the decisive miss as the Reds netted all of their penalties and went on to win the shootout 5-4.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, J.League Cup
This was Gamba's 5th appearance in the J.League Cup final and their 3rd in as many years. To date they have lifted the trophy twice, in 2007 and 2014 with this defeat being their 3rd defeat in the final, following reverses in 2005 and 2015.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, J.League Cup, Match Day Line-Ups
The following players appeared for Gamba Osaka during the 2016 J.League Cup:


2016 Gamba Osaka season, Emperor's Cup
Gamba began their defence of the title they've won for the past 2 seasons at home to J2 side Shimizu S-Pulse on November 9. Shun Nagasawa's strike in extra time was enough to see them through to the quarter-finals where they were paired with Yokohama F. Marinos in what would be the 5th meeting of the season between the two teams.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, Emperor's Cup
Having already drawn twice at Nissan Stadium earlier in the season, this was once again a tight affair with Manabu Saitō putting the Marinos ahead from the penalty spot in the 63rd minute only for Yasuyuki Konno to seemingly send the tie into extra time with an 87th-minute equaliser. Unfortunately for Gamba, Jun Amano had other ideas and his 96th-minute strike from outside the box sent them through to the semi-finals and left Gamba hoping Kashima or Kawasaki would lift the cup to ensure their progression to the 2017 Asian Champions League.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, Emperor's Cup, Match Day Line-Ups
The following players appeared for Gamba Osaka during the 2016 Emperor's Cup:


2016 Gamba Osaka season, Emperor's Cup, Match Day Line-Ups
= Substitute on,  = Substitute Off,  = Number of goals scored,  = Yellow Card and  = Red Card.


2016 Gamba Osaka season, Squad statistics
Statistics accurate as of match played on 24 December 2016.


2016 Gambian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in The Gambia on 1 December 2016. In a surprise result, opposition candidate Adama Barrow defeated long-term incumbent Yahya Jammeh. The election marked the first change of presidency in The Gambia since a military coup in 1994, and the first transfer of power by popular election since independence from the United Kingdom in 1965.


2016 Gambian presidential election
On 2 December, before the final results were announced, Jammeh graciously conceded defeat, shocking a populace that had expected him to retain power. BBC News called it "one of the biggest election upsets West Africa has ever seen". The final official results showed Barrow winning a 43.3% plurality, achieving a 3.7% margin of victory over Jammeh's 39.6%—with a third candidate, Mama Kandeh, receiving 17.1% of the votes. Following the election, 19 opposition prisoners were released, including Ousainou Darboe, the leader of Barrow's United Democratic Party (UDP). There was widespread celebration of the result by the opposition, along with some caution over whether the transition would proceed without incident.


2016 Gambian presidential election
Initially, Jammeh conceded and congratulated Barrow. However, on 9 December Jammeh announced that he was rejecting the results and called for a new election, sparking a constitutional crisis. Troops were deployed in Banjul, the capital city, and Serekunda, the country's largest city. Jammeh's rejection of the results was condemned by several internal and external bodies, including the Gambia bar association, the Gambia teachers' union, the Gambia Press Union, the University of The Gambia, the Gambia medical association, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Union (AU), and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The situation further escalated on 19 January, when Jammeh's term expired and Barrow was sworn in as President on Gambian soil at the embassy in Senegal. Despite extensive diplomatic efforts that included the personal involvement of several African heads of state, an ECOWAS military intervention took place.


2016 Gambian presidential election
Finally, on 21 January, Jammeh left the Gambia for an ECOWAS-arranged exile, allowing the transition of power to take place. According to the Senegalese government and the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, during the dispute around 45,000 people fled to Senegal and at least another 800 people fled to Guinea-Bissau.


2016 Gambian presidential election, Background
The incumbent President, Yahya Jammeh, took power in a military coup in 1994 and remained the President through elections held in 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2011. The coup led by Jammeh unseated Dawda Jawara, who had led The Gambia since independence in 1965. The 22 years of Jammeh's presidency were characterised by suppression of dissent, restrictions of freedom of the press, and many allegations of human rights violations. Jammeh also claimed to have cured various diseases such as HIV/AIDS and cancer with herbs, cracked down on sorcery in the nation, and prosecuted acts of homosexuality. In 2011, he said that, God willing, he could "rule for a billion years".


2016 Gambian presidential election, Electoral system
The President of the Gambia is elected in one round by plurality vote for a five-year term.


2016 Gambian presidential election, Electoral system
Instead of using paper ballots, elections in the Gambia are conducted using marbles. Each voter receives a marble and places it in a tube on top of a sealed drum that corresponds to that voter's favoured candidate. The drums for different candidates are painted in different colours corresponding to the party affiliation of the candidate, and a picture of the candidate is affixed to their corresponding drum. The system has the advantages of low cost and simplicity, both for understanding how to vote and for counting the results. The method is reported to have an extremely low error rate for miscast ballots.


2016 Gambian presidential election, Candidates and campaigns
The Independent Electoral Commission registered three political organisations and accepted their nominations for candidates:


2016 Gambian presidential election, Candidates and campaigns
A Coalition  of seven recognised opposition parties managed to unite and endorse Barrow as their preferred candidate, overcoming the fragmentation that could otherwise have led to Jammeh prevailing through the plurality voting system. The coalition included the United Democratic Party (UDP), the People's Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS), the National Reconciliation Party (NRP), the Gambia Moral Congress (GMC), the National Convention Party (NCP), the People's Progressive Party (PPP), and the Gambia Party for Democracy and Progress (GPDP). Barrow had been a member of the UDP and had previously served as its treasurer. To allow him to run as an independent candidate endorsed by the coalition rather than as a representative of the UDP, Barrow officially resigned from membership in the UDP prior to the election.


2016 Gambian presidential election, Candidates and campaigns
Two other political parties—the National Democratic Action Movement (NDAM) and the Gambia Democratic Party (GDP)—had been considered for recognition in the election, but were disqualified by the commission under the rules established for the election, which included residency requirements for the party officials, the establishment of offices in the seven administrative regions of The Gambia, and the submission of audited accounting records. The leader of the NDAM, Lamin Waa Juwara, also encouraged the formation of a coalition to unseat Jammeh.


2016 Gambian presidential election, Candidates and campaigns
The two-week period of the official election campaigns was peaceful, and it included many large rallies by both Jammeh's supporters and opposition parties. However, before the election, concerns had been raised about the government cracking down on the political opposition and using state resources and its domination of mass media to influence the outcome. President Jammeh had said that protests after the election would not be tolerated, saying "In this country we don't allow demonstrations."


2016 Gambian presidential election, Candidates and campaigns
Mobile messaging applications such as WhatsApp and Viber were blocked by Gambian authorities in the period before the election, and during the election, internet access and international phone calls were also blocked. International observers from the European Union and the Economic Community of West African States were banned from monitoring the election, but a few observers from the African Union were allowed access.


2016 Gambian presidential election, Candidates and campaigns
Adama Barrow, a real estate businessman who had not previously held any political office, said that, if elected, he would set up a temporary transition government formed of members from the opposition coalition and would step down from the presidency within three years.


2016 Gambian presidential election, Candidates and campaigns
Barrow referred to Jammeh as a "soulless dictator", and said that if elected, he would reverse some of Jammeh's key actions, including Jammeh's decisions for The Gambia to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations and from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. He also said he would establish a two-term limit for the office of the presidency and conduct judicial reform, emphasising an independent judiciary. Barrow said he wanted to "put aside all party, tribal, religious, gender and other differences" to "unify a divided nation" and "promote and consolidate Democracy, Rule of Law, Good Governance and respect for the Human Rights of our people".


2016 Gambian presidential election, Candidates and campaigns
The only recognised opposition party not in the coalition, the Gambia Democratic Congress (GDC), fielded its own candidate—Mama Kandeh, a former deputy of the APRC ruling party who had been expelled by the APRC. The GDC was The Gambia's youngest political party. It was formed in the summer of 2016 by Kandeh along with some other former key members and supporters of the APRC.


2016 Gambian presidential election, Candidates and campaigns
It had gained some popular support and was involved in some of the early discussions that led to the formation of the coalition, but the negotiations broke down about its position in the alliance and the attitude of some members of the other parties toward the GDC, so it did not join. Some members of other opposition groups accused the GDC and its backers of trying to divide the opposition voting constituency so that Jammeh would win.


2016 Gambian presidential election, Results
Jammeh conceded to Barrow on 2 December before the results were released. Jammeh called and congratulated Barrow on his victory, saying "you are elected president of The Gambia, and I wish you all the best", and adding "I have no ill will." He also proposed to arrange to meet with Barrow toward organising the transition process for his new presidency. On state television he said he would "take the backseat" and not contest the results, further saying "I will help him work towards the transition." BBC News said the outcome was a "huge surprise", as most had expected Jammeh would do whatever was necessary to retain power.


2016 Gambian presidential election, Results
After the election commission released ballot results on 2 December, it reported modified results on 5 December, saying there had been an error in the counting. The modified results showed a smaller lead for Barrow (reducing the margin of victory from 8.8% to 3.7%) and a 9.1% lower number of total votes cast.


2016 Gambian presidential election, Aftermath
Following the announcement of the results of the elections, opposition supporters widely celebrated the surprise victory and were stunned by Jammeh's concession of defeat. Thousands of people celebrated in the streets of Banjul, the capital city. However, some expressed caution about what Jammeh might do next—suggesting that he could still try to retain power despite what had happened. A businessman said, "I will only believe it when I see him leaving state house. He still controls the army, and his family are the top brass."


2016 Gambian presidential election, Aftermath
The fear that Jammeh would try to cling to power proved well-founded when, on 9 December, Jammeh appeared on Gambian state television and said he had "decided to reject the outcome of the recent election" due to "serious and unacceptable abnormalities ... during the electoral process". He declared that a new election must be held under "a god-fearing and independent electoral commission" and refused to leave office. Despite extensive diplomatic efforts that included several African heads of state, the situation further escalated until there was a military intervention by armed forces from several nearby ECOWAS countries that forced Jammeh to leave. On 21 January 2017, Jammeh finally left the Gambia for an ECOWAS-arranged exile—initially in Guinea.


2016 Garanti Koza Sofia Open
The 2016 Sofia Open (also known as 2016 Garanti Koza Sofia Open for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 1st edition of the Sofia Open as part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2016 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Arena Armeec in Sofia, Bulgaria, from February 1–7.


2016 Garanti Koza Sofia Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2016 Garanti Koza Sofia Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2016 Garanti Koza Sofia Open – Doubles
Wesley Koolhof and Matwé Middelkoop won the title, defeating Philipp Oswald and Adil Shamasdin in the final, 5–7, 7–6(11–9), [10–6].


2016 Garanti Koza Sofia Open – Singles
Roberto Bautista Agut won the title, defeating Viktor Troicki in the final, 6–3, 6–4.


2016 Garanti Koza Sofia Open – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2016 Garden Open
The 2016 Garden Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the eighth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Rome, Italy between 2 and 7 May 2016.


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


2016 Garden Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw: as a special exempt:


2016 Garden Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the main draw with  a protected ranking:


2016 Garden Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players entered the main draw as lucky losers:


2016 Garden Open – Doubles
Dustin Brown and František Čermák were the defending champions but chose not to participate.


2016 Garden Open – Doubles
Bai Yan and Li Zhe won the title, defeating Sander Arends and Tristan-Samuel Weissborn 6–3, 3–6, [11–9] in the final.


2016 Garden Open – Singles
Aljaž Bedene was the defending champion but chose not to participate.


2016 Garden Open – Singles
Kyle Edmund won the title, defeating Filip Krajinović 7–6(7–2), 6–0 in the final.


2016 Gardner–Webb Runnin' Bulldogs football team
The 2016 Gardner–Webb Runnin' Bulldogs football team represented Gardner–Webb University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Carroll McCray and played their home games at Ernest W. Spangler Stadium. They were a member of the Big South Conference. They finished the season 5–6, 3–2 in Big South play to finish in a tie for third place.


2016 Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 2016 Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.


2016 Gdynia Sevens
The 2016 Gdynia Sevens is the third and last tournament of the 2016 Sevens Grand Prix Series. It was held over the weekend of 16–17 July 2016.


2016 Gdynia Sevens, Teams
12 teams participated in the tournament. In preparation for the 2016 Olympics, instead of England, Scotland, and Wales fielding individual teams, two unified Great Britain teams will compete.


2016 Geelong Football Club season
The 2016 Geelong Football Club season is currently the club's 117th season of senior competition in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club also fielded its reserves team in the Victorian Football League (VFL) for the 17th season.


2016 Geelong Football Club season, Overview
Prior to the 2016 season, Dale Amos, who had been a member of Geelong's coaching group since 2009, moved to an assistant coaching position at Carlton.


2016 Geier avalanche
The 2016 Geier avalanche was an avalanche which occurred in Wattenberg, Austria, on 6 February 2016. Five people were killed (all Czechs), when the disaster struck in the 2,800-metre (9,200 ft) Geier mountain range. The avalanche occurred shortly after midday near the mountain hut Lizumer Hütte. This was one of 19 avalanches reported in Tyrol on 6 February. The avalanche risk level in Tyrol was three out of a possible five, deemed “considerable”.


2016 Geier avalanche, Avalanche
The avalanche spread over a 2 km wide area, in the Wattental Valley in the Western Apline region of Tirol, burying 17 skiers from the Czech Republic who were taking part in a "free ride camp" and had been previously warned about the danger of an avalanche by locals. Martin Waldhart of Mountain Rescue stated at a press conference that the group had been skiing in an area that had been classified as an "absolute risk zone". Resucue workers used dogs and helicopters to search for the groups and at the time of locating them, some of the skiers had already freed themselves.


2016 Geier avalanche, Victims
There were two ski groups from the Czech Republic caught up in the snowslide, including two guides. The avalanche killed 5 skiers of the parties, and injured two, with the remaining members of the party uninjured. There were no other fatalities, but several people were reported injured.


2016 Gemdale ATP Challenger
The 2016 Gemdale ATP Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the third edition of the tournament which was part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Shenzhen, China between 21 and 27 March 2016.


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


2016 Gemdale ATP Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry courtesy of a special exemption:


2016 Gemdale ATP Challenger – Doubles
Gero Kretschmer and Alexander Satschko were the defending champions, but did not compete this year.


2016 Gemdale ATP Challenger – Doubles
Luke Saville and Jordan Thompson won the title after defeating Saketh Myneni and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 3–6, 6–4, [12–10] in the final.


2016 Gemdale ATP Challenger – Singles
Blaž Kavčič was the defending champion, but did not compete this year.


2016 Gemdale ATP Challenger – Singles
Dudi Sela won the title after defeating Wu Di 6–4, 6–3 in the final.


2016 General Aung San Shield
The 2016 General Aung San Shield (Burmese: Bogyoke Aung San Shield) is the second season of Myanmar knockout football competition. The tournament is organized by the Myanmar Football Federation. It is the league cup competition started in 2016 Myanmar football season. This cup succeeded the Myanmar Football Federation Cup. MFF has changed the cup competition style as follows.


2016 General Aung San Shield
In the first round, ten clubs competing in 2016 MNL-2 and two clubs which were promoted to 2016 MNL, twelve teams in total, will be involved playing at a neutral ground with six teams emerged as winners. In the second round, ten clubs competing in 2015 MNL and the six winners from the first round, sixteen teams in total, will be involved playing at a neutral ground with eight teams emerged as winners. The Quarter-finals will still be played as one-legged matches but the Semi-final will be competed as two-legged (Home and Away) matches.


2016 General Aung San Shield
The cup winner is guaranteed a place in the 2017 AFC Cup.


2016 General Aung San Shield, Results, Preliminary Round
Preliminary round consists of two rounds for teams currently playing in the Regional League Division 1 level. The First round was held 25 April 2015.


2016 General Aung San Shield Final
The 2016 General Aung San Shield Final is the 6th final of the MFF Cup. The General Aung San Shield winner will qualify to AFC Cup competition. The match was contested by Yangon United and Magwe at Bogyoke Aung San Stadium in Yangon. The match was played on 17 August 2016 and was the final match of the Bogyoke Aung San Cup.


2016 General Aung San Shield Final, Background
Yangon United were playing a record 2nd MFF Cup final. They had previously won against Nay Pyi Taw in 2011 MFF Cup final.


2016 General Aung San Shield Final, Ticket allocation
Both Yangon United FC and Magwe FC received a ticket allocation of 10,000 for the game. Ticket price are 1,000 MMK (Normal Ticket) and 2,000MMK (Special Ticket).


2016 General Aung San Shield Final, Route to the Final, Yangon United
Yanon United entered the competition in the Second Round as a Myanmar National League club. In their first match, Yangon United met MNL-2 new club, Mahar United. Yangon United player, Than Paing scored only goal. And Second match, Yangon defeated 3-0 against Hanthawaddy United. In Semi-final, Yangon United met their derby club Yadanarbon. Yangon United drew 1-1 in their home stadium and won 2-1 at Bahtoo Stadium.


2016 General Aung San Shield Final, Route to the Final, Magwe
Also MNL club, Magwe won 2-1 against Chin United in their first match. And then, Magwe met with Biggest team Shan United and won 1-0. In Semi-final, Magwe defeated Zwekapin United won 2-0 at Home and 1-2 at Away. Then, they reached their first ever General Aung San Shield final.


2016 Generali Ladies Linz
The 2016 Generali Ladies Linz was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 30th edition of the Generali Ladies Linz, and part of the WTA International tournaments-category of the 2016 WTA Tour. It was held at the TipsArena Linz in Linz, Austria, on 10–16 October 2016.


2016 Generali Ladies Linz, Points and prize money, Prize money
1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money* per team


2016 Generali Ladies Linz, Singles entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2016 Generali Ladies Linz, Doubles entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2016 Generali Ladies Linz – Doubles
Raquel Atawo and Abigail Spears are the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals to Anna-Lena Grönefeld and Květa Peschke.


2016 Generali Ladies Linz – Doubles
Kiki Bertens and Johanna Larsson won the title, defeating Grönefeld and Peschke in the final, 4–6, 6–2, [10–7].


2016 Generali Ladies Linz – Singles
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Dominika Cibulková.


2016 Generali Ladies Linz – Singles
Cibulková went on to win the title, defeating Viktorija Golubic in the final, 6–3, 7–5.


2016 Generali Open Kitzbühel
The 2016 Generali Open Kitzbühel was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 72nd edition of the Austrian Open Kitzbühel, and part of the World Tour 250 series of the 2016 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Tennis stadium Kitzbühel in Kitzbühel, Austria, from July 18 through July 24.


2016 Generali Open Kitzbühel, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2016 Generali Open Kitzbühel, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2016 Generali Open Kitzbühel – Doubles
Nicolás Almagro and Carlos Berlocq were the defending champions, but Almagro chose not to participate this year and Berlocq chose to compete in Umag instead.


2016 Generali Open Kitzbühel – Doubles
Wesley Koolhof and Matwé Middelkoop won the title, defeating Dennis Novak and Dominic Thiem in the final, 2–6, 6–3, [11–9].


2016 Generali Open Kitzbühel – Singles
Philipp Kohlschreiber was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Karen Khachanov.


2016 Generali Open Kitzbühel – Singles
Paolo Lorenzi won the title, defeating Nikoloz Basilashvili in the final, 6–3, 6–4.


2016 Generali Open Kitzbühel – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2016 Geneva Open
The 2016 Geneva Open (also known as the 2016 Banque Eric Sturdza Geneva Open for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 14th edition of the Geneva Open and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2016 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Tennis Club de Genève in Geneva, Switzerland, from May 15 through May 21, 2016.


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


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


2016 Geneva Open – Doubles
Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah were the defending champions, but chose to compete in Nice instead. Steve Johnson and Sam Querrey won the title, defeating Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram in the final, 6–4, 6–1.


2016 Geneva Open – Singles
Thomaz Bellucci was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Federico Delbonis.


2016 Geneva Open – Singles
Stan Wawrinka won the title, defeating Marin Čilić in the final, 6–4, 7–6(13–11).


2016 Geneva Open – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2016 Gent–Wevelgem
The 2016 Gent–Wevelgem, (officially Gent–Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields) was a one-day cycling classic that took place on 27 March 2016. It was the 78th edition of the Gent–Wevelgem race and the seventh event of the 2016 UCI World Tour. The race followed a 243-kilometre (151 mi) course that started in Deinze and ended in Wevelgem in Belgium, with a portion of the race spent in northern France. The race included ten climbs, several of them cobbled, which provided the principal difficulty in the race. The last and most difficult climb was the Kemmelberg. The favourites for the race included Alexander Kristoff (Team Katusha), Fabian Cancellara (Trek–Segafredo) and Peter Sagan (Tinkoff).


2016 Gent–Wevelgem
The race was won by Sagan, who escaped with Cancellara and Sep Vanmarcke (LottoNL–Jumbo) on the Kemmelberg after a series of splits had occurred in the first half of the race. They were joined by Vyacheslav Kuznetsov (Team Katusha), who had been in the day's early breakaway, and the four-man group came to the finish together. Sagan won the sprint, with Vanmarcke second and Kuznetsov third.


2016 Gent–Wevelgem
During the French portion of the race, the Belgian rider Antoine Demoitié (Wanty–Groupe Gobert) crashed and was then hit by a race motorbike. He died that evening.


2016 Gent–Wevelgem, Route
The route of the 2016 Gent–Wevelgem was significantly changed from 2015 edition and from previous editions. Several different climbs were used. Central among these was the decision to use a different side of the core climb in the race, the Kemmelberg. In previous years, the route chosen had a maximum gradient of 17%, but the 2016 edition used a road that had a section at 23%, described by Cycling Weekly as "excruciating".


2016 Gent–Wevelgem, Route
The race director, Hans De Clercq, gave three reasons for the change: the cobblestones had recently been relaid; the 2016 edition marked the 60th anniversary of the inclusion of the Kemmelberg, with the difficult side used on that occasion; and there was a desire to give the race more of a balance between sprinters and attackers.


2016 Gent–Wevelgem, Route
COTACOL, a Belgian work that lists and grades all the climbs in the country, rated the side of the Kemmelberg used in 2016 as the most difficult climb in Flanders: its grading of 183 points was more than the Koppenberg (172), the Muur van Geraardsbergen (171) or the traditional route up the Kemmelberg (152).


2016 Gent–Wevelgem, Route
The race started in Deinze in East Flanders, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Ghent. The route took the riders immediately into West Flanders. After 77 kilometres (48 mi) of flat roads, they came near the coast at Veurne. Here the route took the riders south into northern France; after 119 kilometres (74 mi) the peloton passed through Wormhout, then continued south of Steenvoorde, where there were the first climbs in the race. The first eight climbs came quickly, packed into a 32 kilometres (20 mi) stretch of road.


2016 Gent–Wevelgem, Route
The first climb was the Catsberg; this was followed by the Kokereelberg, the Vert Mon, the Côte du Ravel Put and the Côte de la Blanchisserie. The riders then returned to Belgium and climbed the Baneberg, the Kemmelberg and the Monteberg. There was then a flatter section, looping through Mesen, Ploegsteer and Nieuwkerke. The final two climbs were a repeat of the Baneberg–Kemmelberg combination. At the top of the final climb, there were 34 kilometres (21 mi) of fairly flat roads to the finish in Wevelgem.


2016 Gent–Wevelgem, Participating teams
There were 25 teams selected to take part in the race. All 18 UCI WorldTeams were automatically invited; the race organisers gave wildcard invitations to seven UCI Professional Continental teams. These included two Belgian teams (Wanty–Groupe Gobert and Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise), two French teams (Direct Énergie and Cofidis), a Dutch team (Roompot–Oranje Peloton), an Italian team (Bardiani–CSF) and a Polish team (CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice). Each team could include eight riders. Orica–GreenEDGE's team of seven was the only one submitted with fewer than eight riders, but three riders (Team Sky's Ian Stannard, Team Katusha's Alexander Kristoff and AG2R La Mondiale's Alexis Gougeard) did not start the race; 196 riders therefore departed from Deinze.


2016 Gent–Wevelgem, Pre-race favourites
There was some uncertainty before the race about whether it would favour the sprinters or those who attacked on the hills. Among the sprinters, Alexander Kristoff, the winner of the 2014 Tour of Flanders, was the favourite, with André Greipel (Lotto–Soudal), Arnaud Démare (FDJ), Mark Cavendish (Team Dimension Data), Elia Viviani (Team Sky) and Fernando Gaviria (Etixx–Quick-Step) also considered possible winners. Kristoff, however, had to pull out of the race due to a fever that started after E3 Harelbeke two days earlier.


2016 Gent–Wevelgem, Pre-race favourites
There were also many riders who had the potential to attack earlier in the race. These included Tom Boonen (Etixx–Quick-Step), who had won the race on three previous occasions, and his teammates Niki Terpstra and Zdeněk Štybar. Peter Sagan (Tinkoff), the reigning world champion, had won the race in 2013 with a solo attack; he also had the ability to perform strongly in a sprint. He had not yet won a race in 2016. Other riders likely to attack early in the race included Fabian Cancellara (Trek–Segafredo), Luke Rowe (Sky), Sep Vanmarcke (LottoNL–Jumbo), Greg Van Avermaet (BMC Racing Team) and Edvald Boasson Hagen (Dimension Data), who had won the 2009 edition of the race.


2016 Gent–Wevelgem, Pre-race favourites
The 2015 winner, Luca Paolini, was not present to defend his title due to his suspension following a positive test for cocaine during the 2015 Tour de France.


2016 Gent–Wevelgem, Race summary
The race took place in windy weather. Combined with a crash, these conditions caused the peloton to break into several groups in the first part of the race. The first group was a five-rider breakaway, composed of Lieuwe Westra (Astana), Pavel Brutt (Tinkoff), Josef Černý (CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice), Jonas Rickaert (Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise) and Simon Pellaud (IAM Cycling). Their lead extended to eleven minutes at one point, but was quickly reduced when the pace of the main peloton increased. This broke the peloton into echelons.


2016 Gent–Wevelgem, Race summary
By the halfway stage, there was a chasing group 90 seconds behind that contained many of the race favourites, including Boonen, Boasson Hagen, Cancellara, Sagan, Tiesj Benoot and Jens Debusschere (both Lotto–Soudal), and Van Avermaet. They were chased by another group that was led by Trek–Segafredo and LottoNL–Jumbo; this group was around a minute further behind. With 115 kilometres (71 mi) remaining, the first chasing group caught the breakaway; 24 kilometres (15 mi) later, this group was in turn caught by the other chasing group. There was therefore a 50-rider group at the head of the race.