Editor's note: This has been updated Aug. 15.
Mormon Times now counts 19 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from eight countries who are competing in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The opening ceremonies are Friday, Aug. 5, and the competition runs through Aug. 21.
UNITED STATES
Track and field: Jared Ward, 27, of Kaysville will compete in the men's marathon race. He is an adjunct professor of statistics at Brigham Young University and previously ran for BYU and Davis High School. Ward is a returned missionary; he served in Pennsylvania.
When to watch: The men's marathon will take place on Aug. 21.
John Nunn, 38, is a three-time Olympian from Bonsall, California, who will compete in the 50-kilometer race-walking competition, according to the Team USA website. Nunn previously competed in 2004 in the 20-kilometer race walk and 2012 in the 50-kilometer race. He currently operates a gourmet cookie business with his daughter, Ella, and previously served an LDS mission in Las Vegas.
When to watch: The 50-kilometer race walk is scheduled for Aug. 19.
Weightlifting: Rio is the second Olympics for women's weightlifter Sarah Robles, a California native who turned 28 on Aug. 1. She was seventh in the London Games in 2012. She is competing in the 75-plus kilogram division.
When to watch: Women's weightlifting for the 75-plus kilogram division will be on Aug. 14.
Volleyball: California native Taylor Sander, 24, is a four-time All American in volleyball and was the American Volleyball Coaches Association’s National Player of the Year in 2014, among other honors. The 6-foot-4 outside hitter played on Brigham Young University’s volleyball team during college. This is his first Olympics.
When to watch: The volleyball preliminary rounds will take place Aug. 7-15, quarterfinals are Aug. 17, semifinals are Aug. 19 and the finals are Aug. 21. Team USA's first game is Aug. 7 against Canada.
Beach volleyball: Jake Gibb and Casey Patterson will participate in beach volleyball. Gibb, 40, a University of Utah graduate and Bountiful native, finished fifth in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics with former teammate Sean Rosenthal. Gibb and Patterson, a 36-year-old Californian and Brigham Young University graduate, came in fifth at the 2015 Beach World Championships.
When to watch: Men's beach volleyball will hold preliminaries Aug. 6-10, with the "lucky loser" round on Aug. 11, Round of 16 on Aug. 12-13, quarterfinals on Aug. 15, semifinals on Aug. 16 and finals on Aug. 18. Their first game is Aug. 6 at 1:30 p.m. against Qatar.
Rugby sevens: Akalaini “Bui” Baravilala, 25, a native of Honolulu, who played basketball and volleyball in high school, according to usarugby.org
Update: In pool play, the USA women lost to Fiji and also beat Colombia and tied top-seeded Australia. The USA women advanced to the quarterfinals and lost their first game 5-0 to New Zealand. They then beat Fiji and France to take fifth in the tournament.
Rugby sevens: Provo native Maka Unufe, 24, played football at Provo High School. The 6- foot-2 player joined a Utah rugby team and has risen quickly in the sport. (See Donaldson’s "Provo native Maka Unufe went from high school dropout to Olympian inspired by his family" on deseretnews.com.)
Update: The USA men’s team placed ninth overall. In the preliminary pool play, the USA men’s team lost to Argentina 14-17, beat Brazil 26-0 and lost to Fiji 24-19. In the tournament, they beat Brazil 24-12 and Spain 24-12 to take ninth.
Water polo: Sami Hill, 24, of Santa Barbara, California, is a UCLA graduate and is the goalkeeper for the USA water polo team.
Update: In pool play, the USA women beat Spain 11-4 on Tuesday, Aug. 9, and China 12-4 on Thursday. They are scheduled to play Hungary on Saturday, Aug. 13.
Gymnastics: MyKayla Skinner, a 19-year-old from Gilbert, Arizona, was selected as an alternate for the USA women's gymnastics team. She was fourth overall at the Olympic trials and has won several individual and team medals at recent competitions. She has committed to the University of Utah this fall.
When to watch: Women's gymnastics will take place at varying times throughout the competition, with qualifiers on Aug. 7, and finals taking place on Aug. 9, 11 and 14-16.
NEW ZEALAND
Track and field: 6-foot-4 Valerie Adams of New Zealand is the reigning Olympic gold medalist in shot put, winning it both in 2008 in Beijing and in 2012 in London, and has won the world championship in the sport multiple times. The 32-year-old celebrated her wedding in the Hamilton New Zealand Temple earlier this year.
When to watch: Women's shot put qualifiers will take place on the morning of Aug. 12, with the finals that evening.
BOTSWANA
Track and field: Runner Lydia Casey Jele, 26, will compete in the women's 400-meter race. She is the first woman in Botswana to qualify in an Olympic track event, according to dailynews.gov.bw.
When to watch: The qualifying round is on Aug. 13, with semifinals on Aug. 14 and finals on Aug. 15.
CANADA
Rugby sevens: Ashley Steacy, 29, of Lethbridge, Alberta, started playing when she was 15 and since has played on several of Canada’s teams in international competitions, including the gold-medal team at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto, according to olympic.ca
Update: And she now has an Olympic bronze medal to add to that collection. In the preliminary pool, the Canada women beat Japan 45-0 and Brazil 38-0 on Aug. 6, and lost to Great Britain 22-0 on Aug. 7. In the quarterfinals, they won 15-5 against the team from France. In the semifinals on Aug. 8, they lost 17-5 to the Australians and beat the British women 33-10 to take the bronze medal.
Gymnastics: Jackson Payne, 24, served a two-year mission in Korea and studies kinesiology at the University of Alberta, according to olympics.cbc.ca.
Upate: The Canadian men’s gymnastics team didn’t qualify for the Rio Olympics, they sent gymnast Scott Morgan andnamed Payne the alternate, according to gymcan.org.
ARGENTINA
Rowing: Rio is the third Olympics for 30-year-old Lucia Palermo, who is competing in the women’s single sculls. She was 21st overall in the 2012 London Games. She took bronze in the 2015 Pan American Games.
Update/when to watch: In Rio, she was fifth in her six-person heat on Saturday, Aug. 6, and qualified for the repechage race. In the Monday, Aug. 8, she came in second of four in her heat and competed in the quarterfinals on Tuesday, Aug. 9. She now moves to the semifinals for the C/D group, which was rescheduled to Friday, Aug. 12.
BRAZIL
Soccer/football: Rio is the second Olympics for Bruna Beatriz Benites Soares, who is a defender for the Brazilian team. In 2012 in London, she was part of the team that went to the semifinals, but lost to Japan, which went on to win silver. The 30-year-old was baptized in 2000, according to this blog's feature on her.
Update/when to watch: In the preliminary pool rounds, the Brazilian team was the top team in their four-team pool, winning their first match 3-0 against China on Aug. 3, beating Sweden 5-1 on Aug. 6 and tying the team from South Africa 0-0 on Aug. 9. Soares played in the game against South African. The Brazil women’s team is moving to the quarterfinals and will play Australia on Friday, Aug. 12.
AUSTRALIA
Basketball: University of Utah alumna Leilani Mitchell, 31, has played in the WNBA since 2008 and in Australia’s WNBL during the 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons. Her mother is an Australian native and the 5-foot-5-inch point guard was born in Richland, Washington, according to wnba.com.
Update/when to watch: In preliminary pool play, the Australians won 84-66 against Brazil, 61-56 against Turkey, 89-71 against France, and 92-86 versus Japan. They play Belarus on Saturday, Aug. 13.
Track and field: Peter Bol, 22, of the Thornlie Ward, Perth Australia Southern River Stake, competed in the 800-meter race on Aug. 13. He’s originally from South Sudan and his family emigrated to Australia when he was a child, according to his bio on rio2016.olympics.com.au.
Update: He was sixth in his heat with a time of 1:49.36 and was 41th overall in his first Olympics.
COOK ISLANDS
Track and field: This is the second Olympics for 23-year-old sprinter Patricia Taea of Rarotonga, Cook Islands, and the Springvale Ward Melbourne Australia Braeside Stake. She had a personal best time in the 2012 London Games.
When to watch: The women’s 100-meter preliminary round is Friday, Aug. 12.
If you know of any other LDS athletes competing in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, please send their name, country and event to mormontimes@deseretnews.com.