The country did not win any medals at the Games; the best performance of the delegation was from sport shooter Ahmad Al-Makotum, who placed seventh in the qualification round of the men's double trap and lost a subsequent four-man shoot-out.

[6] The inclusion of Latifah and Matiha Al Maktoum marked the first time the United Arab Emirates had sent female athletes to an Olympic Games.

[12][13] He spent six weeks preparing for the Games at a training camp in Poland with the team's national coach Vasko Anguelov Dimov.

Latifah Al Maktoum missed the 2007 Pan Arab Games in Cairo to focus on training for the Olympics.

[15] Of the 77 competitors in this first portion of the event, she tied with Saudi Arabia's Faisal Al-Shalan and Kamal Bahamdan for 61st overall.

[15] This placed Latifah Al Maktoum 54th out of 70 finishing riders, tying Bahamdan and Bruce Goodin of New Zealand, and she was eliminated from the competition.

[18] The United Arab Emirates selected Saeed Rashid Al Qubaisi as the athlete to take part in men's judo.

[6] Al Quabisi qualified to compete in the men's lightweight (−73kg) tournament after receiving an invitation from the Tripartite Commission to allow athletes from National Olympic Committees with small delegations to enter the Games.

[5] Mohammad qualified to take part in the men's laser sailing category after he was granted a wild card invitation by the Tripartite Commission.

[28] Ahmad Al-Makotum qualified for the men's trap and double trap after winning two quota spots reserved by the International Shooting Sport Federation for athletes who met the minimum qualification scores of 112 and 118 points at the 2005 World Shotgun Championships in Lonato del Garda, Italy.

Ahmad Al-Makotum's tournament ended at the qualification round since he scored nine fewer points than the lowest-scoring qualifier.

[30] Three days later, he took part in the qualifying round of the men's double trap, tying for sixth with a score of 136 points.

[31] Ahmad Al-Makotum subsequently lost a four-way shoot-out to determine the sixth shooter to qualify for the final between Australia's Russell Mark, William Chetcuti of Malta and Hungary's Roland Gerebics since all four had the same score.

[32] Sheikh Saeed Al Maktoum, a cousin of Ahmad Al-Makotum,[27] was 31 years old at the time of the Beijing Olympics.

[38] He set himself the objective of improving his personal best time at the Olympics but noted the strong competition he would face.

[38][39] Al Jasmi ranked 61st out of 64 swimmers overall and did not advance into the semi-finals since only the top sixteen overall finishers were allowed to progress.

[41] She was announced as a qualified competitor for the women's middleweight (−67kg) taekwondo competition after the IOC cleared her to participate following the allocation of quota places for athletes deemed to have "an extraordinary record in their sporting discipline.

"[42] Maitha Al Maktoum trained at the Kyung Hee University in the South Korean capital city of Seoul to prepare for the Games.

She lost to her opponent 5–1 in points and was defeated 4–0 in her repechage match against Sandra Šarić of Croatia, ending her chance of a bronze medal.