Olympic History of Puerto Rico

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Puerto Rico , whose NOK , the Comité Olímpico de Puerto Rico , was founded in 1948 andrecognizedby the IOC in the same year, has participated in all Summer Olympics since 1948. From 1984 to 2002, Puerto Rican athletes were also sent to winter games. Young athletes have taken part in all of the youth summer games held so far.

Overview

Summer games

Mónica Puig won Puerto Rico's first gold medal in 2016

The high jumper Benjamin Casado was the first Puerto Rico athlete to compete in an Olympic competition on July 30, 1948. The first Puerto Rican woman to appear at the Olympics was fencer Gloria Colón on August 31, 1960.

Peruvian athletes have competed in athletics, boxing and shooting (since 1948), weightlifting (since 1952), swimming, basketball and fencing (since 1960), diving and sailing (since 1964), cycling (since 1968), archery and judo ( since 1972), riding and wrestling (since 1976), rowing (since 1984), tennis, gymnastics and baseball (since 1992), softball (since 1996), beach volleyball and taekwondo (since 2004) as well as in table tennis, triathlon and in Volleyball (since 2016).

At the very first Olympic participation in London in 1948, the first medal win could be celebrated. Boxer Juan Venegas won bronze in the bantamweight division. In athletics, the pole vaulters Joe Barbosa and José Vicente achieved a shared ninth place. In 1960 in Rome, Rolando Cruz failed with fourth place in the pole vault only narrowly due to a medal. The men's basketball team also took fourth place in Tokyo in 1964. With five wins in seven preliminary round games, the team qualified for the semi-finals. There she was defeated by the later Olympic champions from the USA with 42:62. The game for the bronze medal was lost to Brazil with 60:76.

In 1968 in Mexico City, weightlifter Fernando Báez reached 6th place in bantamweight. In 1972, the shooter Jaime Santiago also took sixth place with his small-bore rifle in the prone position. The boxer Orlando Maldonado won in Montreal in 1976 in the light flyweight with bronze the second medal Puerto Rico. The swimmer Carlos Berrocal was fourth over 100 meters back.

Puerto Rico, a suburb of the United States , participated with three boxers in the 1980 Moscow Games, which were boycotted by the United States. 1984 in Los Angeles boxers even won two medals. Arístides González won bronze middleweight, Luis Ortiz silver lightweight. The freestyle wrestler Orlando Cáceres took 4th place in the bantamweight division.

In 1992 in Barcelona boxer Aníbal Santiago won bronze in the welterweight division. In 1996 in Atlanta, Daniel Santos was the sixth Puerto Rico boxer in a row to win an Olympic medal. Santos won bronze in the welterweight division. In swimming Ricardo Busquets reached 8th place over 50 meters freestyle and 7th place over 100 meters freestyle.

In 2012, for the first time, boxers were not involved in medal wins. Freestyle wrestler Jaime Espinal won silver in the middleweight division. The athlete Javier Culson won bronze over the 400 meter hurdles. In gymnastics, Tommy Ramos reached 6th place on the rings. In Rio de Janeiro 2016, the tennis player Mónica Puig achieved her first Olympic victory for Puerto Rico with her victory in the individual final over the German Angelique Kerber . Diver Rafael Quintero took 7th place in high diving.

Winter games

In winter sports, tobogganers (since 1984), biathletes and alpine ski racers (since 1988) as well as bobsleigh athletes and freestyle skiers (since 1992) have been used. Puerto Rico's first Olympic winter athlete was luge athlete George Tucker on February 9, 1984. Puerto Rico's first woman to appear at the Winter Games on February 24, 1988 was alpine ski racer Mary Pat Wilson.

Youth games

Fifteen young athletes, eight boys and seven girls, competed in nine different sports at the first 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Singapore . Boxer Emmanuel Rodríguez became a youth Olympic flyweight champion. The athlete Daliadiz Ortiz was sixth in the javelin throw.

In 2014 in Nanjing , 23 athletes, 15 boys and eight girls, took part. They competed in ten sports. The boys' basketball team took fourth place in the preliminary round. Among other things, the German team was beaten with 12:19 in the preliminary round. In the quarterfinals they lost to Venezuela 18:20.

IOC members

Finance manager Richard Carrión has been an IOC member since 1990 . From 2002 to 2014 he was chairman of the finance committee. Since 1997 he has been a member of the Marketing Commission and since 2003 a member of the Working Group for Remuneration and Remuneration.

Overview of the participants

Summer games

year Athletes Flag bearer sports Medals rank
total Men Women athletics Boxing shoot Weightlifting swim basketball fencing Diving sailing Cycling Archery Judo horse riding Wrestling rowing tennis do gymnastics baseball Softball Beach volleyball Taekwondo Table tennis Triathlon volleyball Gold medal.svg Silver medal.svg Bronze medal.svg Total
1896-1936 not participated
1948 9 9 0 José Vicente 4th 3 2 1 1 34
1952 21st 21st 0 Jaime Annexy 10 3 5 3
1956 10 10 0 Daniel Cintrón 7th 3
1960 27 26th 1 Toñín Casillas 7th 4th 2 1 12 1
1964 32 30th 2 Rolando Cruz 6th 1 3 4th 4th 12 1 1
1968 58 54 4th Jaime Frontera 6th 6th 9 6th 9 12 1 2 6th 1
1972 53 53 0 Arnaldo Bristol 9 6th 8th 6th 12 2 1 5 1 3
1976 80 73 7th Téofilo Colón 10 10 8th 2 12 12 4th 9 2 5 1 5 1 1 37
1980 3 3 0 Téofilo Colón 3
1984 51 43 8th Fernando Cañales 14th 11 2 1 5 2 6th 1 1 2 2 3 1 1 1 2 30th
1988 43 44 3 Jesús Feliciano 5 10 2 2 3 12 3 2 4th 1 2 1
1992 71 65 6th Luis Martínez 7th 8th 2 1 6th 12 4th 4th 4th 2 1 20th 1 1 54
1996 69 47 22nd Ivelisse Echevarría 5 7th 2 1 7th 12 1 2 3 1 1 4th 1 5 2 15th 1 1 71
2000 29 23 6th Quique Figueroa 8th 8th 2 2 3 1 1 2 4th 1
2004 43 32 11 Carlos Arroyo 3 5 1 8th 12 1 3 3 1 1 1 1 2 1
2008 22nd 17th 5 McWilliams Arroyo 5 5 1 1 4th 3 1 2
2012 25th 19th 6th Javier Culson 10 5 1 1 2 1 3 2 1 1 2 64
2016 40 13 27 Jaime Espinal 12 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 1 12 1 1 54
total 1 2 6th 9 79

Winter games

year Athletes Flag bearer sports Medals
total m w Sledding biathlon Alpine skiing Bobsleigh Freestyle ski Gold medal.svg Silver medal.svg Bronze medal.svg total rank
1924-1980 not participated
1984 1 1 0 George Tucker 1
1988 9 8th 1 Mary Pat Wilson 2 1 6th
1992 6th 6th 0 Jorge Bonnet 4th 2
1994 5 5 0 Liston Bochette 5
1994 6th 6th 0 José Ferrer 1 5
2010-2014 not participated
2018 1 1 0 Charles Flaherty 1
total 0 0 0 0 -

Youth Summer Games

year Athletes Flag bearer sports Medals
total m w athletics Boxing basketball do gymnastics sailing swim Table tennis tennis Triathlon Beach volleyball fencing Judo Taekwondo Gold medal.svg Silver medal.svg Bronze medal.svg total rank
2010 15th 8th 7th Emmanuel Rodríguez 3 1 4th 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 50
2014 23 15th 8th 6th 4th 2 1 1 1 4th 1 2 1
total 1 0 0 1 62

Youth Winter Games

year Athletes Flag bearer sports Medals
total m w Gold medal.svg Silver medal.svg Bronze medal.svg total rank
2012-2016 not participated
total 0 0 0 0 -

Medalist

Gold medals

Surname Games sport discipline annotation
Mónica Puig 2016 Rio de Janeiro tennis singles first Olympic victory

Silver medals

Surname Games sport discipline annotation
Luis Ortiz 1984 Los Angeles Boxing lightweight
Jaime Espinal 2012 London Wrestling Middleweight, freestyle

Bronze medals

Surname Games sport discipline annotation
Juan Venegas 1948 London Boxing Bantamweight first medal win
Orlando Maldonado 1976 Montreal Boxing Light flyweight
Arístides González 1984 Los Angeles Boxing medium weight
Aníbal Santiago 1992 Barcelona Boxing Welterweight
Daniel Santos 1996 Atlanta Boxing Welterweight
Javier Culson 2012 London athletics 400 meter hurdles

Medals by sport

sport gold silver bronze total
tennis 1 0 0 1
Boxing 0 1 5 6th
Wrestling 0 1 0 1
athletics 0 0 1 1
total 1 2 6th 9

Medal table

Olympic games

Gold medal.svg Silver medal.svg Bronze medal.svg total rank
Olympic Summer Games 1 2 6th 9 79
winter Olympics 0 0 0 0 -
total 1 2 6th 9 81

Youth Olympic Games

Gold medal.svg Silver medal.svg Bronze medal.svg total rank
Olympic Summer Games 1 0 0 0 62
winter Olympics 0 0 0 0 -
total 1 0 0 0 66

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