Olympic history of Uruguay

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Uruguay , whose NOK , the Comité Olímpico Uruguayo , was founded in 1923, first took part in the 1924 Summer Olympics. With the exception of 1980, athletes were sent to all of the following summer games. In 1998 Uruguay took part in the Winter Games for the first and only time. Uruguay sent young athletes to both of the youth summer games that have been organized so far.

Overview

Summer games

The winning team from 1924 with the players in light-colored jerseys (from left to right): Scarone , Romano , Cea , Mazzali , Andrade , Petrone , Vidal , Nasazzi ; kneeling: Urdinarán , Tomassina and Ghierra

The winners of 1928 (from left to right) standing: Píriz , Nasazzi, Arispe , Mazzali, Gestido , Fernández ; kneeling: Urdinarán, Castro , Petrone, Cea, Cámpolo and assistant coach Figoli

1964 Bantamweight Boxing Award Ceremony: Bronze for Washington Rodríguez (2nd from right)

The painter Pedro Figari

When Uruguay made its Olympic debut in Paris in 1924, the Olympic team consisted of boxers, fencers and the national soccer team. Later, Uruguayan athletes were involved in rowing (from 1932), basketball, water polo and sailing (from 1936), athletics, cycling, modern pentathlon and swimming (from 1948), horse riding (from 1960), shooting (from 1968), weightlifting ( from 1988), judo and canoeing (from 1992) as well as water jumping and tennis (from 1996) active.

The first Olympians in Uruguay belonged to the national football team, which played their first tournament game on May 26, 1924 against Yugoslavia. On July 1, 1924, the first individual athletes competed in fencing. The brothers Domingo and Pedro Mendy as well as their teammate Gilberto Telechea competed in foil fencing. The first woman from Uruguay to attend the Olympic Games was the javelin thrower Estrella Puente in Helsinki on July 24, 1952.

The Uruguayan national soccer team was able to win the only two gold medals in Uruguay to date in 1924 and 1928. In the preliminary round, Yugoslavia was defeated 7-0, in the round of 16 the USA 3-0 and in the quarter-finals France 5-1. Uruguay won against the Netherlands 2-1 in the semi-finals and met Switzerland in the final. Uruguay won the final 3-0.

In 1928 in Amsterdam, the team formed the Uruguayan Olympic team alone. The team defeated the Netherlands 2-0 in the round of 16 and beat the German Empire 4-1 in the quarter-finals. Italy were defeated 3-2 in the semi-finals. In the final you met the archenemy Argentina. The game ended after extra time 1: 1. A replay was scheduled three days later. Uruguay won 2-1 and was able to repeat its Olympic victory of 1924.

The rower Guillermo Douglas was the only Uruguayan athlete in Los Angeles in 1932. With his bronze medal in one, he was the first individual athlete in his country to win an Olympic medal. It was the three-man rowing team in London in 1948 who were able to upgrade their country's medal balance with a silver and bronze medal. Eduardo Risso won silver in the single, the double scull with William Jones and Juan Rodríguez won bronze. In cycling, the four-wheeler came fourth in the team pursuit, while Leonel Rocca came fifth in the sprint .

In 1952, the rower Juan Rodríguez won another bronze medal in the double scull, this time with his partner Miguel Seijas . The basketball team qualified for the quarter-finals and eventually made it to the semi-finals against the Soviet Union. After a 57-61 defeat, Uruguay played the bronze medal against Argentina and won 68:59. 1956 in Melbourne, the basketball team was able to qualify again for the quarter-finals. And like in Helsinki, they made it to the semi-finals. Here the enemy was the USA. Uruguay lost 38: 101. The bronze medal match against France was won 71:62. In athletics, the long jumper Fermín Donazar reached the final and was twelfth.

In 1964 in Tokyo, boxer Washington Rodríguez won bronze in the bantamweight division. In 1968 in Mexico City Ana María Norbis reached the finals over 100 and 200 meters breast. She finished eighth on both routes. Only in 1992 could an athlete qualify for a final again. The athlete Ricardo Vera reached the final of the 3000 meter obstacle and was twelfth. In 1996, the cyclist Milton Wynants was seventh in the points race.

2000 in Sydney Wynants was able to win a medal for Uruguay again after 36 years. He took silver in the points race. In 2004 in Athens he reached 9th place. The sailor Alejandro Foglia took 8th place in the laser class in 2012. In athletics, Emiliano Lasa was sixth in the long jump in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

Winter games

In 1998 in Nagano, a winter sports enthusiast from Uruguay took part in the winter games for the first time and so far only. The ski racer Gabriel Hottegrinde competed in the slalom and reached place 24.

Youth games

Four young athletes, two boys and two girls, competed in horse riding, swimming and taekwondo at the first 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Singapore . Show jumper Marcelo Chirico won the individual ranking on Links Hot Gossip .

In 2014 in Nanjing , 22 athletes, seven boys and 15 girls, competed in athletics, basketball, hockey, beach volleyball, sailing, horse riding, swimming and table tennis.

Art competitions

As part of the Olympic art competitions in 1924, the author LA Fernández submitted his work Greetings to the Olympians , but was unable to place. The painter Pedro Figari was represented in Los Angeles in 1932 with five works ( Bull Fight , Going to Races , Traveling , Amazon and Country Races ). In 1948 the authors Clotilde Luisi and José María Podestá submitted their piece El Desafioa in the Dramatic Works category . They received an honorable mention.

IOC members

Julio César Maglione , former swimmer and president of the FINA World Swimming Federation until 2016 , was elected an IOC member in 1996. His membership ended in 2015 for reasons of age. In 2016 he became an honorary member.

Overview of the participants

Summer games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports																		Medals				rank
	total	Men	Women																							Total
1896-1920	not participated
1924	25th	25th	0		14th	5	6th																1			1	19th
1928	17th	17th	0		17th																		1			1	24
1932	1	1	0					1																	1	1	26th
1936	37	37	0			7th	5	8th	9	7th	1
1948	59	59	0			8th	5	3	13	8th	3	5	9	3	2									1	1	2	26th
1952	32	31	1			1	2	3	12		1	2	7th	3	1										2	2	37
1956	21st	21st	0				1	2	12			1	5												1	1	35
1960	34	34	0			3	2	5	12		3	1	5			3
1964	23	23	0			1		2	12				8th												1	1	35
1968	27	21st	6th			4th	1	5			1	3	5		5		3
1972	13	10	3	Darwin Piñeyrúa		1		3				2	5		2
1976	9	7th	2			1		1				1	5		1
1980	not participated
1984	18th	17th	1	Carlos Peinado		1			11		3		1		2
1988	15th	14th	1	Jesus Posse		2		1			5	1	3	1	1			1
1992	16	16	0	Ricardo Fabini		2		1			3	2	2	1	1		1	1	1	1
1996	14th	12	2	Marcelo Filippini							2	2	3		2			1	2		1	1
2000	15th	12	3	Mónica Falcioni							1	4th	2		4th	2	1		1					1		1	64
2004	15th	13	2	Serrana Fernández				3			2	3	2		4th					1
2008	12	9	3	Alejandro Foglia				3			1	3	1		3		1
2012	27	24	3	Rodolfo Collazo	16			2			2	2	1		2		1		1
2016	17th	12	5	Dolores Moreira				1			4th	6th			2	1			1			1
total																							2	2	6th	10	76

Winter games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports	Medals
	total	m	w						total	rank
1924-1994	not participated
1998	1	1	0	Gabriel Hottegrinde	1
2002-2018	not participated
total						0	0	0	0	-

Youth Summer Games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports									Medals
	total	m	w														total	rank
2010	4th	2	2	Marcelo Chirico	1	2	1							1			1	50
2014	22nd	7th	15th	Dolores Moreira	1	1		1	4th	4th	9	1	1
total														1	0	0	1	62

Youth Winter Games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports	Medals
	total	m	w						total	rank
2012-2016	not participated
total						0	0	0	0	-

Medalist

Gold medals

Surname	Games	sport	discipline	annotation
National soccer team	1924 Paris	Soccer		first medal and Olympic victory
National soccer team	1928 Amsterdam	Soccer

Silver medals

Surname	Games	sport	discipline	annotation
Guillermo Douglas	1948 London	rowing	One
Milton Wynants	2000 Sidney	Cycling	Points race

Bronze medals

Surname	Games	sport	discipline	annotation
Guillermo Douglas	1932 Los Angeles	rowing	One
William Jones Juan Rodríguez	1948 London	rowing	Double scull
Miguel Seijas Juan Rodríguez	1952 Helsinki	rowing	Double scull
National basketball team	1952 Helsinki	basketball
National basketball team	1956 Melbourne	basketball
Washington Rodríguez	1964 Tokyo	Boxing	Bantamweight

Medals by sport

sport	gold	silver	bronze	total
Soccer	2	0	0	2
rowing	0	1	3	4th
Cycling	0	1	0	1
basketball	0	0	2	2
Boxing	0	0	1	1
total	2	2	6th	10

Medal table

Olympic games

				total	rank
Olympic Summer Games	2	2	6th	10	76
winter Olympics	0	0	0	0	-
total	2	2	6th	10	76

Youth Olympic Games

				total	rank
Youth Olympic Summer Games	1	0	0	1	62
Youth Olympic Winter Games	0	0	0	0	-
total	1	0	0	1	66

Web links

• Uruguay in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Uruguay on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Uruguayan NOK website