1968 Summer Olympics / Participant (Costa Rica)

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Costa Rica participated in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City with a delegation of 18 athletes (17 men and one woman) in 18 competitions in six sports. None of the athletes managed to win a medal.

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Isaac Marin

  Light welterweight: not eliminated in the 1st round

• Walter Campos

  Light middleweight: not eliminated in the 1st round

Weightlifting

• Luis Fonseca

  Middleweight: 17th place

• Rodolfo Castillo

  Light Heavyweight: 21st place

• Fernando Esquivel

  Middle heavyweight: 23rd place

athletics

Men

• Rafael Perez

  5000 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  10,000 m: 31st place

  Marathon: race not finished

• Jean Robotham

  400 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  Long jump: 24th place

  Pentathlon: 32nd place

Cycling

• Miguel Angel Sánchez

  Road race: 63rd place

  Team time trial: 27th place

• José Manuel Soto

  Road Race: Race not finished

  Team time trial: 27th place

• Humberto Solano

  Road Race: Race not finished

• Adrian Solano

  Team time trial: 27th place

• José Sánchez

  Road Race: Race not finished

  Team time trial: 27th place

shoot

• Antonio Mora

  Free pistol 50 m: 67th place

• Rodrigo Ruiz

  Free pistol 50 m: 68th place

• Hugo Chamberlain

  Small bore rifle, three-position fight, 50 m: 57th place

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 66th place

• Carlos Pacheco

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 52nd place

  Skeet: 42nd place

• Jorge André

  Skeet: 51st place

swim

• Luis Aguilar

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

Web links

• Costa Rican Olympic team from 1968 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )