1976 Summer Olympics / Participant (Puerto Rico)

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Puerto Rico took part in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal with a delegation of 80 athletes (73 men and 7 women) in 74 competitions in twelve sports.

Boxer Orlando Maldonado won the light flyweight bronze the only medal for Puerto Rico at the Games.

Participants by sport

Archery

Men

• Edgardo Berdeguer

  Singles: 31st place

Women

• María Medina

  Individual: 27th place

basketball

• 9th place

  Butch Lee

  Earl Brown

  Héctor Blondet

  Jimmy Thordsen

  Luis Brignoni

  Mariano Ortíz

  Michael Vicens

  Neftalí Rivera

  Raymond Dalmau

  Bobby Álvarez

  Rubén Rodríguez

  Teo Cruz

Boxing

• Orlando Maldonado

  Light flyweight: bronze

• Julio Guzman

  Flyweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Alejandro Silva

  Bantamweight: eliminated in the round of 16

• Carlos Calderon

  Featherweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Robert Andino

  Lightweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Ismael Martínez

  Light welterweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Carlos Santos

  Welterweight: Eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Wilfredo Guzman

  Light middleweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Carlos Betancourt

  Middleweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• José Rosa

  Light heavyweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

fencing

Men

• José Samalot

  Foil: 43rd place

• Gilberto Peña

  Epee: 55th place

• Rubén Hernández

  Epee: 62nd place

Women

• Dinorah Enríquez

  Foil: 48th place

Weightlifting

• Porfirio de León

  Flyweight: 15th place

• Julio Martínez

  Lightweight: 16th place

Judo

• Angelo Ruiz

  Lightweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

• Carlos Miranda

  Light middleweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Pedro Santos

  Middleweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Eliudis Benítez

  Light heavyweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• José Chandri

  Heavyweight: eliminated in the 1st round

  Open class: eliminated in the 1st round

athletics

Men

• Pedro Ferrer

  100 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  4 x 400 meter relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Iván Mangual

  100 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  4 x 400 meter relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Jorge Ortíz

  400 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 400 meter relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Antonio Colón

  1500 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• José de Jesús

  Marathon: 23rd place

• Victor Serrano

  Marathon: 53rd place

• Arnaldo Bristol

  110 m hurdles: eliminated in the semifinals

• Julio Ferrer

  400 m hurdles: eliminated in the semifinals

  4 x 400 meter relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Amado Morales

  Javelin throw: 12th place

Women

• Ileana Hocking

  400 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  800 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

horse riding

• Juan Rieckehoff

  Show jumping: 20th place

Wrestling

• John de Jesús

  Paper weight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Benjamin Varela

  Featherweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Rafael González

  Lightweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 3rd round

• Dennis Herrick

  Welterweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Manuel Villapol

  Middleweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round

shoot

• Jaime Vives

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 39th place

• Juan Marchand

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 43rd place

• Johnny Cannizzaro

  Free pistol 50 m: 32nd place

• Ralph Rodríguez

  Small bore rifle three-position fight 50 m: 47th place

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 12th place

• Manuel Hawayek

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 47th place

• Pedro Ramírez

  Running target 50 m: 20th place

• René Berlingeri

  Skeet: 47th place

• Rafael Batista

  Skeet: 49th place

swim

Men

• Fernando Cañales

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Francisco Cañales

  200 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  400 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

• José-Ricardo de Jesús

  400 m individual medley: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Arnaldo Pérez

  100 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Carlos Berrocal

  100 m back: 4th place

  200 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Carlos Nazario

  100 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Orlando Catinchi

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

• John Daly

  100 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up

Women

• Jane Fayer

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Diana Hatler

  400 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  800 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Angela Lopez

  100 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Maria Mock

  100 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up

sailing

• José Benítez

  470 dinghy: 25th place

• Miguel Casellas

  470 dinghy: 25th place

• Garry Hoyt

  Tempest: 15th place

• Hovey Freeman

  Tempest: 15th place

• Chris Stater

  Tornado: 14th place

• Richard Darmanin

  Tornado: 14th place

• James Fairbank

  Soling: 22nd place

• Lee Gentil

  Soling: 22nd place

• Juan Torruella senior

  Soling: 22nd place

Web links

• Puerto Rican Olympic team from 1952 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )