2008 Summer Olympics / Participant (Argentina)

ARG

2	-	4th

In 2008 Argentina took partin the Summer Olympics forthe 22nd time. 138 athletes from the country qualified for the Games in 19 different sports. Of these, 132 athletes took part in the games.

Manu Ginóbili carried the flag of Argentina at the opening ceremony .

basketball

Men: (bronze )

Federico Kammerichs

• Carlos Delfino
• Manu Ginobili
• Roman González
• Juan Pedro Gutiérrez
• Leonardo Gutiérrez
• Federico Kammerichs
• Andrés Nocioni
• Fabricio Oberto
• Antonio Porta
• Pablo Prigioni
• Paolo Quinteros
• Luis Scola

The Argentine men's basketball team qualified by finishing second at the 2007 American Basketball Championship and is taking part in the Olympic basketball tournament as defending champions for the fifth time.

With a fourth place in the American basketball championship, the Argentine women's basketball team was allowed to take part in a qualifying tournament, where it was eliminated in the preliminary round and thus did not start at the Olympic tournament.

Boxing

Ezequiel Maderna is eligible to start because of a second place in an American middleweight qualifying tournament.

fencing

• Alberto González Viaggio

  Men, foil singles

Soccer

Men (gold ) goal 1 Óscar Ustari 18 Sergio Romero 22 Nicolás Navarro Defense 2 Ezequiel Garay 3 Fabián Monzón 4 Pablo Zabaleta 6 Federico Fazio 12 Nicolás Pareja midfield 5 Fernando Gago 7 José Sosa 8 Éver Banega 10 Juan Román Riquelme 11 Angel Di María 14 Javier Mascherano Storm 9 Ezequiel Lavezzi 13 Lautaro Acosta 15 Lionel Messi 16 Sergio Aguero 17 Diego Buonanotte Trainer Sergio Batista Results Preliminary round  Ivory Coast : 2-1  Australia : 1-0  Serbia : 2-0 Quarter finals  Netherlands : 2-1 Semifinals  Brazil : 3-0 final  Nigeria : 1-0

Women goal 1 Guadalupe Calello 18 Vanina Correa Defense 2 Eva González 3 Yesica Arrien 5 Marisa Gerez 6 Gabriela Chavez 12 Daiana Cardone midfield 4 Florencia Núñez 10 Mariela del Carmen Coronel 11 Fabiana Vallejos 13 María Florencia Quiñones 16 María Gimena Blanco Storm 7 Ludmila Manicler 8 Emilia Mendieta 9 María Belén Potassa 14 Andrea Ojeda 15 Mercedes Pereyra 17 Analía Almeida Trainer José Carlos Borrello Results Preliminary round  Canada : 1: 2  Sweden : 0-1  People's Republic of China : 0-2 eliminated as fourth group

Sergio Batista announced his roster for the July 3rd Olympics. Subsequently, the midfielder Nicolás Burdisso was exchanged for Nicolás Pareja, as Burdisso's club did not give clearance for the Olympic Games.

Weightlifting

• Carlos Espeleta

  Men, class up to 77 kg

hockey

Women: (bronze )

• Magdalena Aicega
• Luciana Aymar
• Noel Barrionuevo
• Claudia Burkart
• Soledad García
• Alejandra Gulla
• Maria de la Paz Hernández
• Gisele Kañevsky
• Rosario Luchetti
• Mercedes Margalot
• Mariana González Oliva
• Carla Rebecchi
• Mariana Rossi
• Mariné Russo
• Belén Succi
• Paola Vukojicic

Judo

• Paula Pareto (bronze )

  Women, super light weight

• Miguel Albarracín

  Men, super light weight

• Daniela Krukower

  Women, light middleweight

• Mariano Bertolotti

  Men, lightweight

• Lorena Briceño

  Women, light heavyweight

• Emmanuel Lucenti

  Men, light middleweight

• Diego Rosatti

  Men, middleweight

• Eduardo Costa

  Men, light heavyweight

• Sandro López

  Men, heavyweight

canoe

• Men: Miguel Correa (single kayak 500 m, single kayak 1000 m)
• Women: Estefanía Fontanini (single kayak 500 m)

athletics

discus

• Men: Jorge Balliengo
• Women: Rocío Comba

Pole vault

• Men: Germán Chiaraviglio
• Women: Alejandra García

Hammer throw

• Men: Juan Ignacio Cerra
• Women: Jennifer Dahlgren

800 m

• Leonardo Price

1500 m

• Javier Carriqueo

20 km walking

• Juan Manuel Cano

Javelin throw

• Pablo Pietrobelli

Shot put

• German Lauro

Cycling

BMX

• Men: Ramiro Marino , Cristian Becerine
• Women: Gabriela Díaz , María Belén Dutto

Street

• Matías Médici , Juan José Haedo , Alejandro Borrajo

Track bike

• Juan Curuchet (gold ), Walter Pérez (gold )

Mountain bike

• Dario Gasco

horse riding

• José Luis Ortelli

  Eventing Singles

• José Maria Larocca

  Show jumping singles

rowing

• Santiago Fernández

  Men, one

• Gabriela Best

  Women, one

shoot

• Juan Carlos Dasque

  Men, trap

swim

• Men: Sergio Ferreyra , José Meolans , Andrés José González , Juan Martín Pereyra , Eduardo Otero , Damián Blaum
• Women: Georgina Bardach , Cecilia Biagioli , Agustina de Giovanni , Liliana Guiscardo , Antonella Bogarín

sailing

Windsurfing

• Men: Mariano Reutemann
• Women: Florencia Gutiérrez

Multihull

• Santiago Lange (bronze ), Carlos Espínola (bronze )

Single-handed dinghy

• Men: Julio Alsogaray
• Women: Cecilia Carranza

Two-handed dinghy

• Men: Javier Conte , Juan de la Fuente
• Women: María Fernanda Sesto , Consuelo Monsegur

Taekwondo

• Vanina Sánchez Berón

  Women, class up to 67 kg

tennis

Six Argentine tennis players will take part in the Olympic Games.

• Agustín Calleri

  Men, singles, doubles with Juan Mónaco

• Guillermo Cañas

  Men, singles, doubles with David Nalbandian

• Gisela Dulko

  Women, singles, doubles with Betina Jozami

• Betina Jozami

  Women, doubles with Gisela Dulko

• Juan Mónaco

  Men, singles, doubles with Agustín Calleri

• David Nalbandian

  Men, singles, doubles with Guillermo Cañas

Table tennis

• Liu Song

  Men, singles

• Pablo Tabachnik

  Men, singles

volleyball

beach volleyball

Martín Conde and Mariano Baracetti qualified as a team for the Olympic Games.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ coarg.org.ar - Atletas que participarán de los Juegos de Beijing (al 23 de Julio) ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) 
2. ↑ Argentina at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games sports-reference.com
3. ↑ aiba.org - 2nd AIBA American Olympic Qualifying Tournament (English)
4. ↑ infobae.com: "Batista confirmó el seleccionado argentino para Beijing" (Spanish)
5. ↑ en.beijing2008.cn: "Nalbandian heads Argentine tennis charge in Beijing Olympics" ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) 
6. ↑ fivb.org - Men Current Standing Olympic Beach Volleyball Qualification (English)

Web links

• National Olympic Committee website (Spanish)