El Salvador at the 2015 Pan American Games explained

Noc:	ESA
Nocname:	El Salvador Olympic Committee
Year:	2015
Date:	10–26 July 2015
Games:	Pan American Games
Location:	Toronto
Competitors:	52
Sports:	21
Flagbearer Close:	Jorge Merino
Gold:	0
Silver:	1
Bronze:	2
Rank:	20
Appearances:	auto

El Salvador competed in the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from July 10 to 26, 2015.^[1]

On July 2, 2015 swimmer Marcelo Acosta was named the flagbearer of the team during the opening ceremony.^[2]

Competitors

The following table lists El Salvador's delegation per sport and gender.

width=120	Sport !	width=60	Men !	width=60	Women !	width=60	Total
Archery	1	1	2
Athletics	1	1	2
Badminton	1	1	2
Beach volleyball	2	2	4
Bowling	2	2	4
Boxing	0	1	1
Cycling	0	2	2
Equestrian	1	1	2
Fencing	0	3	3
Gymnastics	1	0	1
Judo	3	0	3
Karate	1	0	1
Roller sports	1	1	2
Rowing	1	3	4
Sailing	1	0	1
Shooting	6	3	9
Swimming	2	2	4
Taekwondo	0	1	1
	1	0	1
	1	1	2
	1	0	1
Total	27	25	52

Medalists

The following competitors from El Salvador won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
		Karate	Men's 84 kg
		Shooting	Women's 10 metre air pistol
		Cycling	Women's road time trial

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Karate	0	1	0	1
Cycling	0	0	1	1
Shooting	0	0	1	1
Total	0	1	2	3

Medals by day
Day				Total
July 12	0	0	1	1
July 22	0	0	1	1
July 25	0	1	0	1
Total	0	1	2	3

Archery

See main article: Archery at the 2015 Pan American Games and Archery at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. One male and one female archer from El Salvador qualified for the archery event at the Games.^[3]

Athlete	Event	Ranking Round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /	Rank
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Oscar Guillén	Men's individual	618	28	L 0–6	Did not advance
Elena Abullarade	Women's individual	563	30	L 2–6	Did not advance

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2015 Pan American Games and Athletics at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. El Salvador qualified one male and one female athlete.

Road and track events

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
	Men's 20 km walk	1:42:03	10
	Women's 20 km walk	1:47:33	13

Badminton

See main article: Badminton at the 2015 Pan American Games and Badminton at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. El Salvador qualified a team of two athletes (one man and one woman).^[4]

Athlete	Event	First round	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Jassiel Hernandez	Men's singles	align=center	L (5–21, 6–21)	align=center colspan="5"	Did not advance
Fatima Fuentes	Women's singles	align=center	W (21–15, 21–13)	L (4–21, 10–21)	align=center colspan="4"	Did not advance
Jassiel Hernandez Fatima Fuentes	Mixed doubles	align=center	L (11–21, 6–21)	align=center colspan="5"	Did not advance

Beach volleyball

See main article: Beach volleyball at the 2015 Pan American Games and Beach volleyball at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. El Salvador qualified a men's and women's pair for a total of four athletes.^[5]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round			Quarterfinals	9th to 12th round	13th to 16th round	13th-place match	11th-place match	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Carlos Talavera David Vargas	Men's	L (11-21, 12-21)	L (15-21, 15-21)	L (15-21, 24-26)			W (18-21, 21-14, 21-19)	W (22-20, 17-21, 15-10)		13
Laura Molina Ivonne Soler	Women's	L (12-21, 14-21)	L (18-21, 12-21)	W (21-18, 23-21, 15-12)	L (12-21, 16-21)	L (15-21, 21-19, 15-8)			W (23-25, 21-19, 16-14)	11

Bowling

See main article: Bowling at the 2015 Pan American Games and Bowling at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. El Salvador qualified a full team of four athletes (two men and two women).

Singles

Athlete	Event	Qualification															Round Robin				Semifinals	Finals
		Block 1 (games 1–6)						Block 2 (games 7–12)						Total	Average	Rank	Total	Average	Grand total	Rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total	Average	Rank	Total	Average	Grand total	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Julio Acosta	Men's<	--Qualification 1–12, Total, Average-->	176	193	158	195	211	194	167	236	187	182	158	216	2273	189.4	23	align=center colspan=6	Did not advance	23
Giancarlo Mateucci	Men's<	239	200	222	236	204	179	180	194	165	166	157	169	2311	192.6	19	align=center colspan=6	Did not advance	19
Eugenia Quintanilla	Women's<	--Qualification 1–12, Total, Average-->	220	176	246	159	191	178	161	168	166	166	223	232	2286	190.5	21	align=center colspan=6	Did not advance	21
Marcela Sanchez	Women's<	138	199	185	161	164	229	237	269	207	222	168	233	2412	201.0	11	align=center colspan=6	Did not advance	11

Doubles

Athlete	Event	Block 1 (games 1–6)								Block 2 (games 7–12)								Grand total	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Average	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total	Average	Grand total	Final rank
Julio Acosta Giancarlo Mateucci	Men's	173	157	163	213	178	196	1080	180.0	207	170	232	176	180	217	2262	188.5	align=center rowspan=2	4729	align=center rowspan=2	10
Julio Acosta Giancarlo Mateucci	Men's	244	191	218	213	228	170	1264	210.7	201	165	183	202	208	244	2467	205.6
Eugenia Quintanilla Marcela Sanchez	Women's	197	180	182	198	181	202	1140	190.0	236	188	256	189	208	209	2426	202.2	align=center rowspan=2	4779	align=center rowspan=2	6
Eugenia Quintanilla Marcela Sanchez	Women's	187	191	188	161	225	170	1122	187.0	152	190	215	191	187	296	2353	196.1

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 2015 Pan American Games and Boxing at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. El Salvador qualified one female boxer.

Woman

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 2015 Pan American Games and Cycling at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. El Salvador qualified two female cyclists (one each for road and track events).

Road

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Evelyn García	Road race	2:07:53	18
Time trial	27:20.24

Track

Keirin

Sprint

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 2015 Pan American Games and Equestrian at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. El Salvador qualified two athletes in the eventing competition.

Eventing

Athlete	Horse	Event	Dressage		Cross-country		Jumping		Total
			Dressage		Cross-country		Final		Total
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Sofia Baussan Augspuer	Durango	align=left rowspan=2	Individual	61.60	=26	12.40	21	19.00	=30	93.00	24
Jose Romano Hijo	Bucefalo	67.40	=38	Eliminated

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 2015 Pan American Games and Fencing at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. El Salvador qualified 3 fencers (3 women).

Athlete	Event	Pool Round		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
Athlete	Event	Result	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Fatima Tobar	align=left rowspan=2	Women's Sabre	1	13	L 2–15	Did not advance
Alba Marroquin Castañeda	1	16	L 8–15	Did not advance
Madeline Hernandez Elias Alba Marroquin Castañeda Fatima Tobar	Women's Sabre Team	colspan=3	L 25–45	Did not advance		8

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games and Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. El Salvador qualified one male gymnast.^[6] Pablo Velasquez originally was the first reserve after qualification but later competed in the final.

Artistic

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualified to apparatus final

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 2015 Pan American Games and Judo at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. El Salvador qualified a team of four judokas (three men and one woman).^[7] However, they did not register the female athlete for the competition.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Gustavo Lopez Aguilera	−66 kg		L 000–100		L 000–100	Did not advance	7
Juan Rosa	−73 kg		L 000–100		L 000S3–001S2	Did not advance	7
Juan Diego Turcios	−81 kg	L 001S3–000S2	Did not advance

Karate

See main article: Karate at the 2015 Pan American Games and Karate at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. El Salvador qualified 1 athlete. Jorge Merino had the country's highest placement, a silver medal finish.

Roller sports

See main article: Roller sports at the 2015 Pan American Games and Roller sports at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. El Salvador qualified one male and one female roller skater.

Speed

Athlete	Event	Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time/Points	Rank
Odir Miranda	Men's 200 m time trial	17.738		10
	Men's 500 m	41.197	6	Did not advance
	Men's 10,000 m points race	Did not finish
Judith Lopez	Women's 200 m time trial	20.325		10
Judith Lopez	Women's 10,000 m points race	Did not finish

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 2015 Pan American Games and Rowing at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. El Salvador qualified 3 boats and four athletes (one male and three female).

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Gerson Hernandez	Men's Single Sculls	7.37.47	5 R	7.47.06	4 FB	8:32.26	10
Jessica Hernandez	Women's Single Sculls	8:28.06	4 R	9:04.26	5 FB	8:08.68	7
Adriana Escobar Karla Calvo	Women's Lwt Double Sculls	7:57.81	3 R	8:00.97	5 FB	7:23.83	8

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); R=Repechage

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 2015 Pan American Games and Sailing at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. El Salvador qualified one sailor.^[8]

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 2015 Pan American Games and Shooting at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. El Salvador qualified 9 shooters (six male and three female).^[9]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Andres Amador	Skeet	87	26	Did not advance
Trap	Did not start
align=left rowspan=2	Hermes Barahona	25 metre rapid fire pistol	536-11x	14	Did not advance
10 metre air pistol	556-10x	24	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Antonio Ferracuti	Skeet	Did not start
Trap	54	29	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=3	Israel Gutierrez	50 metre rifle three positions	1113-29x	19	Did not advance
50 metre rifle prone	606.4	24	Did not advance
10 metre air rifle	607.0	14	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Jorge Pimentel	50 metre pistol	503-03x	25	Did not advance
10 metre air pistol	560-15x	19	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=3	Oliser Zelaya	50 metre rifle three positions	1118-31x	18	Did not advance
50 metre rifle prone	599.9	27	Did not advance
10 metre air rifle	601.9	19	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Lilian Castro	25 metre pistol	539-04x	19	Did not advance
10 metre air pistol	371-08x	6 Q	172.0
align=left rowspan=2	Johana Pineda	50 metre rifle three positions	565-18x	16	Did not advance
10 metre air rifle	401.2	20	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Ana Ramirez	50 metre rifle three positions	581-21x	2 Q	393.2	7
10 metre air rifle	413.3	2 Q	100.3	7

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 2015 Pan American Games and Swimming at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. El Salvador qualified four swimmers (two men and two women).

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan="4"	Marcelo Acosta	Men's 100 m freestyle	53.40	21	Did not advance
Men's 200 m freestyle	1:51.77	14 QB	1:50.95	11
Men's 400 m freestyle	3:54.83	13 QB	3:51.12	9
Men's 1500 m freestyle	15:16.26		4
align=left rowspan="4"	Rafael Alfaro	Men's 100 m breaststroke	1:05.50	17	Did not advance
Men's 200 m breaststroke	2:21.05	18	Did not advance
Men's 200 metre individual medley	2:03.89	10 QB	2:02.55	9
Men's 400 metre individual medley	4:29.81	13 QB	4:27.40	13
align=left rowspan="3"	Rebeca Quinteros	Women's 200 m freestyle	2:05.26	13 QB	2:06.19	16
Women's 400 m freestyle	4:29.19	16 QB	4:27.89	15
Women's 800 m freestyle	9:07.98	14
Fatima Flores Guzman	Women's 10 km open water	2:14:15.0	14

Taekwondo

See main article: Taekwondo at the 2015 Pan American Games and Taekwondo at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. El Salvador received a wildcard to enter one female athlete.^[10]

Tennis

See main article: Tennis at the 2015 Pan American Games and Tennis at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. El Salvador qualified one athlete in the men's singles event.^[11]

Men

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 2015 Pan American Games and Weightlifting at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. El Salvador qualified one male and one female weightlifter.^[12] ^[13]

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
Julio Salamanca	Men's 62 kg	120	4	155	4	275	4
Genesis Murcia	Women's 48 kg	70	9	88	8	158	8

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 2015 Pan American Games and Wrestling at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. El Salvador received one wildcard.

Men's freestyle

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