Puerto Rico at the 1988 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	PUR
Nocname:	Puerto Rico Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1988
Website:
Location:	Calgary
Competitors:	9 (8 men, 1 woman)
Sports:	3
Flagbearer:	Mary Pat Wilson^[1]
Gold:	0
Silver:	0
Bronze:	0
Appearances:	auto

Puerto Rico competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada.

The country sent nine representatives (eight men and one woman) to the Games; they competed in three sports.^[2]

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[3]

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Alpine skiing	5	1	6
Biathlon	1	–	1
Luge	2	0	2
Total	8	1	9

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jason Edelmann	Men's super-G	2:09.93	52
	Men's giant slalom
	Men's slalom	1:48.34		1:10.38		2:58.72	52
Félix Flechas	Men's super-G
	Men's giant slalom	1:38.01		1:34.99		3:13.00	67
Walter Sandza	Men's super-G	2:25.95	56
	Men's giant slalom	1:35.34		1:33.43		3:08.77	66
Jorge Torrella	Men's slalom
Kevin Wilson	Men's super-G
	Men's giant slalom	1:26.31		1:22.88		2:49.19	61
	Men's slalom	1:21.73		1:13.45		2:35.18	43
Mary Pat Wilson	Women's giant slalom
	Women's slalom

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Elliot Archilla	Sprint	47:47.4	6	72
	Individual	1'51:57.6	13	68

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
George Tucker	Men's singles	50.748	36	50.249	34	51.688	33	54.440	36	3:27.125	34
Raúl Muñiz		50.184	35	49.849	33	50.480	32	50.449	33	3:20.962	31

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• Olympic Winter Games 1988, full results by sports-reference.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mary Pat Wilson . olympedia.org . 5 January 2024.
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417092912/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/PUR/winter/1988/ "Puerto Rico at the 1988 Calgary Winter Games"
3. https://www.olympedia.org/countries/PUR/editions/43 Puerto Rico at the 1988 Winter Olympics