Puerto Rico at the 1996 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	PUR
Nocname:	Puerto Rico Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1996
Website:
Location:	Atlanta
Competitors:	69 (47 men and 22 women)
Sports:	16
Flagbearer:	Ivelisse Echevarría
Rank:	71
Gold:	0
Silver:	0
Bronze:	1
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1948

Puerto Rico competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. 69 competitors, 47 men and 22 women, took part in 60 events in 16 sports.^[1]

Medalists

Bronze

• Daniel Santos — Boxing, Men's Welterweight

Archery

See main article: Archery at the 1996 Summer Olympics. In the fifth time the nation competed in archery at the Olympics, Puerto Rico entered one woman. She finished in last place.

Women's Individual Competition:

• Maria Reyes → Round of 64, 64th place (0-1)

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's 400m Hurdles

• Domingo Cordero

• Heat - 51.20 (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

• Maximo Oliveras  - 2:47.15 (→ 106th place)

Basketball

See main article: Basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Men's tournament

See main article: Basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament.

Preliminary round

9–12th Place classification match

9th Place match

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's Flyweight ( - 51 kg)

• Omar Adorno

• First Round - Lost to Igor Samoilenco (Moldova) on points (8-20)

Men's Bantamweight ( - 54 kg)

• José Miguel Cotto

• First Round - Lost to Raimkul Malakhbekov (Russia) on points (6-16)

Men's Featherweight ( - 57 kg)

• Luis Seda

• First Round - Lost to Kamsing Somluck (Thailand) on points (2-13)

Men's Light-Welterweight ( - 63,5 kg)

• Luis Deines Pérez

• First Round - Lost to Jacek Bielski (Poland) on points (2-18)

Men's Welterweight ( - 67 kg)

• Daniel Santos

• First Round - Defeated Ernest Atangana Mboa (Cameroon) RSC-1 (02:54)

• Second Round - Defeated Kabil Lahsen (Morocco) on points (16-4)

• Quarterfinals - Defeated Nariman Atayev (Uzbekistan) on points (28-15)

• Semifinals - Lost to Oleg Saitov (Russia) on points (11-13)

Men's Light-Middleweight ( - 71 kg)

• José Luis Quiñones

• First Round - Lost to Antonio Perugino (Italy) on points (8-10)

Men's Light-Heavyweight ( - 81 kg)

• Enrique Flores

• First Round - Defeated Gurcharn Singh (India) on points (15-7)

• Second Round - Defeated Sybrand Botes (South Africa) on points (16-7)

• Quarterfinals - Lost to Antonio Tarver (United States) RSC-3 (01:54)

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Track Competition

Men's Points Race

• Juan Merheb

• Final - did not finish (→ no ranking)

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's 3m Springboard

• Ramon Sandin

• Preliminary Heat - 302.55 (→ did not advance, 29th place)

Women's 3m Springboard

• Vivian Alberty

• Preliminary Heat - 195.18 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Equestrianism

See main article: Equestrianism at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 1996 Summer Olympics. One female fencer represented Puerto Rico in 1996.

Women's épée

• Mitch Escanellas

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's Extra-Lightweight

• Melvin Méndez

Men's Half-Lightweight

• José Pérez

Men's Lightweight

• Francisco Rodríguez

Men's Half-Middleweight

• José Luis Figueroa

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Softball

See main article: Softball at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Women's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round Robin

• Lost to United States (0:10)

• Lost to Canada (0:4)

• Defeated Australia (2:0)

• Lost to PR China (0:10)

• Lost to Chinese Taipei (2:10)

• Lost to Japan (1:8)

• Lost to Netherlands (0:2)
• Semifinals

• Did not advance → 8th place
• Team roster

• Lourdes Baez

• Sheree Corniel

• Ivelisse Echevarría

• Maria González

• Elba Lebrón

• Lisa Martínez

• Aída Miranda

• Lisa Mize

• Jacqueine Ortíz

• Janice Parks

• Penelope Rosario

• Sandra Rosario

• Myriam Segarra

• Eve Soto

• Clara Vázquez
• Head coach: José Agosto

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's 50m Freestyle

• Ricardo Busquets

• Heat  - 22.61

• Final  - 22.73 (→ 8th place)

Men's 100m Freestyle

• Ricardo Busquets

• Heat  - 49.61

• Final  - 49.68 (→ 7th place)

Men's 100m Breaststroke

• Todd Torres

• Heat  - 1:03.08 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Men's 200m Breaststroke

• Todd Torres

• Heat  - 2:22.66 (→ did not advance, 30th place)

Men's 100m Butterfly

• Ricardo Busquets

• Heat  - 53.90

• B-Final  - 53.65 (→ 12th place)

Men's 200m Individual Medley

• Arsenio López

• Heat  - 2:07.09 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Men's 400m Individual Medley

• Arsenio López

• Heat  - 4:18.34 (→ did not advance, 25th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

• Eduardo González, José González, Arsenio López, and Ricardo Busquets

• Heat  - 3:28.27 (→ did not advance, 16th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

• Carlos Bodega, Todd Torres, Ricardo Busquets, and José González

• Heat  - 3:52.04 (→ did not advance, 19th place)

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's Bantamweight

• César Rodríguez

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

See also

• Puerto Rico at the 1995 Pan American Games

Notes

• Book: The Official Report of the Centennial Olympic Games, Volume III The Competition Results . (ed.) Watkins, Ginger T. . Peachtree Publishers . Atlanta . 1997 . 1-56145-150-9 . PDF . 2008-02-13.
• Web site: Olympic Medal Winners . . 2008-02-13.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Puerto Rico at the 1996 Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417044218/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/PUR/summer/1996/ . dead . 2020-04-17 . 2012-02-18 . sports-reference.com.