El Salvador at the 2015 Pan American Games

El Salvador at the 2015 Pan American Games
IOC code	ESA
NOC	El Salvador Olympic Committee
in Toronto 10–26 July 2015
Competitors	52 in 21 sports
Flag bearer (opening)	Marcelo Acosta
Flag bearer (closing)	Jorge Merino
Medals Ranked 20th	Gold 0 Silver 1 Bronze 2 Total 3
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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.

Sport	Men	Women	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
Tennis	1	0	1
Weightlifting	1	1	2
Wrestling	1	0	1
Total	27	25	52

Medalists

Further information: 2015 Pan American Games medal table

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

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Silver Jorge Merino Karate Men's 84 kg July 25  Bronze Lilian Castro Shooting Women's 10 metre air pistol July 12  Bronze Evelyn García Cycling Women's road time trial July 22 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

Main articles: 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 / BM	Rank
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Oscar Guillén	Men's individual	618	28	Álvarez  (MEX) L 0–6	Did not advance
Elena Abullarade	Women's individual	563	30	Lorig  (USA) L 2–6	Did not advance

Athletics

Main articles: 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
		Result	Rank
Luis Lopez	Men's 20 km walk	1:42:03	10
Cristina López	Women's 20 km walk	1:47:33	13

Badminton

Main articles: 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
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Jassiel Hernandez	Men's singles	Bye	Muňoz  (MEX) L (5–21, 6–21)	Did not advance
Fatima Fuentes	Women's singles	Bye	Bernatene  (ARG) W (21–15, 21–13)	Li  (CAN) L (4–21, 10–21)	Did not advance
Jassiel Hernandez Fatima Fuentes	Mixed doubles	—	Martinez / Oropeza  (CUB) L (11–21, 6–21)	Did not advance

Beach volleyball

Main articles: 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
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Carlos Talavera David Vargas	Men's	Grimalt / Grimalt  (CHI) L (11-21, 12-21)	Haddock / Rodriguez  (PUR) L (15-21, 15-21)	Whitfield / Williams  (TTO) L (15-21, 24-26)	—	—	Garcia Betancourt / Recinos Ocaña  (GUA) W (18-21, 21-14, 21-19)	Bissette / Clercent  (LCA) W (22-20, 17-21, 15-10)	—	13
Laura Molina Ivonne Soler	Women's	Larsen / Metter  (USA) L (12-21, 14-21)	Galindo / Galindo  (COL) L (18-21, 12-21)	Orellana / Recinos  (GUA) W (21-18, 23-21, 15-12)	Gomez / Nieto  (URU) L (12-21, 16-21)	Mardones / Rivas  (CHI) L (15-21, 21-19, 15-8)	—	—	Bernier Colon / Torruella  (PUR) W (23-25, 21-19, 16-14)	11

Bowling

Main articles: 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								Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Julio Acosta	Men's	176	193	158	195	211	194	167	236	187	182	158	216	2273	189.4	23	Did not advance						23
Giancarlo Mateucci		239	200	222	236	204	179	180	194	165	166	157	169	2311	192.6	19	Did not advance						19
Eugenia Quintanilla	Women's	220	176	246	159	191	178	161	168	166	166	223	232	2286	190.5	21	Did not advance						21
Marcela Sanchez		138	199	185	161	164	229	237	269	207	222	168	233	2412	201.0	11	Did not advance						11

Doubles

Athlete	Event	Block 1 (games 1–6)								Block 2 (games 7–12)								Grand total	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Average	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total	Average
Julio Acosta Giancarlo Mateucci	Men's	173	157	163	213	178	196	1080	180.0	207	170	232	176	180	217	2262	188.5	4729	10
		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	4779	6
		187	191	188	161	225	170	1122	187.0	152	190	215	191	187	296	2353	196.1

Boxing

Main articles: Boxing at the 2015 Pan American Games and Boxing at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification

El Salvador qualified one female boxer.

Woman

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Karla Herrera	Light welterweight	Mirquin Sena  (DOM) L 1–2	Did not advance

Cycling

Main articles: Cycling at the 2015 Pan American Games and Cycling at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification

Cyclist Evelyn García won a bronze medal in the women's individual road time trial

El Salvador qualified two female cyclists (one each for road and track events).

Road

Women

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

Track

Keirin

Athlete	Event	1st round	Final
		Rank	Rank
Karen Cruz	Women's keirin	3 Q	4

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round 1	Repechage 1	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Time Speed (km/h)	Rank	Opposition	Opposition	Opposition	Opposition	Opposition	Rank
Karen Cruz	11.887	9 Q	Lisandra Guerra  (CUB) L	2	Did not advance

Equestrian

Main articles: 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
							Final
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Sofia Baussan Augspuer	Durango	Individual	61.60	=26	12.40	21	19.00	=30	93.00	24
Jose Romano Hijo	Bucefalo		67.40	=38	Eliminated

Fencing

Main articles: 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 / BM
		Result	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Fatima Tobar	Women's Sabre	1	13	Mariel Zagunis  (USA) L 2–15	Did not advance
Alba Marroquin Castañeda		1	16	Paola Pliego  (MEX) L 8–15	Did not advance
Madeline Hernandez Elias Alba Marroquin Castañeda Fatima Tobar	Women's Sabre Team	—			United States L 25–45	Did not advance		8

Gymnastics

Main articles: 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

Men

Individual Qualification

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
		F	PH	R	V	PB	HB			F	PH	R	V	PB	HB
Pablo Velasquez	Qualification	12.200	12.300	12.300	12.900	11.350	10.850	71.900	28 R	12.400	12.150	11.400	13.850	11.150	10.950	71.900	20

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualified to apparatus final

Judo

Main articles: 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 / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Gustavo Lopez Aguilera	−66 kg	—	Charles Chibana  (BRA) L 000–100	—	Wander Mateo  (DOM) L 000–100	Did not advance	7
Juan Rosa	−73 kg	—	Alex William Pombo Silva  (BRA) L 000–100	—	Fernando Ibañez  (ECU) L 000S3–001S2	Did not advance	7
Juan Diego Turcios	−81 kg	Pedro Castro  (COL) L 001S3–000S2	Did not advance

Karate

Main articles: 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.

Athlete	Event	Round Robin				Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Jorge Merino	Men's –84 kg	Cesar Herrera  (VEN) L 0–1	Sarmen Sinani  (CAN) W 6–1	Jorge Acevedo  (CHI) W 3–1	2	Andres Loor  (ECU) W 2–0	Miguel Amargós  (ARG) L 1–3

Roller sports

Main articles: 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
		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
	Women's 10,000 m points race	—		Did not finish

Rowing

Main articles: 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
		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

Main articles: Sailing at the 2015 Pan American Games and Sailing at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification

El Salvador qualified one sailor. ^[8]

Athlete	Event	Race													Net Points	Final Rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	M*
Enrique Arathoon	Laser	8	5	9	(13)	7	9	13	12	11	9	11	11	—	105	11

Shooting

Main articles: 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
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Andres Amador	Skeet	87	26	Did not advance
	Trap	Did not start
Hermes Barahona	25 metre rapid fire pistol	536-11x	14	—		Did not advance
	10 metre air pistol	556-10x	24	—		Did not advance
Antonio Ferracuti	Skeet	Did not start
	Trap	54	29	Did not advance
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
Jorge Pimentel	50 metre pistol	503-03x	25	—		Did not advance
	10 metre air pistol	560-15x	19	—		Did not advance
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
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Lilian Castro	25 metre pistol	539-04x	19	Did not advance
	10 metre air pistol	371-08x	6 Q	—		172.0
Johana Pineda	50 metre rifle three positions	565-18x	16	—		Did not advance
	10 metre air rifle	401.2	20	—		Did not advance
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

Main articles: 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).

Key

• Note – Ranks given for swimming events are for all heats
• FB = Qualified for the B Final
• DNS = Did not start

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
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
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
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

Main articles: 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]

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Bronze medal	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Vanessa Vazquez	Women's -57kg	Paulina Armeria  (MEX) L 2–3	Did not advance		Celina Proffen  (ARG) L 1–5	Did not advance		7

Tennis

Main articles: 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

Athlete	Event	First round	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Marcelo Arévalo	Singles	Bye	Galeano (PAR) L (5–7, 3–6)	Did not advance

Weightlifting

Main articles: 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
		Result	Rank	Result	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

Main articles: Wrestling at the 2015 Pan American Games and Wrestling at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification

El Salvador received one wildcard.

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Luis Portillo	65 kg	Mendieta  (NCA) W 10–0	Garcia  (CAN) L 0–8	Did not advance

See also

• El Salvador at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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