El Salvador at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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El Salvador at the
2016 Summer Olympics
Flag of El Salvador.svg
IOC code ESA
NOC El Salvador Olympic Committee
Website www.teamesa.org  (in Spanish)
in Rio de Janeiro
Competitors8 in 6 sports
Flag bearer Lilian Castro [1]
Medals
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
0
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)

El Salvador competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's eleventh appearance at the Summer Olympics, although it first competed in 1968.

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El Salvador Olympic Committee (Spanish : Comité Olímpico de El Salvador) confirmed a team of eight athletes, five men and three women, to compete in six sports at the Games. [2] This was also the youngest delegation in El Salvador's Summer Olympic history, with more than half under the age of 25, and many of them expected to reach their peak in time for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

The majority of El Salvador's athletes made their Olympic debut in Rio de Janeiro, with weightlifter Julio Salamanca being the only sportsman to return for his second appearance from London 2012. Other notable Salvadoran athletes featured Enrique Arathoon, the nation's first ever sailor for nearly half a century, and Marcelo Acosta, bronze medalist in long-distance freestyle swimming at the Youth Olympics in Nanjing two years earlier. Air pistol shooter Lilian Castro, the oldest member of the squad (aged 29), acted as El Salvador's flag bearer in the opening ceremony. [1] [3]

El Salvador, however, was yet to win its first Olympic medal at the end of the 2016 Summer Games.

Athletics (track and field)

Salvadoran athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event): [4] [5]

Key
Track & road events
AthleteEventFinal
ResultRank
Luis Menjivar Men's 50 km walk DSQ
Yesenia Miranda Women's 20 km walk DNF

Judo

El Salvador qualified one judoka for the men's half-middleweight category (81 kg) at the Games. Juan Diego Turcios earned a continental quota spot from the Pan American region, as El Salvador's top-ranked judoka outside of direct qualifying position in the IJF World Ranking List of 30 May 2016. [6] [7]

AthleteEventRound of 64Round of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsRepechageFinal / BM
Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Rank
Juan Diego Turcios Men's −81 kg ByeFlag of Greece.svg  Moustopoulos  (GRE)
W 100–000		Flag of Georgia.svg  Tchrikishvili  (GEO)
L 000–000 S		Did not advance

Sailing

El Salvador qualified a boat in men's Laser class by virtue of a top finish for Central & South America at the 2015 Pan American Games, signifying the nation's Olympic return to the sport for the first time since 1968. [8]

AthleteEventRaceNet pointsFinal rank
12345678910M*
Enrique Arathoon Men's Laser 33322830439321821EL17724

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Shooting

El Salvador qualified one shooter in the women's pistol events by virtue of her best finish at the 2014 American Continental Championships, and other selection competitions, as long as she obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by 31 March 2016. [9] [10] [11]

AthleteEventQualificationFinal
PointsRankPointsRank
Lilian Castro Women's 10 m air pistol 36644Did not advance

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualify for the next round; q = Qualify for the bronze medal (shotgun)

Swimming

Salvadoran swimmers have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)): [12] [13] [14]

AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinal
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Marcelo Acosta Men's 200 m freestyle 1:51.4643Did not advance
Men's 400 m freestyle 3:48.8222—Did not advance
Men's 1500 m freestyle 15:08.1722—Did not advance
Rebeca Quinteros Women's 400 m freestyle 4:52.1132—Did not advance

Weightlifting

El Salvador received an unused quota place from IWF to send a male weightlifter to the Olympics, as a response to the complete ban of the Russian weightlifting team from the Games due to "multiple positive" cases of doping. [15]

AthleteEventSnatchClean & JerkTotalRank
ResultRankResultRank
Julio Salamanca Men's −62 kg 1209155927510

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References

  1. 1 2 "Lilian Castro es la abanderada" [Lilian Castro will be the flag bearer] (in Spanish). La Prensa Gráfica. 30 July 2016.(opening)
    Enrique Arathoon (closing)
  2. ↑ "Team ESA: listo a Río 2016" [Team ESA: Ready for Rio 2016] (in Spanish). El Salvador Olympic Committee. 19 July 2016. Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  3. ↑ "Lilian Castro abanderada Team ESA para Río" [Lilian Castro will be Team ESA's flag bearer for Rio] (in Spanish). El Salvador Olympic Committee. 30 July 2016. Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  4. ↑ "iaaf.org – Top Lists". IAAF. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
  5. ↑ "IAAF Games of the XXX Olympiad – Rio 2016 Entry Standards" (PDF). IAAF . Retrieved 18 April 2015.
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  7. ↑ "Diego Turcios con boleto a Río 2016" [Diego Turcios grabs the ticket to Rio 2016] (in Spanish). Diario Co Latino. 3 June 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  8. ↑ "Pan American Games serves up four Rio 2016 qualifiers". ISAF. 20 July 2015. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  9. ↑ "Quota Places by Nation and Number". www.issf-sports.org/. ISSF. 30 May 2016. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
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