Puerto Rico at the 2024 Summer Olympics | |
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IOC code | PUR |
NOC | Puerto Rico Olympic Committee |
Website | copur |
in Paris, France 26 July 2024 – 11 August 2024 | |
Competitors | 51 (27 men & 24 women) in 13 sports |
Flag bearer (opening) | Sebastian Rivera & Jasmine Camacho-Quinn |
Flag bearer (closing) | Luis Castro Rivera |
Medals Ranked 80th |
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Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Puerto Rico competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the territory's twentieth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics. It was also the fourth consecutive games in which Puerto Rico earned at least one medal, it being the first time this happened in Puerto Rico's Olympic Games history.
Puerto Rico concluded the Olympics with two bronze medals, both won by flag bearers Jasmine Camacho-Quinn and Sebastian Rivera. Jasmine was edged out in a close race in a split-second finish in the Women's 100 metres hurdles, ultimately finishing 3rd. Meanwhile, Sebastian won bronze in the Men's freestyle 65 kg alongside fellow bronze medalist Islam Dudaev of Albania despite losing out to gold medalist Kotaro Kiyooka of Japan, first beating Maxim Saculțan of Moldova, and then Tömör-Ochiryn Tulga of Mongolia after a successful challenge by a single point.
The following Puerto Rican competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.
Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
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Bronze | Jasmine Camacho-Quinn | Athletics | Women's 100 m hurdles | August 10 |
Bronze | Sebastian Rivera | Wrestling | Men's freestyle 65 kg | August 11 |
Medals by sport | ||||
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Sport | Total | |||
Athletics | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Wrestling | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Total | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Medals by gender | ||||
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Gender | Total | |||
Female | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Male | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Mixed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Medals by date | |||||
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Date | Total | ||||
10 August | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
11 August | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Total | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
Sport | Men | Women | Total |
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Archery | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Athletics | 3 | 5 | 8 |
Basketball | 12 | 12 | 24 |
Boxing | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Diving | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Golf | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Judo | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Sailing | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Shooting | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Skateboarding | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Swimming | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Table tennis | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Wrestling | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Total | 27 | 24 | 51 |
One Puerto Rican archer qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics women's individual recurve competitions by virtue of her result at the 2024 Pan American Continental Qualification Tournament in Medellín, Colombia. [1]
Athlete | Event | Ranking round | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | ||||
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Score | Seed | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | ||||
Alondra Rivera | Women's individual | 547 | 64 | Lim S-h (KOR) L 0–6 | Did not advance |
Puerto Rican track and field athletes achieved the entry standards for Paris 2024, either by passing the direct qualifying mark (or time for track and road races) or by world ranking, in the following events (a maximum of 3 athletes each): [2] [3] [4]
Athlete | Event | Heat | Repechage | Semifinal | Final | ||||
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Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
Gladymar Torres | Women's 100 m | 11.12 NR | 5 q | — | 11.33 | 6 | Did not advance | ||
Gabby Scott | Women's 400 m | 50.74 NR | 4 R | 50.52 NR | 1 Q | 51.22 | 7 | Did not advance | |
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn | Women's 100 m hurdles | 12.42 | 1 Q | Bye | 12.35 SB | 1 Q | 12.36 | ||
Grace Claxton | Women's 400 m hurdles | 56.29 | 6 | 55.94 | 4 | Did not advance | |||
Rachelle de Orbeta | Women's 20 km walk | — | 1:33:33 | 29 |
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||
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Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
Luis Castro | Men's high jump | 2.20 | 15 | Did not advance | |
Jerome Vega | Men's hammer throw | 71.61 | 26 | Did not advance |
Athlete | Event | 100 m | LJ | SP | HJ | 400 m | 110H | DT | PV | JT | 1500 m | Final | Rank |
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Ayden Owens-Delerme | Result | 10.35s | 7.66m SB | 15.17m | 2.02m SB | 46.17s | 14.09s | 43.36m | 4.80m | 51.17m | 4:40.39s SB | 8437 | 9 |
Points | 101.1 | 975 | 800 | 822 | 1000 | 963 | 733 | 849 | 606 | 678 |
Summary
Team | Event | Group stage | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / BM | ||||
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Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | ||
Puerto Rico men's | Men's tournament | South Sudan L 79–90 | Serbia L 66–107 | United States L 83–104 | 4 | Did not advance | |||
Puerto Rico women's | Women's tournament | Serbia L 55–58 | Spain L 62–63 | China L 58–80 | 4 | Did not advance |
The Puerto Rico men's national basketball team qualified for the Olympics by winning the 2024 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in San Juan, Puerto Rico, two decades after their last appearance in the 2004 Summer Olympics. [5]
Team roster The roster was announced on 7 July 2024. [6]
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | United States | 3 | 3 | 0 | 317 | 253 | +64 | 6 | Quarterfinals |
2 | Serbia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 287 | 261 | +26 | 5 | |
3 | South Sudan | 3 | 1 | 2 | 261 | 278 | −17 | 4 | |
4 | Puerto Rico | 3 | 0 | 3 | 228 | 301 | −73 | 3 |
28 July 2024 11:00 |
South Sudan | 90–79 | Puerto Rico |
Scoring by quarter: 20–28, 28–26, 23–15, 19–10 | ||
Pts: Jones 19 Rebs: Gabriel 9 Asts: Jones 6 | Pts: Alvarado 26 Rebs: Conditt IV, Romero 6 Asts: Alvarado 5 |
Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Lille Attendance: 27,021 Referees: Ademir Zurapović (BIH), Takaki Kato (JPN), Martin Vulić (CRO) |
31 July 2024 17:15 |
Puerto Rico | 66–107 | Serbia |
Scoring by quarter: 12–24, 23–28, 16–27, 15–28 | ||
Pts: Ortiz 19 Rebs: Ortiz 6 Asts: Howard, Waters 3 | Pts: Petrušev 15 Rebs: Jokić 15 Asts: Jokić 9 |
Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Lille Attendance: 17,882 Referees: Julio Anaya (PAN), Juan Fernández (ARG), Boris Krejić (SLO) |
3 August 2024 17:15 |
Puerto Rico | 83–104 | United States |
Scoring by quarter:29–25, 16–39, 14–23, 24–17 | ||
Pts: Alvarado 18 Rebs: Romero 10 Asts: Conditt IV 5 | Pts: Edwards 26 Rebs: Tatum 10 Asts: James 8 |
Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Lille Attendance: 27,244 Referees: Julio Anaya (PAN), Gatis Saliņš (LAT), Martin Vulić (CRO) |
The Puerto Rico women's national basketball team qualified for the Olympics by finishing in the top two eligible nations at the 2024 Olympic Qualifying Tournaments in Xi'an, China. [8]
Team roster A 15-player roster was announced on 8 July 2024. [9] The final 12-player roster was announced on 20 July. [10]
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Spain | 3 | 3 | 0 | 223 | 213 | +10 | 6 | Quarterfinals |
2 | Serbia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 201 | 184 | +17 | 5 | |
3 | China | 3 | 1 | 2 | 228 | 229 | −1 | 4 | |
4 | Puerto Rico | 3 | 0 | 3 | 175 | 201 | −26 | 3 |
28 July 2024 21:00 |
Serbia | 58–55 | Puerto Rico |
Scoring by quarter:23–15, 20–11, 12–10, 3–19 | ||
Pts: Stanković 15 Rebs: Stanković 10 Asts: Anderson 8 | Pts: San Antonio 11 Rebs:three players 6 Asts: Rosado 7 |
Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Lille Attendance: 15,324 Referees: Maj Forsberg (DEN), James Boyer (AUS), Yann Davidson (MAD) |
31 July 2024 11:00 |
Puerto Rico | 62–63 | Spain |
Scoring by quarter: 9–18, 16–21, 19–5, 18–19 | ||
Pts: Guirantes 15 Rebs: Hollingshed 12 Asts: Guirantes 4 | Pts: Gustafson 18 Rebs: Gustafson 13 Asts: Ortiz |
Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Lille Attendance: 23,942 Referees: Andrés Bartel (URU), Maripier Malo (CAN), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ) |
3 August 2024 11:00 |
China | 80–58 | Puerto Rico |
Scoring by quarter:17–11, 23–18, 22–16, 18–13 | ||
Pts: Li M. 18 Rebs: Han 9 Asts: Li M. 7 | Pts: Guirantes 20 Rebs: Hollingshed 8 Asts: Rosado 5 |
Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Lille Attendance: 26,595 Referees: Omar Bermúdez (MEX), Rabah Noujaim (LBN), Maripier Malo (CAN) |
Puerto Rico entered two boxers into the Olympic tournament. Ashleyann Lozada qualified herself to Paris in featherweight division by advancing to the semifinals round at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. Meanwhile, Juanma López (men's flyweight) qualified himself to Paris 2024, by winning the quota bouts round at the 2024 World Olympic Qualification Tournament 1 in Busto Arsizio, Italy. [12]
Athlete | Event | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |
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Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | ||
Juan Manuel López Jr. | Men's flyweight | Bye | Dusmatov (UZB) L 0–5 | Did not advance | |||
Ashleyann Lozada | Women's featherweight | Bye | Ibragimova (KAZ) W 5–0 | Szeremeta (POL) L 0–5 | Did not advance |
Puerto Rico entered one diver, Maycey Vieta into the Olympic competition. [13]
Athlete | Event | Preliminary | Semifinal | Final | |||
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Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
Maycey Vieta | Women's 10 m platform | 253.90 | 24 | Did not advance |
Puerto Rico entered one male golfer into the Olympic tournament. Rafael Campos qualified directly for the games in the men's individual competitions, based on his world ranking performance, on the IGF World Rankings. [14]
Athlete | Event | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Total | ||
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Score | Score | Score | Score | Score | Par | Rank | ||
Rafael Campos | Individual | 73 | 70 | 70 | 67 | 280 | −4 | T30 |
Puerto Rico qualified two judokas for the following weight classes at the Games. Adrián Gandía (men's half-middleweight, 81 kg) and María Pérez (women's middleweight, 70 kg) got qualified via quota based on IJF World Ranking List and continental quota based on Olympic point rankings.
Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage | Final / BM | |||
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Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | ||||
Adrián Gandía | Men's −81 kg | Bye | Tatalashvili (UAE) W 11–00 | François Gauthier-Drapeau (CAN) L 00–10 | Did not advance | ||||||
María Pérez | Women's −70 kg | — | Willems (BEL) L 00–10 | Did not advance |
Puerto Rican sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile.
Athlete | Event | Race | Net points | Final rank | |||||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | M* | ||||
Pedro Fernández | Men's ILCA 7 | 33 | 27 | 17 | 35 | 33 | 36 | 11 | 31 | Canceled | — | EL | 187 | 34 |
M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race
Puerto Rico entered one female shooter to compete in the following event at the Games by virtue of the ISSF World Olympic Rankings.
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||
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Score | Rank | Score | Rank | ||
Yarimar Mercado | Women's 10 m | 622.0 | 39 | Did not advance | |
Women's 50 m rifle 3 positions | 578-29x | 26 | Did not advance |
Puerto Rico entered one male skateboarder to compete in the following event at the Games by virtue of the Olympic World Skateboarding Rankings.
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||
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Score | Rank | Score | Rank | ||
Steven Piñeiro | Men's park | 81.54 | 14 | Did not advance |
Puerto Rico sent two swimmers to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics. [15]
Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Yeziel Morales | Men's 100 m backstroke | 55.76 | 39 | Did not advance | |||
Men's 200 m backstroke | 2:00.60 | 26 | Did not advance | ||||
Kristen Romano | Women's 200 m individual medley | 2:13.32 | 21 | Did not advance |
Puerto Rico entered three table tennis players into Paris 2024. Adriana Díaz qualified for the games by virtue of the highest ranked eligible players from Pan American in the Olympics ranking; meanwhile Brian Afanador and Daniel González qualified through the Olympics world ranking.
Athlete | Event | Preliminary | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | |
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Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | ||
Brian Afanador | Men's singles | Bye | Lin (TPE) L 1–4 | Did not advance | ||||||
Daniel González | Bye | Jang (KOR) L 1–4 | Did not advance | |||||||
Adriana Díaz | Women's singles | Bye | Lupulesku (SRB) W 4–0 | Wang (USA) W 4–2 | Pyon (PRK) L 3–4 | Did not advance |
Puerto Rico qualified four wrestler for each of the following classes into the Olympic competition. Sebastian Rivera qualified for the games by virtue of top five results through the 2023 World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. [16] [17] Meanwhile, the other wrestler qualified for the games, by advancing to the final match in their own division, through the 2024 Pan American Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament in Acapulco, Mexico. [18]
Key:
Athlete | Event | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Repechage | Final / BM | ||||
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Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | |||||
Darian Cruz | Men's −57 kg | Mohamed (EGY)W 4F-1 | Higuchi (JPN)L 2–12SP | Did not advance | Sarlak (IRI)WO | Sehrawat (IND)L 5–13 | 5 | |||
Sebastian Rivera | Men's −65 kg | Okorokov (AUS)W 12SP-2 | Kiyooka (JPN)L 6–8 | Did not advance | Saculțan (MDA)W 15SP–4 | Tulga (MGL)W 10–9 | ||||
Ethan Ramos | Men's −86 kg | Kurugliev (GRE)L 0–11ST | Did not advance | |||||||
Jonovan Smith | Men's −125 kg | Akgül (TUR)L 0–10ST | Did not advance |
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