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Puerto Rico at the
Olympics
IOC codePUR
Websitewww.copur.pr (in Spanish)
Medals
Ranked 92nd
Gold
2
Silver
2
Bronze
6
Total
10
Summer appearances
Winter appearances

Puerto Rico first participated at the Olympic Games in 1948, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then. Puerto Rico has also participated in the Winter Olympic Games since 1984, but missed the Games of 2006, 2010, and 2014.

Puerto Rican athletes have won a total of ten medals. Six medals were won in boxing, two in track and field, one in tennis, and one in wrestling.

The Puerto Rican national baseball team won a bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, but that medal is not counted among Puerto Rico's Olympic medals totals because baseball was only an exhibition sport during those games.

The Puerto Rico Olympic Committee was created in 1948 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee that same year. "La Borinqueña" (not the U.S. national anthem) is played when Puerto Rican competitors win Olympic medals.[1]

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games

Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
1948 London 9 0 0 1 1 34
1952 Helsinki 21 0 0 0 0 -
1956 Melbourne 10 0 0 0 0
1960 Rome 27 0 0 0 0
1964 Tokyo 32 0 0 0 0
1968 Mexico City 58 0 0 0 0
1972 Munich 53 0 0 0 0
1976 Montreal 80 0 0 1 1 37
1980 Moscow 3 0 0 0 0
1984 Los Angeles 51 0 1 1 2 30
1988 Seoul 47 0 0 0 0
1992 Barcelona 75 0 0 1 1 54
1996 Atlanta 69 0 0 1 1 71
2000 Sydney 29 0 0 0 0
2004 Athens 43 0 0 0 0
2008 Beijing 22 0 0 0 0
2012 London 25 0 1 1 2 63
2016 Rio de Janeiro 40 1 0 0 1 54
2020 Tokyo 37 1 0 0 1 63
2024 Paris future event
2028 Los Angeles
2032 Brisbane
Total 2 2 6 10 90

Medals by Winter Games

Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
1984 Sarajevo 1 0 0 0 0 -
1988 Calgary 9 0 0 0 0 -
1992 Albertville 6 0 0 0 0
1994 Lillehammer 5 0 0 0 0
1998 Nagano 6 0 0 0 0
2002 Salt Lake City 2 0 0 0 0
2006 Turin did not participate
2010 Vancouver
2014 Sochi
2018 Pyeongchang 1 0 0 0 0
2022 Beijing 2 0 0 0 0
2026 Milano Cortina future event
Total 0 0 0 0 -

Medals by Summer Youth Games

Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
Singapore 2010 Singapore 15 1 0 0 1 50
China 2014 Nanjing 23 0 0 0 0 NR
Argentina 2018 Buenos Aires 22 0 1 2 3 71
Total 1 1 2 4 71

Medals by summer sport

SportGoldSilverBronzeTotal
 Athletics1012
 Tennis1001
 Boxing0156
 Wrestling0101
Totals (4 entries)22610

List of medalists

Medal Name Games Sport Event
 Bronze Juan Venegas 1948 London Boxing Men's bantamweight
 Bronze Orlando Maldonado 1976 Montreal Boxing Men's light flyweight
 Silver Luis Ortiz 1984 Los Angeles Boxing Men's lightweight
 Bronze Arístides González 1984 Los Angeles Boxing Men's middleweight
 Bronze Aníbal Acevedo 1992 Barcelona Boxing Men's welterweight
 Bronze Daniel Santos 1996 Atlanta Boxing Men's welterweight
 Silver Jaime Espinal 2012 London Wrestling Men's freestyle 84 kg
 Bronze Javier Culson 2012 London Athletics Men's 400 metres hurdles
 Gold Monica Puig 2016 Rio de Janeiro Tennis Women's singles
 Gold Jasmine Camacho-Quinn 2020 Tokyo Athletics Women's 100 metres hurdles

See also

References

  1. ^ "Rio Olympics 2016: Puerto Rican Anthem Played for First Time for Monica Puig's Win". Billboard.