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Costa Rica At The 2007 Pan American Games
The 15th Pan American Games were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 13 to 29 July 2007. Results by event Swimming * Mario Montoya: Men's 400m Free—16th (4:07.47) Triathlon Men's Competition * Leonardo Chacón ** 1:53:13.75 – 5th place * Roberto Machado ** did not finish – no ranking Women's Competition * Alia Cardinale ** 2:03:59.86 – 14th place * Monica Umana ** 2:12:08.31 – 24th place See also * Costa Rica at the 2008 Summer Olympics Costa Rica competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics, held in Beijing, People's Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008. Eight Costa Rican athletes competed in five sports. The country did not win any medals at these Games. {{DEFAULTSORT:Costa R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Rican Olympic Committee
Olympic Committee of Costa Rica ( es, Comité Olímpico de Costa Rica, IOC code: CRC) is the National Olympic Committee representing Costa Rica. The committee was created in 1953 although Costa Rica first competed at the Olympics in 1936. References External links * Costa Rica Olympic Olympic or Olympics may refer to Sports Competitions * Olympic Games, international multi-sport event held since 1896 ** Summer Olympic Games ** Winter Olympic Games * Ancient Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece b ... Costa Rica at the Olympics 1953 establishments in Costa Rica Sports organizations established in 1953 {{CostaRica-sport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Pan American Games
The 2007 Pan American Games, officially known as the XV Pan American Games, were a major continental multi-sport event that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from July 13 to 29, 2007. A total of 5,633 athletes from 42 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 332 events in 34 sports and in 47 disciplines. During the Games, 95 new Pan American records were set; 2,196 medals were awarded; 1,262 doping control tests were performed and about 15,000 volunteers participated in the organization of the event, which was an Olympic qualification for 13 International Federations (IFs). Rio de Janeiro was awarded the Games over San Antonio, Texas, United States, on August 24, 2002, having won an absolute majority of votes (30–21) from the 51 members of the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) in the first round of voting during the XL PASO General Assembly held in Mexico City, Mexico. This was the first Games held in Brazil since the 1963 Pan American Games that took place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Alvarado (taekwondo)
Katherine Alvarado Araya (born 3 March 1988) is a Costa Rican taekwondo practitioner. She competed in the -67 kg event at the 2014 Pan American Taekwondo Championships in Aguascalientes, Mexico. According to the Costa Rican Olympic Committee, her best historical ranking in the -67 kg category was at 13th place worldwide. In 2019, she planned to compete in the 2019 World Taekwondo Grand Prix The 2019 World Taekwondo Grand Prix was the 7th edition of the World Taekwondo Grand Prix series. The Grand Prix Final in Moscow served as qualification for the 2020 Summer Olympics, the winners from each category earned their NOCs a qualificatio ... in Japan. In March 2020, Alvarado participated in the Pan American Qualification Tournament in Heredia, ultimately reaching quarterfinals before elimination. References 1988 births Living people Costa Rican female taekwondo practitioners Sportspeople from San José, Costa Rica Pan American Taekwondo Championships medal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio De Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a beta global city, Rio de Janeiro is the sixth-most populous city in the Americas. Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named "Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea", on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape. Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire. In 1763, it became the capital of the State of Brazil, a state of the Portuguese Empire. In 1808, when the Portuguese Royal Court moved to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the seat of the court of Queen Maria I of Portugal. She subsequently, under the leadership of her son the prince regent João VI of Portugal, raised Brazil to the dignity of a k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 States of Brazil, states and the Federal District (Brazil), Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese language, Portuguese as an List of territorial entities where Portuguese is an official language, official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most Multiculturalism, multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass Immigration to Brazil, immigration from around the world; and the most populous Catholic Church by country, Roman Catholic-majority country. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a Coastline of Brazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2007 Pan American Games
The swimming competitions at the 2007 Pan American Games consisted of 34 events, Note: Open water is/was considered a separate discipline from swimming for the Games, similar to how it is treated by FINA, the international federation which oversees aquatics, and by how it was treated at the 2008 Summer Olympics. However, Wikipedia protocol has merged its presentation onto this page, rather than on a separate page here (as well as on Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics). held on and at: *pool: July 16–22, Maria Lenk Aquatic Park *open water (10K races): July 14, Copacabana Beach Thiago Pereira won eight medals (six gold, one silver and one bronze) and became the winner of the most medals in a single edition of the Games, equaling the Costa Rican swimmer Silvia Poll—who won eight medals at 1987 in Indianapolis. Pereira also surpassed the five gold mark that belonged to Mark Spitz in the 1967 Pan Am Games in Winnipeg In this edition, three countries have won, for the first time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Montoya (swimmer)
Mario Montoya (born August 18, 1989 in San José, Costa Rica)Montoya's bio from the 2008 Olympics website; retrieved 2009-06-24 is an Olympic and national record holding swimmer from . He represented native country at the: * and |
Triathlon At The 2007 Pan American Games
The triathlon competition at the 2007 Pan American Games was held on July 15, 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the fourth time the event had been held at the Pan American Games. The male and female winners qualified directly for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Men's competition Women's competition ReferencesResults {{Events at the 2007 PanAm Games Pan American Games The Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The competition is held ... 2007 Events at the 2007 Pan American Games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonardo Chacón
Leonardo Chacón Corrales (born 29 June 1984) is a Costa Rican triathlete. At the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ... men's triathlon on Tuesday, August 7, he placed 48th. References External links * * * 1984 births Living people Costa Rican male triathletes Triathletes at the 2012 Summer Olympics Triathletes at the 2007 Pan American Games Triathletes at the 2011 Pan American Games Triathletes at the 2015 Pan American Games Triathletes at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic triathletes of Costa Rica Pan American Games competitors for Costa Rica 20th-century Costa Rican people 21st-century Costa Rican people {{triathlon-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Machado
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and '' berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alia Cardinale
Alia or ALIA may refer to: People * Alia (name), a list of people with the surname or given name Places * Alia, Sicily, Italy, a comune * Alia (Phrygia), a town of ancient Phrygia which remains a Roman Catholic titular bishopric * Alía, Spain, a municipality in Extremadura * El Alia, Tunisia, a town and commune in the Bizerte Governorate Other uses * Alia (gastropod), a genus of molluscs *Alia, the former name of Royal Jordanian Airlines * Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) See also * Aaliyah (1979–2001), American R&B singer * Aaliyah (other) * Aliya (other) * Aliyah (other) * ''Allia'' (moth), a genus in the family Noctuidae * Allia, a tributary of the River Tiber, Italy ** Battle of the Allia, fought BC between the Romans and the Senones * Alya (other) Alya may refer to: * Alya (name), a female name * Alya, the International Astronomical Union, IAU-approved proper name of the primary component of the triple sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Umana
Monica may refer to: People * Monica (actress) (born 1987), Indian film actress * Monica (given name), a given name (including a list of people and characters with the name) * Monica (singer) (born 1980), American R&B singer, songwriter, producer, and actress * Saint Monica, mother of Augustine Places * 833 Monica, a minor planet * Monica, Kentucky * Santa Monica, California Arts, entertainment, and media Fiction * ''Monica'' (2011 film), an Indian film * ''Monica'' (2022 film), an American-Italian film *Monica, a fictional country in '' Æon Flux'' *Monica, a fictional planet in David Weber's science fiction Honorverse Music * MONICA, a Scottish band featuring members of Win/ The Apples and Trembling Bells * "Monica" (song), a song by The Kinks from their album ''The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society'' (1968) *"Monica", a song by Dan Bern from his album ''Fifty Eggs'' *"Monica", a 1984 song by Kōji Kikkawa ** Leslie Cheung, covered into Cantonese in 1984 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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