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Costa Rica At The Olympics
Costa Rica first participated at the Olympic Games in 1936, but then missed the next four Olympiads. The nation returned to the Games in 1964, and has participated in every Summer Olympic Games since then. Costa Rica has also participated in several Winter Olympic Games since 1980. Costa Rican athletes have won a total of four medals, all by Silvia Poll and Claudia Poll in swimming. The National Olympic Committee for Costa Rica was created in 1936 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee in the same year. The N.O.C. was named Comité OlÃmpico de Costa Rica. Medal tables Medals by Summer Games Medals by Winter Games Medals by Summer Sport List of medalists See also * :Olympic competitors for Costa Rica * List of flag bearers for Costa Rica at the Olympics * Costa Rica at the Paralympics * Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics External links * * * {{Nations at the Olympics Olympics The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Rica
Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, and Maritime boundary, maritime border with Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island. It has a population of around five million in a land area of . An estimated 333,980 people live in the capital and largest city, San José, Costa Rica, San José, with around two million people in the surrounding metropolitan area. The sovereign state is a Unitary state, unitary Presidential system, presidential Constitution of Costa Rica, constitutional republic. It has a long-standing and stable democracy and a highly educated workforce. The country spends roughly 6.9% of its budget (2016) on education, compared to a global average of 4.4%. Its economy, once heavily dependent on agricultu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Rica At The 1976 Summer Olympics
Costa Rica competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Five competitors, four men and one woman, took part in nine events in four sports. Archery In its first archery competition at the Olympics, Costa Rica entered two men. They included the last place finisher. Men's Individual Competition: * Juan Wedel — 2165 points (→ 34th place) * Luis Gonzalez — 2005 points (→ 37th place) Cycling One cyclist represented Costa Rica in 1976. ; Individual road race * Carlos Alvarado — did not finish (→ no ranking) Shooting One shooter represented Costa Rica in 1976. ; 50 m rifle, three positions * Hugo Chamberlain ; 50 m rifle, prone * Hugo Chamberlain Swimming References External linksOfficial Olympic Reports Nations at the 1976 Summer Olympics 1976 Summer Olympics Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Summer Olympics Medal Table
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, from 15 September to 1 October 2000. A total of 10,651 athletes from 199 nations represented by National Olympic Committees (NOCs) (with Individual Olympic Athletes at the 2000 Summer Olympics, four individual athletes from East Timor) competed in 300 events in 28 sports. Athletes from 80 countries won at least one medal. The United States won the most medals overall with 93, as well as the most gold (37) medals. Host nation Australia finished the Games with 58 medals overall (16 gold, 25 silver, and 17 bronze). Cameroon, Colombia, Latvia, Mozambique and Slovenia won a gold medal for the first time in their Olympic histories, while Vietnam, Barbados, North Macedonia, Macedonia, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, and Saudi Arabia won their first ever Olympic medals. __TOC__ Medal table The ranking in this ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Rica At The 2000 Summer Olympics
Costa Rica competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Medalists Results by event Athletics Men's Marathon * José Luis Molina ** Final – 2:20:37 (→ 39th place) Cycling Cross Country Mountain Bike Men's Individual Competition * José Adrián Bonilla ** Final – 2:30:02.72 (→ 33rd place) Swimming Men's 50m Freestyle * Estebán Blanco ** Preliminary Heat – 23.72 (→ did not advance) Men's 100m Breaststroke * Juan José Madrigal ** Preliminary Heat – 01:05.14 (→ did not advance) Men's 200m Breaststroke * Juan José Madrigal ** Preliminary Heat – 02:24.49 (→ did not advance) Women's 200m Freestyle * Claudia Poll ** Preliminary Heat – 02:00.11 ** Semi-final – 01:59.63 ** Final – 01:58.81 (→ Bronze Medal) Women's 400m Freestyle * Claudia Poll ** Preliminary Heat – 04:09.33 ** Final – 04:07.83 (→ Bronze Medal) Women's 800m Freestyle * Claudia Poll ** Preliminary Heat – DNS (→ did not advance) Tennis Men's singles *Juan Ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Summer Olympics Medal Table
The 1996 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States from 19 July to 4 August 1996. A total of 10,318 athletes from 197 National Olympic Committees (NOCs), competed in 271 events in 26 sports. Athletes from 79 NOCs won at least one medal. The United States won the most gold medals (44), as well as the most medals overall (101) for the first time since 1984, and for the first time since 1968 in a non-boycotted Summer Olympics. Donovan Bailey of Canada set a world record in the men's 100m race (9.84 seconds). Michael Johnson of the United States set a world record in the 200m race (19.32 seconds) and Naim Suleymanoglu of Turkey set the record of an unprecedented three consecutive Olympic titles in weightlifting. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Rica At The 1996 Summer Olympics
Costa Rica competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. Claudia Poll won the nation's first ever gold medal. Medalists Gold * Claudia Poll — Swimming, Women's 200m Freestyle Results by event Athletics Men's Marathon * José Luis Molina — 2:17.49 (→ 24th place) Women's 400 meters * Zoila Stewart ** Heat — 52.66 (→ did not advance) Canoeing Men's Kayak Singles Slalom * Roger Madrigal Women's Kayak Singles Slalom * Gilda Montenegro Cycling Mountain Bike Men's Cross Country * José Andres Brenes ** Final — 2:25:51 (→ 6th place) Diving Women's 3m Springboard * Daphne Hernández ** Preliminary Heat — 151.11 (→ did not advance, 30th place) Women's 10m Platform * Daphne Hernández ** Preliminary Heat — 217.77 (→ did not advance, 26th place) Judo Men's Lightweight * Henry Núñez Men's Half-Heavyweight * Ronny Gómez Swimming Men's 100m Breaststroke * Juan José Madrigal ** Preliminary Heat – 1:05.47 (â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 Summer Olympics Medal Table
The 1992 Summer Olympics medal table is a list of National Olympic Committees and two non-NOC teams ranked by the number of medals won during the 1992 Summer Olympics, held in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, from July 25 to August 9, 1992. A total of 9,356 athletes from 169 countries participated in these games, competing in 257 events in 28 sports. Athletes from 64 countries won at least one medal, leaving 105 countries without a medal. The Unified Team (ex-USSR countries that competed together because the Soviet Union broke up several months before the start of the Games) won the most medals overall, 112, as well as the most gold medals, 45, edging the United States team that won 108 total and 37 gold medals respectively. As of 2021, these are the last Summer Olympics where the United States did not win the most medals overall, and the only one since 1936 where the most gold medals were not won by either the USA, the USSR, or China. Host nation Spain f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Rica At The 1992 Summer Olympics
Costa Rica competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. 16 competitors, 11 men and 5 women, took part in 18 events in 6 sports. Competitors The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Archery In its third archery competition at the Olympics, and first since 1980, Costa Rica entered a female archer for the first time. She did not advance to the elimination rounds. Women's Individual Competition: * Patricia Obregon ** Ranking round — 57th place (0-0) Athletics Men's 100m metres * Henry Daley Colphon ** Heat — 11.11 (→ did not advance) Men's 5,000 metres * José Luis Molina ** Heat — 14:09.22 (→ did not advance) Men's 10,000 metres *Miguel Angel Vargas ** Heat — 30:13.06 (→ did not advance) Men's Marathon * Luis Lopez — 2:30.26 (→ 65th place) Men's 400m Hurdles * Alex Foster ** Heat — 52.93 (→ did not advance, no ranking) Women's Marathon * Vilma Peña — 3:03.34 (→ 33rd place) Canoeing Men's Kayak Singles Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Summer Olympics Medal Table
This is the full table of the medal table of the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul. These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country. The number of silvers is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically. This follows the system used by the IOC, IAAF and BBC. Athletes from 52 countries won medals, leaving 108 countries without a medal. The Soviet Union utterly dominated the medal count, winning 55 gold and 132 total medals. The results that got closest to that medal haul afterwards are China's 48 gold medals in 2008 and the USA's 121 total medals in 2016. Change By Doping References External links * * * {{Top Summer Olympics medal-winning nations Medal count 1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Rica At The 1988 Summer Olympics
Costa Rica competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Silvia Poll won the nation's first ever Olympic medal. Medalists Competitors The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Athletics ;Men ;Track and road events ;Women ;Track and road events Boxing Judo Shooting ;Men Swimming ;Men ;Women Weightlifting References Nations at the 1988 Summer Olympics 1988
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1984 Summer Olympics Medal Table
The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, California, United States, from July 28 to August 12. A total of 6,829 athletes from 140 nations participated in 221 events in 21 sports. Overall, 47 nations received at least one medal, and 25 of them won at least one gold medal. Athletes from host nation United States won the most medals overall, with 174, and the most gold medals, with 83. The former record was the largest overall medal haul for the nation since the 1904 edition; the latter record was the highest gold medal tally at a single Games and the most for a host nation. It marked the first time the United States led the medal count in both gold and overall medals since 1968. Sports commentators noted that the absence of the Soviet Union and various other Eastern Bloc nations stemming from a boycott contributed to the highly skewed medal results benefitting the United States and other cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Rica At The 1984 Summer Olympics
Costa Rica competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Results by event Athletics Men's 100 metres * Glen Abraham Men's 200 metres * Glen Abraham Men's 5,000 metres * Orlando Mora ** Heat — 14:33.49 (→ did not advance) Men's 10.000 metres * Orlando Mora ** Heat — 30:49.43 (→ did not advance) Men's Marathon * Ronald Lanzoni — did not finish (→ no ranking) Football (soccer) Men's Team Competition * Preliminary Round (Group D) ** Costa Rica – United States 0 – 3 ** Costa Rica – Egypt 1 – 4 ** Costa Rica – Italy 1 – 0 * Quarter Finals ** → Did not advance *Team Roster: ** ( 1.) Marco Antonio Rojas ** ( 4.) César Hines ** ( 5.) Marvin Obando ** ( 6.) German Chavarria ** ( 7.) Juan Arnoldo Cayasso ** ( 8.) Carlos Santana ** ( 9.) Leonidas Flores ** (10.) Enrique Rivers ** (11.) Evaristo Coronado ** (12.) Minor Alpizar ** (13.) Carlos Toppings ** (14.) Guillermo Guardia ** (15.) En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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