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Guatemala At The 2012 Summer Olympics
Guatemala competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's thirteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics, having missed three Olympics after its debut at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Comité Olímpico Guatemalteco, sent the nation's largest delegation to the Games after the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. A total of 19 athletes, 12 men and 7 women, competed in 11 sports and 21 distinct events. Four Guatemalan athletes made their second consecutive Olympic appearance, including badminton player Kevin Cordón, and Laser sailor Juan Ignacio Maegli, who was the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony. Pistol shooter Sergio Sánchez, who had participated in the Olympic games since 1992, was the oldest member of the contingent, at age 41. Guatemala left London with its first ever Olympic medal won by Erick Barrondo, who won silver in the men's race walk event. Medalists Athletics Guatemalan athletes have so far achie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guatemalan Olympic Committee
The Guatemalan Olympic Committee ( es, Comité Olímpico Guatemalteco, abbreviated as COG) is a non-profit organization serving as the National Olympic Committee of Guatemala and a part of the International Olympic Committee and PASO. It was formed in 1947 and recognized by the IOC that same year. As of 2022, COG is officially suspended by IOC. Suspension On 15 October 2022 International Olympic Committee officially suspended National Olympic Committee of Guatemala. As a result of suspension, any athletes of Guatemala can no longer represent the country and compete under the country’s flag/name at the Olympic Games and other international multi-sports events as well as Guatemalan NOC lost all the funding from IOC. Presidents Executive committee The committee of the Guatemalan Olympic Committee is represented by: * President: Gerardo Rene Aguirre Oestmann * Vice Presidents: Juan Carlos Sagastume * IOC Member: Willi Kaltschmitt Luján * Members: Lorena Toriello, Claudia Rive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirna Ortiz
Mirna Sucely Ortiz Flores (born 28 February 1987) is a Guatemalan racewalker. Having begun in the sport in 1998, she won a Central American youth title in 2000, and was a promising young athlete in her discipline, but due to financial hardship, she had to abandon the sport at the age of 14. She then returned to a competitive level in 2011, urged by coach Rigoberto Medina. Her return proved to be fruitful as in September 2011 she earned second place in the National Polish Championship in Varsovia, thereby qualifying for the 2012 Olympic Games, and a few weeks later she won the silver medal at the 2011 Pan American Games, behind her compatriot Jamy Franco in a race they both led from start to end. On 18 March 2012 she set the 20 km record for the North, Central American, and Caribbean region at 1:28:54 at the Memorial Mario Albisetti in Lugano, Switzerland, where she came in second. In the 2012 Olympic games in London she competed in the 20 km walk along the other tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Gheorghe
Andrei Gheorghe (born 14 September 1987) is a Romanian-born Guatemalan modern pentathlete. He competed 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 .... References External links * 1987 births Living people Guatemalan male modern pentathletes Olympic modern pentathletes for Guatemala Modern pentathletes at the 2011 Pan American Games Modern pentathletes at the 2012 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Bucharest Pan American Games silver medalists for Guatemala Pan American Games medalists in modern pentathlon Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games {{Guatemala-modern-pentathlon-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Pentathlon At The 2011 Pan American Games
Modern pentathlon competitions at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara was held from October 15 to October 16 at the Hipica Club. The sport became the first sport to be completed out of the 36 sports on the program. Medal summary Medal table Events Schedule All times are Central Daylight Time ( UTC-5). Qualification There is a quota of 40 athletes (24 male, 16 female) (however one spot over quota for each gender was allowed); Mexico as the host country is guaranteed a full team of four athletes (two men and two women). Qualification is done on a country basis, not an individual basis. References External linksOfficial modern pentathlon results {{Events at the 2011 Pan American Games Events at the 2011 Pan American Games 2011 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 compe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daiki Kamikawa
is a Japanese judoka. He won the gold medal in the openweight division at the 2010 World Judo Championships by defeating Teddy Riner of France by a flags decision. Kamikawa is known for being a very technical judoka for a heavy weight and uses techniques such as harai goshi is one of the original 40 throws of Judo as developed by Kano Jigoro. It belongs to the second group of the traditional throwing list in the ''Gokyo no waza'' of the Kodokan Judo. It is also part of the current 67 Throws of Kodokan Judo, and cla ... and uchi mata with frequency. He represented Japan at the 2012 Summer Olympics. References External links * * 1989 births Living people Japanese male judoka Judoka at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in judo World judo champions Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic judoka of Japan Universiade medalists in judo Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Universiade silver medalists for Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judo At The 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's +100 Kg
The Men's +100 kg competition in judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, took place at ExCeL London between 28 July and 3 August. The gold and silver medals were determined by a single-elimination tournament, with the winner of the final taking gold and the loser receiving silver. Judo events awarded two bronze medals. Quarterfinal losers competed in a repechage match for the right to face a semifinal loser for a bronze medal (that is, the judokas defeated in quarterfinals A and B competed against each other, with the winner of that match facing the semifinal loser from the other half of the bracket). Schedule All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1 UTC+01:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +01:00. In ISO 8601, the associated time would be written as 2019-02-07T23:28:34+01:00. This time is used in: *Central European Time *West Africa Time *Western European Summer Time ** B ...) Results Finals Repechages Pool A Pool B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darrel Castillo
Darrel Castillo (born 4 August 1992 in Livingston, Guatemala) is a Guatemalan judoka. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the +100 kg event but lost to Daiki Kamikawa is a Japanese judoka. He won the gold medal in the openweight division at the 2010 World Judo Championships by defeating Teddy Riner of France by a flags decision. Kamikawa is known for being a very technical judoka for a heavy weight and uses ... in the first round. References 1992 births Living people Guatemalan male judoka Olympic judoka of Guatemala Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics People from Izabal Department {{Guatemala-judo-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnastics At The 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's Artistic Individual All-around
The women's artistic individual all-around competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London was held at the North Greenwich Arena on 2 August. Format of competition The top 24 competitors in the qualification round (with a limit of two per country), based on combined scores on the four apparatuses, advanced to the individual all-around final. In the final, gymnasts performed on each apparatus again. Qualification scores were then ignored, with only final-round scores counting. Qualification results Only two gymnasts from each country were allowed to advance to the all-around final. Four gymnasts placed in the top 24 in qualifications but did not advance because of the two-per-country rule: * (4th place) * (12th place) * (21st place) * (22nd place) Final results *Aliya Mustafina and Aly Raisman finished with the same total score of 59.566. To break the tie, each gymnast's lowest score was dropped, and their remaining three scores were summed. The resulting totals were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Sofía Gómez
Ana Sofía Gómez Porras (born 24 November 1995) is a Guatemalan artistic gymnast. Senior career Gómez won the silver medal in the all-around event and the gold medal in balance beam for Gymnastics at the 2011 Pan American Games. She competed for Guatemala at the 2012 Summer Olympics. In the individual women's all-around at the 2012 London Olympics, she qualified into the event in 16th, eventually going on to finish 22nd. In 2013, she competed in the World Cup in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and she placed fourth on the floor final with a score of 13.125. In 2014, she went to Texas to improve her skills before she went to compete in Croatia. Although she qualified into the balance beam final in first place with a score of 13.900, in the final she fell and received a 7.300 in execution and a 6.100 in difficulty, a total of 13.400, finishing in fourth place. In July, she traveled to Canada one month before the Pan American Championships. On 30 August, she competed in the all-around an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cycling At The 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's Individual Road Race
The men's road race, one of the cycling events at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, took place on 28 July at 10 a.m. in central and southwest London and north Surrey, starting and finishing on The Mall. This was the 19th appearance of the event, previously held in 1896 and then at every Summer Olympics since 1936. It replaced the individual time trial event that had been held from 1912 to 1932; the time trial had been re-introduced in 1996 alongside the road race Samuel Sánchez of Spain would have been the defending champion, but due to an injury incurred at the 2012 Tour de France he could not compete. The race was won by Kazakhstan's Alexander Vinokourov. He sprinted clear of Colombia's Rigoberto Urán, who claimed the silver medal. Alexander Kristoff of Norway won the sprint from the following group to take bronze. Vinokourov was the first man (and, through the 2016 Games, only; multiple women have done so) to win multiple medals in the event; he had previously taken silv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Rodas
Manuel Oseas Rodas Ochoa (born 5 July 1984) is a Guatemalan cyclist, that represented Guatemala at the Olympics in road cycling, in 2012, 2016 and 2020. Major results ;2005 : 3rd Overall Vuelta a El Salvador ;2006 : 1st Stage 11 Vuelta a Guatemala : 7th Time trial, Central American and Caribbean Games ;2007 : 1st Stage 11 Vuelta a Guatemala ;2008 : 1st Stage 11 Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica : 5th Overall Vuelta a Guatemala : 6th Overall Vuelta al Ecuador ;2009 : 10th Overall Vuelta a Guatemala ::1st Stage 9 ;2010 : 1st Time trial, National Road Championships ;2012 : 1st Time trial, National Road Championships : 1st Stage 8 Vuelta a Guatemala ;2013 : Central American Games ::1st Time trial ::2nd Road race : 1st Time trial, National Road Championships : 1st Stage 2 Ruta del Centro : 3rd Points race, Pan American Track Championships ;2014 : 1st Time trial, National Road Championships : Central American and Caribbean Games ::3rd Road race ::4th Time trial ;2015 : Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sho Sasaki (badminton)
is a Japanese retired badminton player from Tonami Transportation badminton team. He competed at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympics. He also competed in four Asian Games from 2002 to 2014. Career In 2007 he won the Japanese National Championships in men's singles, and 7 international tournaments: the Bahrain Satellite Badminton Tournament, the Banuinvest International Championships, the Osaka International Challenge, the Israel International, the Mauritius International, the Victorian International and the Italian International. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he reached the quarter-finals of the men's singles, losing to Lin Dan. In 2016, he did not advance to the knock-out stage after placing second in the group stage. He beat Petr Koukal of the Czech Republic, but was defeated by Rajiv Ouseph Theratil Rajiv Ouseph (born 30 August 1986) is a former badminton player from England who represented both England and Great Britain in the international tournaments. Ouseph was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
