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competed at the

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, United States, winning its first Olympic medal when

Jefferson Pérez Jefferson Leonardo Pérez Quezada (born 1 July 1974) is an Ecuadorian retired race walker. He specialized in the 20 km event, in which he won the first two medals his country achieved in the Olympic Games. He won the gold medal at the 199 ...

won the gold medal in the men's 20 km walk.

Medalists

Gold

— Athletics, Men's 20 km Walk

Results by event

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Men's 10,000 metres *

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Men's Marathon * Rolando Vera — 2:17.40 (→ 22nd place) Men's 20 km Walk *

— 1:20.07 (→ Gold Medal) Women's Marathon *

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— did not finish (→ no ranking)

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Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg) * Luis Hernández ** First Round — Lost to Kabil Lahsen (Morocco), 9-18 Men's Heavyweight (– 91 kg) * Thompson García ** First Round — Lost to

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(Georgia), abandoned

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* Paulo Caicedo * Pedro Rodríguez * Héctor Chiles

Sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (land yacht) over a chosen cour ...

* Gastón Vedani

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* Margarita de Falconí

Swimming

Men's 50m Freestyle * Felipe Delgado ** Heat – 23.26 (→ did not advance, 25th place) Men's 100m Freestyle * Felipe Delgado ** Heat – 51.38 (→ did not advance, 38th place) Men's 100m Butterfly * Roberto Delgado ** Heat – 56.29 (→ did not advance, 44th place) Men's 200m Butterfly * Andrés Vasconcellos ** Heat – 2:05.98 (→ did not advance, 39th place) Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle * Julio Santos, Felipe Delgado, Roberto Delgado, and

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** Heat – 3:27.77 (→ did not advance, 15th place) Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle * Roberto Delgado, Julio Santos,

, and Andrés Vasconcellos ** Heat – 7:54.37 (→ did not advance, 16th place)

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Men's Singles Competition *

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** First round — Defeated

Marcelo Filippini Marcelo Filippini (born 4 August 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Uruguay. In 1996, Filippini played what was longest known game in ATP Tour history at Casablanca, going to deuce 20 times with Alberto Berasategui in one game o ...

(Uruguay) 6-7 7-5 6-1 ** Second round — Lost to Renzo Furlan (Italy) 5-7 2-6 *

Nicolás Lapentti Nicolás Alexander Lapentti Gómez (; born 13 August 1976) is a former professional tennis player from Ecuador. His brothers, Giovanni Lapentti, Giovanni and Leonardo, uncle Andrés Gómez, Andrés, and cousins Roberto Quiroz, Roberto and Emil ...

** First round — Lost to Andrei Olhovskiy (Russia) 1-6 6-3 6-8 *

Pablo Campana Pablo Campana (born 16 December 1972 in Quito, Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republ ...

References

Ecuador Olympic Committeesports-reference

{{NOCin1996SummerOlympics Nations at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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