Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...

competed at the

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, United States. The nation returned to the Olympic Games after participating in the

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. Haiti's delegation consisted of two officials and four competitors (one

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, two fencers, and one

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

player).

Athletics

Men's Marathon * Dieudonné LaMothe — 2:52:18 (→ 78th place, last finisher)

Fencing

; Women's foil * Gina Faustin :* Round 1 — Won 2 out of 6 matches (→ did not advance) *

Sheila Viard Sheila Viard (born 3 January 1960) is a Haitian fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) w ...

:* Round 1 — Won 0 out of 6 matches (→ did not advance)

Tennis

Men's singles *

Ronald Agénor Ronald Jean-Martin Agénor (born November 13, 1964) is a former professional tennis player who represented Haiti during his playing career. He is the only Haitian to have ever earned a Top 25 world ranking in singles, reaching a highest singles ...

:* Round 1 — Lost to

Stefan Edberg Stefan Bengt Edberg (; born 19 January 1966) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. A major proponent of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won six Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam men's doubles titles between 1985 ...

of Sweden (→ did not advance) Note: Edberg went on to take 1st place

References

External links

Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1984 Summer Olympics

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