Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and unincorporated ...
competed at the
1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. ...
in
Munich
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,
West Germany
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. 53 competitors, all men, took part in 37 events in 10 sports.
Archery
In the first modern archery competition at the Olympics, Puerto Rico entered one man. He came in last place in the men's archery competition.
Men's Individual Competition:
*
Ferdinand Vega – 1954 points (55th place)
Athletics
Men's 100 metres
*
Jorge Vizcarrondo
:* First Heat — 10.79s (→ did not advance)
*
Guillermo González
:* First Heat — 10.73s (→ did not advance)
*
Luis Alers
:* First Heat — 11.09s (→ did not advance)
Men's 1500 metres
*
Anthony Colón
:* Heat — 3:44.6 (→ did not advance)
Men's 4 × 100 m Relay
*
Luis Alers,
Guillermo González,
Pedro Ferrer, and
Jorge Vizcarrondo
:* Heat — 41.34s (→ did not advance)
Basketball
Boxing
Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)
*
José Antonio Colon
:* First Round — Bye
:* Second Round — Lost to
Loucif Hanmani (ALG), 0:5
Diving
Men's 10m Platform:
*
Hector Bas – 254.79 points (→ 31st place)
Fencing
Two fencers represented Puerto Rico in 1972.
;
Men's épée
*
Roberto Levis
*
Roberto Maldonado
Roberto Maldonado is the alderman of the 26th Ward of the City of Chicago, Illinois.
Early life, education, and early career, Children
Maldonado earned both his undergraduate and his master's degree from the University of Puerto Rico. In Ch ...
Judo
Sailing
Shooting
Eight male shooters represented Puerto Rico in 1972.
;
25 m pistol
*
Simon González
*
Fernando Miranda
;
50 m pistol
The 50 meter pistol, formerly and unofficially still often called Free Pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It provides the purest precision shooting among the pistol events, and is one of the oldest shooting disciplines, dating back to t ...
*
Fernando Miranda
*
Santiago Machuca
;
50 m rifle, prone
*
Jaime Santiago
*
Manuel Hawayek
;
50 m running target
50 meter running target or 50 meter running boar is an ISSF shooting event, shot with a .22-calibre rifle at a target depicting a boar moving sideways across a 10-meter wide opening. It was devised as a replacement for 100 meter running deer in th ...
*
Pedro Ramírez
*
Frank Tossas
;
Skeet
Skeet may refer to:
* Skeet shooting, a discipline of competitive clay pigeon shooting
** ISSF Olympic skeet, a variant used at the Olympic Games
People
* Skeet Childress (born 1979), American guitar player in the band Look What I Did
* Skeet Qu ...
*
Rafael Batista
Weightlifting
References
External links
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1972 Summer Olympics
1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. ...
1972 in Puerto Rican sports
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