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

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ...

Medalists

Competitors

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Results by event

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Men's 200 metres * Edgardo Guilbe Men's Marathon * Jorge González Men's 400m Hurdles *

Domingo Cordero Domingo Cordero Clase (born 17 October 1965 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a retired Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican track and field athlete who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles.Michael Francis :* Qualification — 7.47 m (→ did not advance) *

Elmer Williams Elmer Williams González (born 8 October 1964; Naguabo, Puerto Rico) is a retired Puerto Rican long jumper. He won the silver medal at the 1986 Central American and Caribbean Games and the bronze medal at the 1995 Pan American Games. At the ...

:* Qualification — 7.70 m (→ did not advance) Men's Pole Vault *

Edgar Díaz Edgardo "Edgar" Díaz Díaz (born April 18, 1968) is a former pole vaulter from Puerto Rico. He competed for his native country in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992. He is also a two-time gold medalist at the Central American and ...

:* Qualification — 5.50 m (→ did not advance) Women's 100 metres *

Myra Mayberry-Wilkinson Myra Mayberry-Wilkinson (born 5 May 1965) is a Puerto Rican sprinter. She competed in the 100 metres at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known ...

Women's 400 metres *

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

Men's team competition

The Puerto Ricans won only two of the seven games of the preliminary round in the debut of Olympic baseball. Their victories came against

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and the

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares wit ...

, while the five losses included one against last-place

after the Dominicans lost their 6-4 lead in the bottom of the ninth. Their record in the preliminary round eliminated them from medal contention. *Preliminary round :*Lost to Japan (0:9) :*Defeated Dominican Republic (7:5) :*Lost to Chinese Taipei (1:10) :*Defeated Italy (2:0) :*Lost to United States (2:8) :*Lost to Cuba (4:9) :*Lost to Spain(6:7) → 5th place *Team roster: :*

Jorge Aranzamendi Torres Jorge is a Spanish and Portuguese given name. It is derived from the Greek name Γεώργιος ('' Georgios'') via Latin ''Georgius''; the former is derived from (''georgos''), meaning "farmer" or "earth-worker". The Latin form ''Georgius'' ...

Roberto Lopez Ocasio The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

:* Angel Morales Rodriguez :* Efrain Garcia Santiago :* Helson Rodriguez Santiago :* Albert Bracero Chevere :* Manuel Serrano :* José Lorenzana Oquendo :* Luis Ramos Torres :* Silvio Censale :* Abimael Rosario Marrero :* Efrain Nieves Soto :* Gualberto Lopez Ortiz :* Wilfredo Velez Leon :* James Figueroa :* Rafael Santiago Rivera :* Jesus Feliciano Amadeo :* José Mateo Rosario :* Orlando Lopez Bobian :* José Sepulveda Pinto Head coach: José Carradero Muriel

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

Men's team competition

*Preliminary round (group B): :* Lost to Australia (76-116) :* Defeated China (100-68) :* Lost to Lithuania (91-104) :* Defeated Venezuela (96-82) :* Defeated Unified Team (82-70) *Quarter Finals: :* Lost to United States (77-115) *Classification Matches: :* 5th/8th place: Lost to Brazil (84-86) :* 7th/8th place: Lost to Germany (86-96) → 8th place *Team roster: :* ( 4.) José Ortiz :* ( 5.)

Federico Lopez Federico (; ) is a given name and surname. It is a form of Frederick, most commonly found in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. People with the given name Federico Artists * Federico Ágreda, Venezuelan composer and DJ. * Federico Aguilar Alcuaz, r ...

:* ( 6.) Raymond Gause :* ( 7.) Edwin Pellot :* ( 8.)

Jerome Mincy Jerome Alfred Mincy Clark (born November 10, 1964) is a Puerto Rican former professional basketball player who was born to Shelly and Willie Mincy at Ramey Air Force Base in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico on November 10, 1964. He played in the NCAA with ...

:* ( 9.) James Carter :* (10.)

Javier Antonio Colón Javier Antonio "Toñito" Colón (born June 4, 1969) is a retired Puerto Rican basketball player. Colón spent his entire career as a point guard for the Leones de Ponce of the BSN from 1987 to 2008. Colón led the team to five championships dur ...

:* (11.) Ramon Rivas :* (12.)

Mario Morales Mario Morales Micheo (born November 13, 1957) is a former Puerto Rican basketball player. He is known as a.k.a. "Quijote" Morales for his ability to conquer both scoring and team championships in Puerto Rico's BSN league. He is the father of Ev ...

:* (13.) Edgar De Leon :* (14.) Eddie Casiano :* (15.) Richard Soto

Boxing Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg) *

Nelson Dieppa Nelson Dieppa-Gerena (born February 25, 1971) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. As an amateur, he represented Puerto Rico in international events including the 1991 World Amateur Boxing Championships, 1991 Pan American Games and the 1992 S ...

:* First Round — Lost to

Daniel Petrov Daniel Bozhilov Petrov ( bg, Даниел Божилов Петров) (born 8 September 1971 in Varna) is a Bulgarian boxer. He won a silver medal at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and a gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 in the cate ...

(BUL), 7:10 Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg) *

Angel Chacón In various theistic religious traditions an angel is a supernatural spiritual being who serves God. Abrahamic religions often depict angels as benevolent celestial intermediaries between God (or Heaven) and humanity. Other roles inclu ...

:* First Round — Lost to

David Serradas David Wladimir Serradas Suárez (born May 17, 1969 in Valencia, Carabobo) is a former Venezuelan boxer, competing in the flyweight division. Serradas competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, where he w ...

(VEN), 3:12 Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg) *

Harold Ramírez Harold Andrés Ramírez Lemus (born September 6, 1994) is a Colombian professional baseball outfielder for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in MLB for the Miami Marlins and Cleveland Indians. Career Pitts ...

:* First Round — Lost to Sergio Reyes Jr. (USA), 1:10 Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg) * Carlos Gerena :* First Round — Defeated Narendar Singh Bisth (USA), 20:11 :* Second Round — Lost to

Hocine Soltani Hocine Soltani (December 1972 – March 2002) was an Algerian boxer, who won two Olympic medals. In 1992, the southpaw placed third in the featherweight division (54–57 kg), and at the 1996 Summer Olympics he won the gold medal in the ...

(ALG), 0:23 Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg) * Aníbal Acevedo :* First Round — Defeated Harry Simon (NAM), 13:11 :* Second Round — Defeated Stefen Scriggins (AUS), 16:3 :* Quarterfinals — Defeated

Francisc Vaştag Francisc is the Romanian-language form of Francis. In other cases Francisc is the Romanianized form of the Hungarian name Ferenc. Notable people with the name include: * Francisc Hossu-Longin * Francisc Rainer *Francisc Șirato Francisc Şira ...

(ROM), 20:9 :* Semifinals — Lost to

Juan Hernández Sierra Juan Hernández Sierra (born March 16, 1969) is a retired amateur boxer from Cuba, who competed in the welterweight (< 67 kg) division during the 1990s. He represented his native country at three consecutive Miguel Jiménez :* First Round — Lost to Furas Hashim (IRQ), 3:10 Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg) * Richard Santiago :* First Round — Lost to

Sven Ottke Sven Ottke (born 3 June 1967) is a German former professional boxer who competed from 1997 to 2004. He was a unified super-middleweight world champion, having held the IBF title from 1998 to 2004, and the WBA (Unified) title from 2003 to 2004. W ...

(GER), 2:15 Men's Light-Heavyweight (– 81 kg) * Alex González :* First Round — Lost to

Wojciech Bartnik Wojciech Stanisław Bartnik (born 2 December 1967 in Olesnica) is a former southpaw boxer from Poland, who won a Light Heavyweight Bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Amateur career *1992 – Bronze Medal (Light Heavyweight) at the ...

(POL), 3:6

Gymnastics Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shou ...

Men's Floor Exercise * Victor Colon Men's Horse Vault * Victor Colon Men's Parallel Bars * Victor Colon Men's Horizontal Bar * Victor Colon Men's Rings * Victor Colon Men's Pommelled Horse * Victor Colon

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Men's Extra-Lightweight * Luis Martínez Women's Half-Lightweight * Lisa Boscarino Women's Lightweight * Maniliz Segarra Women's Heavyweight *

Nilmaris Santini Nilmaris "Nilmari" Santini Martin (May 25, 1959 – March 25, 2006) was a female judoka from Puerto Rico. She competed for her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, where she was defeated in the second round of the rep ...

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 ...

Men's One Person Dinghy * José Sambolin Mixed Multihull *

Enrique Figueroa Enrique Figueroa Suárez (born February 25, 1964), also known as "Quique Figueroa", is a Puerto Rican sailor. Figueroa is the only sailor of Puerto Rico to win four gold medals in the Central American-Caribbean Games. He has also competed at fo ...

and

Oscar Mercado Oscar Mauricio Mercado (born December 16, 1994) is a Colombian-American professional baseball outfielder in the St. Louis Cardinals organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians / Guardians and ...

Women's Sailboard (Lechner A-390) * Lucia Martínez :* Final Ranking — 205.0 points (→ 19th place)

Shooting Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, bow, crossbow, slingshot, or blowpipe). Even the acts of launching flame, artillery, darts, harpoons, grenades, rockets, and guided missiles can ...

Men's Small-Bore Rifle Prone (50 m) * Ralph Rodríguez Mixed Trap * Jesús Tirado

Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

Men's 50 m Freestyle *

Ricardo Busquets Ricardo J. ("Ricky") Busquets Healy (born October 3, 1974 in Ponce, Puerto Rico) is a former freestyle swimmer from Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, ...

:* Heat — 23.44 (→ did not advance, 24th place) * Todd Torres :* Heat — 23.79 (→ did not advance, 34th place) Men's 100 m Freestyle *

:* Heat — 50.31 :* B-Final — 49.92 (→ 9th place) Men's 400 m Freestyle * Jorge Herrera :* Heat — 4:00.11 (→ did not advance, 30th place) Men's 1500 m Freestyle * Jorge Herrera :* Heat — 16:01.69 (→ did not advance, 24th place) Men's 100 m Backstroke * Manuel Guzmán :* Heat — 56.93 (→ did not advance, 17th place) *

:* Heat — 58.42 (→ did not advance, 38th place) Men's 200 m Backstroke * Manuel Guzmán :* Heat — 2:01.84 :* B-Final — 2:01.87 (→ 13th place) Men's 100 m Breaststroke * Todd Torres :* Heat — 1:02.72 :* B-Final — 1:03.21 (→ 16th place) Men's 200 m Butterfly *

David Monasterio David V. Monasterio Ruiz (born January 13, 1971) is a former international freestyle and butterfly swimmer from Puerto Rico, who participated at the 1992 Summer Olympics for his native country. He won three relay medals (one silver, two bronze) ...

:* Heat — 2:02.32 (→ did not advance, 30th place) Men's 200 m Individual Medley * Manuel Guzmán :* Heat — 2:04.95 :* B-Final — Withdrawn Men's 400 m Individual Medley *

:* Heat — 4:36.39 (→ did not advance, 28th place) Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay * Manuel Guzmán, Jorge Herrera,

, and

:* Heat — 3:30.48 (→ did not advance, 13th place) Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay * Jorge Herrera, Manuel Guzmán,

, and

:* Heat — 7:35.63 (→ did not advance, 15th place) Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay * Manuel Guzmán, Todd Torres,

, and

:* Heat — 3:46.52 (→ did not advance, 12th place)
Women's 200 m Freestyle * Rita Garay :* Heat — 2:07.08 (→ did not advance, 27th place) Women's 100 m Backstroke * Rita Garay :* Heat — 1:05.92 (→ did not advance, 34th place) Women's 200 m Backstroke * Rita Garay :* Heat — 2:18.10 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

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 ...

Men's Singles Competition * Juan Rios :* First round — Lost to

Omar Camporese Omar Camporese (; born 8 May 1968) is a former professional tennis player from Italy. Career Born in Bologna, Camporese turned professional in 1987. He reached his first top-level singles final in 1990 at San Marino, where he lost to Guillermo ...

(Italy) 2-6, 2-6, 0-6 Men's Doubles Competition * Juan Rios and

Miguel Nido Miguel Nido (born March 8, 1963 in Carolina, Puerto Rico) is a former tennis player from Puerto Rico, who represented his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Partnering Juan Rios, the pair was defeated in the first round ...

:* First round — Lost to

and

Diego Nargiso Diego Nargiso (born 15 March 1970) is a former tennis player from Italy. Having turned professional in 1987, Nargiso represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where he was defeated in the second round by America's even ...

(Italy) 1-6, 2-6, 3-6

Weightlifting Weightlifting generally refers to activities in which people lift Weight training#Equipment, weights, often in the form of dumbbells or barbells. People lift various kinds of weights for a variety of different reasons. These may include various t ...

Men's Light-Heavyweight * Arnold Franqui

Wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

Men's Freestyle Featherweight *

Anibál Nieves Anibál Nieves Javier (born November 11, 1965) is retired male sport wrestler from Puerto Rico. In college, he wrestled for East Stroudsburg University, where he achieved All-American status at the Division I level of the NCAA. He twice r ...

Men's Freestyle Middleweight * José Betancourt Men's Freestyle Light-Heavyweight * Daniel Sánchez Men's Freestyle Super-Heavyweight * Rodney Figueroa

References

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Medalists

Competitors

Results by event

Athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

Men's team competition

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

Men's team competition

Boxing Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...

Gymnastics Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shou ...

Judo is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponi ...

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 ...

Shooting Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, bow, crossbow, slingshot, or blowpipe). Even the acts of launching flame, artillery, darts, harpoons, grenades, rockets, and guided missiles can ...

Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

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 ...

Weightlifting Weightlifting generally refers to activities in which people lift Weight training#Equipment, weights, often in the form of dumbbells or barbells. People lift various kinds of weights for a variety of different reasons. These may include various t ...

Wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

See also

References