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competed at the

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Results and competitors 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), competi ...

Men's Marathon * Waldemar Cotelo — 2:28.50 (→ 79th place) Men's 3,000 metres Steeplechase *

Ricardo Vera Ricardo Cirilo Vera Rebollo (born September 16, 1962 in Montevideo) is a retired long-distance runner from Uruguay. Career Vera competed for his native country in the men's 3.000 metres Steeplechase at two consecutive Summer Olympics, s ...

:* Heat — 8:40.78 (→ did not advance)

Cycling Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bicyclists", or "bikers". Apart from t ...

Track Competition

Men's Points Race * Milton Wynants :* Final — 6 points (→ 11th place) Men's Individual Road Race * Gregorio Bare * Ricardo Guedes

Diving Diving most often refers to: * Diving (sport), the sport of jumping into deep water * Underwater diving, human activity underwater for recreational or occupational purposes Diving or Dive may also refer to: Sports * Dive (American football), a ...

Women's 10 m Platform *Ana Carolina Itzaina :* Preliminary Heat — 191.40 (→ did not advance, 30th place)

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Men's Half-Lightweight * Jorge Steffano Men's Half-Heavyweight * Willian Bouza

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 cou ...

Mixed Heavyweight Dinghy * Ricardo Fabini Men's Windsurfer * Andrés Isola

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 100m Butterfly * Javier Golovchenko :* Heat — 55.26 (→ did not advance, 33rd place) Men's 200m Butterfly * Javier Golovchenko :* Heat — 2:04.96 (→ did not advance, 37th place) Women's 200m Breaststroke * Erika Graf :* Heat — 2:42.97 (→ did not advance, 35th 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 * Marcelo Filippini :*First round — Won Luis Morejon (Ecuador) 6-7 7-5 6-1 :*Second round — Lost to

Renzo Furlan Renzo Furlan (born 17 May 1970) is a former tennis player from Italy. Having turned professional in 1988, Furlan represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was defeated in the quarter finals by Indi ...

(Italy) 7-5 6-2

Weightlifting Weightlifting generally refers to activities in which people lift 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 types of competition; promo ...

Men's Middleweight * Edward Silva

References

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Nations at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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