Dominican Republic at the Olympics

Dominican Republic at the Olympics
Flag of the Dominican Republic
IOC code	DOM
NOC	Dominican Republic Olympic Committee
Website	www.colimdo.org (in Spanish)
Medals Ranked 77th	Gold 3 Silver 5 Bronze 4 Total 12
Summer appearances
1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020

The Dominican Republic first participated in the Olympic Games in 1964, when Alberto Torres de la Mota ("El Gringo" )^[1] participated in the 10th heat of the 100m competition and ran 10.9 seconds, finishing 6th, not qualifying for the next round.^[2]

The Dominican Republic has appeared in every one of the games since then. The Dominican Republic has never participated at the Winter Olympic Games.

The Dominican Republic has won ten medals at the Olympics. Pedro Nolasco won a bronze in boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics and in 2004 Félix Sánchez won a gold in the 400 meter hurdles. In the 2008 Summer Olympics Manuel Felix Diaz won a gold medal in Boxing and Gabriel Mercedes won silver in Taekwondo. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Sanchez once again won a gold medal in the 400 meter hurdles. On the same night, Luguelín Santos won silver in the 400 metres to become the youngest ever Olympic medallist in the event. Luisito Pie won a bronze medal in Taekwondo at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.^[3]

They are represented by Dominican Republic Olympic Committee.

Medal tables[]

Medals by Summer Games[]

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1964 Tokyo	1	0	0	0	0	–
1968 Mexico City	20	0	0	0	0	–
1972 Munich	5	0	0	0	0	–
1976 Montreal	10	0	0	0	0	–
1980 Moscow	6	0	0	0	0	–
1984 Los Angeles	19	0	0	1	1	43
1988 Seoul	16	0	0	0	0	–
1992 Barcelona	32	0	0	0	0	–
1996 Atlanta	16	0	0	0	0	–
2000 Sydney	13	0	0	0	0	–
2004 Athens	33	1	0	0	1	54
2008 Beijing	25	1	1	0	2	46
2012 London	35	1	1	0	2	46
2016 Rio de Janeiro	29	0	0	1	1	70
2020 Tokyo	63	0	3	2	5	68
2024 Paris	future event
2028 Los Angeles
2032 Brisbane
Total		3	5	4	12	77

Medals by sport[]

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	2	3	0	5
Boxing	1	0	1	2
Taekwondo	0	1	1	2
Weightlifting	0	1	1	2
Baseball	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 sports)	3	5	4	12

List of medalists[]

Medal	Name(s)	Games	Sport	Event
Bronze	Pedro Nolasco	1984 Los Angeles	Boxing	Bantamweight
Gold	Félix Sánchez	2004 Athens	Athletics	Men's 400 metre hurdles
Gold	Manuel Felix Diaz	2008 Beijing	Boxing	Light welterweight
Silver	Yulis Gabriel Mercedes	2008 Beijing	Taekwondo	Men's 58 kg
Gold	Félix Sánchez	2012 London	Athletics	Men's 400 m hurdles
Silver	Luguelín Santos	2012 London	Athletics	Men's 400 m
Bronze	Luisito Pie	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Taekwondo	Men's 58 kg
Silver	Zacarías Bonnat	2020 Tokyo	Weightlifting	Men's 81kg
Silver	Anabel Medina Marileidy Paulino Lidio Andrés Feliz Alexander Ogando	2020 Tokyo	Athletics	Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay
Silver	Marileidy Paulino	2020 Tokyo	Athletics	Women 400 metres
Bronze	Crismery Santana	2020 Tokyo	Weightlifting	Women's 87 kg
Bronze	Team 64 Emilio Bonifacio (C) CF 6 Erick Mejia Second Base 18 Julio Rodriguez Right F 34 Juan Francisco First B 36 Johan Mieses Left F 14 Melky Cabrera DH 19 Jose Bautista Third Base 7 Charlie Valerio Catcher 10 Jeison Guzman Shortstop 56 Raul Valdes Pitcher 2 Gustavo Nunez Infielder 3 Yefri Perez Utility 15 Cristopher Mercedes P 16 Roldani Baldwin Catcher 23 Ramon Rosso Pitcher 28 Pitcher 31 Luis Felipe Castillo Pitcher 33 Jairo Asencio Pitcher 37 Jhan Marinez Pitcher 38 Angel Sanchez Pitcher 39 Dario Alvarez Pitcher 41 Denyi Reyes Pitcher 70 Jose Diaz Pitcher 79 Gabriel Arias Pitcher Team Manager Coaches Anderson Hernandez	2020 Tokyo	Baseball	Baseball

See also[]

• List of flag bearers for the Dominican Republic at the Olympics
• Dominican Republic at the Paralympics

References[]

External links[]

• "Dominican Republic". International Olympic Committee.
• "Dominican Republic". Olympedia.com.
• "Olympic Analytics/DOM". olympanalyt.com.