El Salvador at the 2011 Pan American Games

El Salvador at the
2011 Pan American Games
El Salvador at the; 2011 Pan American Games
IOC code	ESA
NOC	El Salvador Olympic Committee
in Guadalajara; 14–30 October 2011
Competitors	79 in 22 sports
Flag bearer	Pamela Benítez
Medals; Ranked 23rd	Gold 0 Silver 1 Bronze 1 Total 2
Pan American Games appearances (overview)
	1951; 1955; 1959; 1963; 1967; 1971; 1975; 1979; 1983; 1987; 1991; 1995; 1999; 2003; 2007; 2011; 2015; 2019;

El Salvador competed at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico from October 14 to 30, 2011. El Salvador's team consisted of 79 athletes in 22 sports.^[1]

Medalists[]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Silver	Evelyn Garcia	Cycling	Women's Individual Time Trial	October 16
Bronze		Wrestling	Men's Freestyle 60 kg	October 24

Archery[]

El Salvador qualified three male athletes in the archery competition.

Men

Athlete	Event	Ranking Round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
	Men's individual	1271	15	J Quintana (CUB) L 1–7	Did not advance				17
	Men's individual	1267	16	(COL) W 6–2	B Ellison (USA) L 0–6	Did not advance			9
Cristobal Merlos	Men's individual	1158	31	C Duenas (CAN) L 0–6	Did not advance				17
Cristobal Merlos	Men's team	3696	8		Ecuador (ECU) W 218–196	United States (USA) L 220–224	Did not advance		5

Athletics[]

El Salvador qualified two male athletes.^[1]

Men[]

Track and road events

Event	Athletes	Heats		Semifinal		Final
Event	Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
110m hurdles		14.18	14th	Did not advance
400 m	Takeshi Fujiwara	46.92	14th	Did not advance
50 km walk	Emerson Hernández					4:12:53	6th
Marathon						3:07:25	17th

Field events

Event	Athletes	Semifinal		Final
Event	Athletes	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
High jump				2.10	14th

Women[]

Track and road events

Event	Athletes	Heats		Semifinal		Final
Event	Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
1.500 m	Gladys Landaverde					4:31.43	8th
3.000 m steeplechase						11:18.40	8th

Beach volleyball[]

El Salvador qualified a men's team in the beach volleyball competition.

Athlete	Event	Preliminary Round			Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
	Men	(MEX) Juan Virgen (MEX) L 12-21, 15-21	(CAN) (CAN) L 22-24, 16-21	(URU) (URU) L 11-21, 13-21	Did not advance
	Women	Bibiana Candelas (MEX) Mayra García (MEX) L 5-21, 12-21	Fabiana Gómez (URU) (URU) L 12-21, 15-21	Nathalia Alfaro (CRC) Ingrid Morales (CRC) L 14-21, 15-21	Did not advance

Bowling[]

El Salvador qualified two male and two female athletes in the bowling competition.

Men[]

Individual

Event	Qualification															Eighth Finals	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
	Block 1 (Games 1–6)						Block 2 (Games 7–12)						Total	Average	Rank	Eighth Finals	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total	Average	Rank	Opposition Scores	Opposition Scores	Opposition Scores	Opposition Scores	Rank
Men's individual	213	198	170	158	160	156	187	175	191	179	216	164	2167	180.6	29th	Did not advance
Men's individual	183	176	206	189	162	150	171	145	198	174	152	180	2086	173.8	32nd	Did not advance

Pairs

Athlete	Event	Block 1 (Games 1–6)								Block 2 (Games 7–12)								Grand Total	Final Rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Average	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total	Average	Grand Total	Final Rank
	Men's pairs	160	174	167	164	187	180	1032	172.0	168	240	184	198	147	190	2159	179.9	4279	16th
	Men's pairs	189	192	172	148	144	179	1024	170.7	137	191	193	197	170	208	2120	176.7	4279	16th

Women[]

Individual

Event	Qualification															Eighth Finals	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
	Block 1 (Games 1–6)						Block 2 (Games 7–12)						Total	Average	Rank	Eighth Finals	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total	Average	Rank	Opposition Scores	Opposition Scores	Opposition Scores	Opposition Scores	Rank
Women's individual	216	200	133	216	216	142	142	213	171	181	195	169	2194	182.8	18th	Did not advance
Women's individual	134	192	212	155	206	166	143	171	183	192	197	173	2124	177.0	24th	Did not advance

Pairs

Athlete	Event	Block 1 (Games 1–6)								Block 2 (Games 7–12)								Grand Total	Final Rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Average	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total	Average	Grand Total	Final Rank
	Women's pairs	166	135	162	199	175	171	1008	168.0	191	134	170	159	197	191	2050	170.8	4116	14th
	Women's pairs	180	175	173	167	169	191	1055	175.8	194	150	149	156	171	191	2066	172.2	4116	14th

Boxing[]

El Salvador qualified two athlete in the 52 kg and 75 kg men's category.

Men[]

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
	Flyweight		(BRA) L 5-25	Did not advance
	Middleweight	(MEX) W DSQ	Brody Blair (CAN) L 12-24	Did not advance

Cycling[]

Road[]

Men[]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
	Road race	DNF

Women[]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Evelyn Garcia	Road race	2:18:23	12th
Evelyn Garcia	Road time trial	28:13.76

Mountain biking[]

Men[]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
	Cross-country	DNF

Women[]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
	Cross-country	DNF

Equestrian[]

Eventing[]

Horse	Event	Dressage		Cross-country		Jumping				Total
		Dressage		Cross-country		Qualifier		Final		Total
		Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Henry	Individual	76.50	48th	RT		Did not advance

Individual jumping[]

Horse	Event	Ind. 1st Qualifier		Ind. 2nd Qualifier			Ind. 3rd Qualifier			Ind. Final
		Ind. 1st Qualifier		Ind. 2nd Qualifier			Ind. 3rd Qualifier			Round A		Round B		Total
		Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Silverado	Individual	13.12	47th	9.00	22.12	34th	13.00	35.12	44th	Did not advance

Fencing[]

El Salvador qualified two athletes in the men's épée competition, one athlete in the men's sabre competition, and one athlete in the women's foil competition.

Men[]

Event	Athlete	Round of Poules		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Event	Athlete	Result	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Individual épée		1 V - 4 D	14th Q	Silvio Fernandez (ESA) L 11 - 15	Did not advance
Individual épée		1 V - 4 D	16th Q	Paris Inostroza (CHI) L 3 - 15	Did not advance
Individual foil		0 V - 5 D	18th	Did not advance
Individual sabre	John Lopez	1 V - 4 D	15th Q	(BRA) L 3 - 15	Did not advance
Team épée				United States (USA) L 27 - 45	Did not advance

Women[]

Event	Athlete	Round of Poules		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Event	Athlete	Result	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Individual foil		0 V - 5 D	18th	Did not advance

Gymnastics[]

Artistic[]

El Salvador qualified one male athlete in the artistic gymnastics competition.

Men[]

Individual qualification & Team Finals

Athlete	Event	Apparatus						Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Vault	Floor	Pommel horse	Rings	Parallel bars	Horizontal bar	Total	Rank	Total	Rank
	Ind Qualification	12.750	12.200	13.400	11.700	12.800	12.800	75.550	26th
	Ind all round	12.300	12.650	12.500	10.800	11.850	12.650	72.750	19th

Judo[]

El Salvador qualified two athletes in the 66 kg and 100 kg men's categories and one athlete in the 70 kg women's category.

Men[]

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
	-66 kg		Francisco Carreon (MEX) L 000 S2 - 001 S1	Did not advance (to repechage round)
	-100 kg		Cristian Schmidt (ARG) L 001 S1 - 110 S2	Did not advance (to repechage round)

Repechage Rounds

Athlete	Event	Repechage 8	Finel of Repechage	Bronze Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
	-66 kg		Sasha Mehmedovic (CAN) L 001 - 101	Did not advance
	-100 kg		(COL) W 100 S1 - 000	Sergio Garcia (MEX) L 000 SH - 100

Karate[]

El Salvador qualified four male athletes.

Event	Round Robin (Pool A/B)			Semifinals	Final
	Match 1	Match 2	Match 3	Semifinals	Final
	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Men's -60 kg	(CHI) L KIK 0:0	Andres Rendon (COL) L KIK 0:0	(USA) L KIK 0:0	Did not advance
Men's -67 kg	(PER) HKW 0:0	(MEX) L PTS 0:7	(VEN) HKW 0:0	Did not advance
Men's -75 kg	(USA) L PTS 0:1	(DOM) HKW 0:0	(ECU) HKW 0:0	Did not advance
Men's -84 kg	(VEN) L PTS 1:7	(DOM) L PTS 2:7	(PER) L PTS 0:1	Did not advance
Men's +84 kg	(VEN) L PTS 0:2	(ARG) W PTS 1:0	(BRA) HKW 1:1	Did not advance

Roller skating[]

El Salvador qualified a men's and women's team in the roller skating competition.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
	300 m time trial			26.309	6th
	1,000 m	DNF		Did not advance
	10,000 m			DNF

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
	300 m time trial			29.464	8th
	1,000 m			1:42.263	5th
	10,000 m			DNF

Rowing[]

Men[]

Athlete(s)	Event	Heats		Repechage		Final
Athlete(s)	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
	Single sculls (M1x)	7:40.09	5th R	7:36.57	4th QB	7:21.01	3rd
	Lightweight double sculls (LM2x)	7:08.12	5th R	6:53.80	4th QB	6:49.47	3rd

Women[]

Athlete(s)	Event	Heats		Repechage		Final
Athlete(s)	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ana Vargas	Single sculls (W1x)	8:04.49	1st QF			8:16.85	5th
	Lightweight single sculls (LW1x)	8:45.22	3rd R	8:12.62	4th QF	8:15.91	6th

Shooting[]

El Salvador qualified six athletes in shooting.^[1]

Men

Event	Athlete	Qualification		Final
Event	Athlete	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
10 m air pistol		565-12x	14th	Did not advance
10 m air rifle		579-32x	17th	Did not advance
25 m rapid fire pistol		563- 8x	5th Q	571.0	5th
50 m pistol		523- 4x	22nd	Did not advance
50 m rifle prone		576-21x	23rd	Did not advance
50 m rifle three positions		1132- 43x	12th	Did not advance

Women

Event	Athlete	Qualification		Final
Event	Athlete	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
10 m air pistol	Lilian Castro	359- 4x	21st	Did not advance
10 m air rifle	Melissa Mikec	388-24x	8th Q	489.0	7th
10 m air rifle		383-24x	19th	Did not advance
25 m pistol	Lilian Castro	538- 8x	21st	Did not advance
50 m rifle three positions		565-15x	9th	Did not advance
50 m rifle three positions		567-19x	6th Q	662.6	5th

Swimming[]

El Salvador qualified four swimmers.^[1]

Men

Event	Athletes	Heats		Final
Event	Athletes	Time	Position	Time	Position
100 m Breaststroke		1:06.40	20th	Did not advance
200 m Breaststroke		2:26.95	14th QB	2:29.15	8th B

Women

Event	Athletes	Heats		Final
Event	Athletes	Time	Position	Time	Position
200 m Freestyle		2:07.30	10th QB	2:06.15	3rd B
400 m Freestyle		4:26.05	13th QB	4:23.53	3rd B
800 m Freestyle		9:05.16	8th Q	9:03.53	7th
10 km marathon				DNF

Squash[]

El Salvador qualified three male athletes in the squash competition.

Men

Event	Athlete(s)	First Round	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Event	Athlete(s)	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
	Singles	(USA) L 11-7, 7-11, 2-11, 11-5, 3-11	Did not advance
	Singles	(CAN) L 3-11, 2-11, 10-12	Did not advance
	Doubles			Christopher Gordon (USA) Julian Illingworth (USA) L 8 - 11, 9 - 11	Did not advance

Team

Athletes	Event	Preliminaries Group Stage			Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Athletes	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Jose Molina	Team	United States (USA) L 1-3, 1-3, 0-3	Mexico (MEX) L 0-3, 0-3, 0-3		Did not advance

Table tennis[]

El Salvador qualified three male and three female athletes in the table tennis competition.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round Robin			1st Round	Eighthfinals	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Match 1	Match 2	Match 3	1st Round	Eighthfinals	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
	Singles	(VEN) L 1 - 4	(CHI) L 0 - 4	Thiago Monteiro (BRA) L 0 - 4	Did not advance
	Singles	Hugo Hoyama (BRA) L 0 - 4	Pierre-Luc Hinse (CAN) L 0 - 4	(GUA) W 4 - 2	Did not advance
	Singles	(CUB) L 2 - 4	Mark Hazinski (COL) L 0 - 4	Ju Lin (DOM) L 0 - 4	Did not advance
Alberto Mino	Team	Venezuela (VEN) L 2 - 3, 1 - 3, 0 - 3	Cuba (CUB) L 0 - 3, 0 - 3, 0 – 3				Did not advance

Women

Event	Round Robin			1st Round	Eighthfinals	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
	Match 1	Match 2	Match 3	1st Round	Eighthfinals	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Singles	(DOM) L 1 - 4	Berta Rodriguez (CHI) L 0 - 4	Paula Medina (COL) L 0 - 4	Did not advance
Singles	Lisi Castillo (CUB) L 0 - 4	(PER) L 0 - 4	Lily Zhang (USA) L 0 - 4	Did not advance
Singles	Jessica Yamada (BRA) L 2 - 4	Carelyn Cordero (PUR) W 4 - 1	Johenny Valdez (DOM) L 1 - 4	Did not advance
Team	Colombia (COL) L 3 - 1, 0 - 3, 1 - 3, 0 - 3	Venezuela (VEN) L 1 - 3, 2 - 3, 3 - 2, 1 – 3				Did not advance

Tennis[]

Men

Athlete	Event	1st Round	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Rafael Arevalo	Singles	Daniel Garza (MEX) L 2 - 6, 2 - 6	Did not advance
Marcelo Arevalo	Singles	Haydn Lewis (BAR) W 6 - 4, 6 - 4	Eduardo Schwank (ARG) W 6 - 4, 6 - 1	Alejandro Gonzalez (COL) L 3 - 5 RET	Did not advance
Rafael Arevalo Marcelo Arevalo	Doubles			Victor Estrella (DOM) Jose Hernandez (DOM) W 6 - 3, 6(2) - 7, [10-6]	Nicholas Monroe (USA) Greg Ouellette (USA) L WO

Taekwondo[]

El Salvador qualified one athlete in the 67 kg women's category.

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
	Flyweight (-49kg)		(USA) L 4 - 9	Did not advance

Triathlon[]

Men[]

Athlete	Event	Swim (1.5 km)	Trans 1	Bike (40 km)	Trans 2	Run (10 km)	Total	Rank
	Individual	DNF

Weightlifting[]

Athlete	Event	Snatch			Clean & Jerk			Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Attempt 1	Attempt 2	Attempt 3	Attempt 1	Attempt 2	Attempt 3	Total	Rank
	Men's 69 kg	~~110~~	110	~~113~~	136	140	~~145~~	250	5th
	Men's 69 kg	108	~~111~~	~~111~~	135	~~135~~	~~140~~	243	6th
	Women's 48 kg	68	68	71	83	85	85	153	5th

Wrestling[]

El Salvador qualified one athlete in the 48 kg women's freestyle category.

Men

Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
	60 kg	Guillermo Torres (MEX) L PP 1 - 3		Bronze medal match: (ARG) L PO 0 - 3	^{[N. 1]}

Women

Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Ingrid Medrano	48 kg	Patricia Bermudez (ARG) L PO 0 - 3	Did not advance

^ The argentinian Fernando Iglesias lost the bronze medal in wrestling category of 60 kg for giving positive in cases of doping, the medal was assigned to the salvadoran Luis Portillo (Source).

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e El Salvador entries
^ Nadadora, Pamela Benítez será la abanderada Archived 2011-10-09 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)

[3] The argentinian Fernando Iglesias lost the bronze medal in wrestling category of 60 kg for giving positive in cases of doping, the medal was assigned to the salvadoran Luis Portillo (Source).

[team-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e El Salvador entries

[2] Nadadora, Pamela Benítez será la abanderada Archived 2011-10-09 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)

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El Salvador at the 2011 Pan American Games

IOC code	ESA
NOC	El Salvador Olympic Committee
in Guadalajara 14–30 October 2011
Competitors	79^[1] in 22 sports
Flag bearer	Pamela Benítez^[2]
Medals Ranked 23rd	Gold 0 Silver 1 Bronze 1 Total 2
Pan American Games appearances (overview)
1951 1955 1959 1963 1967 1971 1975 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019