Puerto Rico at the Olympics

Puerto Rico at the Olympics
IOC code	PUR
Website	www.copur.pr (in Spanish)
Medals Ranked 90th	Gold 2 Silver 2 Bronze 6 Total 10
Summer appearances
1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020
Winter appearances
1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006–2014 2018 2022

Puerto Rico first participated at the Olympic Games in 1948, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then. Puerto Rico has also participated in the Winter Olympic Games since 1984, but missed the Games of 2006, 2010, and 2014.

Puerto Rican athletes have won a total of ten medals. Six medals were won in boxing, two in track and field, one in tennis, and one in wrestling.

The Puerto Rican national baseball team won a bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, but that medal is not counted among Puerto Rico's Olympic medals totals because baseball was only an exhibition sport during those games.

The National Olympic Committee for Puerto Rico was created in 1948 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee that same year. Despite being part of the United States, the Star-Spangled Banner is not played when Puerto Rican competitors win Olympic gold medals.^[1]

Medal tables[]

Medals by Summer Games[]

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1948 London	9	0	0	1	1	34
1952 Helsinki	21	0	0	0	0	-
1956 Melbourne	10	0	0	0	0	–
1960 Rome	27	0	0	0	0	–
1964 Tokyo	32	0	0	0	0	–
1968 Mexico City	58	0	0	0	0	–
1972 Munich	53	0	0	0	0	–
1976 Montreal	80	0	0	1	1	37
1980 Moscow	3	0	0	0	0	–
1984 Los Angeles	51	0	1	1	2	30
1988 Seoul	47	0	0	0	0	–
1992 Barcelona	75	0	0	1	1	54
1996 Atlanta	69	0	0	1	1	71
2000 Sydney	29	0	0	0	0	–
2004 Athens	43	0	0	0	0	–
2008 Beijing	22	0	0	0	0	–
2012 London	25	0	1	1	2	63
2016 Rio de Janeiro	40	1	0	0	1	54
2020 Tokyo	37	1	0	0	1	63
2024 Paris	future event
2028 Los Angeles
2032 Brisbane
Total		2	2	6	10	89

Medals by Winter Games[]

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1984 Sarajevo	1	0	0	0	0	-
1988 Calgary	9	0	0	0	0	-
1992 Albertville	6	0	0	0	0	–
1994 Lillehammer	5	0	0	0	0	–
1998 Nagano	6	0	0	0	0	–
2002 Salt Lake City	2	0	0	0	0	–
2006 Turin	did not participate
2010 Vancouver
2014 Sochi
2018 Pyeongchang	1	0	0	0	0	–
2022 Beijing	2	0	0	0	0	–
2026 Milan–Cortina	future event
Total		0	0	0	0	-

Medals by Summer Youth Games[]

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
2010 Singapore	15	1	0	0	1	50
2014 Nanjing	23	0	0	0	0	NR
2018 Buenos Aires	22	0	1	2	3	71
Total		1	1	2	4	71

Medals by summer sport[]

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	1	0	1	2
Tennis	1	0	0	1
Boxing	0	1	5	6
Wrestling	0	1	0	1
Totals (4 sports)	2	2	6	10

List of medalists[]

Medal	Name	Games	Sport	Event
Bronze	Juan Venegas	1948 London	Boxing	Men's bantamweight
Bronze	Orlando Maldonado	1976 Montreal	Boxing	Men's light flyweight
Silver	Luis Ortiz	1984 Los Angeles	Boxing	Men's lightweight
Bronze	Arístides González	1984 Los Angeles	Boxing	Men's middleweight
Bronze	Aníbal Acevedo	1992 Barcelona	Boxing	Men's welterweight
Bronze	Daniel Santos	1996 Atlanta	Boxing	Men's welterweight
Silver	Jaime Espinal	2012 London	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 84 kg
Bronze	Javier Culson	2012 London	Athletics	Men's 400 metres hurdles
Gold	Monica Puig	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Tennis	Women's singles
Gold	Jasmine Camacho-Quinn	2020 Tokyo	Athletics	Women's 100 metres hurdles

See also[]

• List of flag bearers for Puerto Rico at the Olympics
• Puerto Rico Olympic Committee
• Category:Olympic competitors for Puerto Rico
• Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics
• Puerto Rico at the Paralympics

References[]

External links[]

• "Puerto Rico". International Olympic Committee.
• "Puerto Rico". Olympedia.com.
• "Olympic Analytics/PUR". olympanalyt.com.
• Olympic Participation a Source of Pride in Puerto Rico. Sean Jensen. SportsEngine Inc. 3 October 2018. Accessed 1 February 2022. Archived.