Puerto Rico (PUR)

Overview

NOCComité Olímpico de Puerto Rico
Flagbearers59

Participants

Olympic Games 590
Youth Olympic Games 60
Other competitors with PUR nationality 1

Description

Puerto Rico first competed at the 1948 Olympics in London and has not failed to compete at the Olympic Games since then, notably attending the 1980 Olympics despite being a Commonwealth of the United States.

Puerto Rican athletes won their first six medals (one silver and five bronze) all in boxing. Through 2022, Puerto Rico has won 10 Olympic medals, with one gold won by Monica Puig in 2016 women’s tennis singles, and a second gold by Jasmine Camacho-Quinn in the women’s 100 metres hurdles at Tokyo 2020.

However, the best-known female Puerto Rican athlete may be tennis player Gigi Fernandez, who played for many years on the WTA Tour. Fernandez represented Puerto Rico at the 1984 Olympic Games in tennis, but later switched allegiance and won Olympic gold medals in women’s doubles at the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games, while playing alongside Mary Joe Fernandez (no relation) for the United States.

Puerto Rico has competed at the Olympic Winter Games consecutively from 1984 to 1998, and then again in 2018 and 2022, for seven appearances in all. In 2002, no Puerto Rican competed but they entered a bobsleigh team, which eventually withdrew, although they marched at the Opening Ceremony. Puerto Rico has had 21 Winter Olympians, 19 of them men, with Mary Pat Wilson and Kellie Delka the only women, competing in Alpine skiing in 1988 and skeleton in 2022, respectively. Puerto Ricans have competed in Alpine skiing, biathlon, bobsleigh, freestyle skiing, luge, and skeleton.

No Puerto Rican has yet won a medal at the Winter Olympics. Perhaps their best result has been the participation of the 1994 four-men bobsleigh team, which finished 25th out of 30 teams.

In 1983 the Olympic Committee of Puerto Rico was awarded with the Olympic Cup.

Participations by edition

Olympic Games

Edition As Men Women Total
1948 Summer Olympics Puerto Rico 9 0 9 Results
1952 Summer Olympics Puerto Rico 21 0 21 Results
1956 Summer Olympics Puerto Rico 10 0 10 Results
1960 Summer Olympics Puerto Rico 26 1 27 Results
1964 Summer Olympics Puerto Rico 30 2 32 Results
1968 Summer Olympics Puerto Rico 54 4 58 Results
1972 Summer Olympics Puerto Rico 53 0 53 Results
1976 Summer Olympics Puerto Rico 73 7 80 Results
1980 Summer Olympics Puerto Rico 3 0 3 Results
1984 Summer Olympics Puerto Rico 43 8 51 Results
1984 Winter Olympics Puerto Rico 1 0 1 Results
1988 Summer Olympics Puerto Rico 44 3 47 Results
1988 Winter Olympics Puerto Rico 8 1 9 Results
1992 Summer Olympics Puerto Rico 65 6 71 Results
1992 Winter Olympics Puerto Rico 6 0 6 Results
1994 Winter Olympics Puerto Rico 5 0 5 Results
1996 Summer Olympics Puerto Rico 47 22 69 Results
1998 Winter Olympics Puerto Rico 6 0 6 Results
2000 Summer Olympics Puerto Rico 23 6 29 Results
2004 Summer Olympics Puerto Rico 32 11 43 Results
2008 Summer Olympics Puerto Rico 17 5 22 Results
2012 Summer Olympics Puerto Rico 19 6 25 Results
2016 Summer Olympics Puerto Rico 13 27 40 Results
2018 Winter Olympics Puerto Rico 1 0 1 Results
2020 Summer Olympics Puerto Rico 13 24 37 Results
2022 Winter Olympics Puerto Rico 1 1 2 Results

Youth Olympic Games

Edition As Men Women Total
2010 Summer Youth Olympics Puerto Rico 8 7 15 Results
2014 Summer Youth Olympics Puerto Rico 15 8 23 Results
2018 Summer Youth Olympics Puerto Rico 14 8 22 Results

Participations by discipline

Olympic Games

Discipline (Sport) Men Women Total
Alpine Skiing (Skiing) 8 1 9 Results
Archery 4 3 7 Results
Artistic Gymnastics (Gymnastics) 5 2 7 Results
Artistic Swimming (Aquatics) 0 2 2 Results
Athletics 79 21 100 Results
Baseball (Baseball/Softball) 20 0 20 Results
Basketball (Basketball) 70 12 82 Results
Beach Volleyball (Volleyball) 2 0 2 Results
Biathlon 1 0 1 Results
Bobsleigh (Bobsleigh) 6 0 6 Results
Boxing 89 0 89 Results
Cycling Road (Cycling) 2 0 2 Results
Cycling Track (Cycling) 2 0 2 Results
Diving (Aquatics) 4 2 6 Results
Equestrian Dressage (Equestrian) 0 1 1 Results
Equestrian Eventing (Equestrian) 2 1 3 Results
Equestrian Jumping (Equestrian) 3 0 3 Results
Fencing 8 3 11 Results
Freestyle Skiing (Skiing) 2 0 2 Results
Golf 1 1 2 Results
Judo 23 6 29 Results
Luge 2 0 2 Results
Rowing 1 1 2 Results
Sailing 25 3 28 Results
Shooting 38 1 39 Results
Skateboarding (Roller Sports) 2 0 2 Results
Skeleton (Bobsleigh) 0 1 1 Results
Softball (Baseball/Softball) 0 15 15 Results
Swimming (Aquatics) 36 16 52 Results
Table Tennis 1 2 3 Results
Taekwondo 1 4 5 Results
Tennis 2 2 4 Results
Triathlon 1 0 1 Results
Volleyball (Volleyball) 0 12 12 Results
Weightlifting 19 3 22 Results
Wrestling 18 1 19 Results

Youth Olympic Games

Discipline (Sport) Men Women Total
3x3 Basketball (Basketball) 8 0 8 Results
Acrobatic Gymnastics (Gymnastics) 1 1 2 Results
Artistic Gymnastics (Gymnastics) 3 2 5 Results
Athletics 8 5 13 Results
Beach Volleyball (Volleyball) 4 4 8 Results
Boxing 3 0 3 Results
Fencing 1 1 2 Results
Judo 2 2 4 Results
Karate 0 1 1 Results
Mixed Sports 2 2 4 Results
Sailing 2 0 2 Results
Swimming (Aquatics) 3 1 4 Results
Table Tennis 1 2 3 Results
Taekwondo 0 1 1 Results
Tennis 0 1 1 Results
Triathlon 0 1 1 Results
Weightlifting 1 1 2 Results

Medals by Games

Edition Competition Type Gold Silver Bronze Total
2010 Summer Youth Olympics Youth Olympic Games 1 0 0 1
2016 Summer Olympics Olympic Games 1 0 0 1
2020 Summer Olympics Olympic Games 1 0 0 1
2018 Summer Youth Olympics Youth Olympic Games 0 1 2 3
1984 Summer Olympics Olympic Games 0 1 1 2
2012 Summer Olympics Olympic Games 0 1 1 2
1948 Summer Olympics Olympic Games 0 0 1 1
1976 Summer Olympics Olympic Games 0 0 1 1
1992 Summer Olympics Olympic Games 0 0 1 1
1996 Summer Olympics Olympic Games 0 0 1 1

Medals by sport

Olympic Games

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

Youth Olympic Games

Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total
Boxing 1 0 1 2
Athletics 0 1 1 2

Most successful competitors

Includes medals won as part of mixed teams.

Olympic Games

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn PUR 1 0 0 1
Mónica Puig PUR 1 0 0 1
Luis Ortiz PUR 0 1 0 1
Jaime Espinal PUR 0 1 0 1
Aníbal Acevedo PUR 0 0 1 1
Arístides González PUR 0 0 1 1
Orlando Maldonado PUR 0 0 1 1
Daniel Santos PUR 0 0 1 1
Juan Venegas PUR 0 0 1 1
Javier Culson PUR 0 0 1 1

Youth Olympic Games

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Emmanuel Rodríguez PUR 1 0 0 1
Adrián Gandía PUR 1 0 0 1
Jorge Contreras PUR 0 1 0 1
Jan Moreu PUR 0 0 1 1
Alvin Canales PUR 0 0 1 1

IOC Members

Germán Rieckehoff 1977—1990
Germán Rieckehoff 1990—1997
Richard Carrión 1990—