Puerto Rico at the Olympics

Puerto Rico at the Olympics
IOC code	PUR
Website	www.copur.pr (in Spanish)
Medals	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 at the Olympics is a history which began in 1900.

The International Olympic Committee's official abbreviation for Puerto Rico is PUR.

History

A team from Puerto Rico was first at the Olympic Games in 1948. They have been in every Summer Olympic Games since then. Puerto Rico has also been 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. Most are in boxing.

The National Olympic Committee for Puerto Rico was formed in 1948 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee the same year.

List of medalists

Summer Games

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

Related pages

• List of IOC country codes

Other websites

• "Comité Olímpico de Puerto Rico". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
• Puerto Rico profile at London2012.com Archived 2012-08-02 at the Wayback Machine