# Peru at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Peru competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics which was held in Beijing, People's Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008. The country was represented by at least twelve athletes, who competed in the fields of athletics, badminton, swimming, taekwondo, shooting, wrestling, judo and fencing.

## Athletics
### Key

* Note – Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
* Q = Qualified for the next round
* q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
* NR = National record
* N/A = Round not applicable for the event
* Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

### Track & road events

| Athlete | Event | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank |
| Constantino León | Marathon | 2:28:04 | 61 |

### Field events

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Position | Distance | Position |
| Louis Tristán | Long jump | 7.62 | 32 | Did not advance | Did not advance |

### Track & road events

| Athlete | Event | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank |
| María Portillo | Marathon | 2:35:19 NR | 39 |

## Badminton

| Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Claudia Rivero | Women's singles | Bye | Pi (FRA) L 6–21, 9–21 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Fencing
### Women

| Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| María Luisa Doig | Individual foil | Wächter (GER) L 4–15 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Judo

| Athlete | Event | Preliminary | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage 1 | Repechage 2 | Repechage 3 | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Carlos Zegarra | Men's +100 kg | Bye | Lopez (ARG) W 1001–0001 | Brayson (CUB) L 0000–1000 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Hachache (LIB) L 0100–0200 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Sailing
### Women

| Athlete | Event | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Net points | Final rank |
| Athlete | Event | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | M* | Net points | Final rank |
| Paloma Schmidt | Laser Radial | 9 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 14 | 26 | 22 | 12 | 28 | CAN | EL | 163 | 26 |
M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race; CAN = Race cancelled

## Shooting
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Marco Matellini | Skeet | 95 | 40 | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Swimming
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Emmanuel Crescimbeni | 200 m butterfly | 2:02.13 | 43 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Valeria Silva | 100 m breaststroke | 1:11.64 | 38 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Taekwondo

| Athlete | Event | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage | Bronze Medal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Peter López | Men's −68 kg | Hasan (AUS) W 3–1 | Muhammad (NGR) W 3–0 | M López (USA) L 1–2 | Bye | Tazegül (TUR) L 0–1 | Did not advance | 5 |

## Weightlifting

| Athlete | Event | Snatch | Snatch | Clean & Jerk | Clean & Jerk | Total | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Total | Rank |
| Cristina Cornejo | Women's +75 kg | 97 | 11 | 128 | 9 | 225 | 8 |

## Wrestling
### Key

* VT - Victory by Fall.
* PP - Decision by Points - the loser with technical points.
* PO - Decision by Points - the loser without technical points.

### Men's Greco-Roman

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Repechage 1 | Repechage 2 | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Sixto Barrera | −74 kg | Bye | Venckaitis (LTU) W 3–1 $^{PP}$ | Chang Yx (CHN) L 1–3 $^{PP}$ | Did not advance | Bye | Yanakiev (BUL) L 0–3 | Did not advance | 11 |