Puerto Rico at the Olympics
List of medalists
Table:
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

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Juan Evangelista Venegas ( December 27 , 1928 - April 16 , 1987 ) was a Puerto Rican boxer notable for winning Puerto Rico 's first Olympic medal .
The 1948 Summer Olympics , officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad , was an international multi-sport event which was held in London , United Kingdom from 29 July to 14 August 1948 . After a twelve-year hiatus caused by the outbreak of World War II ; these were the first Summer Olympics held since the 1936 Games in Berlin . The 1940 Olympic Games had been scheduled for Tokyo , and then for Helsinki ; the 1944 Olympic Games had been provisionally planned for London . This was the second occasion that London had hosted the Olympic Games , having previously hosted them in 1908 , forty years earlier . The Olympics would again return to London 64 years later in 2012 , making London the first city to have hosted the games three times , and the only such city until Paris and Los Angeles host their third games in 2024 and 2028 , respectively . The 1948 Olympic Games were the first of two summer Olympic Games held under the IOC presidency of Sigfrid Edström . The event came to be known as the Austerity Games , because of the difficult economic climate and rationing imposed in the aftermath of World War II . No new venues were built for the games ( with events taking place mainly at Empire Stadium and the Empire Pool at Wembley Park ) , and athletes were housed in existing accommodation at the Wembley area instead of an Olympic Village , as were the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games and the subsequent 1952 Games in Helsinki . A record 59 nations were represented by 4,104 athletes , 3,714 men and 390 women , in 19 sport disciplines . Germany and Japan were not invited to participate in the games ; the Soviet Union was invited but chose not to send any athletes , sending observers instead to prepare for the 1952 Olympics . One of the star performers at the Games was Dutch sprinter Fanny Blankers-Koen . Dubbed The Flying Housewife , the thirty-year-old mother of two won four gold medals in athletics .
Final results for the Boxing competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics .
Orlando Maldonado ( born May 21 , 1959 in Bayamon , Puerto Rico ) is a retired boxer from Puerto Rico , who won the bronze medal in the men 's light flyweight ( - 48 kg ) division at the 1976 Summer Olympics . It was the second medal ever for Puerto Rico , after boxer Juan Evangelista Venegas captured the Bronze medal in 1948 .
The 1976 Summer Olympics , officially called the Games of the XXI Olympiad ( French : Les XXIes olympiques d'été ) , was an international multi-sport event in Montreal , Quebec , Canada , in 1976 , and the first Olympic Games held in Canada . Montreal was awarded the rights to the 1976 Games on May 12 , 1970 , at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam , over the bids of Moscow and Los Angeles . It was the first and , so far , only Summer Olympic Games to be held in Canada . Calgary and Vancouver later hosted the Winter Olympic Games in 1988 and 2010 , respectively . Twenty-nine countries , mostly African , boycotted the Montreal Games when the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) refused to ban New Zealand , after the New Zealand national rugby union team had toured South Africa earlier in 1976 in defiance of the United Nations ' calls for a sporting embargo . The Soviet Union won the most gold and overall medals .
There were eleven boxing events at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal , Quebec , Canada . The competition was held from 18 to 31 July with the participation of 266 fighters from 54 countries .
Luis Ortiz Flores ( born November 5 , 1965 in Humacao ) is a Puerto Rican former boxer .
The 1984 Summer Olympics , officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad , was an international multi-sport event that was held from July 28 to August 12 , 1984 , in Los Angeles , California , United States ( and other venues around the United States ) . This was the second time that Los Angeles had hosted the Games , the first being in 1932 . California was the home state of then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan , who officially opened the Games . The logo for the 1984 Games , branded Stars in Motion , featured red , white and blue stars arranged horizontally and struck through with alternating streaks . The official mascot of the Games was Sam the Olympic Eagle . These were the first Summer Olympic Games under the IOC presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch . The 1984 Games were boycotted by a total of fourteen Eastern Bloc countries , including the Soviet Union and East Germany , in response to the American-led boycott of the previous 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan ; Romania was the only Eastern Bloc nation that opted to attend the Games . Iran and Libya also chose to boycott the Games for unrelated reasons . Despite the field being depleted in certain sports due to the boycott , 140 National Olympic Committees took part , which was a record at the time . The United States won the most gold and overall medals , followed by Romania and West Germany . The 1984 Summer Olympics are widely considered to be the most financially successful modern Olympics and served as an example of how to run the model Olympic Games . As a result of low construction costs , coupled with a reliance on private corporate funding , the 1984 Olympic Games generated a profit of more than $ 250 million .
Boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics took place in the Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles , California , United States . The boxing schedule began on July 29 and ended on August 11 . Twelve boxing events were contested with the participation of 354 fighters from 81 countries . A Soviet-led boycott resulted in the withdrawals of the Soviet Union , Cuba , East Germany , Bulgaria and other Eastern Bloc nations from boxing competitions . At the 1980 Summer Olympics , that was impacted by an American-led boycott , Cuban boxers won 10 medals , with 6 of them being gold , and had again been expected to do well . However , the nation withdrew from the games following the announcement of the Soviet boycott . Teófilo Stevenson , who was going to try for his fourth Olympic gold medal before the boycott was officially announced , had previously defeated Tyrell Biggs twice ( one by knockout ) and Hermenegildo Báez had previously defeated Henry Tillman . Soviet Alexander Yagubkin defeated both Biggs and Tillman during the USA-USSR duals . Cuban and Soviet boxers , however , were more seasoned than their American counterparts . While US athletes typically turned pro after the Olympics , while still in their early twenties , Cubans and the Soviets were not allowed to do so and stayed on in the amateurs , participating in multiple Olympic cycles . Journalist George Vecsey remarked after the conclusion of the games that Despite all the flag-waving euphoria in the United States over all those medals in Los Angeles , the Summer Games were a made-in-Disneyland reproduction of the Games because there were no Soviet runners , no Cuban boxers , no East German swimmers . Soviet runners and East German swimmers decades later were revealed to have been part of their respective nations ' state-sponsored doping schemes .
Ariestides González Ortíz ( born January 12 , 1961 ) is a boxer from Puerto Rico , who won the bronze medal in the Middleweight division ( 71-75 kg ) at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles . He shared the podium with Algeria 's Mohamed Zaoui . Although Juan Evangelista Venegas was the first Puerto Rican to win an olympic medal ( boxing , 1948 ) González was the second to win a medal representing Puerto Rico under the Puerto Rican flag , after Orlando Maldonado became the first at the 1976 Summer Olympics .
Aníbal Santiago Acevedo ( born April 28 , 1971 in San Juan , Puerto Rico ) is a Puerto Rican boxer , who won a bronze medal in the welterweight division at the 1992 Summer Olympics . A year earlier he won the bronze medal at the Pan American Games in Havana , Cuba .
The 1992 Summer Olympics ( Spanish : Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992 , Catalan : Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992 ) , officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad , was an international multi-sport event held in Barcelona , Spain from 25 July to 9 August 1992 . Beginning in 1994 , the International Olympic Committee decided to hold the Summer and Winter Olympics in alternating even-numbered years . The 1992 Summer Olympics was the last occasion for the Summer and Winter Olympics to be staged in the same year . This Olympiad was the first since the end of the Cold War , and was unaffected by boycotts for the first time since the 1972 Olympiad . The Unified Team topped the medal table , winning 45 gold and 112 overall medals .
Boxing at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place in the old Pavelló Club Joventut Badalona in Barcelona . The boxing schedule began on 26 July and ended on 9 August . Twelve boxing events ( all men 's individual ) were contested , with the participation of 336 athletes from 78 countries .
Daniel Santos Peña ( born October 10 , 1975 ) is a former professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2009 . As an amateur Santos represented Puerto Rico in international events , including the 1990 and 1992 Junior World Championships , Pan American Boxing Tournament , Goodwill Games , 1995 Pan American Games and the 1996 Summer Olympics , where he won a bronze medal in the Welterweight Division . Santos debuted as a professional in 1996 . Santos won the World Boxing Organization Welterweight championship on May 6 , 2000 . On March 16 , 2002 he vacated the welterweight division 's championship in order to compete against Yori Boy Campas for the vacant World Boxing Organization Light middleweight championship . Santos defended this championship on four occasions , against Mehrdud Takaloo ( in a fight where he won the World Boxing Union Light middleweight championship ) , Fulgencio Zúñiga , Michael Lerma and Antonio Margarito before losing it to Sergiy Dzindziruk by unanimous decision in a fight that took place on December 3 , 2005 . On July 11 , 2008 , Santos won his third professional championship , knocking out Joachim Alcine in six rounds to win the World Boxing Association 's light middleweight title .
The 1996 Summer Olympics , officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad , commonly known as Atlanta 1996 , and also referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games , were an international multi-sport event that was held from July 19 to August 4 , 1996 , in Atlanta , Georgia , U.S . These Games , which were the fourth Summer Olympics to be hosted by the United States , marked the centennial of the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens - the inaugural edition of the modern Olympic Games . They were also the first since 1924 to be held in a different year from a Winter Olympics , under a new IOC practice implemented in 1994 to hold the Summer and Winter Games in alternating , even-numbered years . More than 10,000 athletes from 197 National Olympic Committees competed in 26 sports , including the Olympic debuts of beach volleyball , mountain biking , and softball , as well as the new disciplines of lightweight rowing and women 's football ( soccer ) . 24 countries made their Summer Olympic debut in Atlanta , including eleven former Soviet republics participating for the first time as independent nations . The hosting United States led the medal count with a total of 101 medals , and the most gold ( 44 ) and silver ( 32 ) medals out of all countries . The U.S. topped the medal count for the first time since 1984 , and for the first time since 1968 in a non-boycotted Summer Olympics . Notable performances during competition included those of Andre Agassi - who became the first men 's singles tennis player to combine a career Grand Slam with an Olympic gold medal , Donovan Bailey - who set a new world record of 9.84 for the men 's 100 meters , and Lilia Podkopayeva - who became the second gymnast to win an individual event gold after winning the all-round title in the same Olympics . The festivities were marred by violence on July 27 , when Eric Rudolph detonated pipe bombs at Centennial Olympic Park - a downtown park that was built to serve as a public focal point for the Games ' festivities , killing 1 and injuring 111 . In 2003 , Rudolph confessed to the bombing and a series of related attacks on abortion centers and a gay bar , and was sentenced to life in prison . He claimed that the bombing was meant to protest the U.S. government 's sanctioning of abortion on demand . The Games turned a profit , helped by record revenue from sponsorship deals and broadcast rights , and reliance on private funding ( as opposed to the extensive public funding used on later Olympics ) , among other factors .
Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place in the Alexander Memorial Coliseum in Atlanta . The boxing schedule began on 20 July and ended on 4 August . Twelve boxing events were contested , with the participation of 355 athletes from 97 countries . There was significant controversy surrounding judging of the fight between Floyd Mayweather of the US and Serafim Todorov of Bulgaria , with Todorov winning the semi-final bout which , according to many observers , was won by Mayweather .
The Welterweight class in the boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics competition was the fifth-heavyest class at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , Georgia . Welterweights were limited to those boxers weighing more than 67 kilograms . The competition in the Alexander Memorial Coliseum started on 1996-07-20 and ended on 1996-08-04 .
Jaime Yusept Espinal Fajardo ( born October 14 , 1984 ) is a Dominican-born Puerto Rican freestyle wrestler . In 2012 he became the first Olympic medalist in wrestling for Puerto Rico by winning a silver medal in the 84 kg division .
The 2012 Summer Olympics , formally the Games of the XXX Olympiad and commonly known as London 2012 , was an international multi-sport event that was held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London , United Kingdom . The first event , the group stage in women 's football , began on 25 July at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff , followed by the opening ceremony on 27 July . 10,768 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees ( NOCs ) participated . Following a bid headed by former Olympic champion Sebastian Coe and then-Mayor of London Ken Livingstone , London was selected as the host city on 6 July 2005 during the 117th IOC Session in Singapore , defeating bids from Moscow , New York City , Madrid , and Paris . London became the first city to host the modern Olympics three times , having previously hosted the Summer Games in 1908 and in 1948 . Construction for the Games involved considerable redevelopment , with an emphasis on sustainability . The main focus was a new 200-hectare ( 490-acre ) Olympic Park , constructed on a former industrial site at Stratford , East London . The Games also made use of venues that already existed before the bid . The Games received general praise for their organisation , with the volunteers , the British military and public enthusiasm praised particularly highly . The opening ceremony , directed by Danny Boyle , received widespread acclaim throughout the world , particular praise from the British public and a minority of widely ranging criticisms from some social media sites . During the Games , Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time , winning his 22nd medal . Saudi Arabia , Qatar , and Brunei entered female athletes for the first time , so that every currently eligible country has sent a female competitor to at least one Olympic Games .
Wrestling at the 2012 Summer Olympics were held between 5 and 12 August , the final day of the Games , at ExCeL London . It was split into two disciplines , Freestyle and Greco-Roman which were further divided into different weight categories . Men competed in both disciplines whereas women only took part in the freestyle events , with 18 gold medals awarded . Wrestling has been contested at every modern Summer Olympic Games , except Paris 1900 .
Men 's freestyle 84 kg competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , United Kingdom , took place on 11 August at ExCeL London . This freestyle wrestling competition consisted of a single-elimination tournament , with a repechage used to determine the winners of two bronze medals . The two finalists faced off for gold and silver medals . Each wrestler who lost to one of the two finalists moved into the repechage , culminating in a pair of bronze medal matches featuring the semifinal losers each facing the remaining repechage opponent from their half of the bracket . Each bout consisted of up to three rounds , lasting two minutes apiece . The wrestler who scored more points in each round was the winner of that rounds ; the bout finished when one wrestler had won two rounds ( and thus the match ) .
Javier Culson Pérez ( born July 25 , 1984 ) is a Puerto Rican athlete and Olympiad bronze medalist who specialises in the 400 metre hurdles . After becoming involved with the discipline in his late teen years , he entered the podium in some regional youth events , including the Pan American Junior Athletics Championships . Culson is a two-time silver medallist at the International Association of Athletics Federations 's ( IAAF ) World Championships and an elite contender in the Samsung Diamond League , where he finished second overall in 2011 . He has also garnished medals in events with lower profiles , including the Central American and Caribbean Games and the Ibero-American Championships . He currently holds the record as the world 's fastest man in that category . Culson also competed at the 2012 Olympics in London winning the bronze medal in the 400-metre hurdles race . In the 2016 Olympics in Rio , Culson made it all the way to the finals of the men 's 400m hurdles only to be disqualified by a false start .
The athletics competitions at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held during the last 10 days of the Games , on 3-12 August . Track and field events took place at the Olympic Stadium in east London . The road events , however , started and finished on The Mall in central London . Over 2,000 athletes from 201 nations competed in 47 events in total , with both men and women having a very similar schedule of events . Men competed in 24 events and women in 23 , of which 21 were the same for both . The women 's schedule lacked the 50 km race walk and included 100 m hurdles and heptathlon as opposed to the men 's 110 m hurdles and decathlon . The youngest participant in the athletics competition was Andorran 15-year-old Cristina Llovera while the oldest was 46-year-old Ukrainian Oleksandr Dryhol . South African Oscar Pistorius became the first amputee sprinter to compete at the Olympics .
The Men 's 400 metres hurdles competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , United Kingdom took place on 3-6 August at the Olympic Stadium . In the qualifying round , local favorite Dai Greene ran the fastest ever opening round race in the third heat , only to see that mark passed by three athletes in the following heat , led by an eased up Javier Culson . The slowest time qualifier was Kenneth Medwood in 49.78 , though Stanislav Melnykov managed to get into the semis automatically with a 50.13 in the slow fifth heat . With only two automatic qualifiers going to the final from each heat , the first semi-final stacked three former World Champions into one race . Less than a month before his 35th birthday , Félix Sánchez , the 2001 and 2003 World Champion showed he was still in the game , running a season best 47.76 . Jehue Gordon upset the form setting the Trinidad and Tobago national record 47.96 in second , leaving 2007 and 2009 World Champion Kerron Clement in 3rd and 2011 World Champion Dai Greene in 4th to hope to qualify on time . The second semi was dominated by world leader Javier Culson and defending champion Angelo Taylor . In the third semi , American trials champion Michael Tinsley and Leford Green separated from the rest of the field . After a nervous wait Clement and Greene made the final on time . In the final , Taylor , Culson and Sanchez led the way , arriving at the 8th hurdle about even . Taylor took the hurdle awkwardly and started losing ground . While Culson looked to struggle , Sanchez powered away down the stretch for the win , in exactly the same time as his 2004 victory .
Monica Puig Marchán [ a ] ( born September 27 , 1993 ) is a Puerto Rican professional tennis player and the reigning Olympic champion . She is also a Central American and Caribbean champion and Pan American silver medalist . She is the first Puerto Rican to win an Olympic gold medal representing Puerto Rico . Having turned professional in 2010 , Puig has won two WTA singles titles and six ITF singles titles . On 26 September 2016 , she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No . 27 . On 25 May 2015 , she peaked at No . 210 in the doubles rankings . At the 2016 Rio Olympics , Puig won the gold medal and the ninth overall medalist for that delegation . With the feat , she also became the first Latin American champion in the women 's singles discipline , and is the only unseeded female player to win the gold medal since the reintroduction of tennis in 1988 .
The 2016 Summer Olympics ( Portuguese : Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016 ) , [ a ] officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( Portuguese : Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada ) and commonly known as Rio 2016 , was an international multi-sport event that was held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August . These were the first Olympic Games ever to be held in South America and the fourth to be held in a developing country , after the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico , the 1980 Summer Olympics in the Soviet Union , and the 2008 Summer Olympics in China . More than 11,000 athletes from 205 National Olympic Committees took part , including first time entrants Kosovo , South Sudan , and the Refugee Olympic Team . With 306 sets of medals , the games featured 28 Olympic sports , including rugby sevens and golf , which were added to the Olympic program in 2009 . These sporting events took place at 33 venues in the host city and at five separate venues in the Brazilian cities of São Paulo , Belo Horizonte , Salvador , Brasília , and Manaus . These were the first Summer Olympic Games to take place under the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) presidency of Thomas Bach . The host city Rio de Janeiro was announced at the 121st IOC Session in Copenhagen , Denmark , on 2 October 2009 . Rio became the first South American city ever to host the Olympic Games . These were the first games to be held in a Portuguese-speaking country , the first summer edition to be held entirely in the host country 's winter season , the first since 1968 to be held in Latin America , and the first since 2000 to be held in the Southern Hemisphere . The United States topped the medal table , winning the most gold and overall medals , 46 and 121 , as well as its 1,000th Summer Olympic gold medal overall . Great Britain finished second and became only the second country in modern Olympic history to increase its tally of medals in the Olympiad immediately after it had been host nation . China finished third .
The tennis tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held at the Olympic Tennis Centre , from 6 to 14 August . The competition was played on a fast hardcourt surface used in numerous North American tournaments that aims to minimize disruption for players . Initially a total of 172 players were expected to compete in five events : singles and doubles for both men and women and the return of the mixed doubles for the second consecutive time . However , eventually 105 male and 94 female players were granted places in the draws . The Olympic tennis events were run and organized by the Brazilian Olympic Committee ( COB ) and the International Tennis Federation ( ITF ) , and were part of the Association of Tennis Professionals ( ATP ) and Women 's Tennis Association ( WTA ) tours . The 2016 Olympic tournament was the fifteenth edition of tennis at the Olympics ( excluding the two Olympics , 1968 and 1984 , when tennis was a demonstration event ) , and the eighth since 1988 , when the sport was officially brought back into the Games . Unlike previous editions of the Olympic event , it was decided that the Olympic tournaments would not offer ATP and WTA ranking points for the players .
The women 's singles tennis tournament at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held at the Olympic Tennis Centre in the Barra Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca in the west zone of Rio de Janeiro , Brazil from 6 to 13 August 2016 . The draw for the event was conducted at 11 a.m. local time on Thursday , 4 August . Serena Williams was the defending gold medalist , but she lost in the third round to Elina Svitolina . Monica Puig won Puerto Rico 's first ever Olympic gold medal , defeating World No . 2 Angelique Kerber in the final , 6-4 , 4-6 , 6-1 . Puig became the first unseeded female player to win the Olympic gold medal in tennis . The bronze medal was won by Petra Kvitová , who defeated Madison Keys in the bronze medal match 7-5 , 2-6 , 6-2 .