Costa Rica at the 2023 Pan American Games

Costa Rica is scheduled to compete at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile from October 20 to November 5, 2023. This was Costa Rica's 18th appearance at the Pan American Games, having competed at every Games except 1963.

Costa Rica at the 2023 Pan American Games
IOC code	CRC
NOC	Costa Rican Olympic Committee
in Santiago, Chile 20 October 2023 (2023-10-20) – 5 November 2023 (2023-11-05)
Competitors	56 in 13 sports
Flag bearer (opening)	Andrés Acuña & Nishy Lee Lindo
Flag bearer (closing)	Andrea Vargas
Medals Ranked 18th	Gold 1 Silver 1 Bronze 7 Total 9
Pan American Games appearances (overview)
1951 1955 1959 1963 1967 1971 1975 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023

Racquetball athlete Andrés Acuña and taekwondo athlete Nishy Lee Lindo were the country's flagbearers during the opening ceremony.^[1] Meanwhile, track athlete Andrea Vargas was the country's flagbearer during the closing ceremony.

Medalists

Further information: 2023 Pan American Games medal table

The following Costa Rican competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Andrea Vargas	Athletics	Women's 100 metres hurdles	November 1
Silver	Jennifer Kalmbach	Surfing	Women's SUP race	October 30
Bronze	Andrés Acuña Gabriel Garcia	Racquetball	Men's doubles	October 23
Bronze	Maricruz Ortiz	Racquetball	Women's singles	October 23
Bronze	Leilani McGonagle	Surfing	Women's shortboard	October 30
Bronze	Lia Reyes Días	Surfing	Women's longboard	October 30
Bronze	Marco Moretti Juan Rodríguez	Bowling	Men's doubles	November 2
Bronze	Daniela Rojas	Athletics	Women's 400 metres hurdles	November 3
Bronze	Marco Moretti	Bowling	Men's singles	November 5

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors (per gender) participating at the games per sport/discipline.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Artistic swimming	—	2	2
Badminton	1	0	1
Basque pelota	0	1	1
Boxing	0	4	4
Cycling	6	5	11
Football	0	18	18
Gymnastics	1	3	4
Judo	1	1	2
Racquetball	2	2	4
Roller sports	2	0	2
Rowing	0	1	1
Surfing	4	4	8
Taekwondo	1	2	3
Triathlon	1	2	3
Weightlifting	2	2	4
Wrestling	1	0	1
Total	22	47	69

Artistic swimming

Main articles: Artistic swimming at the 2023 Pan American Games and Artistic swimming at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

Costa Rica qualified a team of two artistic swimmers at the 2022 Central American and Caribbean Games.

Athlete	Event	Technical Routine		Free Routine (Final)
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total Points	Rank
Andrea Maroto Raquel Zuñiga	Women's duet

Badminton

Main articles: Badminton at the 2023 Pan American Games and Badminton at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

Costa Rica qualified one male athlete.^[2][3]

Men

Athlete	Event	First round	Second round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Gianpiero Cavallotti	Singles	Henry Huebla Leon (ECU)

Basque pelota

Main articles: Basque pelota at the 2023 Pan American Games and Basque pelota at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

Costa Rica qualified a female pelotari through the 2023 Pan American Basque Pelota Tournament.^[4]

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round					Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
		Match 1	Match 2	Match 3	Match 4	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score		Opposition Score	Opposition Score
María Fernanda Araya	Frontball

Boxing

See also: Boxing at the 2023 Pan American Games and Boxing at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

Costa Rica qualified four female boxers.

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Valeria Cárdenas	Women's –50 kg
Nicole Barrantes	Women's –54 kg
Pamela Sánchez	Women's –60 kg
Nicole Vega	Women's –66 kg

Cycling

Main articles: Cycling at the 2023 Pan American Games and Cycling at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

Costa Rica qualified a total of 10 cyclists (six men and four women).^[5]

BMX

Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Seeding		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Kenneth Tencio	Men

Mountain biking

Costa Rica qualified 4 athletes at the 2023 Pan American Championships.^[6]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Jonathan Quesada	Men's Cross-country
Paolo Montoya
Adriana Rojas	Women's Cross-country
Isabella Gómez

Road

Costa Rica qualified 1 road cyclist after winning the event in the 2021 Junior Pan American Games.^[7] Costa Rica qualified 1 cyclist at the Central American Championships.^[8] Costa Rica also qualified 3 cyclists at the Pan American Championships.

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Gabriel Rojas	Men's road race
Jason Huertas
Sebastián Brenes
Milagro Mena	Women's road race
Yendry Quesada

Track

Costa Rica qualified a female track cyclist.

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Repechage 1	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
	Women's individual

Football

Main article: Football at the 2023 Pan American Games

Women's tournament

Main article: Football at the 2023 Pan American Games – Women's tournament

Costa Rica qualified a women's team of 18 athletes after finishing as the top ranked Central American team at the 2022 CONCACAF W Championship.^[9]

Summary

Key:

• A.E.T – After extra time.
• P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Team	Event	Group Stage				Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Costa Rica women's	Women's tournament

Gymnastics

Main articles: Gymnastics at the 2023 Pan American Games and Gymnastics at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

Artistic

Costa Rica qualified three gymnasts in artistic (one man and two women) at the 2023 Pan American Championships.^[7]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Total	Rank
		F	PH	R	V	PB	HB
	Individual all-around

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualified to apparatus final

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Total	Rank
		V	UB	BB	F
	Individual all-around

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualified to apparatus final

Rhythmic

Costa Rica qualified one individual gymnast.^[7]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Apparatus				Total
		Ball	Clubs	Hoop	Ribbon	Score	Rank
	All-around
	Ball		—
	Clubs	—		—
	Hoop	—			—
	Ribbon	—

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2023 Pan American Games

Costa Rica has qualified 2 judokas (one man and one woman).^[10]

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
	Men's 60 kg
	Women's 70 kg

Racquetball

Main articles: Racquetball at the 2023 Pan American Games and Racquetball at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

Costa Rica qualified four racquetball athletes (two men and two women).^[11]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round				Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Andrés Acuña	Men's singles
Gabriel García
Andrés Acuña Gabriel García	Men's doubles
Andrés Acuña Gabriel García	Men's team	—
Maricruz Ortíz	Women's singles
Jimena Gómez
Maricruz Ortíz Jimena Gómez	Women's doubles
Maricruz Ortíz Jimena Gómez	Women's team	—
Andrés Acuña Maricruz Ortíz	Mixed doubles

Roller sports

Main articles: Roller sports at the 2023 Pan American Games and Roller sports at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

Speed

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Marlon Oreamuno	Men's 200 m time trial
	Men's 500 m
Sebastián Cordero	Men's 1000 m sprint
	Men's 10,000 m elimination	—

Rowing

Main articles: Rowing at the 2023 Pan American Games and Rowing at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

Costa Rica qualified a female rower.^[12][13]

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Repechage		Semifinal		Final A/B
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
	Single sculls

Surfing

Main articles: Surfing at the 2023 Pan American Games and Surfing at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

Costa Rica qualified eight surfers (four men and four women).^[14]

Artistic

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Repechage 4	Repechage 5	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Oscar Urbina	Men's shortboard
Leilani McGonagle	Women's shortboard
Nataly Bernold
José Ruíz Avilés	Men's stand up paddleboard
Anthony Flores	Men's Longboard
Lia Reyes Díaz	Women's Longboard

Race

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Carlo Arias	Men's stand up paddleboard
Jennifer Kalmbach	Women's stand up paddleboard

Taekwondo

Main articles: Taekwondo at the 2023 Pan American Games and Taekwondo at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

Costa Rica qualified 3 athletes (one man and two women) during the Pan American Games Qualification Tournament.^[15][16]

Kyorugi

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final/ BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
	–80 kg
	–49 kg
	–57 kg

Triathlon

Main articles: Triathlon at the 2023 Pan American Games and Triathlon at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

Costa Rica qualified a triathlon team of three athletes (one man and two women).

Athlete	Event	Swim (1.5 km)	Trans 1	Bike (40 km)	Trans 2	Run (10 km)	Total	Rank
Álvaro Campos	Men's individual
Catalina Torres	Women's individual
Raquel Solís

Weightlifting

Main articles: Weightlifting at the 2023 Pan American Games and Weightlifting at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

Costa Rica qualified four weightlifters (two men and two women).^[17]

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank

Wrestling

Main articles: Wrestling at the 2023 Pan American Games and Wrestling at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

Costa Rica qualified one male wrestler (Freestyle 97 kg) through the 2022 Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Acapulco, Mexico.^{[18][19][20][21]}

Key:

• VT – Victory by fall.
• PP – Decision by points – the loser with technical points.
• PO – Decision by points – the loser without technical points.
• SP – Technical superiority – the loser with technical points and a margin of victory of at least 9 (Greco-Roman) or 10 (freestyle) points.
• ST – Great superiority – the loser without technical points and a margin of victory of at least 8 (Greco-Roman) or 10 (freestyle) points.
• VA – Decision by withdrawal

Men

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Maxwell Lacey	Freestyle 97 kg

See also

• Costa Rica at the 2024 Summer Olympics

References

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