El Salvador at the 2016 Summer Olympics

El Salvador competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's eleventh appearance at the Summer Olympics, although it first competed in 1968.

El Salvador at the 2016 Summer Olympics
IOC code	ESA
NOC	El Salvador Olympic Committee
Website	www.teamesa.org (in Spanish)
in Rio de Janeiro
Competitors	8 in 6 sports
Flag bearer	Lilian Castro[1]
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 0
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
1968 1972 1976–1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024

El Salvador Olympic Committee (Spanish: Comité Olímpico de El Salvador) confirmed a team of eight athletes, five men and three women, to compete in six sports at the Games.^[2] This was also the youngest delegation in El Salvador's Summer Olympic history, with more than half under the age of 25, and many of them expected to reach their peak in time for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

The majority of El Salvador's athletes made their Olympic debut in Rio de Janeiro, with weightlifter Julio Salamanca being the only sportsman to return for his second appearance from London 2012. Other notable Salvadoran athletes featured Enrique Arathoon, the nation's first ever sailor for nearly half a century, and Marcelo Acosta, bronze medalist in long-distance freestyle swimming at the Youth Olympics in Nanjing two years earlier. Air pistol shooter Lilian Castro, the oldest member of the squad (aged 29), acted as El Salvador's flag bearer in the opening ceremony.^[1][3]

El Salvador, however, was yet to win its first Olympic medal at the end of the 2016 Summer Games.

Athletics (track and field)

Main article: Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Salvadoran athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):^[4][5]

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
		Result	Rank
Luis Menjivar	Men's 50 km walk	DSQ
Yesenia Miranda	Women's 20 km walk	DNF

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2016 Summer Olympics

El Salvador qualified one judoka for the men's half-middleweight category (81 kg) at the Games. Juan Diego Turcios earned a continental quota spot from the Pan American region, as El Salvador's top-ranked judoka outside of direct qualifying position in the IJF World Ranking List of 30 May 2016.^[6][7]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Juan Diego Turcios	Men's −81 kg	Bye	Moustopoulos (GRE) W 100–000	Tchrikishvili (GEO) L 000–000 S	Did not advance

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics

El Salvador qualified a boat in men's Laser class by virtue of a top finish for Central & South America at the 2015 Pan American Games, signifying the nation's Olympic return to the sport for the first time since 1968.^[8]

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*
Enrique Arathoon	Men's Laser	33	32	28	30	4	3	9	32	18	21	EL	177	24

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics

El Salvador qualified one shooter in the women's pistol events by virtue of her best finish at the 2014 American Continental Championships, and other selection competitions, as long as she obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by 31 March 2016.^[9][10][11]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Lilian Castro	Women's 10 m air pistol	366	44	Did not advance

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualify for the next round; q = Qualify for the bronze medal (shotgun)

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Salvadoran swimmers have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):^[12][13][14]

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Marcelo Acosta	Men's 200 m freestyle	1:51.46	43	Did not advance
	Men's 400 m freestyle	3:48.82	22	—		Did not advance
	Men's 1500 m freestyle	15:08.17	22	—		Did not advance
Rebeca Quinteros	Women's 400 m freestyle	4:52.11	32	—		Did not advance

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 2016 Summer Olympics

El Salvador received an unused quota place from IWF to send a male weightlifter to the Olympics, as a response to the complete ban of the Russian weightlifting team from the Games due to "multiple positive" cases of doping.^[15]

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Julio Salamanca	Men's −62 kg	120	9	155	9	275	10

See also

• El Salvador at the 2015 Pan American Games

References

1. "Lilian Castro es la abanderada" [Lilian Castro will be the flag bearer] (in Spanish). La Prensa Gráfica. 30 July 2016.(opening)
   Enrique Arathoon (closing)
2. "Team ESA: listo a Río 2016" [Team ESA: Ready for Rio 2016] (in Spanish). El Salvador Olympic Committee. 19 July 2016. Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
3. "Lilian Castro abanderada Team ESA para Río" [Lilian Castro will be Team ESA's flag bearer for Rio] (in Spanish). El Salvador Olympic Committee. 30 July 2016. Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
4. "iaaf.org – Top Lists". IAAF. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
5. "IAAF Games of the XXX Olympiad – Rio 2016 Entry Standards" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
6. "IJF Officially Announces Qualified Athletes for Rio 2016 Olympic Games". International Judo Federation. 23 June 2016. Archived from the original on 7 July 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
7. "Diego Turcios con boleto a Río 2016" [Diego Turcios grabs the ticket to Rio 2016] (in Spanish). Diario Co Latino. 3 June 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
8. "Pan American Games serves up four Rio 2016 qualifiers". ISAF. 20 July 2015. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
9. "Quota Places by Nation and Number". www.issf-sports.org/. ISSF. 30 May 2016. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
10. "Lilian Castro se clasificó a los Panamericanos y a los Olímpicos" [Lilian Castro qualifies for the Pan American Games and the Olympics] (in Spanish). EDH Deportes. 13 October 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
11. Sutherland, James (13 July 2016). "Dorian McMenemy, Jhonny Perez Named To Dominican Olympic Team". SwimSwam. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
12. "Swimming World Rankings". FINA. Archived from the original on 6 January 2011. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
13. "Rio 2016 – FINA Swimming Qualification System" (PDF). Rio 2016. FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
14. "El Salvador a Juegos Olímpicos con siete atletas" [El Salvador sends seven athletes to the Games] (in Spanish). Diario Co Latino. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
15. "IWF EB decision on Russian participation at the Rio 2016 OG". International Weightlifting Federation. 29 July 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2016.

External links

• El Salvador at the 2016 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics (archived)