Paraguay at the
2016 Summer Olympics
IOC codePAR
NOCComité Olímpico Paraguayo
Websitewww.cop.org.py (in Spanish)
in Rio de Janeiro
Competitors11 in 7 sports
Flag bearer Julieta Granada[1]
Medals
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
0
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)

Paraguay competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's official debut in 1968, Paraguayan athletes had appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, but did not attend the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of the nation's partial support for the US-led boycott.

Paraguay Olympic Committee (Spanish: Comité Olímpico Paraguayo) confirmed a team of 11 athletes, six men and five women, to compete in seven sports at the Games.[2] It was the nation's largest delegation sent to the Olympics without the men's football squad since 1984, and the first with a highest percentage of women in its history.

The Paraguayan roster featured five returning Olympians; two of them attended their third Games as the most experienced competitors, including table tennis player Marcelo Aguirre, and freestyle swimmer Benjamin Hockin, who represented Great Britain as a member of the relay squad on his Olympic debut in Beijing eight years earlier. Meanwhile, three other athletes competed at their maiden Olympics in London: single sculls rower Gabriela Mosqueira, Hockin's fellow swimmer Karen Riveros (women's 100 m freestyle), and tennis star Verónica Cepede Royg. World-ranked golfer Julieta Granada was selected to carry the flag for Paraguay in the opening ceremony, joining with rower Rocio Rivarola as the only females in the nation's history to accept the role.[1]

Paraguay, however, failed to earn its first Olympic medal, since the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where the men's football team took the silver.

Athletics (track and field)

Main articles: Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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

Key
Track & road events
Athlete Event Final
Result Rank
Derlis Ayala Men's marathon 2:39:40 136
Carmen Martínez Women's marathon 2:56:43 115

Golf

Main article: Golf at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Paraguay has entered two golfers into the Olympic tournament. Fabrizio Zanotti (world no. 147) and Julieta Granada (world no. 135) qualified directly among the top 60 eligible players for their respective individual events based on the IGF World Rankings as of 11 July 2016.[5][6]

Athlete Event Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Total
Score Score Score Score Score Par Rank
Fabrizio Zanotti Men's 70 74 68 67 279 −5 =15
Julieta Granada Women's 71 69 76 78 294 +10 =44

Rowing

Main articles: Rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Paraguay has qualified one boat in the women's single sculls for the Olympics at the 2016 Latin American Continental Qualification Regatta in Valparaiso.[7][8]

Athlete Event Heats Repechage Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Arturo Rivarola Men's single sculls 7:29.23 3 QF Bye 7:17.12 6 SC/D 7:41.43 6 FD 7:18.34 24
Gabriela Mosqueira Women's single sculls 8:27.39 4 R 7:59.32 2 QF 7:54.49 5 SC/D 8:22.84 5 FD 7:44.62 19

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Shooting

Main articles: Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Paraguay has received an invitation from the Tripartite Commission to send a men's double trap shooter to the Olympics, signifying the nation's comeback to the sport after an eight-year hiatus.[9][10]

Athlete Event Qualification Semifinal Final
Points Rank Points Rank Points Rank
Paulo Reichardt Men's double trap 106 22 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

Paraguay has received a Universality invitation from FINA to send two swimmers (one male and one female) to the Olympics.[11][12]

Athlete Event Heat Semifinal Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Benjamin Hockin Men's 100 m freestyle 50.26 44 Did not advance
Karen Riveros Women's 100 m freestyle 59.00 39 Did not advance

Table tennis

Main articles: Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Paraguay has received an invitation from the Tripartite Commission to send two-time Olympian Marcelo Aguirre in the men's singles to the Olympic table tennis tournament.[13]

Athlete Event Preliminary Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM
Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Rank
Marcelo Aguirre Men's singles  Powell (AUS)
W 4–0 		 Dyjas (POL)
L 0–4 		Did not advance

Tennis

Main articles: Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Paraguay has received an invitation from the Tripartite Commission to send London 2012 Olympian Verónica Cepede Royg (world no. 136) in the women's singles into the Olympic tennis tournament.[14][15]

Athlete Event Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM
Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Rank
Verónica Cepede Royg Women's singles  Niculescu (ROU)
L 2–6, 3–6 		Did not advance

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Gray, Will (6 June 2016). "Granada to carry Olympic flag for Paraguay". golfchannel.com. NBC Sports. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Río 2016: Presidente paraguayo recibe a delegación olímpica" [Rio 2016: Paraguayan president receives Olympic delegation] (in Spanish). Xinhua. 27 July 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  3. ^ "iaaf.org – Top Lists". IAAF. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
  4. ^ "IAAF Games of the XXX Olympiad – Rio 2016 Entry Standards" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
  5. ^ "Olympic Rankings – Men". International Golf Federation. 11 July 2016. Archived from the original on 24 August 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  6. ^ "Olympic Rankings – Women". International Golf Federation. 11 July 2016. Archived from the original on 20 July 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  7. ^ "Juegos Olímpicos: El remo paraguayo, nuevamente presente" [Paraguayan Rowing will be again in an Olympic Games] (in Spanish). Paraguay: La Nación. 7 April 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  8. ^ "Olympic qualification spots confirmed for the Americas". FISA. 20 April 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  9. ^ "Quota Places by Nation and Number". www.issf-sports.org/. ISSF. 30 May 2016. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  10. ^ "Ex Ministro de Deportes, octavo paraguayo clasificado a Río 2016" [Former minister of sports is the eight Paraguayan to qualify for Rio 2016] (in Spanish). Paraguay: La Nación. 10 May 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  11. ^ "Swimming World Rankings". FINA. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
  12. ^ "Rio 2016 – FINA Swimming Qualification System" (PDF). Rio 2016. FINA. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  13. ^ Tepper, Glenn (19 May 2016). "Marcelo Aguirre and Heba Allejji Awarded Rio 2016 Olympic Games Tripartite Places". ITTF. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  14. ^ "ITF announces entries for Rio 2016 Olympics". International Tennis Federation. 30 June 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  15. ^ "Cepede en Río" [Cepede in Rio] (in Spanish). Diario ABC Color. 9 June 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2016.

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