Peru at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Peru at the 2016 Summer Olympics
IOC code	PER
NOC	Peruvian Olympic Committee
Website	www.coperu.org (Spanish)
in Rio de Janeiro
Competitors	29 in 11 sports
Flag bearer	Francisco Boza[1]
Medals	Gold Silver Bronze Total 0 0 0 0
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Peru competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's official debut in 1936, Peruvian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games throughout the modern era. Peru failed to register any athletes at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

Peruvian Olympic Committee (Spanish: Comité Olímpico Peruano) sent the nation's largest delegation to the Games without any association to the women's volleyball team for the first time in history. A total of 29 athletes, 17 men and 12 women, were selected to the Peruvian squad across eleven sports.^[2][3] Among the sporting events represented by the nation's athletes, Peru marked its Olympic debut in artistic gymnastics and women's freestyle wrestling, as well as its return to equestrian for more than three decades.

Trap shooter and 1984 silver medalist Francisco Boza etched his name into the historic records as the first ever Peruvian to compete in eight Olympic Games. The oldest and the most experienced participant (aged 52), Boza reprised his role to lead the Peruvian team for the second time as the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony, the first doing so in Athens 2004.^[1] Apart from Boza, seven other athletes were returning Olympians, with only two headed to their third Games, including marathoner Inés Melchor and Laser Radial sailor Paloma Schmidt. 21 Peruvian athletes made their Olympic debut in Rio de Janeiro; the most notable were middle-distance runner and dual American citizen David Torrence and gymnast Ariana Orrego, the youngest of the roster (aged 18).^[2][4]

Peru, however, failed to win a single medal in Rio de Janeiro, continuing a drought that began at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where shooter Juan Giha took the bronze in the mixed skeet. Peru's most successful outcome at these Games occurred in taekwondo, where Julissa Diez bounced back from her early elimination to finish seventh in the women's 49 kg, losing the repechage bout to Thailand's Panipak Wongpattanakit.^[5]

Athletics (track and field)

Peruvian athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):^[6][7]

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
• NM = No mark

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
David Torrence	5000 m	13:23.20 NR	10 q	13:43.12	15
Luis Ostos	10000 m	N/A		28:02.03	21
Raúl Machacuay	Marathon	N/A		2:18:00	45
Christian Pacheco		N/A		2:18:41	52
Raúl Pacheco		N/A		2:20:13	66
Paolo Yurivilca	20 km walk	N/A		1:24:48	41
Luis Henry Campos	50 km walk	N/A		DNF
Pavel Chihuán		N/A		4:32:37	48

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Arturo Chávez	High jump	2.22	29	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
		Result	Rank
Jovana de la Cruz	Marathon	2:35.49	36
Inés Melchor		DNF
Gladys Tejeda		2:29.55	15
Kimberly Garcia	20 km walk	1:32:09	14
Jessica Hancco		1:39:08	51

Equestrian

Peru has entered one jumping rider into the Olympic equestrian competition by virtue of a top six individual finish at the 2015 Pan American Games, scheduling to mark the nation's Olympic comeback for the first time since 1984.^[8][9]

Jumping

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification								Final					Total
			Round 1		Round 2			Round 3			Round A		Round B
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Alonso Valdéz	Chief	Individual	6	51 Q	16	22	56	Did not advance

Gymnastics

Artistic

Peru has entered one artistic gymnast into the Olympic competition for the first time. Ariana Orrego became the nation's first ever female gymnast to claim an Olympic spot in the apparatus and all-around events at the Olympic Test Event in Rio de Janeiro.^[10]

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
		V	UB	BB	F			V	UB	BB	F
Ariana Orrego	Floor	N/A			13.166	13.166	54	Did not advance

Judo

Peru has qualified one judoka for the men's extra-lightweight category (60 kg) at the Games. London 2012 Olympian Juan Postigos earned a continental quota spot from the Pan American region, as the highest-ranked Peruvian judoka outside of direct qualifying position in the IJF World Ranking List of May 30, 2016.^[11][12]

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 Postigos	Men's −60 kg	Bye	Safarov (AZE) L 000–011	Did not advance

Rowing

Peru has qualified one boat each in the men's and women's single sculls for the Olympics at the 2016 Latin American Continental Qualification Regatta in Valparaiso, Chile.^[13][14]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Renzo León García	Men's single sculls	7:21.04	4 R	7:25.55	2 QF	7:30.91	6 SC/D	7:37.34	5 FD	7:02.28	20
Camila Valle	Women's single sculls	9:30.60	5 R	8:32.66	6 SE/F	Bye		9:11.91	4 FF	9:18.24	31

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

Sailing

Peruvian sailors have qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the individual fleet World Championships, and South American qualifying regattas.^[15][16][17]

Men

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*
Stefano Peschiera	Laser	37	40	16	16	28	22	21	27	35	DNF	EL	242	31

Women

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*
Paloma Schmidt	Laser Radial	31	26	29	27	29	30	18	32	30	29	EL	248	31

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

Shooting

Peruvian shooters have achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2015 Pan American Games, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by March 31, 2016.^[18]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Francisco Boza	Men's trap	109	28	Did not advance
Marko Carrillo	Men's 10 m air pistol	566	43	N/A		Did not advance
	Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol	557	24	N/A		Did not advance
	Men's 50 m pistol	536	35	N/A		Did not advance

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

Swimming

Peru has received a Universality invitation from FINA to send two swimmers (one male and one female) to the Olympics.^[19][20][21]

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Nicholas Magana	Men's 100 m freestyle	51.53	53	Did not advance
Andrea Cedrón	Women's 200 m freestyle	2:05.33	39	Did not advance

Taekwondo

Peru entered one athlete into the taekwondo competition at the Olympics. Julissa Diez secured a spot in the women's flyweight category (49 kg) by virtue of her top two finish at the 2016 Pan American Qualification Tournament in Aguascalientes, Mexico.^[22]

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Julissa Diez	Women's −49 kg	Kim S-h (KOR) L 2–10	Did not advance		Wongpattanakit (THA) L 2–4	Did not advance	7

Weightlifting

Peru has qualified one male weightlifter for the Rio Olympics by virtue of a top seven national finish at the 2016 Pan American Championships. Meanwhile, an unused women's Olympic spot was added to the Peruvian weightlifting team by IWF, as a response to the vacancy of women's quota places in the individual World Rankings and to the "multiple positive cases" of doping on several nations.^[23] The team must allocate these places to individual athletes by June 20, 2016.^[24]

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Hernán Viera	Men's −105 kg	151	16	200	14	351	13
Fiorella Cueva	Women's −53 kg	65	12	88	11	153	11

Wrestling

Peru has received a spare host berth freed up by Brazil as the next highest-ranked eligible nation, not yet qualified, to send a wrestler competing in the women's freestyle 58 kg to the Olympics, based on the results from the World Championships.^[25][26]

Key:

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

Women's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Yanet Sovero	−58 kg	Bye	Rentería (COL) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance					18

See also

• Peru at the 2015 Pan American Games
• Peru at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

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