Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

participated at the 2007 Pan American Games

2007 Pan American Games

The 2007 Pan American Games, officially known as the XV Pan American Games, were a major continental multi-sport event that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from July 13 to July 29, 2007. A total of 5,633 athletes from 42 National Olympic Committees competed in 332 events in 34 sports and in...

in Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

, Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

. The Argentine delegation counted a total number of 441 athletes. Argentina competed in all events, except for baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

 and diving

Diving

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

. The delegation's main bet was the Field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

 women's team, Las Leonas

Las Leonas

Argentina national women's field hockey team represents Argentina in women's field hockey. They are also known by the nickname Las Leonas, meaning "The Lionesses"...

, led by Luciana Aymar, who carried the Argentine flag

Flag of Argentina

The national flag of Argentina is a triband, composed of three equally wide horizontal bands coloured light blue, white and light blue. There are multiple interpretations on the reasons for those colors...

 at the opening ceremony.

Gold

• Men's Madison: Walter Pérez
  Walter Pérez
  Walter Fernando Pérez is an Olympic gold medal-winning racing cyclist from Argentina.Pérez, who joined the Argentine cycling team in 1992, won the Men's Madison gold medal at the 2008 Olympics with team-mate Juan Curuchet.-References:* Crítica Digital...
  
   and Juan Curuchet
  Juan Curuchet
  Juan Esteban Curuchet is a road bicycle racer and track cyclist from Argentina.Curuchet represented Argentina at the Summer Olympics in 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008....
  
  
• Women's BMX: María Gabriela Díaz

• Women's Team Competition: Argentina women's national field hockey team

• Men's 60 kg: Miguel Albarracín
  Miguel Albarracín
  Miguel Ángel Albarracín is a male judoka from Argentina, who won the bronze medal in the extra lightweight division at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.-References: *...
  
  

• Men's 60 kg: Francisco Nievas

• Women's Freestyle: Leila Vanzulli

• Men's Single Sculls: Santiago Fernández
  Santiago Fernandez (rower)
  Santiago Fernández is a male rower from Argentina. He competed in three Summer Olympics for his native South American country: 1996, 2004 and 2008.-References:*...
  
  
• Men's Coxless Fours: Horacio Sicilia, Maximiliano Martínez, Diego López, and Joaquín Iwan

• Men's Olympic Trap: Juan Carlos Dasque
  Juan Carlos Dasque
  Juan Carlos Dasque is an Argentine sport shooter who specializes in double trap and trap.At the 2008 Olympic Games he finished in joint thirteenth place in the trap qualification, missing a place among the top six, who progressed to the final round.-References:...
  
  

• Men's Doubles: Eduardo Schwank
  Eduardo Schwank
  Eduardo Jonatan Schwank is a professional tennis player from Argentina on the ATP Tour. He is currently coached by Javier Nalbandian, the brother of David Nalbandian....
  
   and Horacio Zeballos
• Women's Doubles: Jorgelina Cravero
  Jorgelina Cravero
  Jorgelina Cravero is a professional Argentine tennis player. In 2007 Cravero qualified for three of the four Grand Slam tournaments, losing in the opening round every time, including to Justine Henin at Wimbledon 2007. She lost to Martina Müller at the 2007 Australian Open and Aravane Rezaï at the...
  
   and Betina Jozami
  Betina Jozami
  Betina Jozami is a professional tennis player from Argentina. She has not won a Women's Tennis Association tennis title, but has won five singles titles and eleven doubles titles on the International Tennis Federation . Born to Beto and Andrea Jozami, the Argentine has two siblings...
  
  

Silver

• Men's K-2 1.000 m: Pablo de Torres and Juan Pablo Bergero
• Women's K-1 500 m: Fernanda Lauro
  Fernanda Lauro
  María Fernanda Lauro is an Argentine sprint canoer. She competed in the mid 2000s.At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Lauro was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-1 500 m event.-References:*...
  
  

• Men's Time Trial: Matías Médici
  Matías Médici
  Matías Médici is a male professional track and road cyclist from Argentina. He represented his native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China.-Career:2003...
  
  

• Men's Team Competition: Argentina national futsal team
  Argentina national futsal team
  The Argentina national futsal team represents Argentina during international futsal competitions. It is governed by the Asociación del Fútbol Argentino.-FIFA Futsal World Championship:* 1989 - 2nd round* 1992 - 2nd round* 1996 - 1st round...
  
  

• Men's Team Competition: Argentina national handball team
  Argentina national handball team
  The Argentina national handball team is the national handball team of Argentina and is controlled by the Argentina Handball Association.-World Men's Handball Championship record:-External links:*...
  
  

• Men's Team Competition: Argentina national field hockey team
  Argentina national field hockey team
  The Argentina national field hockey team represents Argentina in the international field hockey competitions. The team competed in every World Cup since the first edition in 1971, except for the 1998 edition which was held in Utrecht, The Netherlands....
  
  

• Men's Double Sculls: Rodrigo Murillo and Ariel Suárez
• Men's Quadruple Sculls: Víctor Claus, Ariel Suárez, Santiago Fernández
  Santiago Fernandez (rower)
  Santiago Fernández is a male rower from Argentina. He competed in three Summer Olympics for his native South American country: 1996, 2004 and 2008.-References:*...
  
  , and Cristian Rosso
• Women's Single Sculls: María Best

• Men's Freestyle: Daniel Arriola

• Men's RS:X: Mariano Reutemann
• Men's J24: Alejo Rigoni, Sebastián Peri, Joaquín Duarte and Gustavo González

• Men's 100m Freestyle: José Meolans
  José Meolans
  José Martin Meolans is a freestyle swimmer from Argentina, who won the world title in the 50 metre freestyle at the 2002 FINA Short Course World Championships in Moscow, Russia....
  
  

• Men's Singles: Song Liu
• Men's Team: Gastón Alto, Song Liu and Pablo Tabachnik
  Pablo Tabachnik
  Pablo Ariel Tabachnik is an Argentine table tennis player.He is Jewish. He competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics with Oscar Gonzalez. He is a three-time Olympian .-External links:*...
  
  

• Men's 105 kg: Pedro Stetsiuk

Bronze

• Men's Pole Vault: Germán Chiaraviglio
  Germán Chiaraviglio
  Germán Chiaraviglio is an Argentine pole vaulter.His personal best of 5.71 metres was achieved at the World Championships in Beijing on August 19, 2006, when he beat the old championship record of István Bagyula from 1988, and the Argentine senior record...
  
  
• Men's Hammer Throw: Juan Ignacio Cerra
  Juan Ignacio Cerra
  Juan Ignacio Cerra is a male hammer thrower from Argentina. His personal best throw is 76.42 metres, achieved in July 2001 in Trieste. This is also the South American record....
  
  
• Women's Hammer Throw: Jennifer Dahlgren
  Jennifer Dahlgren
  Jennifer Dahlgren Fitzner is an Argentine hammer thrower. Having spent much of her life in the United States, she competed as an amateur for the University of Georgia. She set the US collegiate hammer record and was the NCAA Outdoor champion in both 2006 and 2007...
  
  

• Men's Individual: Lucas Legnani
  Lucas Legnani
  Lucas Legnani is an Argentine ten-pin bowler. He finished in 14th position of the combined rankings at the 2006 AMF World Cup. He was also a bronze medalist at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio, Brazil....
  
  

• Men's Lightweight: Luis Rueda
• Men's Welterweight: Diego Chaves

• Men's K-2 500 m: Pablo de Torres and Juan Pablo Bergero

• Men's Mountain Bike: Dario Gasco
• Men's Individual Pursuit: Fernando Antogna
  Fernando Antogna
  Fernando Antogna is a male professional track and road cyclist from Argentina.-Career:20022003...
  
  
• Men's Keirin: Leandro Botasso
  Leandro Botasso
  Leandro Hernán Botasso is a male professional track and road cyclist from Argentina. In 2009 he was a member of the Colavita-Sutter Home cycling team.-Career:20072009-References:...
  
  
• Men's Individual Time Trial: Damián Abbiate

• Men's Sabre Team: Alexandre Achten, Ricardo Bustamante, José Félix Domínguez and Diego Drajer

• Men's 65 kg: Lucio Martínez

• Men's Wakeboard: Edgardo Martin

• Women's Team Competition: Argentina women's national handball team
  Argentina women's national handball team
  The Argentina women's national handball team is the national team of Argentina. It is governed by the Confederacion Argentina de Handball and takes part in international team handball competitions.-Results:*2005 World Championship: 20th...
  
  

• Women's 48 kg: Paula Pareto
  Paula Pareto
  Paula Belén Pareto is a judoka from Argentina.-Bio:Paula or "La Peke" as they call her was born in Buenos Aires's district Florida but now she lives with her parents in Tigre close to the capital city. When she was 4 she began with swimming and a year later added gymnastics...
  
  
• Women's 63 kg: Daniela Krukower
  Daniela Krukower
  Daniela Yael Krukower is a former judoka from Israel who represented Argentina since 1999.-Biography:...
  
  
• Women's 78 kg: Lorena Briceño
  Lorena Briceño
  Lorena Briceño is a female judoka from Argentina. She competed for her native South American country at the 2008 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.-References:*...
  
  

• Men's Eights: Alan San Martín, Marcelo Walter Bronca, Maximiliano Martínez, Joaquín Iwan, Horacio Sicilia, Diego Martín López, Damián Ordas, Mariano Palermo and Joel Infante
• Women's Quadruple Sculls: Carolina Schiffmacher, María Laura Abalo, María Best, and Lucia Palermo

• Men's Speedskating: Damián Fernández
• Women's Speedskating: Melisa Bonnet
• Women's Fundo: Silvina Posada

• Women's RS:X: Florencia Gutiérrez
• Men's Laser: Julio Alsogaray

• Men's 50m Three Positions: Juan Angeloni
• Women's Skeet: Melisa Gil

• Women's 400m Individual Medley: Georgina Bardach
  Georgina Bardach
  Georgina Bardach Martin is a swimmer from Argentina. At the 2002 FINA Short Course World Championships in Moscow, she finished third in the 400 m Individual Medley race...
  
  

• Women's 57 kg: Rocío Boudi
• Men's 80 kg: Martín Sío

• Men's Singles: Eduardo Schwank
  Eduardo Schwank
  Eduardo Jonatan Schwank is a professional tennis player from Argentina on the ATP Tour. He is currently coached by Javier Nalbandian, the brother of David Nalbandian....
  
  
• Women's Singles: Betina Jozami
  Betina Jozami
  Betina Jozami is a professional tennis player from Argentina. She has not won a Women's Tennis Association tennis title, but has won five singles titles and eleven doubles titles on the International Tennis Federation . Born to Beto and Andrea Jozami, the Argentine has two siblings...
  
  

• Women's 58 kg: Maria Cecilia Floriddia
  Maria Cecilia Floriddia
  María Cecilia Floriddia is a female weightlifter from Argentina. She won the bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games for her native South American country in the – 58 kg weight division.-References:*...
  
  

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group B)
• Defeatd Panama (76-71)
• Defeatd Uruguay (71-69)
• Lost to United States (71-74)
• Semi Finals
• Lost to Puerto Rico (80-89)
• Bronze Medal Match
• Lost to Uruguay (93-99) → Fourth place
• Team Roster
• Facundo Sucatzky
• Diego García
  Diego Garcia (basketball)
  Diego García is an Argentine professional basketball player currently with Spanish side CB Valladolid. He is also a member of the Argentina national basketball team....
  
  
• Gabriel Mikulas
• Diego Logrippo
  Diego Logrippo
  Diego Fernando Lo Grippo is an Argentine basketball player. He is tall and plays the position of small forward or power forward...
  
  
• Luis Cequeira
  Luis Cequeira
  Luis Cequeira is an Argentine professional basketball player. He plays point guard professionally for Argentinian side Obras Sanitarias and is also a member of the Argentine national basketball team....
  
  
• Matías Sandes
  Matías Sandes
  Matías Sandes is an Argentine professional basketball player and member of the Argentina national basketball team....
  
  
• Román González
• Martin Leiva
  Martín Leiva
  Martín Darío Leiva is an Argentine basketball player. He is tall and plays the center position.-Club career:Leiva debuted in the LNB on October 12, 1997, playing for Ferro Carril Oeste against Independiente de General Pico. He played four seasons with Ferro, and then 6 with Boca Juniors in the...
  
  
• Patricio Prato
  Patricio Prato
  Patricio Prato is an Argentine basketballer. He stands 194 cm. His father Fernando was a player as well. Currently he plays for NGC Cantu. He played his college ball in the United States for St. Bonaventure University.-Clubs:*Atenas de Córdoba*Skipper Bologna*S.S. Felice Scandone*Solsonica...
  
  
• Javier Bulfoni
  Javier Bulfoni
  Javier Bulfoni is an Argentine professional basketball player currently playing for Obradoiro CAB of the LEB Oro league...
  
  
• Leonardo Mainoldi
  Leonardo Mainoldi
  Leonardo Andrés Mainoldi, , is an Argentine professional basketball player. He currently plays for Alta Gestión Fuenlabrada of the Spanish ACB.-Pro clubs:*2001/02 Atlético Carcarañá*2002/04 Pamesa Valencia...
  
  
• Mariano Byro
• Head Coach: Gonzalo García
  Gonzalo García
  Gonzalo García Núñez is a Peruvian industrial engineer from the Peruvian University of Ingenieria, Lima 1968, Graduate of the French center of economics programs CEPE, Phd. in economics from Grenoble University, he is a professor, banker, entrepreneur, economist and politician...
  
  

Women's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group B)
• Lost to Cuba (79-81)
• Lost to United States (54-85)
• Lost to Colombia (66-68)
• Classification Matches
• 5th/8th place: Defeated Jamaica (73-61)
• 5th/6th place: Lost to Colombia (58-59) → Sixth place
• Team Roster
• Constanza Landra
• Marina Cava
• Paula Gatti
• Marcela Paoletta
• Celeste Cabañez
• Florencia Fernández
• Alejandra Fernández
• Anastasia Saenz
• Sandra Pavón
• Laura Nicolini
• Valentina Maggi
• Alejandra Chesta

Men's Singles

• Juan Martin Aranguren
• First Round — Bye
• Second Round — Defeated Federico Sansonetti
  Federico Sansonetti
  Federico Sansonetti Anker is a Uruguayan professional tennis player.-Runner-Up :-External links:*...
  
   (URU), 6-3 6-1
• Third Round — Defeated Carlos Salamanca
  Carlos Salamanca
  Carlos Salamanca Caicedo is a Colombian professional tennis player.-Singles Titles :-External links:*...
  
   (COL), 7-5 6-1
• Quarterfinals — Lost to Flávio Saretta
  Flávio Saretta
  Flávio Saretta Filho is a professional tennis player from Brazil who turned professional in 1998....
  
   (BRA), 2-6 2-6

• Eduardo Schwank
  Eduardo Schwank
  Eduardo Jonatan Schwank is a professional tennis player from Argentina on the ATP Tour. He is currently coached by Javier Nalbandian, the brother of David Nalbandian....
  
  
• First Round — Bye
• Second Round — Defeated Juan Carlos Ramirez
  Juan Carlos Ramírez
  Juan Carlos "Ranchero" Ramírez is a Mexican professional boxer in the lightweight division...
  
   (PAR), 6-2 6-3
• Third Round — Defeated Jorge Aguilar
  Jorge Aguilar
  Jorge Roberto Aguilar Mondaca is a Chilean professional tennis player. In 2001 won the U16 world championship with best friend Guillermo Hormazábal and Carlos Rios....
  
   (CHI), 3-6 6-2 2-6
• Quarterfinals — Defeated Marcos Daniel
  Marcos Daniel
  Marcos Diniz Daniel is a professional tennis player from Brazil who turned professional in 1997. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on September 14, 2009, when he became World No. 56...
  
   (BRA), 2-6 7-6(3) 7-5
• Semifinals — Lost to Flávio Saretta
  Flávio Saretta
  Flávio Saretta Filho is a professional tennis player from Brazil who turned professional in 1998....
  
   (BRA), 6-3 5-7 0-6
• Bronze Medal Match — Defeated Michael Quintero
  Michael Quintero
  Michael Quintero Aguilar is a Colombian professional tennis player. Michael Quintero won eight tournaments in Colombia, Jamaica and Cuba...
  
   (COL), 6-4 6-0 → Bronze Medal

• Horacio Zeballos
• First Round — Bye
• Second Round — Lost to Guillermo Hormazábal
  Guillermo Hormazabal
  Guillermo Hormazábal is a Chilean professional tennis player. In 2001, he became an under 16's world champion.-Singles Titles :-Singles runner-up :-External links:*...
  
   (CHI), 6-3 4-6 6-3

Men's Doubles

• Eduardo Schwank
  Eduardo Schwank
  Eduardo Jonatan Schwank is a professional tennis player from Argentina on the ATP Tour. He is currently coached by Javier Nalbandian, the brother of David Nalbandian....
  
   and Horacio Zeballos
• First Round — Bye
• Second Round — Defeated Cristian Paiz and Sebastian Vidal (GUA), 6-2 6-1
• Quarterfinals — Defeated Michael Quintero
  Michael Quintero
  Michael Quintero Aguilar is a Colombian professional tennis player. Michael Quintero won eight tournaments in Colombia, Jamaica and Cuba...
  
   and Carlos Salamanca
  Carlos Salamanca
  Carlos Salamanca Caicedo is a Colombian professional tennis player.-Singles Titles :-External links:*...
  
   (COL), 6-2 6-4
• Semifinals — Defeated Víctor Estrella
  Víctor Estrella
  Víctor Estrella is a professional tennis player from the Dominican Republic. He reached his highest individual ranking on the ATP Tour on August 15, 2011, when he became World number 206...
  
   and Jhonson García (DOM), 6-1 6-0
• Gold Medal Match — Defeated Jorge Aguilar
  Jorge Aguilar
  Jorge Roberto Aguilar Mondaca is a Chilean professional tennis player. In 2001 won the U16 world championship with best friend Guillermo Hormazábal and Carlos Rios....
  
   and Adrián García
  Adrián García
  Adrián Alonso García Sobarzo is a Chilean tennis player.García was born in Concepción, Chile. On September 13, 2004, he achieved a career-high singles ranking of 103.-Source:* ATP Tour profile for...
  
   (CHI), 6-3 6-4 → Gold Medal

Men's Competition

• Velmar Bianco
• 1:55:40.29 — 15th place
• Luciano Farias
• 1:57:03.47 — 21st place
• Lucas Cocha
• did not finish — no ranking

Women's Competition

• Pamela Geijo
• 2:04:37.89 — 16th place
• Nidia Kondratavicius
• 2:15:46.76 — 26th place
• Paulina Abrego
• did not finish — no ranking

External links

• Argentine Olympic Committee Website
• Rio 2007 Official website