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List of flag bearers for Puerto Rico at the Olympics

This is a list of flag bearers who have represented Puerto Rico at the Olympics.[1]

Puerto Rico at the
Olympics
IOC codePUR
NOCPuerto Rico Olympic Committee
Websitewww.copur.pr (in Spanish)
Medals
Gold
2
Silver
2
Bronze
8
Total
12
Summer appearances
Winter appearances

Flag bearers carry the national flag of their country at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

# Event year Season Flag bearer Sport Ref.
1 1948 Summer José Vicente[a] Athletics [2]
2 1952 Summer Jaime Annexy Athletics
3 1956 Summer Daniel Cintrón Official
4 1960 Summer Toñín Casillas Basketball
5 1964 Summer Rolando Cruz Athletics
6 1968 Summer Jaime Frontera Basketball
7 1972 Summer Arnaldo Bristol Athletics
8 1976 Summer Téofilo Colón Athletics (did not compete)
9 1980 Summer Alberto Mercado[b] Boxing
10 1984 Winter George Tucker Luge
11 1984 Summer Fernando Cañales Swimming
12 1988 Winter Mary Pat Wilson Alpine skiing
13 1988 Summer Jesús Feliciano Baseball
14 1992 Winter Jorge Bonnet Bobsleigh
15 1992 Summer Luis Martínez Judo
16 1994 Winter Liston Bochette Bobsleigh
17 1996 Summer Ivelisse Echevarría Softball
18 1998 Winter José Ferrer Bobsleigh
19 2000 Summer Enrique Figueroa Sailing
20 2002 Winter Manuel Repollet Bobsleigh (did not compete)
21 2004 Summer Carlos Arroyo Basketball
22 2008 Summer McWilliams Arroyo Boxing
23 2012 Summer Javier Culson Athletics
24 2016 Summer Jaime Espinal Wrestling
25 2018 Winter Charles Flaherty Alpine skiing [3][4]
26 2020 Summer Adriana Díaz Table tennis [5][2]
Brian Afanador
27 2022 Winter William Flaherty Alpine skiing [6][7]
28 2024 Summer Jasmine Camacho-Quinn Athletics [8]
Sebastian Rivera Wrestling

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Carried a United States flag
  2. ^ Carried an Olympic flag

References

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  1. ^ Puerto Rico. Olympics at Sport-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Accessed 25 October 2011.
  2. ^ a b "Flagbearers for Puerto Rico". olympedia.org. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  3. ^ Carlson, Adam (9 February 2018). "Meet the 17-Year-Old Skier Competing in Puerto Rico's First Winter Olympics in Decades". People. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  4. ^ "The Flagbearers for the PyeongChang 2018 Opening Ceremony" (PDF). olympics.com. IOC. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  5. ^ "The flagbearers for the Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony" (PDF). olympics.com. IOC. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  6. ^ Hamilton, Tom (February 10, 2022). "Winter Olympics 2022 - Olympian William Flaherty and the bond of brothers". ESPN.
  7. ^ "The flagbearers for the Beijing 2022 Opening Ceremony" (PDF). olympics.com. IOC. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  8. ^ "Paris 2024: Opening ceremony flagbearers information" (PDF). olympics.com. IOC. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
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