El Salvador at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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| IOC code | ESA | ||||||||
| NOC | El Salvador Olympic Committee | ||||||||
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| Competitors | 8 in 6 sports | ||||||||
| Flag bearer | Lilian Castro | ||||||||
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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 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. 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 were expected to reach their peak in time for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
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.
El Salvador, however, has yet to win its first Olympic medal.
Salvadoran athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):
El Salvador has 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 May 30, 2016.
El Salvador has 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.
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