| El Salvador at the 2016 Summer Olympics | |
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| IOC code | ESA |
| NOC | El Salvador Olympic Committee |
| Website | www |
| in Rio de Janeiro | |
| Competitors | 8 in 6 sports |
| Flag bearer | Lilian Castro[1] |
| Medals |
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| Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |
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.[2] 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 expected to reach their peak in time for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
The 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.[1][3]
El Salvador, however, was yet to win its first Olympic medal at the end of the 2016 Summer Games.
- ^ a b "Lilian Castro es la abanderada" [Lilian Castro will be the flag bearer] (in Spanish). La Prensa Gráfica. 30 July 2016.(opening)
Enrique Arathoon (closing) - ^ "Team ESA: listo a Río 2016" [Team ESA: Ready for Rio 2016] (in Spanish). El Salvador Olympic Committee. 19 July 2016. Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^ "Lilian Castro abanderada Team ESA para Río" [Lilian Castro will be Team ESA's flag bearer for Rio] (in Spanish). El Salvador Olympic Committee. 30 July 2016. Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.