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Costa Rica at the 2019 Pan American Games
IOC code	CRC
NOC	Costa Rican Olympic Committee
Website	www.concrc.org
in Lima, Peru 26 July–11 August 2019
Competitors	85 in 24 sports
Flag bearer	Shirley Cruz (opening)
Medals Ranked 21st	Gold 1 Silver 0 Bronze 4 Total 5
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Costa Rica competed in the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru from July 26 to August 11, 2019.

On 11 July 2019, the Costa Rican Olympic Committee officially named a team of 85 athletes (44 women and 41 men) competing in 24 sports.

During the opening ceremony of the games, footballer Shirley Cruz carried the flag of the country as part of the parade of nations.

At this edition of the games, Costa Rica won five medals, the second best performance for the country at a single edition of the games (the best performance being the 11 medals won in 1987).

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors (per gender) participating at the games per sport/discipline.

Medalists

The following competitors from Costa Rica won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Andrea Vargas Athletics Women's 100m hurdles August 8  Bronze Nishy Lee Lindo Taekwondo Women's 57 kg July 28  Bronze Andres Acuña Felipe Camacho Racquetball Men's doubles August 6  Bronze Costa Rica women's national football team Noelia Bermúdez Priscilla Tapia Lixy Rodríguez Carol Sánchez Daniela Cruz Fabiola Sánchez Gabriela Guillén María Paula Elizondo Stephannie Blanco Valeria del Campo Shirley Cruz Katherine Alvarado Raquel Rodríguez Gloriana Villalobos Sofía Varela Mariana Benavides Priscila Chinchilla María Paula Salas Football Women's tournament August 9  Bronze Diana Brenes Judo Women's 78 kg August 11

Medals by sport Sport Total Athletics 1 0 0 1 Football 0 0 1 1 Judo 0 0 1 1 Racquetball 0 0 1 1 Taekwondo 0 0 1 1 Total 1 0 4 5

Athletics (track and field)

Costa Rica qualified eight athletes (four men and four women).

Key

• Note–Ranks given for track events are for the entire round
• Q = Qualified for the next round directly

Men

Track events

Field event

Women

Track and Road Events

Athlete	Event	Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Andrea Vargas	100 m hurdles	12.75	1 Q	12.82
Noelia Vargas	20 km walk	—		1:33:09	6
Gabriela Traña	Marathon	—		2:49:28	12
Yenny Mendez		—		2:56:31	14

Badminton

Costa Rica qualified a team of two badminton athletes (one per gender).

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Gianpiero Cavallotti	Men's singles	Bye	Iván León (CHI) L 12–21, 15–21	Did not advance
Lauren Villalobos	Women's singles	Bye	Ramdhani (GUY) W 21–15, 21–18	Michelle Li (CAN) L 7–21, 13–21	Did not advance
Gianpiero Cavallotti Lauren Villalobos	Mixed doubles	—	Thorpe / Williams (BAR) L 13–21, 10–21	Did not advance

Bodybuilding

Costa Rica qualified one male bodybuilder.

Men

• No results were provided for the prejudging round, with only the top six advancing.

Bowling

Boxing

Costa Rica qualified two boxers (one man and one woman).

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Eduardo Sanchéz	Men's 64 kg	Michael Alexander (TTO) L 1–3	Did not advance
Valeria Cárdenas	Women's 51 kg	Virginia Fuchs (USA) L 0–5	Did not advance

Canoeing

Slalom

Costa Rica qualified one male slalom athlete.

Key

• Note–Ranks given are within the heat

Men

Cycling

Costa Rica qualified seven cyclists (five men and two women).

BMX

Men

Freestyle

Racing

Mountain biking

Road cycling

Men

Equestrian

Costa Rica qualified two equestrians.

Dressage

Fencing

Costa Rica qualified a 1 female fencer in the épée discipline.

Women

Football

Costa Rica qualified a women's team (of 18 athletes).

Women's tournament

Roster

The following players were called up for the 2019 Pan American Games.

Head coach: Amelia Valverde

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Noelia Bermúdez	(1994-09-20)20 September 1994 (aged 24)	12	0	Saprissa
18	1GK	Priscilla Tapia	(1991-05-02)2 May 1991 (aged 28)	2	0	AD Moravia
12	2DF	Lixy Rodríguez	(1990-11-04)4 November 1990 (aged 28)	63	2	Tacón
6	2DF	Carol Sánchez	(1986-04-16)16 April 1986 (aged 33)	45	2	AD Moravia
8	2DF	Daniela Cruz	(1991-03-08)8 March 1991 (aged 28)	38	6	Espanyol
5	2DF	Fabiola Sánchez	(1993-04-09)9 April 1993 (aged 26)	16	3	Codea
2	2DF	Gabriela Guillén	(1992-03-01)1 March 1992 (aged 27)	11	0	Saprissa
3	2DF	María Paula Elizondo	(1998-11-30)30 November 1998 (aged 20)	4	0	Saprissa
15	2DF	Stephannie Blanco	(2000-12-13)13 December 2000 (aged 18)	0	0	Arenal Coronado
7	3MF	Valeria del Campo	(2000-02-15)15 February 2000 (aged 19)	0	0	Saprissa
10	3MF	Shirley Cruz (c)	(1985-08-28)28 August 1985 (aged 33)	73	24	Jiangsu Suning [zh]
16	3MF	Katherine Alvarado	(1991-04-11)11 April 1991 (aged 28)	66	20	Espanyol
11	3MF	Raquel Rodríguez	(1993-10-28)28 October 1993 (aged 25)	49	31	Sky Blue FC
9	3MF	Gloriana Villalobos	(1999-08-20)20 August 1999 (aged 19)	24	2	Florida State Seminoles
4	3MF	Mariana Benavides	(1994-12-26)26 December 1994 (aged 24)	22	4	Arenal Coronado
14	3MF	Priscila Chinchilla	(2001-07-11)11 July 2001 (aged 18)	6	2	Codea
17	4FW	María Paula Salas	(2002-07-12)12 July 2002 (aged 17)	9	2	Saprissa
13	4FW	Sofía Varela	(1998-03-28)28 March 1998 (aged 21)	0	0	Saprissa

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Costa Rica	3	2	1	0	6	2	+4	7	Knockout stage
2	Argentina	3	2	1	0	4	0	+4	7
3	Panama	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1	Fifth place match
4	Peru (H)	3	0	1	2	2	7	−5	1	Seventh place match

Panama	1–3	Costa Rica
Mills 14'	Report	Chinchilla 73', 85' Blanco 79'

Costa Rica	3–1	Peru
R. Rodríguez 55', 90+3' C. Sánchez 84'	Report	Otiniano 14'

Costa Rica	0–0	Argentina
	Report

Semifinals

Costa Rica	3–4 (a.e.t.)	Colombia
C. Sánchez 59', 87' Salas 89'	Report	Santos 30' Gaitán 33' Ospina 68' Usme 93'

Bronze medal match

Paraguay	0–1	Costa Rica
	Report	D. Cruz 82'

Golf

Costa Rica qualified two male golfers.

Men

Gymnastics

Costa Rica qualified four artistic gymnasts (two men and two women).

Artistic

Men

Women

Individual Qualification

Judo

Costa Rica qualified one female judoka.

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Diana Brenes	78 kg	Coulombe (CAN) W 11S1–01S3	Antomarchi (CUB) L 00S2–01S2	Did not advance	Cantero (ARG) W 10–00S2	León (VEN) W 10–00S3

Karate

Costa Rica qualified four athletes in the kata discipline (one man and three women).

Kata

Racquetball

Costa Rica qualified three racquetball athletes (two men and one woman).

Athlete	Event	Qualifying Round robin				Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Match 1	Match 2	Match 3	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Andres Acuña	Men's singles	Moscoso (BOL) L 1–2	Ugalde (ECU) W 2–1	—	3	Did not advance
Felipe Camacho		Rios (ECU) W 2–1	Beltrán (MEX) L 0–2	—	2 Q	Mercado (COL) L 0–2	Did not advance
Andres Acuña Felipe Camacho	Men's doubles	Mar / Montoya (MEX) L 0–2	Chacón / Moyet (CUB) W 2–0	Pérez / León (DOM) W 2–0	2 Q	Bye	Galicia / Salvatierra (GUA) W 2–0	Keller / Moscoso (BOL) L 0–2	Did not advance
Andres Acuña Felipe Camacho	Men's team	—				Argentina W 2–0	United States L 0–2	Did not advance
Maricruz Ortiz	Women's singles	Saunders (CAN) W 2–1	Muñoz (ECU) L 0–2	Lawrence (USA) L 0–2	3	Did not advance

Roller sports

Costa Rica qualified two men in the speed discipline.

Speed

Men

*Position is giving within the heat for the 500 m event

Shooting

Costa Rica qualified two male shooters in the rifle discipline.

Men

Surfing

Costa Rica qualified four surfers (three men and one woman) in the sport's debut at the Pan American Games.

Artistic

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Repechage 4	Repechage 5	Bronze medal	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Noe McGonagle	Men's open	Correa (PER) W 13.40–9.33 Q	Young (CAN) W 15.40–12.27 Q	Mesinas (PER) L 9.90–15.94	Did not advance	Bye			Usuna (ARG) L 12.50–13.40	Did not advance
Anthony Fillingim		Delgado (PUR) W 10.67–7.74 Q	Bellorin (VEN) W 7.67–7.17 Q	Pérez (ESA) L 11.34–12.57	Did not advance	Bye			Muñiz (ARG) L 10.30–14.16	Did not advance
Anthony Flores	Men's longboard	Robbins (USA),  Ferrer (PUR) L 9.27 Q	Clemente (PER),  Conceição (BRA) L 8.23	Did not advance		Bye	Cortéz (CHI) L 7.94–12.43	Did not advance

Race

Swimming

Men

Women

Taekwondo

Costa Rica qualified four taekwondo practitioners (two per gender).

Kyorugi

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Heiner Oviedo	Men's 58 kg	Miranda (ECU) W 23–22	Melo (BRA) L 10–30	Did not advance
Juan Soto	Men's 68 kg	Paz (COL) W 16–15	Pontes (BRA) L 17–30	Did not advance	Bye	Nkogho-Mengue (CAN) L 12–13	=5
Nishy Lee Lindo	Women's 57 kg	Álvarez (COL) W 18–14	Zolotic (USA) L 8–23	Did not advance	Bye	Carstens (PAN) W 12–7
Katherine Alvarado	Women's 67 kg	Acosta (CUB) L 0–0	Did not advance

Triathlon

Costa Rica qualified one female triathlete.

Men

Volleyball

Beach

Costa Rica qualified four beach volleyball athletes (two men and two women).

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round				Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Victor Alpizar Sebastian Valenciano	Men's	Brandao – Dealtry (BRA) L 0 – 2 (13-21, 14–21)	Cairus – Vieyto (URU) L 0 – 2 (20-22, 8-21)	Gonzalez – Reyes (CUB) L 0 – 2 (13-21, 16–21)	4	—		13-16th classification  Stewart – Phillip (TTO) W 2-1 (19-21, 21–16, 15–12)	13/14th place match  Mora – Lopez (ESA) L 0-2 (16-21, 14–21)	14
Marcela Araya Valeria Valenciano	Women's	Ayala – Ríos (COL) W (21–15, 21–14)	Cook – Pardon (USA) L (11–21, 11–21)	Davidson – Grant (TTO) W (21–18, 22–20)	2 Q	Mendoza – Rodriguez (NCA) W (21–14, 21–16)	Delís – Martínez (CUB) L (17–21, 14–21)	5th-8th place classification  Mardones – Rivas (CHI) L (10–21, 9–21)	7th place match  Caballero – Valiente (PAR) L (16–21, 20–22)	8

Weightlifting

Costa Rica qualified four weightlifters (two men and two women). However, only three were entered (two men and one woman).

Wrestling

Costa Rica qualified one male in the freestyle discipline.

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Maxwell Lacey	97 kg	Pérez (DOM) L 2–12	Did not advance

See also

• Costa Rica at the 2020 Summer Olympics

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