Noc: | ESA |
Nocname: | El Salvador Olympic Committee |
Games: | Summer Olympics |
Year: | 2020 |
Website: | |
Location: | Tokyo, Japan |
Competitors: | 5 |
Sports: | 4 |
Flagbearer Close: | Yamileth Solorzano |
Gold: | 0 |
Silver: | 0 |
Bronze: | 0 |
Appearances: | auto |
El Salvador competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] It was the nation's twelfth appearance at the Summer Olympics.
The following is the list of the number of Salvadoran competitors participating in the Games:
width=150 | Sport | width=55 | Men | width=55 | Women | width=55 | Total |
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Athletics | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
Boxing | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Sailing | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
Swimming | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
Total | 3 | 2 | 5 |
See main article: Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. El Salvador received a universality slot from the World Athletics to send a male athlete to the Olympics.[2]
See main article: article, Boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. El Salvador entered one boxer to compete in the women's featherweight category at the Olympic tournament. With the cancellation of the 2021 Pan American Qualification Tournament in Buenos Aires, Yamileth Solorzano received a spare berth declined by one of the original entries, as the next highest-ranked boxer vying for qualification from the Americas in the IOC's Boxing Task Force Rankings. This marked the country's return to the sport for the first time since 1988.
See main article: Sailing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Sailing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Salvadoran sailors qualified one boat for each of the following classes through the class-associated World Championships, and the continental regattas.[3]
M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal raceSee main article: Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics - Qualification. El Salvador received a universality invitation from FINA to send two top-ranked swimmers (one per gender) in their respective individual events to the Olympics, based on the FINA Points System of June 28, 2021.[4]
Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | ||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
align=left rowspan=2 | Marcelo Acosta | Men's 800 m freestyle | 8:03.01 | 31 | Did not advance | |||
Men's 1500 m freestyle | 15:27.37 | 25 | Did not advance | |||||
align=left rowspan=2 | Celina Márquez | Women's 100 m backstroke | 1:03.75 | 36 | Did not advance | |||
Women's 200 m backstroke | 2:14.72 | 23 | Did not advance |