| Costa Rica at the 1968 Summer Olympics | |
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| IOC code | CRC |
| NOC | Comité Olímpico de Costa Rica |
| Website | www |
| in Mexico City | |
| Competitors | 18 (17 men, 1 woman) in 6 sports |
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| Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Costa Rica competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. Eighteen competitors, seventeen men and one woman, took part in eighteen events in six sports.[1]
Athletics
Women's 400 metres
- Jean Robotham
- Round 1 — 58.2 s (→ 8th in heat, did not advance)
Men's 5000 metres
- Rafael Ángel Pérez
- Round 1 — 15:41.4 min (→ 12th in heat, did not advance)
Men's 10,000 metres
- Rafael Ángel Pérez — 32:14.6 min (→ 31st place)
Men's marathon
- Rafael Ángel Pérez — DNF (→ no ranking)
Women's high jump
- Sandra Johnson
- Qualification — DNS (→ no ranking)
Women's long jump
- Jean Robotham
- Qualification — 4.75 m (→ no ranking)
Women's pentathlon
- Jean Robotham
- 80 m hurdles — 13.4 s (→ 712 points)
- Shot put — 8.73 m (→ 615 points)
- High jump — NM (→ 0 points)
- Long jump — 4.74 m (→ 686 points)
- 100 m hurdles — 25.4 s (→ 896 points)
- Total — 2909 pts (→ 32nd place)
Boxing
Light welterweight (63.5 kg)
- José Marín
- Round 2 - Lost to Issaka Dabore of Niger
Light middleweight (71 kg)
- Walter Campos
- Round 1 - Lost to Stephen Thega of Kenya
Cycling
Five cyclists represented Costa Rica in 1968.
- Individual road race
- Miguel Sánchez — 5:20:59.18 hrs (→ 63rd place)
- José Sánchez — DNF (→ no ranking)
- José Manuel Soto — DNF (→ no ranking)
- Humberto Solano — DNF (→ no ranking)
- Team time trial
- José Sánchez, José Manuel Soto, Miguel Sánchez, Adrián Solano — 2:36:25.79 hrs (→ 27th place)
Shooting
Five shooters, all men, represented Costa Rica in 1968.
- 50 m pistol
- Antonio Mora — 499 pts (→ 67th place)
- Rodrigo Ruiz — 485 pts (→ 68th place)
- 50 m rifle, three positions
- Hugo Chamberlain — 1064 pts (→ 57th place)
- 50 m rifle, prone
- Carlos Pacheco — 587 pts (→ 52nd place)
- Hugo Chamberlain — 583 pts (→ 66th place)
- Skeet
- Carlos Pacheco — 176 pts (→ 42nd place)
- Jorge André — 75 pts (→ 51st place)
Swimming
Men's 100 metres freestyle
- Luis Aguilar
- Heats — 1:04.5 min (→ 7th in heat, did not advance)
Men's 200 metres freestyle
- Edgar Miranda
- Heats — DNS (→ no ranking)
Weightlifting
Middleweight
- Luis Fonseca
- Press — 107.5 kg
- Snatch — 97.5 kg
- Jerk — 130.0 kg
- Total — 335.0 kg (→ 17th place)
Light heavyweight
- Rodolfo Castillo
- Press — 112.5 kg
- Snatch — 105.0 kg
- Jerk — 140.0 kg
- Total — 357.5 kg (→ 21st place)
Middle heavyweight
- Fernando Esquivel
- Press — 120.0 kg
- Snatch — 105.0 kg
- Jerk — 145.0 kg
- Total — 370.0 kg (→ 23rd place)
References
- ^ "Costa Rica at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 September 2014.