Medellín, Colombia – The 2024 Paris Olympic games have come to an end with a spectacular closing ceremony at the Stade de France stadium, marking the finale of the return of the competition to the City of Lights for the first time in 100 years. The night also welcomed the upcoming Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.
During the final week, Latin American delegations continued winning medals and getting unprecedented results for their countries. At the final medal table, Brazil led the region with 20 medals, followed by Cuba with nine and Ecuador with five.
Latin America Reports has summarized the main triumphs for the region in the Paris 2024 Olympics every week. The information has been compiled directly from the Olympics’ official website.
Argentina
With three medals, one of each, Argentina was ranked 52 in the final medal table. Mateo Majdalani and Eugenia Bosco won the silver medal in the Mixed Multihull Sailing discipline on August 8, and the country’s Women’s Hockey team won the bronze in their match against Belgium, on August 9.
Brazil
Brazil led the region at the final medal table, ranked 20th with three gold, seven silver, and 10 bronze medals.
Tatiana Weston-Webb won silver in Women’s Surfing on August 6, scoring just 17 points less than Team USA’s Caroline Marks. On the same day, the country’s women’s volleyball team beat the Dominican Republic 3-0 at the quarterfinals.
The country’s women’s soccer team won 4-2 in their match against Spain, beating the current world champions in the semi-finals. The Canarihnas would end up scoring silver, coming in second at the final against Team USA, with a score of 1-0.
Augusto Akio took the bronze medal in Men’s Park skateboarding, making it the fifth medal that the country has won in the sport at the Olympics. In the Men’s C1 1000m Canoe Sprint discipline, Brazil won silver with Isaquias Queiroz, making him the second most-awarded Brazilian Olympic athlete after gymnast Rebeca Andrade.
Ana Patricia Silva Ramos and Eduarda Santos Lisboa beat Latvia in the quarterfinal beach volleyball match. The duo went on to win 2-1 against Australia in the semifinals, and scored gold after beating Canada’s team, 2-1, on August 9. All three of the country’s gold medals at the Paris Olympic games were won by women.
And while the women’s volleyball team reached the semifinals, they lost 2-3 against Team USA on August 8. However, they took home the bronze when they won against Turkey 3-1 on August 10.
Alison dos Santos won bronze in the Men’s 400m Hurdles Athletics final, coming in after Team USA’s Rai Benjamin and Norway’s Karsten Warholm. And finally, Edival Pontes won bronze in the Taekwondo Men’s Featherweight 58-68 kg discipline.
Chile
Chile shined in canoeing. María Mailliard and Paola Gómez came in fourth on August 9 at the Women’s C-2 500m Canoe Sprint final. Mailliard also came in fourth in the Women’s C-1 200m Canoe Sprint, with a time of 46.77, and then went on to compete in the semifinal, in which she scored sixth. Similarly, Karen Roco came second in the Women’s C-1 200m Canoe Sprint, 31 seconds from qualifying to the semifinals.
Through Yasmani Acosta, however, the country took the silver home. In the Men’s Greco-Roman 130 kg Wrestling discipline, the Chilean came in second just under Cuba’s legendary Mijaín López.
Chile was ranked 55 in the final medal table, with one gold and one silver.
Colombia
Colombia was ranked 66 in the final medal table, with three silver and one bronze medal.
Yeison López scored the country’s second silver medal in the Men’s 89 kg Weightlifting discipline on August 9. Later on the same day, Mari Leivis Sánchez also won silver in Women’s 71 kg Weightlifting, coming on top of Ecuador’s Angie Paola Palacios Dajomes, but just under Team USA’s Olivia Reeves.
And finally, Tatiana Rentería won the bronze medal in the Women’s 76 kg Wrestling Freestyle discipline, beating Ecuador’s Génesis Reasco with a score of 2-1.
Cuba
The country made history on August 6, with Mijaín López Núñez’ fifth gold medal in the Men’s Greco-Roman 130 kg final. The athlete is now the only Olympian with five consecutive gold medals. López Núñez won gold in Beijing, London, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Paris. In the same discipline, Luis Alberto Orta won bronze in the 68 kg category, as did Gabriel Rosillo in the 97 kg.
Erislandy Álvarez Borges also won the gold medal in the Men’s 63.5 kg boxing discipline on August 7, beating France’s Sofiane Oumiha. Similarly, Arlen López took home the bronze in the Men’s 80 kg boxing.
The country also shined in Freestyle Wrestling, taking home the silver in Women’s 50 kg with Yusneylis Guzmán López, and the bronze in the Women’s 76 kg with Milaimys Marín.
In the Women’s C1 200m Canoe Sprint, Yarisleidis Cirilo Duboys won bronze, as did Rafael Alba Castillo in the Men’s Heavyweight +80 kg Taekwondo.
Cuba was ranked 31 in the final medal table, with two gold, one silver, and six bronze medals.
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic was ranked 59 at the final medal table, with one gold and two bronze medals.
Marileidy Paulino scored the country’s gold in the Women’s 400m Athletics discipline, and the country shined in boxing with Yunior Alcantara Reyes’ bronze-earning performance in the Men’s 51 kg discipline, as well as Cristian Pinales’ in the Men’s 80 kg.
Ecuador
The country scored 49 in the final medal table, with one gold, two silver, and two bronze medals.
Athletes Brian Daniel Pintado and Glenda Morejón won silver in the Mixed Marathon Race Walk Relayed discipline on August 7.
Angie Paola Palacios Dajomes won the bronze in the Women’s 71 kg Weightlifting discipline, behind Team USA’s gold and Colombian Meri Leivis Sánchez’s silver. The country also scored bronze with Neisi Patricia Dajomes Barrera in Women’s 81 kg Weightlifting on August 10.
Finally, Ecuador’s Lucía Yepez Guzmán scored silver in the Women’s 53 kg Freestyle Wrestling discipline.
Mexico
Mexico’s Osmar Olvera won bronze in the Men’s 3m Springboard Diving discipline on August 8, only behind China’s Siyi Xie and Zongyuan Wang. The diver had also previously won silver with teammate Juan Celaya in the Men’s 3m Springboard Synchro discipline.
The country also won silver with Marco Alonso Verde Álvarez in the Men’s 71-kg Boxing final on August 9, as well as with Prisca Awiti in the Women’s 63 kg Judo discipline. Finally, the Women’s Recurve Archery team won bronze.
The country was ranked 65 in the final medal table, with three silver and two bronze medals.
Panama
Panama’s Atheyna Bylon won the country’s sole medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics by scoring silver in the Women’s Middleweight Boxing final on August 10. The country was ranked 74 in the final medal table.
Peru
On August 7, Stefano Pescheira won bronze in the Men’s Dinghy sailing discipline, the first Olympic medal for Peru in 32 years. Similarly, Kimberly García and César Rodríguez came in fourth place in the Mixed Marathon Walk Relay, only 18 milliseconds behind Australia’s bronze.
Read more: Stefano Peschiera wins bronze at Paris 2024, ending Peru’s 32-Year Olympic Medal drought
Other Countries
Costa Rican Gerald Drummond came in seventh in the Men’s 400m Hurdles Athletics semifinal, with a time of 49.68, and Haitian Emelia Chatfield came in sixth at the Women’s 100m Hurdles Athletics repechage round.
For Team Uruguay, Matías Valentín Otero Ezcurra placed sixth in the Men’s K-1 1000m Canoe Sprint, with a time of 3:30.48, and ninth at the semifinals.
Venezuela’s Naryury Pérez placed eighth in the Women’s +81 kg Weightlifting final, lifting 259 kg. The country was also placed fourth in Women’s 59 kg Weightlifting, with representation from athlete Anyelin Venegas, and third in the Men’s 800m Athletics repechage round with José Maita.
And for the first time in history, the équipe olympique des réfugiés (EOR), the Olympic Refugee Team, won a medal with Cindy Djaneku Ngamba’s bronze in the Women’s 75 kg Boxing discipline.
