El Salvador at the 2023 Pan American Games

El Salvador at the 2023 Pan American Games
IOC code	ESA
NOC	El Salvador Olympic Committee
in Santiago 20 October 2023 (2023-10-20) – 5 November 2023 (2023-11-05)
Competitors	81 in 23 sports
Flag bearer (opening)	Amado de Jesús Alvarado & Sindy Portillo
Flag bearer (closing)	Roberto Hernández & Ivonne Nochez
Medals Ranked =19th	Gold 1 Silver 1 Bronze 2 Total 4
Pan American Games appearances (overview)
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El Salvador competed at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile from October 20 to November 5, 2023. This was El Salvador's 19th appearance at the Pan American Games, having competed at every edition of the games.

On 5 October 2023, the El Salvador Olympic Committee officially named the team of 80 athletes (35 men and 45 women) competing in 23 sports (e-sports total of 1 is not included).[1]

Surfers Amado de Jesús Alvarado and Sindy Portillo were the country's flagbearers during the opening ceremony.[2] Meanwhile, archer Roberto Hernández and roller speed skater Ivonne Nochez were the country's flagbearers during the closing ceremony.

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors (per gender) participating at the games per sport/discipline.[1]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Archery	3	3	6
Artistic swimming	0	9	9
Athletics	1	1	2
Badminton	3	3	6
Basketball	4	4	8
Bowling	0	2	2
Boxing	1	0	1
Equestrian	1	0	1
Gymnastics	1	1	2
Judo	2	0	2
Karate	1	1	2
Roller sports	1	1	2
Rowing	1	1	2
Sailing	1	1	2
Shooting	5	4	9
Surfing	1	2	3
Swimming	5	6	11
Table tennis	1	1	2
Taekwondo	0	1	1
Tennis	0	1	1
Volleyball	2	2	4
Weightlifting	1	1	2
Wrestling	0	1	1
Total	35	46	81

Medalists

Further information: 2023 Pan American Games medal table

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

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Roberto Hernández Douglas Nolasco	Archery	Men's team compound	November 4
Silver	Ivonne Nóchez	Roller sport	Women's 200 metres time-trial	November 4
Bronze	Jorge Merino	Karate	Men's 84 kg	October 23
Bronze	Uriel Canjura	Badminton	Men's singles	October 24

Archery

Main articles: Archery at the 2023 Pan American Games and Archery at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

El Salvador qualified four archers during the 2022 Pan American Archery Championships.[3] El Salvador also qualified two archers during the 2023 Copa Merengue.[4][5][6]

Men

Athlete	Event	Ranking Round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Oscar Guillén	Individual recurve
Douglas Nolasco	Individual compound
Roberto Hernández
Douglas Nolasco Roberto Hernández	Team compound			—

Women

Athlete	Event	Ranking Round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Marcela Cortez	Individual recurve
Paola Corado	Individual compound
Sofía Paiz
Paola Corado Sofía Paiz	Team compound			—

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Ranking Round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Oscar Guillén Marcela Cortez	Team recurve			—
	Team compound			—

Artistic swimming

Main articles: Artistic swimming at the 2023 Pan American Games and Artistic swimming at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

El Salvador qualified a full team of nine artistic swimmers after finishing third in the 2022 Central American and Caribbean Games.[7]

Athlete	Event	Technical Routine		Free Routine (Final)
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total Points	Rank
Cesia Castaneda Grecia Mendoza	Women's duet
Andrea Mercado Brigitte Guadrón Cesia Castaneda Daira Sánchez Gabriela Magaña Gabriela Mercado Gabriela Moran Grecia Mendoza María Argueta	Women's team

Athletics

Main articles: Athletics at the 2023 Pan American Games and Athletics at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

El Salvador qualified two athletes (one per gender).

Men

• Pablo Ibáñez

Women

• Nancy Sandoval

Badminton

Main articles: Badminton at the 2023 Pan American Games and Badminton at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

El Salvador qualified a team of six athletes (three men and three women).[8][9]

Men

Athlete	Event	First round	Second round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Uriel Canjura	Singles	Job Castillo (MEX)
Manuel Mejía		Yonatan Linarez (DOM)
Javier Alas		Nicolas Oliva (ARG)
Javier Alas Manuel Mejía	Men's doubles	Vinson Chiu (USA)  Joshua Yuan (USA)	—

Women

Athlete	Event	First round	Second round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Daniela Hernández	Singles	Bye	Chequeda De Boulet (TRI)
Fátima Centeno		Bye	Haramara Gaitan (MEX)
Gabriela Barrios		Ailen Oliva (ARG)
Fátima Centeno Daniela Hernández	Women's doubles	Ines Castillo Salazar (PER)  Paula La Torre Regal (PER)	—

Mixed

Athlete	Event	First round	Second round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Manuel Mejia Gabriela Barrios	Mixed doubles	Henry Huebla Leon (ECU)  Maria Delia Zambrano (ECU)
Javier Armando Alas Fátima Centeno		Jose Guevara (PER)  Ines Castillo Salazar (PER)

Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 2023 Pan American Games

3x3

Summary

Team	Event	Preliminary round						Semifinal	Final / BM / Pl.
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
El Salvador men	Men's tournament
El Salvador women	Women's tournament

Men's tournament

Main article: Basketball at the 2023 Pan American Games – Men's 3x3 tournament

El Salvador qualified a men's team (of 4 athletes) by finishing as one of the six best non qualified teams in the FIBA 3x3 Rankings.^[citation needed]

Roster

• Emilio Abullarade
• Kevin Campos
• Pablo Figueroa
• William Merino

Women's tournament

Main article: Basketball at the 2023 Pan American Games – Women's 3x3 tournament

El Salvador qualified a women's team (of 4 athletes) by finishing as one of the six best non qualified teams in the FIBA 3x3 Rankings.^[citation needed]

Roster

• Adriana Rivas
• Camila Lima
• Laura Rivas
• Paola Campos

Bowling

Main articles: Bowling at the 2023 Pan American Games and Bowling at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

El Salvador qualified a team of two women through the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, El Salvador.

Athlete	Event	Qualification / Final																Round robin											Semifinal	Final / BM
		Block 1							Block 2							Total	Rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Grand total	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Eugenia Quintanilla	Women's singles
Roxana Fajardo
Eugenia Quintanilla Roxana Fajardo	Women's doubles																	—

Boxing

Main articles: Boxing at the 2023 Pan American Games and Boxing at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

El Salvador qualified one male boxer.[10]

Men

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Samuel Contreras	–63.5 kg

Equestrian

Main articles: Equestrian at the 2023 Pan American Games and Equestrian at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

El Salvador qualified one individual rider in Show-Jumping.^[citation needed]

Show Jumping

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification								Final
			Round 1		Round 2		Round 3		Total		Round A		Round B		Total
			Faults	Rank	Faults	Rank	Faults	Rank	Faults	Rank	Faults	Rank	Faults	Rank	Faults	Rank
Juan Manuel Bolanos Barrios	Zilouet Mystic Rose	Individual

Gymnastics

Main articles: Gymnastics at the 2023 Pan American Games and Gymnastics at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

Artistic

El Salvador qualified two gymnasts in artistic (one man and one woman) at the 2023 Pan American Championships.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Total	Rank
		F	PH	R	V	PB	HB
Pablo Velásquez	Individual all-around

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualified to apparatus final

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Total	Rank
		V	UB	BB	F
Alexa Grande	Individual all-around

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualified to apparatus final

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2023 Pan American Games

El Salvador qualified two male judokas.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Jairo Moreno	−60 kg
Gustavo López	−81 kg

Karate

Main articles: Karate at the 2023 Pan American Games and Karate at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

El Salvador qualified a team of 2 karatekas (one man and one woman) at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Championship.[11]

Kumite

Athlete	Event	Round robin				Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Jorge Merino	Men's −84 kg
Gabriella Izaguirre	Women's −50 kg

Roller sports

Main articles: Roller sports at the 2023 Pan American Games and Roller sports at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

El Salvador qualified two athletes (one per gender).

Speed

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Marvin Gómez	Men's 200 m time trial
	Men's 1000 m sprint
Ivonne Nóchez	Women's 200 m time trial
	Women's 500 m + distance
	Women's 1000 m sprint

Rowing

Main articles: Rowing at the 2023 Pan American Games and Rowing at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

El Salvador qualified a team of 2 athletes (one per gender).[12][13]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Repechage		Semifinal		Final A/B
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Roberto López	Men's Single sculls
Adriana Escobar	Women's Single sculls

Sailing

Main articles: Sailing at the 2023 Pan American Games and Sailing at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

El Salvador qualified 2 boats for a total of 2 sailors.[14]

Athlete	Event	Race													Total
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	M	Points	Rank
Enrique Arathoon	Laser											—
Darling Alfaro	Laser radial											—

Shooting

Main articles: Shooting at the 2023 Pan American Games and Shooting at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

El Salvador qualified a total of nine shooters (five men and four women).[15][16][17][18]

Men

• Diego Santamaría
• Israel Gutiérrez
• Jorge Muñoz
• Jorge Pimentel
• José Gutiérrez

Women

• Frida Sibrian
• Johanna Pineda
• Milena Morales
• Ana Ramírez

Surfing

Main articles: Surfing at the 2023 Pan American Games and Surfing at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

El Salvador qualified three surfers (one man and two women).[19]

Artistic

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Repechage 4	Repechage 5	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Josselyn Alabí	Women's stand up paddleboard
Amado Alvarado	Men's Longboard
Sindy Portillo	Women's Longboard

Swimming

Main articles: Swimming at the 2023 Pan American Games and Swimming at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

El Salvador qualified 11 athletes (five men and six women).

Men

• Diego Alvarado
• Elías Segovia
• Nixon Hernández
• José Campo
• Xavier Ventura

Women

• Celina Márquez
• Elisa Funes
• Fátima Portillo
• Isabella Alas
• Marina Espadoni
• Ariana Valle

Table tennis

Main articles: Table tennis at the 2023 Pan American Games and Table tennis at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

El Salvador qualified two table tennis players (one per gender) after receiving an invitation from ITTF America.[20][21]

Athlete	Event	Group stage				First round	Second round	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Diego Orantes	Men's singles	—
Gabriela Suárez	Women's singles	—
Diego Orantes Gabriela Suárez	Mixed doubles	—

Taekwondo

Main articles: Taekwondo at the 2023 Pan American Games and Taekwondo at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

El Salvador qualified one female athlete during the Pan American Games Qualification Tournament.[22]

Kyorugi

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Alisson Montaño	–57 kg

Tennis

Main articles: Tennis at the 2023 Pan American Games and Tennis at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

El Salvador qualified a female tennis player.

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Valentina Cruz	Singles

Volleyball

Beach

Main article: Beach volleyball at the 2023 Pan American Games

El Salvador qualified a men's and women's pair for a total of four athletes.^[citation needed]

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Armando Guatemala Frankin Flores	Men's					Bye
Laura Molina Nadia Soler	Women's					Bye

Weightlifting

Main articles: Weightlifting at the 2023 Pan American Games and Weightlifting at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

El Salvador qualified two weightlifters (one per gender).[23]

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Ramón Cruz
Victoria Grenni

Wrestling

Main articles: Wrestling at the 2023 Pan American Games and Wrestling at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

El Salvador qualified a female wrestler after receiving a wild card.

Key:

• VT – Victory by fall.
• PP – Decision by points – the loser with technical points.
• PO – Decision by points – the loser without technical points.
• SP – Technical superiority – the loser with technical points and a margin of victory of at least 9 (Greco-Roman) or 10 (freestyle) points.
• ST – Great superiority – the loser without technical points and a margin of victory of at least 8 (Greco-Roman) or 10 (freestyle) points.
• VA – Decision by withdrawal

Women

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Jacqueline Hernández	57 kg

Demonstration Sports

E-sports

Main article: Esports at the 2023 Pan American Games

El Salvador qualified a male athlete.

Men

• Obed Henríquez

See also

• El Salvador at the 2023 Parapan American Games
• El Salvador at the 2024 Summer Olympics

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