Latin America & Canada at the Olympics

[peanut]

With the Pan Am qualification tournament over, here are the Latin American countries and territories -- plus Canada -- that have qualified wrestlers for the Olympics, and the number of wrestlers who have qualified:

• Canada- 5 (2 MFS) (3 WFS)
• Chile- 2 (2 GR)
• Colombia- 4 (2 GR) (2 WFS)
• Cuba- 10 (3 MFS) (5 GR) (2 WFS)
• Dominican Republic- 1 (1 MFS)
• Ecuador- 4 (1 GR) (3 WFS)
• Honduras- 1 (1 GR)
• Mexico- 2 (2 MFS)
• Puerto Rico- 4 (4 MFS)
• Venezuela- 4 (1 MFS) (1 GR) (2 WFS)

A few highlights:

• Puerto Rico has qualified more men's freestylers than the other countries with 4, followed by Cuba with 3. (The US has qualified 4 as well.)
• Cuba has qualified the most in Greco with 5. Chile and Colombia did well to send 2 in Greco each. (The US has qualified 3.)
• Canada and Ecuador have qualified the most in women's freestyle, with 3 each. Venezuela, Cuba, and Colombia have each qualified 2 women's freestylers for the Olympics. Pretty cool to see these countries developing women's freestyle. (The US has qualified 6.)

If NCAA women's wrestling takes off, I wonder if we'll start seeing Latin American athletes compete for colleges here. Language could be a barrier, but many Latin Americans learn English in school and hear it in music and on TV. So who knows?

[wrestle87]

This is an awesome trend overall, and hopefully will lead to more total allocations going to the Pan Am tournament.  

[SocraTease]

Who are the 4 from P.R.?  Cruz and Rivera and ?

[wrestle87]

41 minutes ago, SocraTease said:

Who are the 4 from P.R.?  Cruz and Rivera and ?

I would assume Franklin Gomez and.....Ramos?

[peanut]

6 hours ago, SocraTease said:

Who are the 4 from P.R.?  Cruz and Rivera and ?

Cruz and Rivera plus Ethan Ramos (86kg) and Jonovan Smith (125kg).

[AgaveMaria]

Canada does more than Hockey & curling?

[FanOfPurdueWrestling]

On 3/2/2024 at 6:38 AM, peanut said:

Cruz and Rivera plus Ethan Ramos (86kg) and Jonovan Smith (125kg).

4/4 qualifiers from Puerto Rico are from America? 

[peanut]

3 hours ago, FanOfPurdueWrestling said:

4/4 qualifiers from Puerto Rico are from America? 

Seems so.

The US is actually cleaning up with 12 MFS qualifiers so far: Micic, RBY, Cruz, Rivera, Gomez, Dake, Taylor, Amine, Ramos, Snyder, Parris, and Smith. (Canada gets credit for Dhesi.)

Of course, only four of those 12 MFS qualifiers will be repping the US.