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Paraguay at the 2004 Summer Olympics

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IOC code
  
PAR

Flag bearer
  
Rocio Rivarola

Competitors
  
23 in 4 sports

Paraguay at the 2004 Summer Olympics

NOC
  
Comité Olímpico Paraguayo

Website
  
www.cop.org.py (Spanish)

Medals Ranked 65th
  
Gold Silver Bronze Total 0 1 0 1

Paraguay competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. This was the nation's ninth appearance at the Olympics, except the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of its partial support to the United States boycott.

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Comité Olímpico Paraguayo sent the nation's largest delegation to the Games since the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona due to the presence of the men's football team. A total of 23 athletes, 21 men and 2 women, competed only in athletics, football, rowing, and swimming. The Paraguayan team featured two notable female athletes: javelin thrower Leryn Franco, who aspired to be one of the most beautiful women to compete at the Olympics because of her professional career as a model and beauty contestant, and single sculls rower Rocio Rivarola, aged seventeen, who later became the nation's first ever female flag bearer in the opening ceremony.

Paraguay left Athens with its first Olympic silver medal from the men's football team, following its defeat against Argentina with a score of 0–1 in the final match of the tournament.

Athletics

Paraguayan athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at the 'A' Standard, and 1 at the 'B' Standard).

Key
  • Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
  • Q = Qualified for the next round
  • q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
  • NR = National record
  • N/A = Round not applicable for the event
  • Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round
    • Men
    Track & road events
    Women
    Field events

    Men's tournament

    Paraguay national football team faced a stiff test in order to qualify for the Athens Games, getting two goals in the last ten minutes to beat Chile, and edging Brazil to qualify out of South America, along with Argentina.

    Roster

    The following is the Paraguayan squad in the men's football tournament of the 2004 Summer Olympics. ‹See Tfd›

    Head coach: Carlos Jara Saguier

    * Over-aged player.

    Group play
    Quarterfinals
    Semifinals
    Gold medal match
    02 ! Won silver medal

    Rowing

    Paraguayan rowers qualified the following boats:

    Men
    Women

    Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; R=Repechage

    Swimming

    Men

    References

    Paraguay at the 2004 Summer Olympics Wikipedia
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