Costa Rica at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Costa Rica at the 1988 Summer Olympics
IOC code	CRC
NOC	Comité Olímpico de Costa Rica
Website	www.concrc.org (Spanish)
in Seoul
Competitors	15 in 5 sports
Medals Ranked 36th	Gold Silver Bronze Total 0 1 0 1
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Costa Rica competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea. Silvia Poll won the nation's first ever Olympic medal.

Medalists

Silver

• Silvia Poll — Swimming, Women's 200 metre Freestyle

Results and competitors by event

Athletics

Men's Marathon

• Ronald Lanzoni — 2:23.45 (→ 40th place)
• Juan Amores — 2:24.49 (→ 45th place)
• Luis López — 2:32.43 (→ 68th place)

Boxing

• Humberto Aranda

Judo

• Henry Núñez Nájera

Swimming

Men's 100m Backstroke

• Horst Niehaus
  1. Heat – 1:01.91 (→ did not advance, 42nd place)
• Eric Greenwood
  1. Heat – 1:03.11 (→ did not advance, 45th place)

Men's 200m Backstroke

• Horst Niehaus
  1. Heat – 2:12.83 (→ did not advance, 34th place)
• Eric Greenwood
  1. Heat – 2:15.42 (→ did not advance, 35th place)

Men's 200m Individual Medley

• Eric Greenwood
  1. Heat – 2:15.64 (→ did not advance, 43rd place)
• Horst Niehaus
  1. Heat – 2:16.16 (→ did not advance, 44th place)

Women's 50m Freestyle

• Carolina Mauri
  1. Heat – 27.96 (→ did not advance, 33rd place)

Women's 100m Freestyle

• Silvia Poll
  1. Heat – 56.16
  2. Final – 55.90 (→ 5th place)
• Carolina Mauri
  1. Heat – 1:00.14 (→ did not advance, 41st place)

Women's 200m Freestyle

• Silvia Poll
  1. Heat – 1:59.22
  2. Final – 1:58.67 (→ Silver Medal)
• Natasha Aguilar
  1. Heat – 2:10.22 (→ did not advance, 34th place)

Women's 100m Backstroke

• Silvia Poll
  1. Heat – 1:03.21
  2. Final – 1:03.34 (→ 6th place)

Women's 100m Breaststroke

• Sigrid Niehaus
  1. Heat – 1:16.65 (→ did not advance, 35th place)
• Montserrat Hidalgo
  1. Heat – 1:18.42 (→ did not advance, 36th place)

Women's 200m Breaststroke

• Montserrat Hidalgo
  1. Heat – 2:44.72 (→ did not advance, 37th place)
• Sigrid Niehaus
  1. Heat – 2:45.35 (→ did not advance, 38th place)

Women's 100m Butterfly

• Marcela Cuesta
  1. Heat – 1:07.66 (→ did not advance, 33rd place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

• Natasha Aguilar, Marcela Cuesta, Carolina Mauri, and Silvia Poll
  1. Heat – 3:59.67 (→ did not advance, 12th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

• Silvia Poll, Sigrid Niehaus, Marcela Cuesta, and Carolina Mauri
  1. Heat – 4:31.75 (→ did not advance, 15th place)

Weightlifting

• Rafael Elizondo

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database