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Jamaica wrapped up with 9 medals, four of which are gold.

Adrien Lopez added to the Cuban gold count winning in the Men’s light heavyweight boxing contest. García raced the women’s 50 freestyle and placed 22nd overall with a 24.94 national record.Fernando Dayan Enriquez Jorge and Serguey Madrigal Torres also won gold in the Men’s Canoe Double 1000-m competition. At the most recent Games in 2016, Puerto Rico was represented by only 1 swimmer in the form of Vanessa García.

There, Busquets made it to the final of both the 50 and 100 freestyles, placing 8th (22.73) and 7th (49.68), respectively. The country’s best performer at the Games in recent history was Ricardo Busquets at the 1996 Games. Puerto Rico has never won a medal for swimming at the Olympic Games. Sheehan’s new PB of 55.99 would have placed 15th overall at 2019 World Juniors and would have gotten her 36th in the event at the 2019 World Championships. Sheehan on the other hand swam for Puerto Rico at the 2019 World Junior Championships in Budapest and raced to a 42nd place finish in the women’s 100 freestyle with a 57.70. He also swam the men’s 400 freestyle and placed 30th in a time of 2:00.28. At the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, Arroyo raced to 18th place overall in the 400 IM with a 4:18.94 and to 24th in the 200 IM with a 2:01.54. Puertorriqueña Natación and Sheehan both represented Puerto Rico internationally in 2019 at the World Championships and Junior World Championships, respectively. The 4:16.63 performance in the 400 IM also marked a new Puerto Rican national record for Arroyo, improving upon the previous mark of 4:16.67.Ī post shared by Fed. Those swims for Arroyo at the recent Puerto Rico International Open got him under the respective FINA B cuts of 2:03.26 and 4:21.46 while trailing the FINA A standards of 1:59.67 in the 200 and 4:15.84 in the 400. The universality rule allows up to 2 athletes (1 male, 1 female) to be invited to the Games if they have hit a FINA B standard and no swimmers in the country have hit a FINA A cut.Īrroyo, who swims under Bob Bowman at Arizona State, was invited to race the men’s 200 and 400 IM in Tokyo based on his recent swims of 2:00.61 and 4:16.63. The Puerto Rican Swimming Federation announced that Arroyo and Sheehan were officially invited to the Games based on the universality rules. Jarod Arroyo and Miriam Sheehan have been confirmed as Puerto Rico’s 2 representatives for the sport of swimming at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

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