page_title: Puerto Rico at the 2016 Summer Olympics
section_title: Medalists
hierarchical_section_title: Puerto Rico at the 2016 Summer Olympics / Medalists
caption_attribution_description: English: Mónica Puig, 2016
context_page_description: Puerto Rico competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's eighteenth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics.
  The Puerto Rico Olympic Committee sent a team of 40 athletes, 13 men and 27 women, to compete in 15 sports at the Games. The nation's full roster in Rio de Janeiro was 15 athletes larger than those who attended the London Games four years earlier, and also featured more female participants than men for the first time. Puerto Rican athletes made their Olympic debut in table tennis, triathlon, and women's indoor volleyball. Puerto Rico was also represented for the first time in taekwondo after 8 years, diving, equestrian, and tennis after 12 years, and road cycling after 20 years.
  Of the 40 participants, twenty-nine of them made their Olympic debut in Rio de Janeiro, including table tennis players Brian Afanador and 15-year-old Adriana Diaz, tennis player Monica Puig, and New York-based taekwondo fighter Crystal Weekes.
caption: Tennis player Monica Puig won Puerto Rico's first ever Olympic gold medal.
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