History

Argentina made its Summer Olympic debut in 1900 and appeared at most subsequent games with the exceptions of 1904, 1912 and the United States led boycott of 1980. By sending over 100 athletes since 1996 Argentina usually has one of the largest delegations at the games. These athletes compete in a wide variety of sports, including in a diverse set of team sports that rivals even the largest and most successful nations.

Among Pan American nations Argentina is one of the most successful, winning a total of 74 medals. This was done across 17 current sports and the discontinued polo. Their first medal was won in 1924 and they continued to medal at each Olympics they participated in with the exception of 1976 and 1984. With 24 medals, boxing is their most successful sport; however, most of those medals were won during the early days of Argentina’s Olympic experience. Since 1968 the nation has only won a single medal in the sport. Sailing is a more recent successful sport where the nation won eight of its ten medals since 1996. Argentina’s has also enjoyed recent success in team sports where they medaled ten times in basketball, field hockey and football since 1996. The most successful Argentine athletes are sailor Carlos Espínola with two silvers and two bronzes (1996-2008) and field hockey player Luciana Aymar with two silvers and two bronzes (2000-2012).

Qualified Quotas

Equestrian

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Individual Jumping	Jose Maria Larocca Horse: Finn Lente

Field Hockey

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Tournament	Juan Vivaldi Pedro Ibarra Nicolas Keenan Maico Casella Matias Paredes Lucas Vila Jose Tolini Ignacio Ortiz Juan Lopez Matias Rey Lucas Martinez Nicolas Cicileo Agustin Mazzilli Federico Fernandez Agustin Bugallo Martin Ferreiro
Women’s Tournament	Belen Succi Sofia Toccalino Rosario Luchetti Agostina Alonso Giselle Kanevsky Carla Rebecchi Maria Granatto Victoria Sauze Agustina Albertarrio Victoria Granatto Eugenia Trinchinetti Micaela Retegui Silvina d’Elia Noel Barrionuevo Julieta Jankunas Valentina Costa

Handball

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Tournament	Matias Schulz Federico Fernandez Federico Pizarro Sebastian Simonet Pablo Vainstein Diego Simonet Ignacio Pizarro Pablo Simonet Santiago Baronetto Lucas Moscariello Gonzalo Carou Guillermo Fischer Leone Maciel Nicolas Bonanno

Modern Pentathlon

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Individual	Sergio Villamayor

Rugby Sevens

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Tournament	Felipe Del Mestre Luciano Gonzalez Matias Osadczuk Lautaro Bazan Velez Santiago Alvarez Francisco Ulloa Santiago Mare Tomas Vanni Gaston Revol Maximo Provenzano German Schulz Fernando Luna Franco Sabato

Sailing

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Laser	Francisco Guaragna
Women’s Laser Radial	Lucia Falasca
Men’s Finn	Facundo Olezza
Mixed Nacra 17 Foiling	Santiago Lange Cecilia Carranza Saroli

Shooting

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions	Alexis Eberhardt
Women’s 10m Air Rifle	Fernanda Russo
Women’s Skeet	Melisa Gil

Swimming

Women’s Events

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s 400m Freestyle	Delfina Pignatiello
Women’s 800m Freestyle	Delfina Pignatiello
Women’s 1500m Freestyle	Delfina Pignatiello
Women’s 200m Breaststroke	Julia Sebastian

Tennis

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s Singles	Nadia Podoroska

Volleyball

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Indoor Volleyball	Federico Pereyra Nicolas Uriarte Cristian Poglajen Facundo Conte Agustin Loser Santiago Danani Sebastian Sole Bruno Lima Ezequiel Palacios Pablo Crer Luciano De Cecco Alexis Gonzalez Nicolas Mendez Martin Ramos