Paraguay at the 2004 Summer Olympics

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.

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.<ref name=rocio-riva>Template:Cite news</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Template:Silver medal	Template:Sortname Template:Columns-list	Football	Men's tournament	Template:Dts

Athletics

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Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Diego Ferreira	100 m	10.50 NR	5	did not advance

Women

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Leryn Franco	Javelin throw	50.37	42	did not advance

Football

Men's tournament

Template:Main article 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On 4 August, before the Summer Olympics began, Paraguay measured against the Portugal of Cristiano Ronaldo in the city of Algarve, resulting in a 5–0 defeat.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Roster

{{#lst:Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads|PAR}}

Group play

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Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Gold medal match

Template:Silver02 Won silver medal

Rowing

Template:Main article Paraguayan rowers qualified the following boats:

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Daniel Sosa	Single sculls	7:52.50	5 R	7:21.03	4 SD/E	7:36.87	4 FE	7:13.49	26

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Rocio Rivarola	Single sculls	8:03.85	4 R	7:57.77	4 SC/D	8:05.92	5 FD	7:57.36	21

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

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sergio Cabrera	200 m butterfly	2:06.15	35	did not advance

See also

• Paraguay at the 2003 Pan American Games

External links

• Official Report of the XXVIII Olympiad
• Paraguay Olympic Committee Template:In lang

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