Peru at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Peru at the
2012 Summer Olympics
IOC codePER
NOCPeruvian Olympic Committee
Websitewww.coperu.org (in Spanish)
in London
Competitors16 in 9 sports
Flag bearers Gladys Tejeda (opening)[1]
Inés Melchor (closing)
Medals
Ranked 80th
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
0
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)

Peru competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's seventeenth appearance at the Olympics, having only missed the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

The Comité Olímpico Peruano sent a total of 16 athletes, 9 men and 7 women, to compete in 9 sports, tying its record with Barcelona in 1992. Three athletes had competed in Beijing, including taekwondo jin Peter López, who narrowly missed out on a medal in Beijing in the bronze medal match. Marathon runner Gladys Tejeda, who competed at her first Olympics, became the nation's first female flag bearer at the opening ceremony since 2000. Peru, however, failed to win a single Olympic medal, continuing a drought that began at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where Juan Giha won the silver for skeet shooting.

  1. ^ Staff (16 July 2012). "Atleta Gladys Tejeda será la abanderada de Perú en Londres 2012" [Athlete Gladys Tejeda will be Peru's flag bearer in London 2012] (in Spanish). RPP Noticias. Retrieved 16 July 2012.

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