Road to London 2012!
La Havana 1930
Do you know- By 1930, the team from Honduras captured the bronze medal -just after Cuba (gold) and Costa Rica (silver)-- in Males's football at the Second Central American and Caribbean Video games in Havana, Cuba. Understandably, soccer is the most well-liked sport in Honduras.
Mexico City 1975
Do you realize- By October 1975,the Republic of Honduras sent a crew of 14 athletes, led by its young athlete Santiago Fonseca, towards the United Mexican States, residence on the VII Pan American Video games. This Spanish-speaking country competed in athletics ( 4), boxing (four), cycling (5), and shooting (one). Curiously Tegucigalpa -as Belize, Bolivia, and Paraguay-did not mail sportswomen to Mexico Metropolis. Conversely, the nationwide delegation, Once more, didn't get Pan American medals. Even so, the top athlete was Santiago Fonseca, the "star in the Honduran Olympic workforce", who finished sixth during the Guys's twenty-kilometer wander ( within a time of 1.44.10,64), forward of Ernesto Alfaro (Colombia, South American champ) and José Valle (Nicaragua). Ahead of 1975, Honduran athletes had finished final position inside the Pan American Online games.
Puerto Rico 1979
Were you aware- By 1979, the Honduran Olympic Committee experienced despatched Santiago Fonseca, a racewalker, to the Pan American Games in Puerto Rico. For the duration of that celebration, he arrived in fourth position during the Adult males's twenty-kilometer stroll. Even so, Fonseca's notable efficiency was interrupted when he could not drop by Moscow, dwelling to your Summertime Olympics in July and August 1980. In Tegucigalpa, the nation's funds, Mr Fonseca utilised his image for a national champ to boost awareness about the probable of Activity to help you teenagers.
Moscow 1980
Do you realize- Because of the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan, like several types of pupusas anti-Communist nations, Honduras declined to send out an countrywide delegation towards the 1980 Summertime Olympic Game titles in Moscow, USSR (existing-working day Russia). The choice was A further blow to Activity in Honduras, with one of the worst Olympic methods inside the Western Hemisphere.
Havana 1982
Are you aware- Resulting from its anti-Soviet coverage, Honduras, as well as El Salvador and Colombia, boycotted the XIV Central American and Caribbean Video games in Havana, Cuba, inside the early 80s. At the moment, Tegucigalpa had not diplomatic ties with Cuba and also other Communist states.
Seoul 1988
Do you know- The country's swimmer Ana Fortin came in 33rd position from the Females's a hundred-meter backstroke with the 1988 Summer Online games, between Chi Wang (Taiwan) and Tricia Duncan (US Virgin Islands).
Mar del Plata 1995
Do you realize- The Latin American nation gained its first Pan American medal while in the Continental Game titles in Mar del Plata, Argentina, within the mid-1990s.
Atlanta 1996
Do you realize- In 1996, Darwin Angeles, a boxer, was the flag-bearer with the country's Olympic delegation inside the Video games with the XXVI Olympiad in Atlanta (Georgia, U.S.).