Argentina at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Argentina competed in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan from 24 August to 5 September 2021.

Argentina at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	ARG
NPC	Argentine Paralympic Committee
in Tokyo, Japan August 24, 2021 (2021-08-24) – September 5, 2021 (2021-09-05)
Competitors	55 in 11 sports
Medals Ranked 63rd	Gold 0 Silver 5 Bronze 4 Total 9
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Medalists

Main article: 2020 Summer Paralympics medal table

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Silver	Pipo Carlomagno	Swimming	Men's 100 metre backstroke S7	30 August
Silver	Brian Lionel Impellizzeri	Athletics	Men's long jump T37	2 September
Silver	Hernán Emanuel Urra	Athletics	Men's shot put F35	2 September
Silver	Matías de Andrade	Swimming	Men's 100 metre backstroke S6	3 September
Silver	Argentina men's national football 5-a-side team Darío Lencina Ángel Deldo Carcia Federico Accardi Froilán Padilla Maximiliano Espinillo Marcelo Panizza Brian Pereyra Nicolás Véliz Germán Muleck Nahuel Heredia	Football 5-a-side	Men's tournament	September 4
Bronze	Antonella Ruiz Diaz	Athletics	Women's shot put F41	27 August
Bronze	Yanina Martínez	Athletics	Women's 200 metres T36	29 August
Bronze	Juan Samorano	Taekwondo	Men's 75 kg	3 September
Bronze	Alexis Sebastian Chavez	Athletics	Men's 100 metres T36	4 September

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games:

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Athletics	6	6	12
Boccia	3	2	5
Cycling	2	1	3
Football 5-a-side	8	0	8
Judo	2	1	3
Paracanoe	2	0	2
Rowing	0	1	1
Swimming	6	4	10
Table tennis	3	2	5
Taekwondo	1	0	1
Wheelchair tennis	3	1	4
Total	37	18	55

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Hernan Emanuel Urra and Yanina Martínez are among the athletes to represent Argentina at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

Men's track

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Hernan Barreto	100m T35	—	12.59	6
	200m T35	—	26.07	5
Alexis Sebastian Chavez	100m T36	11.91	3 Q	12.02
	400m T36	—	55.14	4
Brian Lionel Impellizzeri	100m T37	12.56	11	Did not advance
Gabriel Immanuel Sosa	100m T54	15.08	16	Did not advance

Men's field

Athlete	Event	Final
		Result	Rank
Brian Lionel Impellizzeri	Long jump T37	6.44
Pablo Damian Gimenez Reinoso	Shot put F57	12.17	8
	Javelin throw F57	34.25	9
Hernan Emanuel Urra	Shot put F35	15.90

Women's track

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Aldana Isabel Ibanez	100m T47	13.78	16	Did not advance
Yanina Andrea Martinez	100m T36	14.60	4 Q	14.65	4
	200m T36	30.97	3 Q	30.96

Women's field

Athlete	Event	Final
		Result	Rank
Mahira Daniela Bergallo Brzezicki	Shot put F35	7.76	7
Marilu Romina Fernandez	Shot put F32	4.41	7
	Club throw F32	19.71	5
Isabel Aldana Ibanez	Long jump T47	4.86	10
Florencia Belen Romero	Shot put F12	8.23	11
	Discus throw F11	29.07	9
Antonella Ruiz Diaz	Shot put F41	9.50
	Discus throw F41	21.42	9

Boccia

Main article: Boccia at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Argentina get in BC1, BC2 & Individual BC3 events.^[1]

Athlete	Event	Pool matches					Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Mauricio Ibarbure	Mixed individual BC1	Nakamura (JPN) L 5–8	Smith (GBR) L 3–4	Qi (CHN) L 1–5	Sanchez (MEX) W 5–4	5	Did not advance
Jonathan Aquino	Mixed individual BC2	Kozmin (RPC) L 2–3	Yan (CHN) W 6–0	Lan (CHN) L 3–4	N/A	3	Did not advance
Luis Cristaldo		Tagart (GBR) W 5–2	Santos (BRA) L 1–6	Lee (KOR) W 6–0	N/A	2	Did not advance
Stefania Ferrando	Mixed individual BC3	Cotie (AUS) L 1–4	McCowan (GBR) L 1–6	McCowan (GBR) W 2*–2	N/A	3	Did not advance
Jonathan Aquino Luis Cristaldo Ailen Flores Mauricio Ibarbure	Mixed team BC1/BC2	Thailand (THA) L 2–11	RPC (RPC) L 7–7*	China (CHN) L 1–8	Great Britain L 4–6	5	Did not advance

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Argentina sent one male cyclist after successfully getting a slot in the 2018 UCI Nations Ranking Allocation quota for the Americas.^[2][3][4]

Road

Men's road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Maximiliano Ramon Gomez	Road race B	-1 LAP	6
	Time trial B	46:59.35	5
Rodrigo Fernando Lopez	Road race C1–3	-2 LAP	36
	Time trial C1	30:01.61	9

Women's road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Mariela Delgado	Road race C4–5	2:31:14	7
	Time trial C5	43:19.82	7

Track

Men's track

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Rank
Maximiliano Ramon Gomez	Individual pursuit B	4:27.874	8	Did not advance
	Time trial B	—	1:05.178	7
Rodrigo Fernando Lopez	Individual pursuit C1	4:17.864	9	Did not advance
	Time trial C1–3	—	1:17.192	17

Women's track

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Rank
Mariela Delgado	Individual pursuit C5	4:07.960	7	Did not advance
	Time trial C4–5	—	38.892	9

Football 5-a-side

Main article: Football 5-a-side at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Argentina secured a qualification slot in the 2019 Americas Regional Championships after being defeated by Brazil who are already qualified by winning at the 2018 IBSA World Blind Football Championship.^[5] The following is the Argentina squad in the football 5-a-side tournament of the 2020 Summer Paralympics.^[6]

No.	Pos.	Player	Class	Date of birth (age)
1	GK	Darío Lencina	Sighted	(1980-08-23)23 August 1980 (aged 41)
2	DF	Ángel Deldo	B1	(1987-10-01)1 October 1987 (aged 33)
3	DF	Federico Accardi	B1	(1989-06-26)26 June 1989 (aged 32)
4	DF	Froilán Padilla	B1	(1979-02-22)22 February 1979 (aged 42)
8	DF	Marcelo Panizza	B1	(1983-10-07)7 October 1983 (aged 37)
10		Braian Pereyra	B1	(1993-07-06)6 July 1993 (aged 28)
11	FW	Nicolás Véliz [es]	B1	(1991-02-14)14 February 1991 (aged 30)
12	GK	Germán Muleck	Sighted	(1990-05-04)4 May 1990 (aged 31)
14	DF	Nahuel Heredia	B1	(1995-05-27)27 May 1995 (aged 26)
15	FW	Maximiliano Espinillo	B1	(1993-11-16)16 November 1993 (aged 27)

Team	Event	Group stage				Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Argentina men's	Men's tournament	MoroccoW 2–1	SpainW 2–0	ThailandW 3–0	3	ChinaW 2–0	BrazilL 0–1

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Three Argentine judoka have qualified to compete at the Games.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage round 1	Repechage round 2	Final/ Bronze medal contest
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Eduardo Gauto	-66kg	Seto (JPN) L 00–11	Did not advance					9
Rodolfo Ramirez	-73kg	Nagai (JPN) L 00–10	Did not advance					9

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final/ Bronze medal contest
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Laura Gonzalez	-57kg	N/A	Araújo (BRA) L 00–10	Did not advance	Hirose (JPN) L 00–10	Did not advance	7

Paracanoeing

Main article: Paracanoeing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Argentina has qualified two athletes.

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Emilio Ariel Atamanuk	Men's KL2	49.095	5 SF	45.316	4 FB	45.459	10
	Men's VL3	53.675	2 SF	52.106	4 FB	53.531	9
Lucas Nicolas Diaz	Men's KL1	57.033	5 SF	53.105	4 FB	54.345	10

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Argentina qualified one boats in the women's single sculls events for the games by winning the silver medal at the 2021 FISA Americas Qualification Regatta in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Brenda Sardon	Women's single sculls	13:09.17	3 R	12:01.15	3 FB	13:14.45	8

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); R=Repechage

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Nine Argentina swimmer has successfully entered the paralympic slot after breaking the MQS.^[7][8]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Inaki Basiloff	50m freestyle S7	30.27	11	Did not advance
	400m freestyle S7	4:46.17	3 Q	4:38.99	4
	100m backstroke S7	1:15.43	8 Q	1:15.00	7
	50m butterfly S7	30.96	7 Q	30.47	7
	200m individual medley SM7	2:33.23	2 Q	2:31.62	4
Pipo Carlomagno	100m backstroke S7	1:09.12	1 Q	1:08.83
	100m breaststroke SB6	1:27.53	10	Did not advance
	200m individual medley SM7	2:42.43	8 Q	2:41.55	8
Matias de Andrade	100m backstroke S6	1:14.38	2 Q	1:15.40
	50m butterfly S6	35.77	13	Did not advance
Lautaro Daniel Maidana Cancinos	100m backstroke S14	1:05.50	15	Did not advance
	100m butterfly S14	59.67	17	Did not advance
Lucas Nicolas Poggi	100m backstroke S7	1:14.53	7 Q	1:15.22	8
Nicolas Rivero	100m breaststroke SB4	1:46:69	5 Q	1:46.52	6

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Nadia Baez	50m freestyle S11	34.11	12	Did not advance
	400m freestyle S11	DSQ		Did not advance
	100m breaststroke SB11	1:31.00	5 Q	1:30.77	5
	200m individual medley SM11	3:22.90	12	Did not advance
Daniela Gimenez	100m breaststroke SB9	1:18.88	3 Q	1:18.70	4
	200m individual medley SM9	2:40.94	6 Q	2:39.60	8
Elizabeth Noriega	100m freestyle S5	1:35.46	12	Did not advance
	200m freestyle S5	3:30.65	10	Did not advance
	50m backstroke S5	50.70	12	Did not advance
Analuz Pellitero	100m freestyle S12	1.09.11	9	Did not advance
	100m backstroke S12	N/A		1:17.78	7

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Argentina entered three athletes into the table tennis competition at the games. Gabriel Copola & Mauro Depergola qualified from 2019 Parapan American Games which was held in Lima, Peru and María Garrone via World Ranking allocation.^[9]

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round			Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Fernando Eberhardt	Individual C1	Young-dae (KOR) L 0–3	Falco (ITA) L 2–3	3	Did not advance
Gabriel Copola	Individual C3	Merrien (FRA) L 0–3	Laowong (THA) W 3–2	2 Q	Glinbancheun (THA) L 0–3	Did not advance			9
Mauro Depergola	Individual C5	Urhaug (NOR) L 0–3	Palikuća (SRB) L 0–3	3	Did not advance
Gabriel Copola Mauro Depergola Fernando Eberhardt	Team C4-5	N/A			NigeriaL 1-2	Did not advance			9

Women

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
María Garrone	Individual C1-2	Rossi (ITA) L 1–3	Lafaye (FRA) W 3–0	N/A	2 Q	Jing (CHN) L 0–3	Did not advance		5
Veronica Soledad Blanco	Individual C3	Brunelli (ITA) L 0–3	Sigala (MEX) L 1–3	Mužinić (CRO) L 0–3	4	Did not advance
María Garrone Veronica Soledad Blanco	Team C1-3	N/A				ChinaL 0-2	Did not advance		5

Taekwondo

Main article: Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Argentina qualified one athlete to compete at the Paralympics competition. Juan Eduardo Samorano will compete at men's –75 kg class by winning the gold medal at the 2020 Americas Qualification Tournament in San José, Costa Rica.^[10]

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 2	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Juan Samorano	Men's −75 kg	Shvets (UKR) W 52–20	Dombayev (KAZ) L 25–27	Did not advance	Kudo (JPN) W 42–22	Dombayev (KAZ) W 12–13

Wheelchair tennis

Main article: Wheelchair tennis at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Argentina qualified four players entries for wheelchair tennis. Gustavo Fernandez qualified by winning the gold medal at the 2019 Parapan American Games in Lima, Peru. Meanwhile, three other athletes qualified by world rankings.

Athlete	Event	First Round	Second Round	Third Round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ezequiel Casco	Men's singles	Dunn (AUS) W 6–0, 6–0	Miki (JPN) L 3–6, 1–6	Did not advance				17
Gustavo Fernández		N/A	Tur (ESP) W 6–1, 6–0	Vandorpe (BEL) W 6–2, 6–1	Reid (GBR) L 5–7, 6–3, 1–6	Did not advance		5
Agustin Ledesma		de la Puente (ESP) L 1–6, 1–6	Did not advance					33
Maria Florencia Moreno	Women's singles	—	Kamiji (JPN) L 0–6, 1–6	Did not advance				17

See also

• Argentina at the Paralympics
• Argentina at the 2020 Summer Olympics