Argentina arrives in Tokyo with a suitcase full of dreams and illusions, and represented by almost two hundred athletes with a single common goal, Olympic gold. After months of preparations, the entourage, as a group representing their country, has the main objective of improving the 4 medals obtained in Rio 2016. 3 gold medals and 1 silver medal that they placed the Argentines in 27th place in the total ranking of nations by number of medals.
Argentina will debut in these Tokyo 2020 games on Thursday, July 22, with the Olympic Men’s Soccer team as the protagonist, in a match against Australia, a day before even the opening ceremony, where the Argentine delegation will be flagged by one of the gold medalists from the past games.
Flag of Argentina in Tokyo 2020
Santiago Lange from Buenos Aires and Cecilia Carranza from Rosario will be the flag-bearers of the Argentine delegation at the opening ceremony of this edition of Tokyo 2020. For the Argentine Olympic Committee (COA), this data is historical, since the two sailors They will be the first mixed couple to participate as flag bearer in an Olympic ceremony by Argentina. Lange and Carranza are partners and current gold medal in the Nacra 17 Sailing discipline.
In the absence of official confirmation, it seems that Pedro Ibarra and Noel Barrionuevo, among the selected field hockey players, will be the flag bearers for Argentina at the closing ceremony.
Full delegation and Olympic disciplines
This is the name of the 178 athletes who will travel to Tokyo and the 27 disciplines in which they will:
- Athletics (5): Germán Chiaraviglio (pole vault), Belén Casetta (3000 meters with obstacles), Joaquín Arbe, Eulalio Muñoz and Marcela Gómez, the last three in the marathon.
- Open water (1): Cecilia Biagioli (10 kilometers)
- Beach volley (4): The female duo (Ana Gallay and Fernanda Pereyra) and the male duo (Julián Azaad and Nicolás Capogrosso)
- Basketball (12): Male selection
- Boating (4): Agustín Vernice (K1 1000), Lucas Rossi (K1), Rubén Rézola (K1 200) and Brenda Rojas (K1 200)
- Boxing (4): Mirco Cuellar (57 kilos), Ramón Quiroga (52 kilos), Dayana Sánchez (60 kilos) and Francisco Verón (75 kilos)
- Cycling (3): Eduardo Sepúlveda (route), Exequiel Torres (BMX) and Sofía Gómez Villafañe in Women’s Mountain Bike (MTB)
- Horse riding (4): José María Larocca (individual jump) and the Argentine team (Larocca together with Martín Dopazo, Carlos Cremona and Matías Albarracín)
- Fencing (1): Belén Pérez Maurice (sand)
- Football (22): Male Selection: Joaquín Blázquez, Lautaro Morales, Jeremías Ledesma, Hernán De La Fuente, Marcelo Herrera, Nehuén Pérez, Leonel Mosevich, Facundo Medina, Francisco Ortega, Claudio Bravo, Fausto Vera, Santiago Colombatto, Tomás Belmonte, Martín Payero, Fernando Valenzuela, Alexis Mac Allister, Thiago Almada, Agustín Urzi, Ezequiel Barco, Pedro De La Vega, Adolfo Gaich and Ezequiel Ponce.
- Golf (1): Magdalena Simmermacher
- Handball (14): The Gladiators
- Field hockey (32): The Lions (16: Juan Manuel Vivaldi, Lucas Vila, Leandro Tolini, Nahuel Salis, Lucas Rossi, Matías Rey, Ignacio Ortiz, Agustín Mazzilli, Lucas Martinez, Juan Martín Lopez, Nicolás Keenan, Pedro Ibarra, Diego Paz, Thomas Habif, Maico Casella, Agustín Bugallo) and the Lionesses (16: Belén Succi, Noel Barrionuevo, Agustina Gorzelany, Valentina Raposo, Valentina Costa Biondi, Victoria Sauze, Agostina Alonso, Eugenia Trinchinetti, Micaela Retegui, Rocío Sánchez Moccia, Sofía Toccalino, Delfina Merino, Albertarrio, María José Granatto, Julieta Jankunas, Victoria Granatto)
- Judo (2): Paula Pareto (-48 kilos) and Emmanuel Lucenti (-81 kilos)
- Fight (1): Agustín Destribats (-65 kilos)
- Swimming (3): Delfina Pignatiello (400m, 800m and 1500m freestyle), Santiago Grassi (100m butterfly) and Julia Sebastián (100m and 200m breaststroke)
- Modern Pentathlon (1): Sergio Ali Villamayor
- Remo (2): Milka Kraljev and Evelyn Silvestro (lightweight double pair)
- Rugby 7 (12): The Pumas (12)
- Surf (1): Leandro Usuna
- Taekwondo (1): Lucas Guzmán (-58 kilos)
- Tennis (6): Nadia Podoroska (female Singles), Diego Schwartzman, Facundo Bagnis, Federico Coria (male single) and Horacio Zeballos (doubles, with Andrés Molteni)
- Table tennis (2): Horacio Cifuentes and Gastón Alto
- Tire (4): Fernanda Russo (10m air rifle), Alexis Eberhardt (50m three position rifle), Melisa Gil (Skeet) and Federico Gil (Skeet)
- Triathlon (1): Romina Biagioli
- Yachting (11): Sol Branz and Victoria Travascio (49er FX), Facundo Olezza (Finn), Santiago Lange and Cecilia Carranza (Nacra 17), Francisco Guaragna (Standard Laser), Lucía Falasca (Radial Laser), Belén Tavella and Lourdes Hartkopf (470), Celia Tejerina (RS: X) and Francisco Saubidet (RS: X)
- Volleyball (24): Male selection (12: Luciano De Cecco, Matías Sánchez, Bruno Lima, Federico Pereyra, Sebastián Solé, Martín Ramos, Agustín Loser, Facundo Conte, Cristian Poglajen, Ezequiel Palacios, Nicolás Méndez and Santiago Danani) and female (12: Victoria Mayer, Sabrina Germanier, Julieta Lazcano, Candelaria Herrera, Bianca Farriol, Yamila Nizetich, Daniela Bulaich, Elina Rodríguez, Antonela Fortuna, Eugenia Nosach, Erika Mercado, Tatiana Rizzo).
Medal options for Argentina in Tokyo 2020
Basketball
The team led by Facundo Campazzo has several NBA players such as Deck, Vildoza or himself. A great team that comes from getting a world runner-up, and that will have a veteran Luis Scola, who is going for his fifth Olympic Games after turning 41.
Football
The team led by an exciting Thiago Almada he is a firm candidate, as it happens with Argentina in every international junior category tournament. The albicelestte will seek to repeat the medals obtained in the Football modality in the 2004 and 2008 editions.
Tennis
There are two proper names with a medal option in this sport, Diego Schwartzman and Nadia Podoroska. The two tennis players arrive with great sensations at the Olympic test. ‘El Peque’ comes close to the top 10 of the ATP ranking, while the tennis player Rosario comes from falling in the Second Round of Wimbledon.
Hockey grass
In one of the sports where the Argentines are a leading team, The Lionesses, as they nickname the women’s team of this sport, will look for that coveted gold that they already touched once with their fingertips, more specifically, in Sydney 2000 and London 2021
Sailing
The standard bearers Lange and Carranza they are the clear option to medal in the regattas of this edition. The couple that competes in the Nacra 17 modality will seek to revalidate gold 5 years later.
Swimming
The future is here. The 21-year-old swimmer, Delfina Pingatello, has earned, despite her young age, the confidence of her country in the fight for metals. Two-time Junior world champion, and three-time South American champion a year later, Pingatello has everything to make the leap to the absolute category and impose a lasting hegemony over time.
