all eventually chosen and partook in the subsequent Olympics, arriving on 25 July to the Olympic Village. The latter three all competed in the same event, making it the first time that Puerto Rico had three atheltes competing at the 800 metre event. Nevertheless, other athletes, such as Rachelle de Orbeta, Luis Joel Castro, Grace Claxton and Ayden Owens failed to enter based on missing the ranking cutoff. Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, who had debuted at the 2016 Rio Games, competed in the 100 metre hurdle at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, winning gold and setting an Olympic record, becoming the first Puerto rican to ever do so and the second Puerto Rican ever to win a gold medal while representing Puerto Rico. At 12.26 seconds, her personal best, she tied for the fourth fastest time in history. By winning the gold, she climbed to the top spot of the World Athletics Rankings in her event. During the 2020 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony, both flagbearers of Puerto Rico's delegation, Yaimillie Díaz Colón and Carmelo Rivera Fuentes, who competed in the amputee and intellectual disabilities classifications, respectively, were track and field athletes. Volleyball The Puerto Rican Volleyball Federation was founded in 1958, the first men's tournament organized was the 'Torneo Preolimpico'. The federation's first president was Jose L. Purcell. Ten years later the Women's League was established. Long considered the dormant sport among major sports in Puerto Rico, Volleyball has enjoyed much popularity since the 1990s, both in its professional and beach volleyball versions. Puerto Rico's Liga Superior de Voleibol has thrived in recent years, both in the men's and women's tournaments. In 1970, most of Puerto Rico's national women's volleyball team's members were killed when a plane that was flying them to San Juan, Puerto Rico from the Dominican Republic crashed shortly after take-off. In 1997, debut of foreign player in Women League. The most dominated are Laura Salinas from Monterrey, Mexico, lead the Mexico national team to several international competition. The foreign player debut in Women's League in 2000. Some of Puerto Rico's famous volleyball players are Willie De Jesus, Raúl Papaleo and Héctor Soto. Papaleo and Ramón 'Monchito' Hernández participated in 2004 Olympic Games in Athens in Beach Volleyball, first ever volleyball team in the Island Olympic history. Laura Daniela Lloreda, meanwhile, is a Puerto Rican who played in Mexico's national volleyball team. Héctor "Picky" Soto is the first Latin American