Ecuador competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, winning its first Olympic medal when Jefferson Pérez won the gold medal in the men's 20 km walk. Medalists Gold Jefferson Pérez — Athletics, Men's 20 km Walk Results by event Athletics Men's 10,000 metres Silvio Guerra Men's Marathon Rolando Vera — 2:17.40 (→ 22nd place) Men's 20 km Walk Jefferson Pérez — 1:20.07 (→ Gold Medal) Women's Marathon Martha Tenorio — did not finish (→ no ranking) Boxing Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg) Luis Hernández First Round — Lost to Kabil Lahsen (Morocco), 9-18 Men's Heavyweight (– 91 kg) Thompson García First Round — Lost to Georgi Kandelaki (Georgia), abandoned Cycling Paulo Caicedo Pedro Rodríguez Héctor Chiles Sailing Gastón Vedani Shooting Margarita de Falconí Swimming Men's 50m Freestyle Felipe Delgado Heat – 23.26 (→ did not advance, 25th place) Men's 100m Freestyle Felipe Delgado Heat – 51.38 (→ did not advance, 38th place) Men's 100m Butterfly Roberto Delgado Heat – 56.29 (→ did not advance, 44th place) Men's 200m Butterfly Andrés Vasconcellos Heat – 2:05.98 (→ did not advance, 39th place) Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Julio Santos, Felipe Delgado, Roberto Delgado, and Javier Santos Heat – 3:27.77 (→ did not advance, 15th place) Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Roberto Delgado, Julio Santos, Javier Santos, and Andrés Vasconcellos Heat – 7:54.37 (→ did not advance, 16th place) Tennis Men's Singles Competition Luis Morejón First round — Defeated Marcelo Filippini (Uruguay) 6-7 7-5 6-1 Second round — Lost to Renzo Furlan (Italy) 5-7 2-6 Nicolás Lapentti First round — Lost to Andrei Olhovskiy (Russia) 1-6 6-3 6-8 Pablo Campana See also Ecuador at the 1995 Pan American Games Ecuador at the Olympics References Ecuador Olympic Committee sports-reference Nations at the 1996 Summer Olympics 1996 Summer Olympics Olympics