Venezuela at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Venezuela at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	VEN
NPC	Comité Paralimpico Venezolano
in Beijing
Competitors	27 in 6 sports
Medals Ranked 46th	Gold 1 Silver 1 Bronze 2 Total 4
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Venezuela sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Naomi Soazo	Judo	Women's 63 kg
Silver	Oduver Daza Fernando Ferrer Ricardo Santana Yoldani Silva	Athletics	Men's 4 × 100 m Relay - T11-T13
Bronze	Reinaldo Caravallo	Judo	Men's -81 kg
Bronze	Samuel Colmenares	Athletics	Men's 400m - T46

Sports

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men's track

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Semifinal		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Jesus Aguilar	T53	100m	16.48	11	did not advance
		200m	27.96	7 Q	—		27.86	7
		400m	53.50	10	did not advance
Jose Camacho	T11	100m	12.02	18	did not advance
		200m	24.70	17	did not advance
Marcos Castillo	T52	100m	—				18.23	5
		200m	—				33.38	8
Samuel Colmenares	T46	400m	49.60	3 Q	—		49.51
		800m	2:01.13	13	did not advance
Fernando Ferrer	T11	100m	11.59	10 q	11.67	10	did not advance
Rubeng Gomez	T46	100m	11.42	13	did not advance
		200m	24.23	20	did not advance
Willy Martinez	T46	100m	11.61	14	did not advance
		200m	23.35	10	did not advance
		400m	50.87	10	did not advance
Luis Sanchez	T13	800m	—				1:55.98	5
		1500m	4:05.04	7 q	—		4:10.44	9
Ricardo Santana	T12	100m	11.50	13	did not advance
		200m	23.32	12 q	DNF		did not advance
Yoldani Silva	T12	100m	11.65	16	did not advance
Juan Valladares	T54	100m	15.67	21	did not advance
		200m	27.21	22	did not advance
		400m	50.45	21	did not advance
Oduver Daza Fernando Ferrer Ricardo Santana Yoldani Silva	T11-13	4 × 100 m relay	44.76	3 Q	—		43.55

Men's field

Athlete	Class	Event	Final
			Result	Points	Rank
Oduver Daza	F12	Long jump	5.98	-	12

Women's track

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Semifinal		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Tatiana del Carmen de Tovar	T12	100m	12.95	6 Q	12.89	7 B	12.99	7
Yadira Soturno	T53	100m	18.88	10	did not advance
		200m	35.03	10	did not advance
		400m	1:04.80	9	did not advance
Irene Suarez	T11	100m	13.20	8 B	—		13.21	8
		200m	27.06	6 B	—		27.61	6
Alberlis Torres	T11	100m	13.09	4 q	—		13.08	4
		200m	DSQ		did not advance

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men's road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Victor Garrido	Men's road race LC3/LC4/CP3	1:39:15	12
Cirio Molina	Men's road race LC3/LC4/CP3	1:39:15	16
	Men's road time trial LC3	40:02.48	8

Men's track

Athlete	Event	Qualification		1st round		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Rank
Victor Garrido	Men's time trial LC3-4	—				1:27.1	16

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Event	First Round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage round 1	Repechage round 2	Final/ Bronze medal contest
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Reinaldo Carvallo	Men's 81kg	Pominov (UKR) W 0210-0000	Ardit (ITA) W 0011-0000	Jonard (FRA) L 0000-1010	—		Oga (JPN) W 1010-0000
Marcos Falcon	Men's 66kg	V Sanchez (CUB) L 0000–1102	—		Harris (GBR) W 0120-0001	Kallunki (FIN) L 0000-1000	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	First Round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage round 1	Repechage round 2	Final/ Bronze medal contest
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Naomi Soazo	Women's 63kg	Bye	Zhou Q (CHN) W 1000–0001	Kivi (SWE) W 0240-0120	—		Arce (ESP) W 1000-0000

Powerlifting

Main article: Powerlifting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Jose Chirinos	Men's 90kg	175.0	7
Nairobys Hernandez	Women's 44kg	NMR

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Pedro Gonzalez	S12	50m freestyle	27.79	15	did not advance
		100m butterfly	1:12.80	11	did not advance
	SB12	100m breaststroke	1:25.96	11	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Belkys Mota	S12	50m freestyle	30.28	8 Q	30.43	8
		100m freestyle	1:07.11	8 Q	1:07.35	7
		100m butterfly	1:13.95	4 Q	1:12.49	5
	SM12	200m individual medley	2:52.44	10	did not advance
Valentina Rangel	SM12	200m individual medley	3:23.63	12	did not advance

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries			Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Roberto Quijada	Men's singles C3	Robin (FRA) L 0–3	Kosco (SVK) L 0–3	3	did not advance

See also

• Venezuela at the Paralympics
• Venezuela at the 2008 Summer Olympics