# Puerto Rico's First Olympic Medal - Source Packet

Public Short: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E2QlY1jWKig

## Receipt Spine

- Olympedia identifies the athlete as Juan Evangelista Venegas Trinidad, born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.
- Olympedia records Venegas competing for Puerto Rico in men's bantamweight boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics and placing third with bronze.
- Olympedia says Venegas was part of Puerto Rico's first Olympic team in 1948 and won Puerto Rico's first Olympic medal.
- Olympedia's event result page frames him as the first Puerto Rican to stand on the Olympic podium.
- The Comision de Atletas de Alto Rendimiento de Puerto Rico history corroborates London 1948, bronze at 54 kilos, and the start of the national Olympic medal table.

## Source Trail

- Olympedia, Juan Venegas: https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/7875
- Olympedia, Bantamweight (<=54 kilograms), Men: https://www.olympedia.org/results/22246
- Comision de Atletas de Alto Rendimiento de Puerto Rico, Historia: https://comisionatletaspr.com/historia/
- Local source lock: `juan-venegas-first-olympic-medal-source-lock-v1-2026-10-04.md`
- Local script draft: `juan-venegas-first-olympic-medal-script-draft-v1-2026-10-04.md`
- Local pre-ElevenLabs packet: `juan-venegas-first-olympic-medal-pre-elevenlabs-packet-v1-2026-10-04.md`
- Local final caption/source packet: `posting/juan-venegas-first-olympic-medal-final-caption-source-packet-2026-10-04.md`
- Local schedule receipt: `posting/juan-venegas-first-olympic-medal-platform-schedule-receipt-2026-10-04.md`

## Guardrails

- Do not say first Puerto Rican Olympian unless separately sourced.
- Do not say day one or imply the medal happened on Puerto Rico's first day at the Olympics.
- Use first Olympic team / first Olympic medal / first Puerto Rican on Olympic podium only in the documented framing.
- Keep the politics light unless adding more sources; this is primarily a sports-history receipt.