Olympic history of Bolivia

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Bolivia , whose NOK , the Comité Olímpico Boliviano , was founded in 1932, first sent athletes to the Summer Olympics in 1936. No athletes were sent from 1948 to 1960. Since 1964, Bolivia has taken part in all summer games (with the exception of the boycotted games in Moscow in 1980), but without having won a medal. In 1956 and from 1980 to 1992, Bolivian athletes also took part in winter games, again without winning a medal.

Overview

Summer games

Bolivia first took part in the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. The Bolivian NOK sent an athlete, the swimmer Alberto Conrad, to Berlin. No Bolivian athlete took part in the following four summer Olympic Games. It was not until 1964 in Tokyo that a Bolivian Olympic team competed. This time the delegation also consisted of an athlete, this time a canoeist. In 1968 in Mexico City riders and marksmen were added, athletes in 1972 and cyclists in 1976. Bolivia responded to the US call for a boycott and stayed away from the 1980 Moscow Games.

Boxers, fencers, judoka and wrestlers from Bolivia first took part in 1984 in Los Angeles. On August 5, 1984, the marathon runner Nelly Chávez became the first woman from Bolivia to take part in the Olympic Games. A Bolivian weightlifter competed for the first time in Seoul in 1988, a diver in Atlanta in 1996, a tennis player in Sydney in 2000, and a gymnast in Athens in 2004

Winter games

The debut at the Olympic Winter Games took place in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956 with an alpine ski racer. The first winter Olympian was René Farwig . In 1980, 1984, 1988 and 1992 Bolivian athletes traveled to the winter games again, all of them alpine ski racers without exception. The best result came in 1984 with Scott Sánchez in 34th place in the giant slalom. In 2018, a cross-country skier took part for the first time.

Overview of the participants

Summer games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports														Medals				rank
	total	Men	Women																			Total
1896-1928	not participated
1936	1	1	0	Alberto Conrad	1
1948-1960	not participated
1964	1	1	0			1
1968	4th	4th	0			1	1	2
1972	11	11	0	Roberto Nielsen-Reyes			1	6th	4th
1976	4th	4th	0				1	1	1	1
1980	not participated
1984	11	10	1	Saul Mendoza				4th	3		1	1	1	1
1988	7th	6th	1	Katerine Moreno	1				2	1		1	1		1
1992	13	8th	5		2			1	6th	1			2		1
1996	8th	6th	2	Policarpio Calizaya	2				3	1		1				1
2000	5	3	2	Marco Condori	2				2								1
2004	7th	4th	3	Geovanna Irusta	2			1	2				1					1
2008	7th	4th	3	César Menacho	2			1	2	1					1
2012	5	3	2	Karen Guzman	2			1	2
2016	12	6th	6th	Ángela Castro	2			2	6th	1			1
total																			0	0	0	0	-

Winter games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports		Medals
	total	Men	Women							total	rank
1924-1952	not participated
1956	1	1	0	René Farwig	1
1960-1976	not participated
1980	3	3	0	Billy Farwig	3
1984	3	3	0		3
1988	6th	6th	0	Guillermo Ávila	6th
1992	5	5	0	Guillermo Ávila	5
1994-2014	not participated
2018	2	2	0	Simon Breitfuss Kammerlander	1	1
total							0	0	0	0	-

Medalist

Gold medals

So far (as of 2017) no medal winners

Silver medals

So far (as of 2017) no medal winners

Bronze medals

So far (as of 2017) no medal winners

Web links

• Bolivia in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Bolivia on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)