Bolivia at the Olympics
| Bolivia at the Olympics | |
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| IOC code | BOL |
| NOC | Bolivian Olympic Committee |
| Website | www |
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| Winter appearances | |
Bolivia was first at the Olympic Games in 1936.
The International Olympic Committee's official abbreviation for Bolivia is BOL.[1]
History
[change | change source]Athletes from Bolivia have been in every Summer Olympic Games since 1964, except the boycotted 1980 Summer Olympics. The nation has also been in the Winter Olympic Games on several occasions since 1956, but not since 1992.
As of 2011, no athlete from Bolivia has won an Olympic medal. The National Sub-15 Football team won a gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore 2010.
Geovana Irust Morejon, an Olympic athlete in the running section, is also famous although she never won any medals.
Related pages
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ [https://web.archive.org/web/20181225173351/https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll8/id/27246/rec/29 Archived 2018-12-25 at the Wayback Machine "Official abbreviations" at The Games of the XVIII Olympiad, Tokyo, 1964, [p. 9 of 409 PDF]]; retrieved 2012-8-16.
Other websites
[change | change source]- Bolivia profile at London2012.com Archived 2012-08-15 at the Wayback Machine
- BOlivia at Olympic.org
