Bolivia at the 2018 Winter Olympics
| Bolivia at the 2018 Winter Olympics | |
|---|---|
 | |
| IOC code | BOL |
| NOC | Bolivian Olympic Committee |
| Website | www |
| in Pyeongchang, South Korea 9–25 February 2018 | |
| Competitors | 2 in 2 sports |
| Flag bearer | Simon Breitfuss Kammerlander (opening)[1] |
| Medals |
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| Winter Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Bolivia competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from 9 to 25 February 2018. The country returned to the Winter Olympics after last competing in 1992 in Albertville, France, a span of 26 years.
The official Bolivian team of two athletes competing in two sports was unveiled on January 18, 2018 at the South Korean embassy in La Paz. During this event it was also announced that alpine skier Simon Breitfuss Kammerlander would be the country's flag bearer during the opening ceremony.[2]
Competitors
[edit]The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Bolivian delegation per sport.
| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine skiing | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Cross-country skiing | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Alpine skiing
[edit]Bolivia qualified one male athlete, Austrian born skier Simon Breitfuss Kammerlander.[3][4] Kammerlander first visited Bolivia when he was 8 years old, due to his father's work as a ski coach in neighboring Argentina. In 2009 Kammerlander met officials from the Bolivian Ski Federation, while studying in the country.[5] In 2015 Kammerlander was officially given Bolivian citizenship, allowing him to compete for the country.[6][7][8]
| Athlete | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
| Simon Breitfuss Kammerlander | Men's combined | 1:22.94 | 49 | DNF | |||
| Men's downhill | — | 1:47.87 | 47 | ||||
| Men's giant slalom | 1:16.27 | 52 | 1:15.98 | 44 | 2:32.25 | 43 | |
| Men's slalom | 54.66 | 40 | 55.76 | 31 | 1:50.42 | 32 | |
| Men's super-G | — | 1:31.69 | 45 | ||||
Cross-country skiing
[edit]Bolivia qualified one male athlete, Finnish born skier Timo Juhani Grönlund.[9] This will also mark Bolivia's Winter Olympics debut in the sport.
- Distance
| Athlete | Event | Final | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Deficit | Rank | ||
| Timo Juhani Grönlund | Men's 15 km freestyle | 43:18.4 | +9:34.5 | 106 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Opening Ceremony Flagbearers - Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang 2018" (PDF). olympic.org. International Olympic Committee (IOC). 9 February 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- ^ "Bolivia asistirá a Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno" [Bolivia will attend the Winter Olympic Games]. www.elpaisonline.com/ (in Spanish). Boquerón Multimedia. 18 January 2018. Archived from the original on 16 July 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- ^ "Alpine Skiing Quota List for Olympic Games 2018". www.data.fis-ski.com/. International Ski Federation (FIS). 30 June 2017. Archived from the original on 28 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
- ^ Hernandez, Estefania (28 December 2017). "Latin American Athletes Press on for a 1st Medal at the Winter Olympics". www.nbcsandiego.com/. NBC San Diego. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
- ^ Homewood, Brian (12 January 2018). Osmond, Ed (ed.). "Bolivia's Alpine skier overcomes mountains of a different kind". Reuters. London, United Kingdom. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
- ^ Fehr, Reto (8 February 2017). "In diesem Lada fing alles an: Warum ein Österreicher an der Ski-WM für Bolivien startet" [In this everything began: Why an Austrian starts at the Ski World Championships for Bolivia]. www.watson.ch/ (in German). Retrieved 22 October 2017.
- ^ Geiler, Christoph (6 February 2017). "Kammerlanders abenteuerliche Ski-Karriere" [Kammerlander's adventurous skiing career]. www.kurier.at/ (in German). Retrieved 22 October 2017.
- ^ Bossi, Daniel (6 January 2017). "Österreicher, Bolivianer, Einzelkämpfer" [Austrians, Bolivians, individual combatants]. www.srf.ch/ (in German). Retrieved 22 October 2017.
- ^ "Cross-Country Quota List for Olympic Games 2018". www.data.fis-ski.com/. International Ski Federation (FIS). 20 December 2017. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
