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Like Un Yong Kim (South Korea), Sheik Fahad Al-Sabah (Kuwait) and Joao Havelange (Brazil), José Gamarra Zorrilla was among the best Olympic leaders within the Third World. He performed a significant function in selling the values of sports activities in Bolivia and Latin America. José devoted his life to struggle towards indifference to sports activities and the deplorable situation of the athletes in Bolivia. His nation is likely one of the Third World`s poorest nations. Moreover, Bolivia has had a file 194 tried coups. Nonetheless, below his management, a number of worldwide congress and occasions had been organized in La Paz, Cochabamba, Oruro and Santa Cruz de la Sierra. José was president of the Organizing Committee of the La Paz Bolivarian Video games (1977) and for the South American Video games in Bolivia (1978). As president of the Bolivian Olympic Committee (1970-1982), he led Bolivia to the perfect end result ever in its historical past: 106 medals within the South American Video games. He headed the Bolivian delegation on the Summer time Olympics in Munich, West Germany. Many South Individuals think about José Gamarra Zorrilla as the best South American Olympic chief of the twentieth century.
This nation had nice sportspersons: Mario Martinez (tennis), Alan Saunders (nordic snowboarding), Milton Coimbra (soccer), Maria Ortuno (basketball), Giovanna Morejon Irusta (athletics), Ramiro Benavides (tennis), Anthony Iglesias (diving), Johnny Pérez (athletics), Scott Sanchez Saunders (nordic snowboarding), Oswaldo Morejon (monitor and subject), William Arencibia (taekwondo), Erwin Sánchez (soccer), Ricardo Ramos (nordic snowboarding), Guadalupe Yañez (basketball), Betty Saavedra (basketball), Juan Rodrigo Camacho (athletics), Marco Etcheverry (soccer), Katherine Moreno (swimming), Roberto Nielsen Reyes (equestrian) and Billy Farwing Aranoa (nordic snowboarding).
Bolivia despatched 7 sportspeople to the Winter Olympic Video games in 1988. The South American skiers had been Manuel Aramayo, Guillermo Avila Paz, Jaime Bascon, Jorge Bejarano, Enrique Montaño, Pedro Tichaver and Luis Vizcarra.
Julia Iriarte is the best Bolivian athlete of all time. Why? She gained 5 gold and three silver medals on the 1947 Bolivarian Video games in Lima, Peru. She turned the star of the Video games. Her gold medals had been within the 80m hurdles, discus throw, shot put, lengthy leap and excessive leap. Her homecoming was an enormous success . After she was invited by president Enrrique Hertzog to the Authorities Palace (Palacio Quemado). She additionally gained 5 gold medals within the South American Athletics Championships in La Paz in 1948. Underneath her coach, George Voeg , she broke a number of nationwide information in the course of the Nineteen Forties. Sadly, she didn’t compete on the 1948 Olympic Video games in Helsinki (Finland). She was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia on December 20, 1919 to Placido Iriarte and Clara Velasco.
Bolivia participated on the 1979 Spartakiade of the Nations of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
From 1980 to 1984, the Bolivian authorities destroyed the game. The South American athletes weren’t allowed to compete within the Olympics in 1980. Many sportspeople who had educated for years for the Video games felt nice frustration. Amongst these athletes had been: Johnny Pérez (monitor and subject), Luis Dario Vasquez (fencing), Mary Rojas (athletics), Walter Quiroga (capturing), Linda Spents (monitor and subject), Isidro Guarachi (boxing), Walter Quispe (boxing), Edgar Cueto (biking), Jean Younger Kim Music (judo) and Antonieta Arizaga (swimming). Paradoxically, the USSR -host Olympic nation- backed Third World’s Olympic groups (Tanzania -one of the Africa`s poorest countries- despatched 41 sportspersons). For political causes, Bolivia additionally didn’t take part within the 1983 Pan American Video games in Caracas (Venezuela). For the primary time since 1971, athletes from Bolivia didn’t took half in a Pan American. In contrast to athletes from Haiti, Nicaragua, Chad and Sierra Leone ,Bolivian athletes had issues to go to Olympics Video games in 1984.
Johnny Perez took half within the 1978 South American Video games in La Paz, Bolivia, successful three gold medals in athletics, in 1,500m, 5,000m and three,000m steeplechase.
The La Paz Olympic Stadium is likely one of the most trendy in Latin America and the Caribbean. Among the many athletes who’ve competed within the Olympic Stadium are Romario de Souza Faria (soccer/ Brazil), Joao Carlos de Oliveira (athletics /Brazil), José Luis Chilavert (soccer /Paraguay), Tito Stenier (athletics /Argentina), Edith Noeding (monitor and subject/ Peru) and Carlos Caetano Bledron Verri (soccer/ Brazil).
Giovanna Morejon Irusta completed sixteenth within the 20-kilometer stroll on the 2003 World Athletics Championships in Paris, France.
Katherine Moreno was {one of the} youngest swimmers on the 1988 Olympic Video games in Seoul.
The Bolivian group gained the silver medal on the South American Basketball Championship and certified for the World Girls’s Basketball Championship in 1978 in Seoul (South Korea). Bolivia certified for a world event for the primary time.The heroines had been: Janeth Blanco Saavedra, Betty Saavedra Zaconeta, Daysy Chucatini Torrico, Liceo Rojas Arteaga, Norma Zambrano Siles, Elizabeth Navia Ledesma, Guadalupe Yañez Heredia, Tania Claros Vargas, Antonieta Gudmanson Torres, Judith Quiñones Miranda and Vania Claros de Justinino.
Bolivia despatched just one athlete (Fernando Inchauste Montalvo/ kayak) to the Summer time Olympics in 1960.
From 1971 to 1979, 500 Bolivian athletes participated in worldwide tournaments and competitions.
Like Hortencia Maria de Fatima Marcari (Brazil) and Carol Turney (Canada), Guadalupe Yañez was among the best basketball gamers within the 1979 Pan American Video games in San Juan de Puerto Rico.
Erwin Sanchez was probably the most vital soccer gamers in Bolivia within the Nineties.
From 1975 to 1977, greater than 25 overseas coaches helped to coach Bolivian sportspeople in preparation for the worldwide competitions (Olympic Video games, Bolivarian Video games, Pan American Video games and South American Video games). The coaches had been: Bornj Wangemann (athletics/ West Germany), Mike Lucero (basketball/ USA), Paul Gonzalez (basketball/ USA), Stanislav Golubkov (boxing/ USSR), Heriberto Diaz (biking/ Mexico), Pedro Escobar (equestrian / Chile), Stanislav Spyra (fencing/ Poland), Walter Madel (fencing/ West Germany), Eduardo Virba (soccer/ West Germany), Dale Cutler (gymnastics/ USA), Donald Howorth (gymnastics/ USA), Pedro Ortega (gymnastics/ Mexico), Jasuhido Takasuka (judo/ Japan), Benigno Marquez (wrestling/ Venezuela), Karol Czarkoswki (weightlifting/ Poland), Wu Yu Yung (swimming/ Taiwan), Yadwiga Czarkoswka (swimming/ Poland), Adolfo Coronado (swimming/ Ecuador), Francis Conway (capturing/ USA), Nicolay Durnev (capturing/ USSR), Cselaw Gajdamovicz (volleyball/ Poland), Tien Heing Hisch (volleyball/ China), Chiu Chiao Chi (volleyball/ Taiwan) and Lin Chou Nou (volleyball/ China).
