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Potosí is a department in southwestern Bolivia. It comprises 118,218 km2 with 823,517 inhabitants. The capital is the city of Potosí. It is mostly a barren, mountainous region with one large plateau to the west, where the largest salt flat in the world, Salar de Uyuni, is located.
Bolivia competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. Eight competitors, six men and two women, took part in nine events in five sports.
Bolivia competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Seven competitors, six men and one woman, took part in twelve events in six sports.
Bolivia competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Four competitors, all men, took part in five events in four sports.
Bolivia competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. Eleven competitors, all men, took part in nine events in three sports.
Bolivia at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico was the third appearance of the nation at the sixteenth edition of the Olympic Summer Games. Bolivia sent to the 1968 Summer Olympics its third national team under the auspices of the Bolivian Olympic Committee four athletes competed in three events in three sports.
Bolivia at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan was the second appearance of the nation at the fourteenth edition of the Olympic Summer Games following a hiatus after the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Bolivia sent to the 1964 Summer Olympics its second national team of one male athlete, Fernando Inchauste, under the auspices of the Bolivian Olympic Committee. Inchauste was the flag bearer, and he was a canoeist who competed in the Men's K-1 1000 metres, where he qualified for the semifinal but did not start.
Bolivia at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany from 1–16 August 1936 was the nation's first appearance out of ten editions of the Summer Olympic Games. Bolivia sent to the 1936 Summer Olympics its first national team of one male athlete, Alberto Conrad, under the auspices of the Bolivian Olympic Committee. Conrad was the flag bearer, and he was a swimmer who competed in the men's 100 meter freestyle, where he was eliminated during the heats. Bolivia would return to the Summer Olympics at the fifteenth edition in 1964, although a team was sent to the 1956 Winter Olympics.
Bolivia sent a delegation to compete in the Winter Olympic Games for the first time at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy from 26 January to 5 February 1956. The only competitor in the delegation was alpine skier René Farwig. In the men's giant slalom he came in 75th place, and he was disqualified from the men's slalom. It would be 24 years before Bolivia returned to the Winter Olympics, at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
Bolivia sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics, held in Beijing, China. The South American country's delegation was the fifteenth Summer Olympic team and seventeenth overall Olympic team overall sent by the country. Bolivia's National Olympic Committee sent seven athletes–three women and four men–across five sports and seven distinct events. A substantial number of the athletes originated in southern Bolivian cities, most notably Santa Cruz de la Sierra. All athletes except for cyclist Horacio Gallardo finished their events, although no medals were won by the country at these Games. Trap shooter César Menacho was the Bolivian flag bearer at the ceremonies.
Marco Ray Evoniuk is a retired male race walker from the United States, who represented his native country at three consecutive Olympic Games, starting in 1984. Evoniuk had qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but was unable to compete due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott. He did however receive one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created especially for the spurned athletes.
Luis Fernando Sepúlveda Villar is a male professional track and road racing cyclist from Chile. He won a gold medal for his native country at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He also competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Marco Soria is a Bolivian former cyclist. He competed in the individual road race and 1000m time trial events at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Jazmin Duran is a Bolivian beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Earth Bolivia 2015, which entitled her to represent Bolivia at Miss Earth 2015.
Ricardo Condori is a Bolivian long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 1972 Summer Olympics. An Aymara Indian, Condori also represented Bolivia at the 1975 Pan American Games. Condori now lives in Boardman, Ohio.
Damián Condori Herrera is a Bolivian peasant leader, politician, and Governor of Chuquisaca Department since 3 May 2021. Condori served as executive secretary of the Unified Syndical Confederation of Rural Workers of Bolivia (CSUTCB), Bolivia's largest peasant union. Condori first ran for governor of Chuquisaca in 2015, finishing second and failing to qualify for a runoff under a controversial electoral court ruling. He is the co-founder of We Are All Bolivia, a party founded on 21 April 2016, by dissident former members of the Movement for Socialism–Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples (MAS-IPSP). He was spent two years in pre-trial detention as part of the investigation into the Indigenous Fund corruption scandal from 2015 to 2017. In the 2021 election for governor, Condori won a plurality in the first round and defeated MAS-IPSP candidate Juan Carlos León in the runoff.
We Are All Bolivia is a national political party in Bolivia that intends to contest the 2019 national and 2020 regional elections. The party was founded in Sucre in April 2016, by Damián Condori, Román Loayza, Rebeca Delgado, Luis Alfaro, and Félix Santos, all of whom are dissident former members of the governing Movement for Socialism. Condori had been a candidate for governor of Chuquisaca Department in 2015 on the We Are All Chuquisaca ballot line, but the parties that formed that line are not affiliated with We Are All Bolivia.
Luis Gallego Condori is a Bolivian lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from Potosí, representing circumscription 39 from 2010 to 2015.
Condori is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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