2001 Bolivarian Games

The XIV Bolivarian Games (Spanish: Juegos Bolivarianos) were a multi-sport event held between September 7–16, 2001, in Ambato, Ecuador. Some events took place in Guayaquil and in Quito. The Games were organized by the Bolivarian Sports Organization (ODEBO).

The opening ceremony took place on September 7, 2001, at the Estadio Bellavista in Ambato, Ecuador. The Games were officially opened by Ecuadorean Minister for Education, Culture and Sports (Spanish: ministro de Educación, Cultura y Deportes) Roberto Hanze as a delegate for president Gustavo Noboa. Torch lighter was racewalker, olympic gold medalist Jefferson Pérez.

Gold medal winners from Ecuador were published by the Comité Olímpico Ecuatoriano.

Venues
Ambato hosted the following competitions: athletics, basketball, bodybuilding, boxing, chess, climbing (alpinism), football, artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, judo, karate, squash, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, volleyball, weightlifting, wrestling

Guayaquil hosted the following competitions: archery, baseball, beach volleyball, billiards, bowling, canoeing, racquetball, rowing, shooting, softball, surfing, swimming, triathlon, yachting

Quito hosted the following competitions: cycling, equestrian, fencing

Participation
About 2000 athletes from 6 countries were reported to participate:


 * 🇧🇴 Bolivia
 * 🇨🇴 Colombia
 * 🇪🇨 Ecuador
 * 🇵🇦 Panama
 * 🇵🇪 Peru
 * 🇻🇪 Venezuela

Sports
The following 29 sports (+ 4 exhibition) were explicitly mentioned:


 * Aquatic sports
 * Swimming pictogram.svg Swimming
 * Archery pictogram.svg Archery †
 * Athletics pictogram.svg Athletics
 * Baseball pictogram.svg Baseball
 * Basketball pictogram.svg Basketball
 * Cue sports pictogram.svg Billiards
 * Bodybuilding pictogram.svg Bodybuilding †
 * Bowling pictogram.svg Bowling
 * Boxing pictogram.svg Boxing
 * Canoeing (flatwater) pictogram.svg Canoeing
 * Chess pictogram.svg Chess †
 * Pictograms-nps-land-technical rock climbing.svg Climbing †
 * Cycling
 * Cycling (road) pictogram.svg Road cycling
 * Cycling (track) pictogram.svg Track cycling
 * Equestrian pictogram.svg Equestrian
 * Fencing pictogram.svg Fencing
 * Football pictogram.svg Football ‡
 * Gymnastics
 * Gymnastics (artistic) pictogram.svg Artistic gymnastics
 * Gymnastics (rhythmic) pictogram.svg Rhythmic gymnastics
 * Judo pictogram.svg Judo
 * Karate pictogram.svg Karate
 * Racquets pictogram.svg Racquetball
 * Rowing pictogram.svg Rowing
 * Sailing pictogram.svg Sailing
 * Shooting pictogram.svg Shooting
 * Softball pictogram.svg Softball
 * Squash pictogram.svg Squash
 * Surfing pictogram.svg Surfing †
 * Table tennis pictogram.svg Table tennis
 * Taekwondo pictogram.svg Taekwondo
 * Tennis pictogram.svg Tennis
 * Triathlon pictogram.svg Triathlon
 * Volleyball
 * Volleyball (beach) pictogram.svg Beach volleyball
 * Volleyball (indoor) pictogram.svg Volleyball
 * Weightlifting pictogram.svg Weightlifting
 * Wrestling pictogram.svg Wrestling

†: Exhibition event. ‡: The competition was reserved to youth representatives (U-17).

Medal count
The medal count for these Games is tabulated below. A slightly different number of medals was published elsewhere. This table is sorted by the number of gold medals earned by each country. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next, and then the number of bronze medals.