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image by Ivan Sache, 4 January 2008
image by Ivan Sache, 4 January 2008
"Instituto Colombiano del Deporte" (COLDEPORTES) was
founded on 6 November 1968 by the Ministry of Culture (Decree No.
2743).
COLDEPORTES is a state organism ruling the Sports National
System, encompassing the Colombian Olympic Committe, the
Colombian Paralympic Committee, ntaional sports federations and
several other entities.
Up to now, Colombia has won nine medals in the summer Olympic
Games:
1972 (Munich)
Helmut Bellingrodt : Shooting / Running game target (silver)
Alfonso Perez: Boxing / Lightweight (bronze)
Clemente Rojas: Boxing / Featherweight (bronze)
1984 (Los Angeles)
Helmut Bellingrodt : Shooting / Running game target (silver)
1992 (Barcelona)
Ximena Restrepo Gaviria: Athletics / 400 m (bronze)
1988 (Seoul)
Jorge Eliécer Julio Rocha: Boxing / Bantamweight (bronze)
2000 (Sydney)
María Isabel Urrutia Ocoró: Weightlifting / - 75 kg (gold)
2004 (Athens)
Mabel Mosquera Mena: Weightlifting / - 53 kg (bronze)
María Luisa Calle Williams: Cycling / Points race (bronze)
The flag of COLDEPORTES, according to the photo shown on the website
of COLDEPORTES, is white with a runner's black silhouette
surmonting three yellow, bue and red rings (indeed the three
Olympic rings matching the Colombian national colours), the whole
inscribed in a black ring, surmonted by the black writing
COLDEPORTES and surmonting the black writing INSTITUTO COLOMBIANO
/ DEL DEPORTE.
A table flag with the writings swapped can be seen on photos
taken during the visit of Jacques Rogge, President of IOC, to
COLDEPORTES.
The two versions of the flag have a fringe reproducing the design
of the Colombian national flag.
Ivan Sache, 4 January 2008
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Juan Manuel
Gabino, 29 June 2009
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Juan Manuel
Gabino, 29 June 2009
On on 6 Sep 2003, Felipe Carrillo contributed images
of two Colombian National Olympic Committee flags: Both are 2:3
white with an emblem centered on the cloth, emblem taking about
half the height in width. This emblem is a plain Colombian national flag strectched to a ratio
of about 4:9 above a representation of the olympic rings. One of
the flag variants adds the country name in black bold serifed
capitals above the flag.
In Felipe Carrillo’s image the Olympic rings are shown much
thicker than usual and not inlerlocked; I
suppose this is a drawing error and not an actual design feature.
I note also the use of different shades of blue, yellow, and red
(in the flag panles and the respective ring), which might be due
to the use of unhomogenous clipart. I kept this, against my own
opinion, to keep it in pace with our own images of the national
and olympic flags.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 29 June 2009
See also: Olympics and National Olympic committees
image by Eugene Ipavec, 25 August 2005
I found this flag of the Federación Colombiana de Fútbol
(official website at: <www.colfutbol.org>)
which is the official Colombian Sport institution in charge of
all national soccer teams. It was established, shut down and it
later merged with other national soccer associatoins to be
finally set up in its "current version" in 1971. For
more historical background check (in Spanish) <www.colfutbol.org/federacion/historia.htm>.
Regarding its symbols, you can reach them at <www.colfutbol.org/federacion/simbolos.htm>.
The flag is plain white with the symbol in the center.
E.R., 11 August 2005
The colors in the TV screenshots were a bit washed out--I took
the football to be beige.
Eugene Ipavec, 11 August 2005
From the pictures it seems that the soccer ball is beige
(instead of red, as the logo shows).
E.R., 11 August 2005
image by Eugene Ipavec, 23 December 2005
image by Eugene Ipavec, 23 December 2005
This is the flag of the DIMAYOR (División Mayor del Fútbol
Colombiano, or Colombian Soccer Major Division in English). The
DIMAYOR was established on June 27, 1948, right when professional
soccer was established in Colombia. At first it included only the
professional soccer clubs (First Division teams only) but it
currently includes both First and Second Division teams. DIMAYOR
changed its name to Asociación de Clubes del Fútbol Profesional
Colombiano, but it kept
the abbreviatoin DIMAYOR for reference and identification
purposes. The First Division is called Primera A, and the Second
Division is called Primera B.
The flag should be the emblem on white background. A variant of
the flag is the same emblem but on yellow background (the yellow
color.
E.R, 23 December 2005
The DIMAYOR has changed its Coat of Arms for a newr version, located at DIMAYOR's official website, thus changing the flag as well because the DIMAYOR flag is charged with the Coat of Arms in the middle.
Previous Symbols
image by Eugene Ipavec, 23 December 2005
image by Eugene Ipavec, 23 December 2005
image by Felipe Carrillo, 14 March 2003
Official Flag of one of the two most popular soccer team in
Colombia: Atletico Nacional (Nacional de Medellin).
Felipe Carrillo, 14 March 2003
Atlético Nacional describes a flag in their website: <www.atlnacional.com.co>,
using the colors of Antioquia but green over white. Green
stands for hope, nature and the Antioquian mountains, while white
means peace, clarity, honesty and liberty.
Carlos Thompson, 18 March 2003
official flag
image by E.R., 25 December 2005
fans flag
image by Ivan Sache, 25 December 2005
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coat of arms
image from <www.deporcali.com>
The newspaper El Pais reports in its digital edition dated 18
December 2005 that the football club Deportivo Cali, won its
eight star (championship). A picture illustrating the article
shows supporters waving a green flag with a big white star.
Ivan Sache, 25 December 2005
The Colombian Soccer team is officially called Asociación
Deportivo Cali, better known as Depor Cali, or Super Depor (the
nick Super Depor is related to the Spanish First Division Club
Deportivo La Coruña, because like the Spanish club, the
Deportivo Cali is not on the top of the list but it always
obtains good results and plays good soccer). The official website
of the team is at <www.deporcali.com>.
The team was founded on January 16, 1943 and it plays in the City
of Cali (or officially called
Santiago de Cali), the capital of the Department of Valle (or Valle del Cauca, its official
name). This team is actually the first Colombian soccer team that
can be truly called a club, with stockholders and it is building
its own Stadium as well, another country's first (<www.worldstadiums.com>)
the flag with the star is not an official flag. The official flag
is the same flag as the Departamento de
Antioquia (see <www.deporcali.com>)
only the colors are inverted: that is green on top and white on
the bottom.
E.R., 25 December 2005
image by Felipe Carrillo, 15 May 2003
image by Carlos Thompson, 9 June 2003
At the site of Millonarios (Bogota) at <www.millonarios.com.co>,
there is a photo where you can see a blue over white flag with
the shield in the middle. I am not sure if this flag is
official in any sence.
Carlos Thompson, 18 March 2003
Felipe Carrillo sent a diagonaly divided flag. I am
not sure if this flag is official. In the web site of the
club, <www.futbolred.com>,
there is a picture , I am not sure but it seems that the flag is
B-W horizontal. In the homepage there is a picture of the
public with a big B-W-B banner.
Looking at the sites of some supporters I have found the
following site: <www.geocities.com/soy_de_millos/Fotos.htm>.
I guess that the black-blue flags are flags of the supporting
group "Comandos Aziles" rather than flags of the
team. I can see both per fess N-B and quartered B-N-N-B,
also a chekered blue-white falg, a plain blue flag with the CoA
of the team and the city, a frew W-B-W horizontal tribands and a
big W-B-W with a Y-R border in the bottom. The last picture, with
the red and white flags, are supporters of Santafe, the rival
team.
In another supporting website <www.gratisweb.com/mimillos>,
there is a nice picture of Gardfield dress as a Millonarios
supporter, with a W-B horizontal flag with the shield of the
team.
This site further says (translated by me): The Club is
represented by its colors blue and white which form its flag in
that exact order in equal-zised horizontal bands, a shied that we
can see in the attached picture and its beautiful anthem."
As I read the "official" flag should be blue on top.
Carlos Thompson, 9 June 2003
image by E.R., 3 July 2005
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Logo
image by E.R., 3 July 2005
Independiente Medellín is a soccer professional team from the
city of Medellín, founded in 1913. It's official website is <www.dim.com.co>. It is also
referred to as D.I.M. (Deportivo Independiente Medellín, or
Independent Sport 'Club' Medellin). This team plays in the
Estadio Atanasio Girardot (Atansio Girardot Stadium) which has a
capacity of 52,000 seats.
E.R., 3 July 2005
There's an additional flag of the Independiente Medellín
soccer team. It is the Coat of Arms on the middle of the flag ,
as seen in online
article, where in a sober ceremony the current President
hands the clubs' symbols to the most notorious players.
E.R., 8 October 2009
image by Felipe Carrillo, 14 March 2003
Official Flag of one of the two most popular soccer team in
Colombia: Independendiente Santa Fe (Bogota).
Felipe Carrillo, 14 March 2003
In the official web site of the Club Independiente Santa Fe,
this red over white flag is described: <www.independientesantafe.com>.
There is no meaning about the colors, except that those are the
colors of the Club/Team.
Carlos Thompson, 18 March 2003
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