What is the Comité Olímpico Peruano?
The Comité Olímpico Peruano (COP) is Peru's National Olympic Committee. Article 27 of Ley 28036, the Ley de Promoción y Desarrollo del Deporte, defines it as "la entidad nacional constituida como asociación civil sin fines de lucro, afiliada al Comité Olímpico Internacional que tiene por objeto fomentar, proteger y desarrollar el movimiento olímpico y los deportes calificados como tales", governed by its own statutes and by the Olympic rules so far as these are consistent with Peruvian law.[4]
That definition does two things a petition writer should separate. It confirms that the committee is private, not a state organ; and it confirms that its relationship to the IOC is recognised by Peruvian statute rather than resting on the Olympic Charter alone.[4] [7]
The committee describes itself as the governing body of Olympism in Peru and states that its work runs from establishing and strengthening national federations to training coaches and administrators and entering Peruvian teams at international Games.[1] It operates from the Albergue Olímpico inside the Videna sports complex in Lima.[3]
What does it do?
Article 28 of Ley 28036 lists the committee's responsibilities: administering the Olympic village facilities, selecting the national athletes, on the proposal of the respective national federations, managing athlete registration and participation in Olympic competition, promoting Olympic sport, exercising exclusive representation before the International Olympic Committee, and accounting for any state resources it receives.[4] [2] The selection function is stated in the statute itself, which is the form of words a selection record most often needs.
Alongside those, the committee sits inside the governance of Peruvian sport as a seat-holder rather than a regulator: it holds representation on the board of the Instituto Peruano del Deporte, the state sports institute, and on the organising committees of Games hosted in Peru.[7] [5]
This page could not retrieve the committee's own statutes — its institutional pages did not return readable text — so the description of its powers rests on the statute and on the committee's public statements rather than on its constitutive document. The Instituto Peruano del Deporte's own copy of the law confirms that articles 27 and 28 are the two provisions addressed to the committee.[6] [8]
When was it founded and when was it recognised by the IOC?
The founding date is 9 October 1924, given both by Olympedia and by Peruvian reporting of the committee's 101st anniversary on 9 October 2025.[2] [1]
IOC recognition is a separate date and this page could not establish it. What the sources give instead is an earlier and different fact: Carlos de Candamo, who had competed as a fencer at the 1900 Games, became Peru's first IOC member in 1905.[2] An IOC membership held by an individual is not recognition of a National Olympic Committee, and the two are frequently run together in secondary accounts of Peruvian Olympic history. The ANOC directory entry for the committee likewise carries no founding or recognition year.[3]
No rename is recorded: the body has been the Comité Olímpico Peruano throughout. Its address of record is the Albergue Olímpico at the Videna, Avenida Del Aire cuadra 9, puerta 3, San Luis, Lima — inside the national training complex rather than in a separate commercial office, which is itself a marker of how closely the committee sits to the state sports estate.[3] [4]
How is it funded and governed?
The committee is governed by an assembly of affiliated national federations that elects the president for four-year terms. Renzo Manyari was elected on 27 August 2021 and re-elected on 3 May 2025, reported as unanimous, for the 2025-2029 period; María Martínez Murciego was elected secretary general on the same date.[3] [1]
Funding comes from the IOC and Olympic Solidarity, from sponsorship, and — where a Games or a programme is publicly financed — from state resources channelled through the Instituto Peruano del Deporte, for which article 28 of Ley 28036 makes the committee accountable.[4] This page could not retrieve an annual report or audited accounts for the committee and gives no revenue figure.
The governance question in Peru is legislative rather than internal. Bill 7740/2023-CR would have replaced Ley 28036, removing the COP and the national paralympic body from the IPD's board and curtailing the autonomy of the private federations. It did not pass the plenary; reporting of 27 July 2026 recorded the committee's president saying that Peru had been at risk of disaffiliation and of losing its place at Lima 2027 had it done so.[7] That is a reported statement by the committee, not a finding by the IOC.
Which Games does it enter, and what does it organise?
The committee enters Peru at the Olympic Games and Youth Olympic Games, at the Pan American Games and Junior Pan American Games owned by Panam Sports, at the South American Games under ODESUR, and at the Bolivarian Games.[1]
Its hosting role is institutional rather than proprietary. The XX Bolivarian Games were staged at Ayacucho and Lima in 2025, and the XX Pan American Games are awarded to Lima for 2027; the organising committee for the latter was constituted by Resolución Suprema 018-2024-MINEDU of 17 December 2024 as a temporary body attached to the Instituto Peruano del Deporte, on which "El Presidente del Comité Olímpico Peruano (COP)" and "Un/a miembro nominado por el Presidente del COP" hold two of the seats.[5] [1]
So a Games held in Peru is organised by a state-attached organising committee with the NOC inside it, not by the NOC itself — the same pattern as Lima 2019 — and a Peruvian athlete competing there is still entered through the COP.[5] [4]
Which federations are its members?
The committee's members are Peru's national sports federations, one per sport, and their delegates form the assembly that elects its leadership.[1] [3] This site carries no page for any Peruvian national federation, so the bodies named here appear in plain text: the Federación Deportiva Peruana de Atletismo, the Federación Deportiva Peruana de Natación, the Federación Deportiva Nacional de Voleibol del Perú and the Federación Peruana de Judo are among them.
This page could not confirm a membership count. The committee's federations page explains what a sports federation is and divides its listing into international and national sections, but did not return a list or a total, and no other retrievable source gave a figure.[6] The count is therefore left open rather than estimated.
What is documented is that the autonomy of those federations is a live legal question. The bill 7740/2023-CR that would have curtailed it, and the committee's opposition to it, turned on the status of the federations as private associations rather than state-controlled entities — the same status article 27 of Ley 28036 gives the committee itself.[7] [4]
References
- Líbero — Comité Olímpico Peruano celebra 101 años de vida institucional, 9 October 2025. Accessed September 2026.
- Olympedia — Peru (PER), NOC established 9 October 1924. Accessed September 2026.
- ANOC — NOCs directory entry for the Comité Olímpico Peruano (address, president, secretary general). Accessed September 2026.
- Ley 28036, Ley de Promoción y Desarrollo del Deporte (Peru), arts. 27 and 28. Accessed September 2026.
- El Peruano — Resolución Suprema 018-2024-MINEDU constituting the Lima 2027 organising committee, 17 December 2024. Accessed September 2026.
- Comité Olímpico Peruano — Federaciones. Accessed September 2026.
- La República — Ley de deporte que vulneraba a las federaciones deportivas, no prosperó, 27 July 2026. Accessed September 2026.
- Instituto Peruano del Deporte — Ley 28036, article index (arts. 27-28 on the Comité Olímpico Peruano). Accessed September 2026.