Pan American Games

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Pan American Games are played every four years, one year before the Summer Olympics . The competitions take place mainly in the Olympic sports for athletes from the American continent. These competitions are organized by the Pan American Sports Organization according to the rules of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the various national sports associations. The program includes futsal and squash as non-Olympic sports .

The games were in 1940 during a meeting of the Pan-American Congress in Buenos Aires ( Argentina called) into being to facilitate closer links between the athletes of the Americas.

The First Pan American Games were supposed to take place in 1942, but the Second World War ruined this plan. The competition was first held in Buenos Aires in 1951. In the period that followed, the games took place in various cities on the continent. In 1990 the only Pan American Winter Games to date were held in Las Leñas .

sports

Since the beginning, the following have been represented at the Pan American Games: swimming , road cycling , apparatus gymnastics , equestrian sports , wrestling , athletics , baseball , basketball , boxing , fencing , football , rowing , shooting and weight lifting .

The following sports were part of the Pan American Games:

Sport (discipline)		Association	1951	1955	1959	1963	1967	1971	1975	1979	1983	1987	1991	1995	1999	2003	2007	2011	2015
Diving		FINA	4th	4th	4th	4th	4th	4th	4th	4th	4th	4th	6th	6th	4th	8th	8th	8th	8th
swim			21st	21st	21st	21st	30th	30th	30th	30th	30th	32	32	32	32	32	34	34	34
Synchronized swimming				3		3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2
Water polo			1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2
Canoe racing		ICF										12	13	13	12	12	12	12	13
Canoe slalom																			5
Figure skating		FIRS								3		4th	6th	6th	4th	2	2	2	2
Speed ​​skating										12		12	13	23	6th	4th	4th	6th	6th
BMX		UCI															2	2	2
Mountain biking														2	2	2	2	2	2
Road cycling			3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	4th	4th	4th	4th	4th	4th	4th
Track cycling			5	3	3	3	4th	4th	4th	4th	5	7th	7th	8th	12	12	10	10	10
Apparatus gymnastics		FIG	8th	12	18th	14th	14th	14th	14th	14th	14th	14th	14th	14th	14th	14th	14th	14th	14th
Rhythmic sports gymnastics												5	7th	7th	2	6th	8th	8th	8th
trampoline																	2	2	2
Beach volleyball		FIVB													2	2	2	2	2
volleyball				2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Dressage riding		FEI	6th	5	6th	6th	6th	6th	6th	4th	4th	6th	4th	6th	6th	4th	6th	6th	6th
Show jumping
Wrestling		UWW	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	10	20th	20th	20th	20th	20th	20th	16	18th	18th	18th	18th
Greco-Roman
Archery		WAF								4th	12	4th	12	12	4th	4th	4th	4th	4th
athletics		IAAF	33	29	32	33	35	37	37	39	40	48	43	44	47	46	47	47	47
badminton		BWF												5	5	5	5	5	5
baseball		IBAF	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2
basketball		FIBA	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
bowling		WTBA											4th	8th	4th	4th	4th	4th	4th
Boxing		AIBA	8th	10	10	10	10	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	11	11	13	13
fencing		FIE	7th	7th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	10	10	10	10	10	12	12
Field hockey		FIH					1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
football		FIFA	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2
golf		IGF																	3
Handball		IHF										2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2
Judo		IJF				4th	6th		6th	8th	16	16	18th	18th	14th	14th	14th	14th	14th
karate		WKF												10	11	9	9	10	10
Modern pentathlon		UIPM	2	2	2	2						1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2
Racquetball		IRF												6th	4th	4th		6th	6th
rowing		FISA	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	7th	14th	15th	15th	14th	14th	13	14th	14th
7-a-side rugby		WR																1	2
sailing		ISAF	2		7th	6th	4th	3	4th	5	8th	6th	9	11	10	8th	9	9	10
shoot		ISSF	14th	16	21st	12	10	10	14th	14th	32	22nd	34	36	15th	17th	15th	15th	15th
Softball		ISF								2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	2
squash		WSF												4th	4th	4th	4th	6th	6th
Table tennis		ITTF								7th	7th	7th	7th	7th	6th	6th	4th	4th	4th
Taekwondo		WTF										8th	8th	16	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th
tennis		ITF	5	5	5	5	5		5	5	5	5	6th	6th	4th	4th	4th	5	5
Triathlon		ITU												2	2	2	2	2	2
Water-skiing		IMWF												6th	6th	6th	7th	9	9
Weightlifting		IMF	5	7th	7th	7th	7th	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	15th	15th	15th	15th	15th
Number of competitions			140	146	166	160	169	164	190	249	249	296	331	408	330	338	331	361	364

Venues for the Pan American Games

number	event	date	venue
I.	Pan American Games 1951	February 25–9. March	Buenos Aires , Argentina
II.	Pan American Games 1955	12-26 March	Mexico City , Mexico
III.	Pan American Games 1959	August 27th – 7th September	Chicago , USA
IV.	Pan American Games 1963	April 20th – 5th May	São Paulo , Brazil
V.	Pan American Games 1967	July 23 - 6. August	Winnipeg , Canada
VI.	Pan American Games 1971	July 30th-17th August	Cali , Colombia
VII.	Pan American Games 1975	12-26 October	Mexico City , Mexico
VIII.	Pan American Games 1979	1st - 15th July	San Juan , Puerto Rico
IX.	Pan American Games 1983	14.-29. August	Caracas , Venezuela
X.	Pan American Games 1987	7-23 August	Indianapolis , USA
XI.	Pan American Games 1991	2nd-18th August	Havana , Cuba
XII.	Pan American Games 1995	11-26 March	Mar del Plata , Argentina
XIII.	Pan American Games 1999	July 23–8. August	Winnipeg , Canada
XIV.	Pan American Games 2003	1st - 17th August	Santo Domingo , Dominican Republic
XV.	Pan American Games 2007	13.-29. July	Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
XVI.	Pan American Games 2011	14.-30. October	Guadalajara , Mexico
XVII.	Pan American Games 2015	10-26 July	Toronto , Canada
XVIII.	Pan American Games 2019	July 26th – 11th August	Lima , Peru
XIX.	Pan American Games 2023	October 20th - November 5th	Santiago de Chile , Chile

Eternal medal table

The table shows the total medal table for the Pan American Games from the beginning of 1951 to the last edition in 2015.

Eternal medal table of the Pan American Games
space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	United States	1948	1455	1027	4430
2	Cuba	875	593	558	2026
3	Canada	458	660	802	1920
4th	Brazil	328	358	519	1205
5	Argentina	294	331	435	1060
6th	Mexico	221	288	502	1011
7th	Colombia	108	147	229	484
8th	Venezuela	93	205	277	575
9	Chile	44	91	151	286
10	Dominican Republic	29	63	112	204
11	Puerto Rico	28	81	134	243
12	Ecuador	28	30th	61	119
13	Jamaica	25th	42	62	129
14th	Guatemala	20th	16	39	75
15th	Uruguay	12	25th	46	83
16	Trinidad and Tobago	11	22nd	29	62
17th	Peru	9	34	69	112
18th	Bahamas	9	14th	12	35
19th	Netherlands Antilles	5	8th	14th	27
20th	Costa Rica	5	6th	11	22nd
21st	Panama	3	19th	26th	48
22nd	Suriname	3	2	5	10
23	Guyana	2	4th	12	18th
24	El Salvador	1	8th	13	22nd
25th	Bermuda	1	4th	4th	9
26th	American Virgin Islands	1	4th	3	8th
27	Cayman Islands	1	4th	1	5
28	Antigua and Barbuda	1	1	3	5
29	St. Lucia	1	0	2	3
30th	Barbados	0	4th	11	15th
31	Nicaragua	0	4th	7th	11
32	Paraguay	0	2	8th	10
33	Bolivia	0	2	6th	8th
34	Haiti	0	2	5	7th
35	Honduras	0	2	4th	6th
36	Grenada	0	2	2	4th
37	Dominica	0	2	1	3
	St. Kitts and Nevis	0	2	1	3
39	Belize	0	0	2	2
	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	0	0	2	2
41	Aruba	0	0	1	1
	total	4564	4533	5201	14,298

Participating Nations

American Virgin Islands  Antigua and Barbuda  Argentina  Aruba  Bahamas  Barbados  Belize  Bermuda  Bolivia  Brazil  British Virgin Islands  Cayman Islands  Chile  Costa Rica

Dominica  Dominican Republic  Ecuador  El Salvador  Grenada  Guatemala  Guyana  Haiti  Honduras  Jamaica  Canada  Cayman Islands  Colombia  Cuba

Mexico  Nicaragua  Panama  Paraguay  Peru  Puerto Rico  St. Kitts and Nevis  St. Lucia  St. Vincent and the Grenadines  Suriname  Trinidad and Tobago  Uruguay  United States  Venezuela

See also

• Pan American Games (Badminton)
• Boxing at the Pan American Games
• Fencing at the Pan American Games
• Football at the Pan American Games
• Hockey at the Pan American Games
• Equestrian at the Pan American Games
• Squash at the Pan American Games
• Tennis at the Pan American Games
• Triathlon at the Pan American Games
• Para American Games
• List of stamp issues related to the Pan American Games

Web links

• Official website of the 2019 Games in Lima (Spanish / English)
• Official website of the 2011 Games in Guadalajara ( Memento of November 25, 2010 on the Internet Archive )
• 60 Years Ago In Swimming History ( Memento from January 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.7 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pan American Games events ( Memento from October 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )