Pan American Games

Pan American Games are held every four years one year before the Summer Olympics. The competitions will take place mainly in the Olympic sports for athletes in the Americas. These contests are of the Pan American Sports Organization according to the rules of the International Olympic Committee (IOC ) and the various national sports federations aligned. As a non-Olympic sports include futsal and squash to the program.

The games were during a meeting of the Pan-American Congress in Buenos Aires ( Argentina) launched in 1940 to life in order to enable closer links between athletes in the Americas.

The First Pan-American Games were supposed to take place in 1942, but the Second World War thwarted this plan. So the competition was first held in 1951 in Buenos Aires. In the following time the games were held in various cities of the continent. 2011 was the Mexican Guadalajara hosted the XVI. Pan-American Games.

Venues for the Pan American Games

Perpetual medal

The table shows the total medal count of the Pan American Games since 1951.

Participants Nations

  • Netherlands Antilles Netherlands Antilles
  • Nicaragua Nicaragua
  • Panama Panama
  • Paraguay Paraguay
  • Peru Peru
  • Puerto Rico Puerto Rico
  • Saint Kitts Nevis St. Kitts and Nevis
  • Saint Lucia St. Lucia
  • Saint Vincent Grenadines St. Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Suriname Suriname
  • Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago
  • Uruguay Uruguay
  • United States United States
  • Venezuela Venezuela
Summer Olympic Games 2011 Pan American Games 1955 Pan American Games 1959 Pan American Games Chicago 1963 Pan American Games 1967 Pan American Games Winnipeg 1971 Pan American Games Cali 1975 Pan American Games 1979 Pan American Games 1983 Pan American Games 1987 Pan American Games Indianapolis 1991 Pan American Games 1995 Pan American Games Mar del Plata 1999 Pan American Games 2003 Pan American Games 2007 Pan American Games 2015 Pan American Games Toronto 2019 Pan American Games The Bahamas United States Virgin Islands Field hockey at the Pan American Games Squash at the Pan American Games Winter Olympic Games Youth Olympic Games World Police and Fire Games Deaflympics Arafura Games Lusophony Games Indian Ocean Island Games Islamic Solidarity Games Central African Games Central American Games West Asian Games Micronesian Games
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