2023 Pan American Games

The 2023 Pan American Games (Spanish: Juegos Panamericanos de 2023), officially the XIX Pan American Games and commonly known as Santiago 2023, is an international multi-sport event governed by the Panam Sports Organization, being held in Santiago, Chile from October 20 to November 5, 2023; preliminary rounds in certain events began on October 18, 2023. These are the first Pan American Games to be held in Chile, and the eighth to be held in South America.

"Santiago 2023" redirects here. For the Parapan American Games, see 2023 Parapan American Games.

XIX Pan American Games
Logo of the 2023 Pan American Games
HostSantiago, Chile
MottoOur meeting point
Spanish: Nuestro punto de encuentro
Nations41
Athletes6,909
Events425 in 39 sports
Opening20 October
Closing5 November
Opened byPresident Gabriel Boric
Cauldron lighterFernando González
Lucy Lopez
Nicolás Massú
Main venueEstadio Nacional
Websitewww.santiago2023.org/en
Pan American Sports Organization Flag
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2023 Pan American Games

The games are being held in 39 venues across in the Santiago Metropolitan Region and another three regions of Chile. The Pan American Games and the 2023 Parapan American Games were organized by the Santiago Organizing Committee for the 2023 Pan and Parapan American Games.

Bidding process
Main article: Bids for the 2023 Pan American Games

Two bids were submitted for the 2023 Pan American Games. Santiago, Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina both submitted bids. On February 1, 2017, the Pan American Sports Organization (now Panam Sports) announced the two cities as the official bids.[1] Buenos Aires withdrew their bid in April 2017 due to not having the necessary finances or logistics to host this event and the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.[2]

Host city election

Santiago was unanimously acclaimed as the host city at the ANOC General Assembly in Prague on November 4, 2017.[3] This will mark the first time Chile hosts the Pan American Games. Santiago was initially awarded the right to host the 1975 and later 1987 Pan American Games, but withdrew as host both times due to financial and political problems.[4] Most recently, Santiago was a candidate for the 2019 Pan American Games but lost to Lima.[3]

Bidding results
City NOC name Votes
SantiagoChile Chile Unanimous

Development and preparation

Financing

The budget for the games is $507 million USD, with $170 million reserved for the building of ten new sporting venues and the upgrade of six arenas.[5] The budget is about 36% of what was spent for the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada and 50% of the last Pan American Games in 2019, in Lima, Peru.[6]

Venues
Main article: Venues of the 2023 Pan American and Parapan American Games
National stadium is the main stadium for the games.

Various venues across Santiago and various other cities will be used for the games, including Viña del Mar, Valparaíso and Algarrobo.[7] In March 2022, the first venue for the games was officially inaugurated: the field hockey stadium on the National Stadium Grounds.[8]

In June 2022, organizers revealed the final venue plan consisting of 41 competition venues. 39 will be used for the Games, with the other two being used exclusively for the 2023 Parapan American Games.[9] The venues span four regions of the country: Santiago, Valparaíso, O'Higgins and Biobío.[10]

Athletes Village

In December 2021, a ceremony was held to lay the first brick for the village. The village is expected to cost approximately $100 million USD, and will consist of 1,345 apartments.[11] After the games, the village will be converted to social housing. The village is being built in the Cerrillos Bicentennial Park community of Santiago.[12]

Torch relay

The 2023 Pan American Games torch relay began on 5 October 2023 and ended at the opening ceremony with the lighting of the cauldron. There were three torches, with each torch travelling to different areas of Santiago and Chile.[13][14]

The Games

Ceremonies
See also: 2023 Pan American Games Parade of Nations

The opening ceremony was held on 20 October at Estadio Nacional. The ceremony consisted of a cultural display showcasing all of Chile's diversity. The games were opened by President Gabriel Boric, with IOC President Thomas Bach and Panam Sports President Neven Ilic also attending the ceremony. Musical performances included Colombian singer Sebastián Yatra. The cauldron was lit by 1951 Pan American Games silver medalist Lucy Lopez, and the only two Chilean Olympic gold medallists Nicolás Massú and Fernando González.[15]

The closing ceremony is scheduled to be held on 5 November.

Participating National Olympic Committees

40 National Olympic Committees who are members of the Pan American Sports Organization are scheduled to compete.The 41st National Olympic Committee would be Guatemala, which however has its NOC suspended and its athletes will compete as PASO Individual Athletes. This total number does not include the numbers of athletes registered for e-Sports which will be a sport of demonstration.

A map of all 40 participating teams
Participating National Olympic Committees

Sports

A total of 425 events in 39 sports will be contested at the 2023 Pan American Games: breaking, skateboarding (as a discipline of roller sports), and sport climbing are making their Pan-Am Games debut,[46][47][48] while bodybuilding was dropped after its debut in 2019.[49] Men's and women's team Kyorugi events were also added in taekwondo.[50] Another new events for this edition are the synchronized trampoline in gymnastics, 1,000 metres sprint event in roller speed skating and the mixed eights event in rowing. Meanwhile the mixed team event in golf was dropped for this edition and weightlifting events were reduced by four (to mirror the 2024 Olympics program).

Panam Sports announced an initial program of 33 sports in March 2020, consisting of the 28 "core" sports that will be contested at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, along with baseball/softball, karate, roller sports (artistic, speed, and skateboarding), surfing, and water skiing. Panam Sports did not rule out the addition of further sports, provided that they did not increase the infrastructural costs of the Games.[47] In December 2020, basque pelota, bowling, racquetball, squash, and sport climbing were added to the program, expanding it to 38 sports.[46] On June 24, 2022, breakdancing (breaking) was added to the program as its 39th sport, serving as a qualifier for its Olympic debut at Paris 2024.[48]

Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events to be contested in each sport/discipline.

Calendar
OCOpening ceremony ●Event competitions 1Event finals CCClosing ceremony
October/November 18
Wed		 19
Thu		 20
Fri		 21
Sat		 22
Sun		 23
Mon		 24
Tue		 25
Wed		 26
Thu		 27
Fri		 28
Sat		 29
Sun		 30
Mon		 31
Tue		 1
Wed		 2
Thu		 3
Fri		 4
Sat		 5
Sun		 Medal events
Ceremonies (opening / closing)OCCC—
Aquatics Artistic swimming ● 1 1 2
Diving ● 2 2 2 2 2 10
Open water swimming 2 2
Swimming 8 7 9 6 6 36
Water polo ● ● ● ● ● 2 2
Archery ● ● ● 7 3 10
Athletics 2 2 5 5 5 10 8 11 48
Badminton ● ● ● ● 5 5
Baseball
Baseball ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1
Softball ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1
Basketball Basketball ● ● ● ● 1 ● ● ● ● 1 2
3×3 Basketball ● ● 2 2
Basque pelota ● ● ● ● 4 4 8
Bowling 2 ● ● 2 4
Boxing ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 13 13
Breaking ● 2 2
Canoeing Slalom ● ● 6 6
Sprint ● ● 5 5 10
Cycling BMX freestyle 2 2
BMX racing ● 2 2
Mountain biking 2 2
Road 2 2 4
Track 3 2 2 5 12
Equestrian Dressage ● 1 1 2
Eventing ● ● 2 2
Jumping ● 1 1 2
Fencing 2 2 2 2 2 2 12
Field hockey ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1 2
Football (soccer) ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1 2
Golf ● ● ● 2 2
Gymnastics Artistic 1 1 2 5 5 14
Rhythmic ● 2 3 3 8
Trampoline ● 4 4
Handball ● ● ● ● 1 ● ● ● ● 1 2
Judo 5 4 5 1 15
Karate 2 5 5 12
Modern pentathlon ● ● 2 1 1 1 5
Racquetball ● ● ● 5 ● 2 7
Roller sports Artistic ● 2 2
Skateboarding 2 2 4
Speed 4 4 8
Rowing ● ● 5 5 5 15
Rugby sevens ● 2 2
Sailing ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 7 6 13
Shooting 2 3 2 1 1 3 3 15
Sport climbing 1 1 1 1 4
Squash ● 2 ● 3 ● 2 7
Surfing ● ● ● ● ● 2 6 8
Table tennis ● 1 2 2 ● ● 2 7
Taekwondo 5 4 2 2 13
Tennis ● ● ● ● ● 3 2 5
Triathlon 2 1 3
Volleyball Beach ● ● ● ● ● ● 2 2
Indoor ● ● ● ● ● 1 ● ● ● ● ● 1 2
Water skiing ● ● 7 3 10
Weightlifting 3 3 2 2 10
Wrestling 3 6 6 3 18
Total Medal events 26 29 37 35 28 9 24 9 24 19 10 15 25 40 71 24 425
Cumulative total 26 55 92 127 155 164 188 197 221 240 250 265 290 330 401 425 —
18
Wed		19
Thu		20
Fri		21
Sat		22
Sun		23
Mon		24
Tue		25
Wed		26
Thu		27
Fri		28
Sat		29
Sun		30
Mon		31
Tue		1
Wed		2
Thu		3
Fri		4
Sat		5
Sun		Medal events

Medal table
Main article: 2023 Pan American Games medal table
Key

  *   Host nation (Chile)

RankNOC'sGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States604041141
2 Mexico30162571
3 Canada29243083
4 Brazil14262767
5 Colombia8111231
6 Chile*5121128
7 Dominican Republic44412
8 Cuba35614
9 Argentina2101022
10 Ecuador24915
11–27Remaining NOCs11163966
Totals (27 entries)168168214550

Media

In February 2022, Mediapro reached an agreement to serve as host broadcaster of Santiago 2023; for the first time, every event held across the Pan-American and Parapan American Games will be televised, nearly doubling the hours of coverage that will be available to rightsholders in comparison to 2019.[51] In September 2022, the country's public broadcaster Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) reached an agreement to serve as the domestic broadcaster of the Games.[52] In early-2023, the commercial networks Canal 13 and Chilevisión also acquired rights to the Games.[53][54]

Marketing
Fiu, the mascot of Santiago 2023.

The emblem of the 2023 Pan American and Parapan American Games was unveiled on July 17, 2019.[55] The slogan of the Games, "Dream, Play, Win" (Spanish: Soñar, Jugar, Ganar) was unveiled in February 2022; organizers chose the slogan because it "speaks to the experience of every athlete young and old".[56]

An online poll was held in August 2021 to determine the mascot of the 2023 Pan American and Parapan American Games. Five candidates were presented, based on plants and wildlife native to Chile. On October 16, 2021, Fiu—a many-colored rush tyrant—was announced as the winner of the vote. Its design is described as reflecting the "diversity of human beings and especially athletes", and symbolizing that "being small does not mean you cannot give it your best effort".[57][58]

Sponsorships

Multiple companies helped sponsor the 2023 Pan American Games.

Official sponsor
Official providers
Official supporters
Proud supporters
Government partners
  • Senadis
  • Marca Chile
  • Sernatur
  • ProChile

See also

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