2023 Parapan American Games

The 2023 Parapan American Games, officially the VII Pan American Games and commonly known as the Santiago 2023 ParaPan-Am Games, is an international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities. It celebrates the tradition of the Parapan American Games as governed by the Americas Paralympic Committee and is scheduled to be held from November 17 to 26 in Santiago, Chile.[1]

VII Parapan American Games
HostSantiago, Chile
MottoOur meeting point
Spanish: Nuestro puento de encuentro
Nations31
Athletes1943
Events423 in 17 sports
OpeningNovember 17
ClosingNovember 26
Main venueChile National Stadium

Development and preparation

Budget

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.[2] 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.[3]

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 will host the Games.[4]

In June 2022, organizers revealed the final venue plan consisting of 41 competition venues. 14 of the 41 will be used for the Games.[5] The venues span four regions of the country: Santiago, Valparaíso, O'Higgins and Biobío, however all Parapan venues are located in the Santiago area.[6]

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.[7] After the games, the village will be converted to social housing. The village is being built in the Cerrillos Bicentennial Park community of Santiago.[8]

The Games

Participating National Paralympic Committees

There will be 33 nations participating.

Participating National Paralympic Committees
  •  Antigua and Barbuda
  •  Argentina
  •  Aruba
  •  Barbados
  •  Bermuda
  •  Brazil (322)
  •  Canada
  •  Chile (Host)
  •  Colombia
  •  Costa Rica
  •  Cuba
  •  Dominican Republic
  •  Ecuador
  •  El Salvador
  •  Grenada
  •  Guatemala
  •  Guyana
  •  Haiti
  •  Honduras
  •  Jamaica
  •  Mexico
  •  Nicaragua
  •  Panama
  •  Paraguay
  •  Peru
  •  Puerto Rico
  •  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  •  Suriname
  •  Trinidad and Tobago
  •  United States
  •  Uruguay
  •  Venezuela
  •  Virgin Islands

Sports

The Games will feature 423 events in 17 sports. Archery will return after having been absent from the 2019 Games, but sitting volleyball has been dropped from the event program.[9]

Marketing

The Games share most of its branding with the 2023 Pan American Games, including its emblem unveiled in July 2019,[10] and its mascot Fiu—a many-colored rush tyrant—which was announced on October 16, 2021, following an online poll.[11][12]

See also

References
  1. Livingstone, Robert (November 4, 2017). "Santiago To Host 2023 Pan American Games". Games Bids Inc. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
  2. Berkeley, Geoff (September 26, 2021). "Chilean President features Santiago 2023 prominently in $82.1 billion budget for 2022". Inside the Games. Dunsar Media. Retrieved March 25, 2022.
  3. "Toronto 2015 Budget and Financial Performance - Q3 FY2015" (PDF). TO2015. February 13, 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 21, 2015. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  4. Lloyd, Owen (November 15, 2021). "Viña del Mar, Valparaíso and Algarrobo to act as Santiago 2023 sub-sites". Inside the Games. Dunsar Media. Retrieved March 25, 2022.
  5. "Santiago 2023 Officially Confirms Sports Venues". www.panamsports.org/. Panam Sports. June 14, 2022. Retrieved August 21, 2022.
  6. Burke, Patrick (June 15, 2022). "Santiago 2023 Pan American and Parapan American Games venues set to cover 19 Chilean districts". Inside the Games. Dunsar Media. Retrieved August 14, 2022.
  7. "Santiago 2023 Lays the First Stone of the Pan American Village". www.anocolympic.org/. Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC). December 15, 2021. Retrieved March 25, 2022.
  8. Dowdeswell, Andrew (December 15, 2021). "Santiago 2023 Organising Committee lays first stone of Athletes' Village". Inside the Games. Dunsar Media. Retrieved March 25, 2022.
  9. Pavitt, Michael (December 16, 2020). "Archery returns to Parapan American Games but sitting volleyball not included at Santiago 2023". Inside the Games. Dunsar Media. Retrieved August 21, 2022.
  10. "Los Juegos Panamericanos de Santiago 2023 ya tienen su logo oficial" [The Santiago 2023 Pan American Games already have their official logo]. www.alairelibre.cl (in Spanish). Al aire libre en Cooperativa. July 17, 2019. Retrieved August 27, 2022.
  11. Berkeley, Geoff (October 16, 2022). "Colourful bird "Fiu" unveiled as Santiago 2023 mascot at two-year countdown event". Inside the Games. Dunsar Media. Retrieved August 27, 2022.
  12. Lloyd, Owen (August 6, 2021). "Santiago 2023 launches a public vote to help choose official mascot". Inside the Games. Dunsar Media. Retrieved August 27, 2022.
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