2019 Pan American Games

The events were held in various Lima districts and neighboring cities, with most of them concentrated in the clusters of VIDENA (a complex in the San Luis District), Pan American Park (Villa María del Triunfo), the Sports Village of Callao, and a sports complex in Costa Verde.

The Estadio Nacional hosted the opening and closing ceremonies

The total budget is estimated at US$1.2 billion, with $470 million in sports infrastructure, $180 million building the Pan American Village, $430 million spent in organization, and $106 million for other expenses.[5]

9,500 athletes and team officials were accommodated in a complex with 1,700 units in Villa El Salvador.

The torch was sent from Mexico to Lima by sailboat, and the torch relay started in Machu Picchu.[6] The torch had toured through 23 cities over 23 days and covered 5,500 kilometers en route to the Peru National Stadium in Lima on July 26, 2019 for the opening ceremony. The cities include Machu Picchu, Ollantaytambo, Cusco, Puno, Lake Titicaca, Arequipa, Camaná, Nazca, Ica, Ayacucho, Huancavelica, Cerro de Pasco, Huánuco, Tocache, Tarapoto, Bagua Grande, Piura, Cajamarca, Trujillo and Huaraz.[7]

The opening ceremony of the games took place on July 26, 2019 and the closing ceremony took place on August 11, 2019.[8]

All 41 nations who are members of the Pan American Sports Organization competed at the event.[9][10] The numbers in parenthesis represents the number of athletes a country qualified.

Participating countries.

419 events in 39 sports were contested in Lima, the largest number of medal events ever held at a single edition of the Pan American Games. Bodybuilding and surfing were contested at the Pan-Am Games for the first time in 2019, basque pelota was reinstated after being absent from the 2015 Games, and women's baseball was dropped after debuting in 2015.[50]

Almost all of the new events being contested at the 2020 Summer Olympics were already on the Pan-Am Games' programme. Sport climbing was excluded because it did not have the required number of national federations in the Americas to be eligible for inclusion. Skateboarding was pulled from the programme in May 2019, with Panam Sports citing that World Skate had diminished the quality of the event by having not made the Games be a qualifier for the Olympics, and its partner Street League Skateboarding (SLS) having scheduled a World Tour event in Los Angeles that directly conflicted with the Games.[51][52][53][54]

The new event disciplines introduced for the 2020 Summer Olympics were also added, including the 4 × 100m mixed medley relay, men's 800m and women's 1,500m in swimming, 3-on-3 basketball, BMX freestyle park, two new women's boxing events, madison track cycling, the transfer of three men's events to mixed team events in shooting, table tennis mixed doubles, archery mixed team, and triathlon mixed relay. There was a reduction of one men's weightlifting event,[55][56] and all canoe events being gender-neutral (removing a men's event from each discipline).[50] In addition, a 1m springboard discipline was added to diving,[50] as well as compound archery,[57] modern pentathlon relays (with mixed, men's, and women's events),[50] 49er, Nacra 17 and kiteboarding (the latter two replacing the Hobie 16 and J/24) events in sailing,[58] extreme canoe slalom, mixed doubles squash, women's wakeboard, poomsae events in taekwondo,[59] women's 50 km race walking, and doubles table tennis.[50][60][61]

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

The calendar was unveiled on April 18, 2019, 100 days ahead to the start of the competition.[62][63]

OC

Opening ceremony

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Event competitions

1

Event finals

CC

Closing ceremony

July/August		24 Wed	25 Thu	26 Fri	27 Sat	28 Sun	29 Mon	30 Tue	31 Wed	1 Thu	2 Fri	3 Sat	4 Sun	5 Mon	6 Tue	7 Wed	8 Thu	9 Fri	10 Sat	11 Sun	Events
Ceremonies (opening / closing)				OC																CC	N/A
Aquatics	Artistic swimming						●		2												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																●	●	●	3	5	8
Athletics					2								2		5	6	10	11	10	2	48
Badminton							●	●	●	●	5										5
Baseball							●	●	●	●	●	●	1								1
Basketball					●	●	2		●	●	●	●	1		●	●	●	●	1		4
Basque pelota													●	●	●	●	●	●	10		10
Bodybuilding																			2		2
Boxing					●	●	●	●		7	8										15
Bowling			●		2	●	●	2													4
Canoeing	Slalom										●	●	6								6
	Sprint				1	2	5	4													12
Cycling	BMX																●	2		2	4
	Mountain biking					2															2
	Road															2			2		4
	Track									3	2	3	4								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						●	●		●	●		●	●		●	●		1	1		2
Golf																	●	●	●	3	3
Gymnastics	Artistic				1	1	2	5	5												14
	Rhythmic										●	2	3	3							8
	Trampoline												●	2							2
Handball		●	●		●		●	1	●	●	●		●	1							2
Judo																	3	3	4	4	14
Karate																		4	5	5	14
Modern pentathlon				●	1	1	2	1													5
Racquetball											●	●	●	●	●	4	●	●	2		6
Roller sports	Figure			●	2																2
	Speed																	2	4		6
Rowing															●	●	4	5	5		14
Rugby sevens				●	●	2															2
Sailing												●	●	●	●	●	●	6	5		11
Shooting					1	2	2	2	1	2	2	3									15
Softball			●		●	●	●	●	●	1			●	●	●	●	●	●	1		2
Squash			●	●	2	3	●	●	2												7
Surfing							●	●	●	●	2	●	6								8
Table tennis													●	1	2	2	●	●	2		7
Taekwondo					4	4	4														12
Tennis							●	●	●	●	●	3	2								5
Triathlon					2		1														3
Volleyball	Beach	●	●	●	●	●	●	2													2
	Indoor								●	●	●	●	1			●	●	●	●	1	2
Water skiing					●	●	7	3													10
Weightlifting					3	4	4	3													14
Wrestling																5	4	5	4		18
Total events					21	21	30	23	11	15	21	13	32	11	17	29	32	49	72	22	419
Cumulative total					21	42	72	95	106	121	142	155	187	198	215	244	276	325	397	419	N/A
		24 Wed	25 Thu	26 Fri	27 Sat	28 Sun	29 Mon	30 Tue	31 Wed	1 Thu	2 Fri	3 Sat	4 Sun	5 Mon	6 Tue	7 Wed	8 Thu	9 Fri	10 Sat	11 Sun	Events

Mediapro served as host broadcaster. The Lima Convention Centre hosted the International Broadcast Centre (IBC).[64] Panam Sports also launched the Panam Sports Channel on its website, which featured supplemental video content from the Games hosted by local personality Alexandra Hörler.[65]

The official logo of the 2019 Pan American Games is inspired by the amancay, an indigenous flower that flourishes from June 24 through September 30. The flower and its pistils represent three athletes with open arms and the three Americas, with the identity of Lima. It was designed by Peruvian graphic designers Juan Diego Sanz and Jorge Luis Zárate.[66]

In June 2017, after over a thousand submissions, the organising committee revealed the final three in the running to be the mascot of the games.[67] The final three designs were: Milco, which was influenced by Cuchimilco sculptures (pre-Hispanic figures of Chancay culture developed in Lima around 1200–1470 A.D.); a flower named Amantis; and Wayqi, a leaf-toed gecko. In July 2017, it was announced Milco was the winner of the contest, receiving 45% of the vote. There was approximately 44,154 votes cast in the contest, the most ever for a mascot competition for the Pan American Games.[68] The winning designer of the competition was awarded 15,000 Peruvian sol (or approximately US$4,600).[69] Milco's body is orange and the colour of his shorts is red, while his T-shirt is white, representing the colors of the Peruvian flag. Milco was designed by 24-year-old Andrea Norka Medrano Moy.[68]