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 upcoming international multi-sport event governed by the Panam Sports Organization, scheduled to be held in Santiago, Chile from 20 October to 5 November 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
MottoDream, Play, Win
Spanish: Soñar, Jugar, Ganar
Nations41
Athletes6,909
Events419 in 39 sports
Opening20 October
Closing5 November
Opened byPresident Gabriel Boric (expected)
Closed byPresident Gabriel Boric (expected)
Cauldron lighterTBA
Main venueEstadio Nacional
Pan American Sports Organization Flag
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2023 Pan American Games

The games are scheduled to be held in 39 venues across in the Santiago Metropolitan Region and three other 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 elected 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]

The Games

Participating National Olympic Committees

All 41 nations who are members of the Pan American Sports Organization are expected to compete.

A map of all 41 participating nations
Participating National Olympic Committees

Sports

A total of 419 events in 39 sports will be contested at the 2023 Pan American Games: breakdancing, skateboarding (as a discipline of roller sports), and sport climbing are making their Pan-Am Games debut,[13][14][15] while bodybuilding was dropped after its debut in 2019.[16] Men's and women's team Kyorugi events were also added in taekwondo.[17]

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.[14] In December 2020, basque pelota, bowling, racquetball, squash, and sport climbing were added to the program, expanding it to 38 sports.[13] 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.[15][18]

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

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.[19] 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.[20] In early-2023, the commercial networks Canal 13 and Chilevisión also acquired rights to the Games.[21][22]

Marketing

The emblem of the 2023 Pan American and Parapan American Games was unveiled on July 17, 2019.[23] 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".[24]

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".[25][26]

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

References
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