2011 Parapan American Games

IV Parapan American Games

Official logo of the 2011 Parapan American Games
Host city	Guadalajara
Country	Mexico
Nations participating	24
Athletes participating	1355
Events	279 in 13 sports
Opening ceremony	November 12, 2011 (2011-11-12)
Closing ceremony	November 20, 2011 (2011-11-20)
Officially opened by	Bernardo de la Garza
Athlete's Oath	Juan Ignacio Reyes
Judge's Oath	Juan Alberto Magallanes
Torch lighter	Maria de los Angeles Herrera
Main venue	Telmex Athletics Stadium
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The 4th Parapan American Games took place from November 12 to 20 in Guadalajara, Mexico.^[1] The Games are an international multi-sport event for athletes with a physical disability. The Games were held 20 days after the 2011 Pan American Games began. The opening and closing ceremonies were produced by FiveCurrents.

Infrastructure and Budget

A Guadalajara reporter said "The area is rough. It's just this side of being on the wrong side of the tracks. But it's not far from the theatre area or the downtown with some of the nicer, old colonial hotels, and the city hopes that the Villa Panamericana can rejuvenate the downtown historical area." The $300 million Guggenheim Guadalajara will also be nearby.

The city would have 22,000 hotel rooms by 2011, a new bus rapid transit system, Macrobus, that would run through the Calzada Independencia, and the Centro Cultural Metropolitano, an ambitious project of the Universidad de Guadalajara, which includes a 10,000-seat performing arts auditorium (Auditorio Telmex), the new public library of the state of Jalisco, among other buildings.

Participating nations

24 nations will be participating in the Games.^[2] The number of competitors qualified by each delegation is indicated in parentheses.

Sports

13 sports, with sub-disciplines, will be contested at the Games.^[27] These are:

Venues

Most of the new facilities are modest with temporary seating, intended to be utilized in future as training sites and teaching facilities for elite athletes or for community use.^[28][29]

• Telmex Athletics Stadium - Athletics, Opening Ceremony and Closing Ceremony
• Pan American Archery Stadium - Archery
• CODE Dome - Wheelchair Basketball
• Pan American Velodrome - Cycling (track)
• San Rafael Gymnasium - Goalball
• Pan American Hockey Stadium - Football 5-a-side
• CODE II Gymnasium - Table Tennis
• Telcel Tennis Complex - Wheelchair Tennis
• Pan American Volleyball Stadium - Sitting Volleyball
• Weightlifting Forum - Powerlifting
• Multipurpose Gymnasium - Judo
• Scotiabank Aquatics Center - Swimming

Calendar

OC

Opening ceremony

●

Event competitions

1

Event finals

CC

Closing ceremony

November	12 Sat	13 Sun	14 Mon	15 Tue	16 Wed	17 Thu	18 Fri	19 Sat	20 Sun	Events
Ceremonies	OC								CC
Archery				●	●	3				3
Athletics			21	20	16	24	31		1	113
Boccia		●	●	●	4					4
Cycling		4		4	6			9		23
Football 5-a-side				●	●	●	●	●	1	1
Goalball		●	●	●	●	●	●	2		2
Judo							5	4	4	13
Powerlifting						2	2	2		6
Sitting volleyball			●	●	●	●	1			1
Swimming		12	19	13	13	7	9	13		86
Table tennis		●	●	15	●	●	6			21
Wheelchair basketball		●	●	●	●	●	●	2		2
Wheelchair tennis		●	●	●	●	2	2			4
Total events		16	40	52	39	38	56	32	6	279
Cumulative total		16	56	108	147	185	241	273	279
November	12 Sat	13 Sun	14 Mon	15 Tue	16 Wed	17 Thu	18 Fri	19 Sat	20 Sun	Events

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Mexico)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil (BRA)	81	61	55	197
2	United States (USA)	51	47	34	132
3	Mexico (MEX)*	50	60	55	165
4	Cuba (CUB)	27	16	11	54
5	Argentina (ARG)	19	25	31	75
6	Colombia (COL)	18	23	13	54
7	Venezuela (VEN)	16	14	18	48
8	Canada (CAN)	13	22	28	63
9	Jamaica (JAM)	1	4	0	5
10	Chile (CHI)	1	0	3	4
11	Dominican Republic (DOM)	0	1	1	2
12	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	0	0	2	2
13	Peru (PER)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 nations)		277	273	252	802

See also

• 2011 Pan American Games

References

External links

• 2011 Parapan American Games
• Americas Paralympic Committee (APC)
• Results (archived)