2011 Parapan American Games

Template:Parapan American infobox The 4th Parapan American Games are to take place in November 2011, in Guadalajara, Mexico. The Games are an international multi-sport event for athletes with a physical disability. The Games will be held 20 days after the 2011 Pan American Games have begun.

Overview

Guadalajara is a metropolitan area of five million people known as the "Pearl of the West," and regarded for culture, theatre, museums and as Mexico's No. 1 destination for business tourism.

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 will have 22,000 hotel rooms by 2011, a new bus rapid transit system, Macrobus, that will 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.

Sports

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

• Archery ()
• Athletics ()
• Boccia ()
• Cycling ()
  • Road
  • Track

• Football 5-a-side ()
• Goalball ()
• Judo (10) ()
• Powerlifting ()
• Swimming ()

• Table tennis ()
• Wheelchair tennis ()
• Sitting volleyball ()
• Wheelchair basketball ()

Venues

See also: Venues of the 2011 Pan American Games

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.

• 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	3	3	11
Powerlifting						2	2	2		6
Sitting volleyball			●	●	●	●	1			1
Swimming		11	19	13	13	7	9	13		85
Table tennis		●	●	15	●	●	6			21
Wheelchair basketball		●	●	●	●	●	●	2		2
Wheelchair tennis		●	●	●	●	2	2			4
Total events		15	40	52	39	38	56	31	5	276
Cumulative total		15	55	107	146	184	240	271	276
November	12 Sat	13 Sun	14 Mon	15 Tue	16 Wed	17 Thu	18 Fri	19 Sat	20 Sun	Events

See also

• 2011 Pan American Games

External links

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