2011 Parapan American Games
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Guadalajara 2011 Parapan American Games. | Motto = | Nations participating = 26 | Athletes participating = 1500+ | Officially opened by = | Athlete's Oath = | Judge's Oath = | Pan American Torch = | Stadium = Estadio Telmex de Atletismo
The 4th Parapan American Games are to take place in November 2011, in Guadalajara, Mexico.[1] 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.[2]
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.[3] These are:
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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.[4][5]
- 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 |
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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
References
- ^ United States Olympic Committee - 2011 Parapan American Games, assets.usta.com
- ^ Guadalajara Has What Toronto Lacks
- ^ Parapan American Games, official website of the IV Parapan American Games (www.parapan.guadalajara2011.org.mx); retrieved 2011-03-17.
- ^ Puerto Vallarta Will Host Pan Americans Games 2011
- ^ http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/eng/03_deportes/deportes.asp