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The 2015 Pan and Parapan American Games venues were mostly located in the host city of Toronto, Ontario, though some events required facilities located elsewhere. Besides Toronto, fourteen other municipalities in Southern Ontario hosted competitions: Ajax, Hamilton, Innisfil, Markham, Milton, Minden, Mississauga, Mono, Oro-Medonte, Oshawa, Palgrave, St. Catharines, Welland and Whitby.[1][2]

Naming

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A map of the fifteen host cities

The Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) and the Toronto 2015 Organizing Committee have a number of major sponsors for the Pan American Games, who are entitled to have their name exclusively associated with the event. As a consequence, any other company that provides sponsorship is not permitted to use its name or branding during the games, which includes venue naming rights (including those not provided by corporate sponsorship and those named in honor of people).

As a consequence of this, eight Pan American venues are temporarily renamed for the duration of the Games:

Sporting venues

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Toronto Coliseum during the gymnastics competitions

In total, 28 venues were used during the 2015 Pan American Games.

The 2015 Games used a mixture of newly built venues, existing facilities, and temporary facilities, some of them in well-known locations such as Exhibition Place and Centennial Park. Some of the new facilities were to be reused in their Pan American Games form (for example the BMX track), while others were reduced in size (for example the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre).

All venue capacities listed below are found in the strategic framework for transportation published by the Government of Ontario.[3]

CIBC Pan Am Park

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Chevrolet Beach Volleyball Centre
The Direct Energy Centre (Exhibition Centre) Hall A, was the venue for the indoor volleyball competitions

The Toronto Pan Am Park encompasses all of the facilities within Exhibition Place in downtown Toronto. The Pan Am Park included the name of the lead partner in sponsorship, CIBC.[4] This Zone consists of six venues.[2] Exhibition Centre had three different halls hosting events,[5] while the Ontario Place West Channel had two grandstands (one each for water and road based sports).[6] Furthermore, the marathon, race walks and road races in cycling had their start and finish lines at the West Channel. The remainder of the race occurred all the way into High Park and back.[6] The park contains:

Venue Sports Capacity Ref.
Pan American Games Parapan American Games
Chevrolet Beach Volleyball Centre Beach volleyball — 5,000 [7]
Exhibition Centre Volleyball
Handball, Roller sports (artistic)
Racquetball, Squash		 — 4,900
2,000
1,000 		[5]
Exhibition Stadium Rugby sevens — 22,000 [8]
Ontario Place West Channel Athletics (marathon/race walk), Cycling (road race), Triathlon (cycling/run)
Open water swimming, Triathlon (swim), Water skiing		 Cycling (road race) 1,000 [6]
Toronto Coliseum Gymnastics (Artistic, rhythmic and trampoline) — 7,252 [9]

Rest of Toronto

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CIBC Pan Am / Parapan Am Athletics Stadium during the first day of athletics competition
The Ryerson Athletic Centre during the basketball competitions
University of Toronto Scarborough Tennis Centre during the wheelchair tennis competition
Pan Am / Parapan Am Fields
Venue Sports Capacity Reference
Pan American Games Parapan American Games
Canadian Tennis Centre Tennis — 8,5001 [10]
Centennial Park Pan Am BMX Centre Cycling (BMX) — 2,000 [11]
CIBC Pan Am / Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and Field House Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming, Synchronized swimming

Fencing, Modern pentathlon (fencing)
Modern pentathlon (jumping/combined event)

Swimming





Sitting volleyball		 5,700


1,000


1,000 		[12]
CIBC Pan Am / Parapan Am Athletics Stadium Athletics (track and field events) Athletics (track and field events), Ceremony (opening) 12,000 [13]
Nathan Phillips Square — Ceremony (closing) 2,000 [14]
Pan Am Bowling Centre Bowling — 150 [15]
Pan Am Ceremonies Venue Ceremonies (opening/closing) — 45,000 [16]
Pan Am / Parapan Am Fields Field hockey Football 5-a-side, Football 7-a-side 2,000 [17]
Ryerson Athletic Centre Basketball Wheelchair basketball 4,000 [18]
Royal Canadian Yacht Club &
Sugar Beach		 Sailing — 1,0002 [19]
St. John Paul II Catholic Secondary School Roller sports (speed) — [20][21]
University of Toronto Scarborough Tennis Centre — Wheelchair tennis 1,000 [22]
Varsity Stadium Archery Archery 2,000 [23]
  1. ^ A main grandstand court of 6,500 (was used for medal sessions only), plus seven other courts ranging in capacity from 200 to 1,625.
  2. ^ Only seating room available.

Haliburton

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Venue City Sports Capacity Reference
Pan American Games Parapan American Games
Minden Wild Water Preserve Minden Hills Canoeing (slalom) — 300 (standing) [24]

Hamilton and Niagara

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Welland Pan Am Flatwater Centre
CIBC Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium
Venue City Sports Capacity Reference
Pan American Games Parapan American Games
CIBC Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium Hamilton Football — 22,000 [25]
Royal Canadian Henley Rowing Course St. Catharines Rowing — 2,250 [26]
Welland Pan Am Flatwater Centre Welland Canoeing (sprint) — 1,100 [27]

Peel Region, Halton and Simcoe

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The Mississauga Sports Centre during the wrestling competition
The Cisco Milton Pan Am / Parapan Am Velodrome
Venue City Sports Capacity Reference
Pan American Games Parapan American Games
Caledon Equestrian Park Palgrave Equestrian (Dressage, Eventing and Jumping) — 4,000 [28]
Cisco Milton Pan Am / Parapan Am Velodrome Milton Cycling (track) Cycling (track) 2,000 [29]
Milton Time Trial Course Milton Cycling (road cycling time trials) Cycling (road cycling time trials) 1,000
Hardwood Mountain Bike Park Oro-Medonte Cycling (mountain biking) — 5,250 [30]
Mississauga Sports Centre Mississauga  
Judo, Karate, Taekwondo, Wrestling		 Goalball
Powerlifting, Wheelchair rugby		 3,270 (Pan American Games)
3,150 (Wheelchair rugby)
1,000 (Goalball)
1,500 (Powerlifting) 		[31]
Pan Am Cross-Country Centre Mono Equestrian (Cross-Country portion of eventing) — 5,000 (standing) [32]
Pan Am Shooting Centre Innisfil Shooting — 450 [33]

York Region and Durham

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Oshawa Sports Centre during the boxing competitions
President's Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark
Venue City Sports Capacity Reference
Pan American Games Parapan American Games
Abilities Centre Whitby — Boccia, Judo 750 [34]
Angus Glen Golf Club Markham Golf — 2,000 (standing) [35]
Atos Markham Pan Am / Parapan Am Centre Markham Badminton, Table tennis, Water polo Table tennis 2,000/1,000
2,000 		[36]
Oshawa Sports Centre Oshawa Boxing
Weightlifting		 — 3,000
2,250		 [37]
President's Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark Ajax Baseball
Softball		 — 4,000/1,000
3,000		 [38]
  • Atos Markham Pan Am / Parapan Am Centre had a field house which seated 2,000 during the Pan American Games and 1,000 during the Parapan American Games. The facility also had a pool with a capacity of 2,000
  • Pan Am Ball Park had two fields for baseball and one for softball. Each had additional standing room capacity.

Original Plan

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The venue plan has been vastly changed from the original plan, with sixty percent of the 51 original venues being dropped.[39] The venues were to be divided into three zones - Central Games Zone (Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Richmond Hill and Markham), West Games Zone (Hamilton) and East Games Zone (Oshawa, Ajax and Pickering). In addition there were venues located outside these zones in Barrie, St. Catharines, Palgrave, Minden and Welland.[40] Ian Troop the CEO of the Organizing Committee said the venue plan was changed because, "the benefits of clustering are that you create economies of scale, the goal for our refined and improved venue plan is to reduce the operational complexities of the event, save costs, deliver an athlete-centred Games that facilitates great performance and create a much richer spectator experience.”[41] Among the changes included the city's largest arena the Air Canada Centre being dropped, due to the organizing committee feeling none of the events warranted that amount of seating (20,000) and the desire to have full venues. Also the cities of Richmond Hill, Burlington and Brampton among others were dropped as host cities.[42] Organizers later revealed a plan that put the majority of venues have into nine cluster zones within the Greater Toronto Area: the Toronto Pan Am Park, Abilities Centre cluster, Etobicoke, Markham, Mississauga, Scarborough, University of Toronto (downtown) and York University clusters. In addition to these there was fourteen venues that was to be outside the boundaries of the Greater Toronto Area.[43] This plan was later replaced with the current venue proposal of five venue zones.[2]

References

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  1. ^ GB Staff (January 27, 2012). "Toronto 2015 Changes Original Plan". GamesBids. Retrieved July 30, 2012.
  2. ^ a b c "NOC News - 2015 Pan American Games". www.canoc.net. Retrieved October 22, 2013.
  3. ^ "Volume One Strategic Framework for Transportation". www.ontario.ca/. Government of Ontario. February 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
  4. ^ "2015 Pan American Games - CIBC". CIBC. Retrieved August 29, 2013.
  5. ^ a b "Exhibition Centre". TO2015. Retrieved September 18, 2014.
  6. ^ a b c "Ontario Place West Channel". TO2015. Retrieved September 18, 2014.
  7. ^ "Chevrolet Beach Volleyball Centre". Toronto 2015 Pan Am / Parapan Am Games. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  8. ^ "Exhibition Stadium". TO2015. Retrieved September 18, 2014.
  9. ^ "Toronto Coliseum". TO2015. Retrieved September 18, 2014.
  10. ^ "Canadian Tennis Centre". TO2015. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
  11. ^ "Centennial Park Pan Am BMX Centre". TO2015. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
  12. ^ "Pan Am and Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and Fieldhouse presented by CIBC". TO2015. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
  13. ^ "CIBC Pan Am and Parapan Am Athletics Stadium". TO2015. Retrieved November 19, 2012.
  14. ^ "Live Nation Joins TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games". toronto2015.org. TO2015. August 13, 2014. Archived from the original on October 23, 2014. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  15. ^ "Pan Am Bowling Centre". TO2015. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
  16. ^ "Pan Am Ceremonies Venue". TO2015. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
  17. ^ "Pan Am / Parapan Am Fields". TO2015. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  18. ^ "Ryerson Athletic Centre". TO2015. Retrieved September 18, 2014.
  19. ^ "Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games Ticket Program Guide" (PDF). TO2015. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
  20. ^ Andrew Palamarchuk (July 3, 2015). "Pan Am roller speed skating venue moved to Scarborough high school". InsideToronto.com. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  21. ^ "Pan Am Games: How to experience Toronto 2015 without a ticket". CBC News. July 17, 2015. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  22. ^ "University of Toronto Scarborough Tennis Centre". TO2015. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  23. ^ "Varsity Stadium". TO2015. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
  24. ^ "Minden Wild Water Preserve". TO2015. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
  25. ^ "CIBC Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium". TO2015. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  26. ^ "Royal Canadian Henley Rowing Course". TO2015. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
  27. ^ "Welland Pan Am Flatwater Centre". TO2015. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  28. ^ "Caledon Equestrian Park". TO2015. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  29. ^ "Cisco Milton Pan Am / Parapan Am Velodrome". TO2015. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  30. ^ "Hardwood Mountain Bike Park". TO2015. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
  31. ^ "Mississauga Sports Centre". TO2015. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  32. ^ "Pan Am Cross-Country Centre". TO2015. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
  33. ^ "Pan Am Shooting Centre". TO2015. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
  34. ^ "Abilities Centre". TO2015. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  35. ^ "Angus Glen Golf Club". TO2015. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  36. ^ "Atos Markham Pan Am / Parapan Am Centre". TO2015. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  37. ^ "Oshawa Sports Centre". TO2015. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
  38. ^ "President's Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark". TO2015. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  39. ^ Antonella Artuso (January 27, 2012). "Toronto Pan Am Games changes source of concerns". Toronto Sun. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  40. ^ "Toronto 2015 Pan Am Bid Team Unveils Venue Plan". TO2015. February 18, 2009. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  41. ^ "Venue Clusters: The New Normal in International Multi-sport Events". TO2015. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  42. ^ Adam McLean (Mar 23, 2012). "Richmond Hill won't swing at Pan Am pitch". yorkregion.com. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  43. ^ "The "People's Games" — Accessible, Affordable for Families". Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games. TO2015. May 11, 2012. Retrieved July 28, 2012.
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