Lima 2019 opens its doors to all athletes. The Pan American Games feature all the sports in the Olympic program, including the two reinstatements, golf and rugby-7, returning after several years. Also, we are bringing to the consideration of the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) the possibility to include, within the role of challenges, those sports that were recognized by the International Olympic Committee, such as bowling, karate, squash, skating, baseball and softball, among others.
FROM JULY 26th TO AUGUST 11th
The XVIII Pan American Games shall be carried out between Friday July 26th and Sunday August 11th, an ideal date that combines the needs of athletes from across the Americas and, we hope, be propitious to arrive in the best physical and technical form to give a great show and perhaps to try and break the existing record marks on date.
SCENARIOS
Lima 2019 has established two major sports centers (or Pan American rings) to meet 85% of the provided sports in the official program. The first cluster will be in the same range of the Villa Panamericana, it will be at a maximum distance of 20 minutes, while the second cluster will be at about 40 minutes, approximately.
CLUSTER ONE
Cluster one shall be in Callao. There, the rowing, canoeing / kayaking, sailing and swimming in open waters competitions will be held, as well as the fencing, which will take place in the coliseum of La Punta. Very near, also in La Punta, will take place the triathlon competition.
In the Miguel Grau complex will take place athletics, boxing and modern pentathlon. The Sports Coliseum of the Catholic University of Peru will host judo and wrestling. The Peruvian-Chinese School Juan XXIII, will recieve the table tennis competition.
CLUSTER TWO
Cluster two will be placed in the Villa Deportiva Nacional (VIDENA), which will change its name to Pan American Sports Center. There, the badminton, handball, gymnastics and track cycling competitions will take place.
This location has been chosen (still in draft stage and feasibility) to be the site of a new arena, the Coliseum of Lima, with a capacity for 10.000 people, and it should be completed in late 2016 to hold competitions volleyball.
Not far from the Pan American Sports Center is the Campo de Marte, which will host the swimming, synchronized swimming, water polo and diving competitions. Also, this ring includes the National stadium, the Alejandro Villanueva and the Monumental Stadiums for soccer tournaments, masculine and feminine.
Basketball, tennis and weightlifting will go to Miraflores district, having as proposed scenarios the Eduardo Dibós Coliseum, Club Las Terrazas and Hotel Maria Angola Convention Center. Both, Dibós and the María Angola, have hosted world championships before. In the same vicinity, at the Coliseum Manuel Bonilla, the taekwondo will take place, and beach area will host the volleyball tournament.
The Lima Cricket club will host archery, golf to the Los Inkas Club, rugby to the Newton College, BMX to San Juan de Lurigancho and shooting in the Las Palmas Air Force Base, in Surco.
ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE RINGS
There are sports that by their nature will be further away from these two areas. Equestrian Sports will take place in the Equestrian Club in Huachipa, mountain biking shall go to the Manchay slopes and cycling to the Panamericana Sur Highway route.
