- In the South American event, athletes will be able to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics
The Pan American Games in Santiago will be held from October 20 to November 5, 2023 and will feature a record number of disciplines that will serve to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
21 sports disciplines will grant direct classification and another 12 will add points to the classification or validate minimum scores for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
The total of 33 classification modalities exceeds the 25 that in the previous edition, Lima 2019, were marked for Tokyo 2020.
This will be the first time that Chile will host the Pan American Games. In 1975 and 1987 they were canceled and moved to Mexico City and Indianapolis respectively.
The disciplines that will give quotas for Paris 2024
The 21 disciplines that will grant direct entry will be Handball, Boxing, Breaking, Diving, Equestrian Dressage, Equestrian Eventing, Equestrian Jumping, Sport Climbing, Artistic Gymnastics, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Trampoline Gymnastics, Hockey, Artistic Swimming, Modern Pentathlon, Water polo, surfing, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery and sailing.
Vinotinto women’s football in Santiago 2023
The Vinotinto women’s soccer team will participate in the Pan American Games in Santiago after qualifying for the last Women’s Copa América, played in Colombia.
In addition, by marks or ranking, participants in athletics, badminton, 3×3 basketball, BMX freestyle, BMX running, mountain biking, track cycling, road cycling, swimming, taekwondo, triathlon can win or contribute to the achievement of a Olympic fee. . body-building.
The Venezuelan athlete Daniel Dhers won the quota for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in the BMX Freestyle event of the Lima 2019 Pan American Games.
The Santiago Games will be held in the Chilean capital between October and November of next year. They will bring together 7,000 athletes from the 41 countries of the continent, competing in 39 sports.
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The Venezuelan delegation won 43 medals during its participation in the Lima 2019 Pan American Games: 9 gold, 15 silver and 19 bronze.
Guatemala suspended by the IOC
he Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), meeting in Lausanne (Switzerland), agreed on September 8 to disqualify the Guatemalan Olympic Committee (COG) as of October 15 if by then it has not met the criteria required by the organization international to comply with the Olympic Charter.
Part of the COG statutes were partially suspended last month by the Constitutional Court of the Central American country, after a lawsuit filed by a candidate for president of the sports entity.
The IOC calls for the partial suspension of the COG statutes to be lifted and for the country’s sports legislation to guarantee the committee’s independence.
The Parapan American Games will also serve in Paris 2024
The Santiago Parapan American Games will bring together 2,000 athletes in 17 sports and will also qualify for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
In the case of the Parapan American Games, the sports that will allocate direct places to Paris 2024 will be wheelchair basketball, blind soccer, goalball, para-table tennis, wheelchair rugby and tennis in silla de ruedas. New más, de momento, quedarán marcados en una tabla de clasificación.
Venezuela won 3 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals in its last participation in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
