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Pan-American Wheelchair Games
| Wheelchair athletes from around the Pan-Am region are eligible to compete in these games. |
| Rio de Janeiro
will also host 2007 Pan American Wheelchair Games
April 21, 2004 Rio de Janeiro, host of the 2007 Pan American Games will now host the 2007 Pan American Wheelchair Games, or Parapanamerican Games in 2007. The announcement was made during the Pan American Sports Organizations meetings this week in San Antonio, Texas. Dates have been tentatively set for August 12 to 19, 2007 for the Parapanamerican Games and July 13-29 for the Pan American Games. The same organizing committee will be in charge of both games. Rio de Janeiro has already hosted the Pan American Wheelchair Games on one previous occasion, in 1978. Former Pan American Wheelchair Games sites:
Former Pan American Games sites:
December 12, 2003 The Parapanamerican Games have closed in Argentina. The games were a qualifying event in many Paralympic sports for the 2004 Athens Paralympic Games. (The games were listed as a second edition with some sources listing the 1999 games in Mexico as the first Juegos Parapanamericanos. However, the International Games Archive suspects that these are the same as the Pan American Wheelchair Games. According to the organizing committee about 1000 athletes from 25 nations competed at the games in Mar del Plata. Medals were awarded in athletics, boccia, equestrian, swimming, sitting volleyball, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair fencing and wheelchair tennis, with an exhibition in Wheelchair Rugby. Mexico collected the most medals at the games. Medals
Table 2003 Pan American Wheelchair Games, Parapanamerican Games.
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