Pan American Games sports

File:Bowling Rio 2007.jpg

The bowling competition held during the Rio de Janeiro 2007 Pan American Games. One of the traditional sports played at each Pan American Games since 1991.

The Pan American Games sports comprise all the sports contested in the Summer Olympic Games. In addition, traditional and popular sports throughout the Americas which are not contested at the Olympic Games are also contested such as bowling and baseball. As of 2015, the Pan American Games included 36 sports with 51 disciplines and 364 events. The number and kinds of events may change slightly from one Pan American Games to another.

Sports, disciplines, events

For purposes of Pan American Games competition, the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) makes a distinction between sports and disciplines. A sport, in Pan American Games terms, is a single or group of disciplines as represented by an international governing body, namely an International Federation. For example, aquatics, represented at the Olympic level by the International Swimming Federation, is a sport at the Pan American Games that includes the swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water polo disciplines.

Canoe slalom is the only Olympic discipline not on the Pan American Games program. It was, in fact, scheduled to be held at both the 2007 and 2011 Pan American Games, but due to the small number of countries competing in the discipline, the event was dropped. However, the discipline is scheduled to make its debut at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada.

Medals are awarded on a per-event basis; there can be one or more events per sport or discipline. In fact, besides baseball, rugby sevens, and softball, every current Pan American Games discipline has at least two events.

Changes

Futsal was dropped after being played at only one Games.

A sport or discipline appears on the Pan American Games program if it is included on the Olympic program. For the traditional Pan American Games sports, PASO determines if they are widely practised around the Americas; that is, the number of countries that compete in a given sport is the indicator of the sport's prevalence. PASO's requirements reflect participation in the Pan American Games as well, especially more stringent toward men (as they are represented in higher numbers).

Previous Pan American Games have included sports which are no longer present on the current program, like futsal and polo.

The International Olympic Committee voted on October 9, 2009, during the 121st IOC Session in Copenhagen, to elevate both rugby sevens and golf as official Olympic sports and to include them in the Olympics, beginning with the 2016 Olympic Games. With this development, rugby sevens made its debut at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, and golf was played at the 2015 Pan American Games. During a PASO general assembly in 2015, surfing was included into the 2019 Pan American Games programme.

Current Pan American Games program

The following sports (or disciplines of a sport) make up the current Pan American Games official program and are listed alphabetically according to the name used by PASO. The figures in each cell indicate the number of events for each sport contested at the respective Games; a bullet (•) denotes that the sport/discipline was scheduled to be competed, but was dropped do to a lack of entries.

Eight of the 36 sports (Aquatics, Canoeing, Cycling, Football, Gymnastics, Volleyball, Equestrian) consist of multiple disciplines. Disciplines from the same sport are grouped under the same heading:

For equestrian and wrestling, the figures in each cell indicate the number of events for each sport, and not for each discipline separately.

The following sports have been contested at the Pan American Games:

Sport (Discipline)		Body	51	55	59	63	67	71	75	79	83	87	91	95	99	03	07	11	15
Diving		FINA	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	6	6	4	8	8	8	8
Swimming			21	21	21	21	30	30	30	30	30	32	32	32	32	32	34	34	34
Synchronized swimming				3		3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2
Water polo			1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2
Canoe/kayak (sprint)		ICF										12	13	13	12	12	12	12	13
Canoe/kayak (slalom)																	•	•	5
Figure skating		FIRS								3		4	6	6	4	2	2	2	2
Speed skating										12		12	13	23	6	4	4	6	6
BMX		UCI															2	2	2
Mountain biking														2	2	2	2	2	2
Road cycling			3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Track cycling			5	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	5	7	7	8	12	12	10	10	10
Artistic		FIG	8	12	18	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Rhythmic												5	7	7	2	6	8	8	8
Trampoline																	2	2	2
Volleyball (beach)		FIVB													2	2	2	2	2
Volleyball (indoor)				2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Dressage		FEI	6	5	6	6	6	6	6	4	4	6	4	6	6	4	6	6	6
Eventing
Jumping
Freestyle		UWW	8	8	8	8	8	10	20	20	20	20	20	20	16	18	18	18	18
Greco-Roman
Archery		WAF								4	12	4	12	12	4	4	4	4	4
Athletics		IAAF	33	29	32	33	35	37	37	39	40	48	43	44	47	46	47	47	47
Badminton		BWF												5	5	5	5	5	5
Baseball		IBAF	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2
Basketball		FIBA	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Bowling		WTBA											4	8	4	4	4	4	4
Boxing		AIBA	8	10	10	10	10	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	11	11	13	13
Fencing		FIE	7	7	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	10	10	10	10	10	12	12
Field hockey		FIH					1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Football		FIFA	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2
Golf		IGF																	3
Handball		IHF										2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2
Judo		IJF				4	6		6	8	16	16	18	18	14	14	14	14	14
Karate		WKF												10	11	9	9	10	10
Modern pentathlon		UIPM	2	2	2	2						1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2
Racquetball		IRF												6	4	4		6	6
Rowing		FISA	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	7	14	15	15	14	14	13	14	14
Rugby sevens		WR																1	2
Sailing		ISAF	2		7	6	4	3	4	5	8	6	9	11	10	8	9	9	10
Shooting		ISSF	14	16	21	12	10	10	14	14	32	22	34	36	15	17	15	15	15
Softball		ISF								2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	2
Squash		WSF												4	4	4	4	6	6
Table tennis		ITTF								7	7	7	7	7	6	6	4	4	4
Taekwondo		WTF										8	8	16	8	8	8	8	8
Tennis		ITF	5	5	5	5	5		5	5	5	5	6	6	4	4	4	5	5
Triathlon		ITU												2	2	2	2	2	2
Water skiing		IWWF												6	6	6	7	9	9
Weightlifting		IWF	5	7	7	7	7	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	15	15	15	15	15
Total events			140	146	166	160	169	164	190	249	249	296	331	408	330	338	331	361	364

Discontinued sports

The following sports were previously part of the Pan American Games program as official sports, but are no longer on the current program.

Sport		51	55	59	63	67	71	75	79	83	87	91	95	99	03	07	11	15
Basque pelota													12		6		10
Futsal																1
Inline hockey	17px													1	1
Polo		1
Roller hockey									1		1	1	1
Sambo										20
Total events		1							1	20	1	1	1	1	1	1	10

Winter sports

Sport		90
Alpine skiing		6