The 2023 Parapan American Games, officially the VII Pan American Games and commonly known as the Santiago 2023 ParaPan-Am Games, is an international

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for athletes with disabilities. It celebrates the tradition of the Parapan American Games as governed by the

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and is scheduled to be held from November 17 to 25 in Santiago, Chile.

Development and preparation

Budget

The budget for the games is $507 million

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, with $170 million reserved for the building of ten new sporting venues and the upgrade of six arenas. The budget is about 36% of what was spent for the 2015 Pan American Games in

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, Canada and 50% of the last Pan American Games in 2019, in

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Venues

180° Panorama Estadio Nacional Santiago Chile

Various venues across Santiago will host the games. In June 2022, organizers revealed the final venue plan consisting of 41 competition venues. 14 of the 41 will be used for the Games. The venues span four regions of the country:

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Valparaíso Valparaíso (; ) is a major city, seaport, naval base, and educational centre in the commune of Valparaíso, Chile. "Greater Valparaíso" is the second largest metropolitan area in the country. Valparaíso is located about northwest of Santiago ...

, O'Higgins and Biobío, however all Parapan venues are located in the Santiago area.

Athletes Village

In December 2021, a ceremony was held to lay the first brick for the village. The village is expected to cost approximately $100 million

, and will consist of 1,345 apartments. After the games, the village will be converted to

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. The village is being built in the Cerrillos Bicentennial Park community of Santiago.

The Games

Participating National Paralympic Committees

There will be 33 nations participating.

Sports

Events in 17 sports will be held during the 2023 Parapan American Games. Archery returns to the sports program for the first time since 2015, while sitting volleyball has been dropped from the games. * Archery pictogram (Paralympics)

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Football 5-a-side pictogram (Paralympics)

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Boccia Boccia ( ) is a precision ball sport, similar to bocce, and related to bowls and pétanque. The name "boccia" is derived from the Latin word for "boss" – '. The sport is contested at local, national and international levels, by athletes ...

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Football 7-a-side pictogram (Paralympics)

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Cycling Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bicyclists", or "bikers". Apart from t ...

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Goalball Goalball is a team sport designed specifically for athletes with a vision impairment. Participants compete in teams of three, and try to throw a ball that has bells embedded inside of it into the opponents' goal. The ball is thrown by hand a ...

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Powerlifting Powerlifting is a strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift. As in the sport of Olympic weightlifting, it involves the athlete attempting a maximal weight single-lift effor ...

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Shooting Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, bow, crossbow, slingshot, or blowpipe). Even the acts of launching flame, artillery, darts, harpoons, grenades, rockets, and guided missiles ...

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Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

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Table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

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Taekwondo ''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast kicking techniques. T ...

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Wheelchair basketball pictogram (Paralympics)

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Wheelchair rugby pictogram (Paralympics)

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Wheelchair tennis pictogram (Paralympics)

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Marketing

Emblem

2023 is the icon of the Games. It represents the target and goal of athletes and the organization, but also the beginning the legacy that will be built. The creative inspiration comes from sports: geometry, angles, links and also the movement and dynamism that are and have always been present in sports particular form of expression. The morphology originates from sports venues and the connections between them, generating active life circuits that merge with the city. These forms build a distinctive and particular language, that represents both the spirit and essence of sports, as well as its integration with an active urban lifestyle. The color palette is inspired in the current city of Santiago and its future projection: a vibrant, modern, entertaining and multicultural city, that connects with its inhabitants and attracts its visitors. The official emblem was unveiled on July 17, 2019, at the Centro de Alto Rendimiento CAR. The emblem was designed b
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Mascot

For the election of the official mascot of the games, a vote will be held on the Internet from August 5 to 25, 2021 among the 5 options presented: «Fiu», a seven-colored

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; «Pewü», a

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of araucaria; «Chitama», a runner

lizard Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic since it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia alt ...

from Atacama; «Juanchi», a

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; and «Santi», a winged puma.

Slogan

The slogan was unveiled the same day as the emblem. The slogan of the games is "Follow Your Passion" (Spanish: "Sigue tu pasión").

References

External links

Santiago 2023 Official Site
{{Parapan American Games Parapan American Games Parapan Games International sports competitions hosted by Chile

Parapan American Games The Parapan American Games is an international multi-sport event for athletes with physical disabilities held every four years after every Pan American Games. The first Games were held in 1999 in Mexico City, Mexico. The 2003 Parapan American G ...

Development and preparation

Budget

Venues

Athletes Village

The Games

Participating National Paralympic Committees

Sports

Marketing

Emblem

Mascot

Slogan

See also

References

External links