The Association of Panamerican Athletics (APA;

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: ''Asociación Panamericana de Atletismo'') is a new regional confederation governing body of athletics for national governing bodies and multi-national federations within

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, Central, and South America, and the Caribbean, replacing the Pan American Athletics Commission. The organization was founded on October 28, 2011, during the XVI Pan American Games in

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. The inaugural president is Víctor López from Puerto Rico, former president of the Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation (CACAC).

Championships

APA organizes the following championships and cups: *

Pan American Junior Championships The Pan American U20 Athletics Championships are a biennial sports event for track and field organized by the Association of Panamerican Athletics (APA) open for junior (U20) athletes from member and associate member associations. They were first h ...

* Pan American Youth Championships * Pan American Marathon Championships *

Pan American Cross Country Cup The Pan American Cross Country Cup (''Copa Panamericana de Cross Country'') is an international cross country running competition organized by the Association of Panamerican Athletics (APA) for athletes representing the countries and territories o ...

Pan American Combined Events Cup The Pan American Combined Events Cup (''Spanish: Copa Panamericana de Pruebas Combinadas'') is a track and field competition in men's decathlon and women's heptathlon. Organized by the Association of Panamerican Athletics (APA), newly constituted ...

* Pan American Race Walking Cup

Member associations

Due to the constitution, membership in the Association shall consist of World Athletics member federations which are affiliated members of NACAC and

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as ratified by

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. At this time, APA consists of 44 member federations, 31 of them are member of NACAC, while 13 are member of

. This means that the APA also comprises the 3 IAAF members without a recognized

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that are therefore no member of the

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namely Anguilla, Montserrat, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

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* National members of the International Association of Athletics Federations Athletics organizations

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Sports organizations established in 2011 {{athletics-stub

Championships

Member associations

See also

References

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