Counting Down to the 2011 Panamerican Games

Counting Down to the 2011 Panamerican Games

The 16th Pan American Games are to take place in October 2011, in Guadalajara, Mexico. It will be the largest multi-sport event held in Mexico outside the capital. 36 sports, with sub-disciplines that makes the number 43, will be contested at the Games and there will be 361 medal events.

PASO selected the city unanimously as the host for 16th Pan American Games on Sunday, May 28, 2006. Guadalajara was the only city to officially bid for the 2011 Pan American Games. This may have been in part due to no announced/open candidature period for the event. Guadalajara initially bid for the 2003 Pan American Games which were held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

*information obtained from Wikipedia.org