South American Games

South American Games
Abbreviation	JJ.SS.
First event	1978 in La Paz, Bolivia
Occur every	four years
Last event	2014 in Santiago, Chile
Next event	2018 South American Games in Cochabamba, Bolivia
Purpose	Multi sport event for nations on the South American continent

South American Games
South American Games
Games
	1978; 1982; 1986; 1990; 1994; 1998; 2002; 2006; 2010; 2014; 2018;
Sports
	Diving; Open water swimming; Swimming; Synchronized swimming; Water polo; Archery; Athletics; Badminton; Baseball; Basketball; Bocce; Bodybuilding; Bowling; Boxing; Canoeing; BMX racing; Mountain biking; Track cycling; Equestrian; Fencing; Field hockey; Football; Futsal; Golf; Artistic gymnastics; Rhythmic gymnastics; Handball; Judo; Karate; Modern pentathlon; Racquetball; Artistic roller skating; Roller hockey; Rowing; Rugby sevens; Sailing; Scuba diving; Shooting; Softball; Squash; Table tennis; Taekwondo; Tennis; Triathlon; Beach volleyball; Water skiing; Weightlifting; Wrestling;

The South American Games (also known as ODESUR Games; Spanish: Juegos Sudamericanos; Portuguese: Jogos Sul-Americanos), formerly the Southern Cross Games (Spanish: Juegos Cruz del Sur) is a regional multi-sport event held between nations from South America, organized by the South American Sports Organization (Organización Deportiva Sudamericana, ODESUR).^[1]

The first Games were held in 1978 in La Paz, Bolivia. They have since been held every four years, with the most recent edition in 2014 in Santiago, Chile. The next games will be held in 2018 in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The Games have had an equivalent to the Olympic Flame since their inception: the South American Flame, which is relayed from Tiahuanaco, Bolivia, to the host city.^[2]

For the XI edition in 2018 there were two bids: Cochabamba, Bolivia, and Barquisimeto, Venezuela, with the final hosting decision in favour of Cochabamba in 2011. Starting with the 2014 edition, the Para-South American Games are held for South American Paralympic athletes. Just like the Olympic Games, the host city for the South American Games is also the host for Para-South American Games.

The detailed history of the South American Games together with an extensive list of medal winners was published in a book written (in Spanish) by Argentinian journalist Ernesto Rodríguez III with support of the Comité Olímpico Argentino under the auspices of the Ministerio de Educación de la Nación in collaboration with the Secretaría de Deporte de la Nación.^[3]

Games

Year	Games	Host City	Host Country	Opened by	Dates	Athletes	Nations	Sports	Top medalling nation
1978	I	La Paz	Bolivia		3 November – 12 November	480	8	16	Argentina
1982	II	Rosario	Argentina		26 November – 5 December	961	10	19	Argentina
1986	III	Santiago	Chile	Augusto Pinochet	28 November – 8 December	969	10	17	Argentina
1990	IV	Lima	Peru	Alberto Fujimori	1 December – 10 December	1,070	10	16	Argentina
1994	V	Valencia	Venezuela	Rafael Caldera	19 November – 28 November	1,599	14	19	Argentina
1998	VI	Cuenca	Ecuador	Gustavo Noboa	21 October – 31 October	1,525	14	24	Argentina
2002	VII	Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Curitiba, Belém	Brazil	–	1 August – 11 August	2,069	13	24	Brazil
2006	VIII	Buenos Aires	Argentina	Néstor Kirchner	9 November – 19 November	2,938	15	28	Argentina
2010	IX	Medellín	Colombia	Álvaro Uribe	19 March – 30 March	3,751	15	31	Colombia
2014	X	Santiago	Chile	Sebastián Piñera	7 March – 18 March	3,499	14	33	Brazil
2018	XI	Cochabamba	Bolivia		26 May – 8 June
2022	XII	Asunción	Paraguay

Para Games

Year	Games	Host City	Host Country	Opened by	Dates	Athletes	Nations	Sports	Top medalling nation
2014	I	Santiago^[4]	Chile		26 March – 30 March	600+	8	7	Argentina
2018	II	Cochabamba	Bolivia

Youth Games

Year	Games	Host City	Host Country	Dates	Athletes	Nations	Sports	Top medalling nation
2013	I	Lima	Peru	20 September – 29 September	1200	14	19	Brazil
2017	II	Santiago	Chile	29 September – 8 October	1279	14	20	Brazil
2021	III	Rosario	Argentina

Beach Games

Year	Games	Host City	Host Country	Opened by	Dates	Athletes	Nations	Sports	Top medalling nation
2009	I	Punta del Este/Montevideo	Uruguay		3-13 December		12	9	Brazil
2011	II	Manta	Ecuador		2-12 December	675	13	10	Brazil
2014	III	Vargas	Venezuela		14–24 May		12	10	Venezuela
2017	–	Pimentel	Peru	Cancelled
2019	VI	Rosario	Argentina

All-time medal count

The total medal count for all the Games until 2014 is tabulated below. This table is sorted by the number of gold medals earned by each country. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next, and then the number of bronze medals.

South American Games medal count
Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Argentina	842	701	664	2207
2	Brazil	649	543	495	1687
3	Venezuela	492	410	445	1347
4	Colombia	409	349	329	1087
5	Chile	316	421	476	1213
6	Peru	168	242	321	731
7	Ecuador	163	227	319	709
8	Uruguay	63	105	129	297
9	Bolivia	31	69	141	241
10	Paraguay	13	34	47	94
11	Panama	11	14	24	49
12	Netherlands Antilles	7	7	17	31
13	Suriname	7	3	11	21
14	Guyana	2	3	9	14
15	Aruba	0	2	13	15
Total		3172	3130	3441	9743

Sports

Disciplines from the same sport are grouped under the same color:

Aquatics – Cycling – Football – Gymnastics – Roller sports – Volleyball

Sport (discipline)	Body		78	82	86	90	94	98	02	06	10	14
Sport (discipline)	World	South America	78	82	86	90	94	98	02	06	10	14

Diving	FINA	ASUA	X	X							X	X
Open water swimming										X	X	X
Swimming			X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Synchronized swimming				X					X		X	X
Water polo											X

Archery	FITA	AAF			X				X	X	X	X
Athletics	IAAF	CONSUDATLE	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Badminton	BWF	BPA								X	X
Baseball	IBAF	COPABE	X	X		X	X				X
Basketball	FIBA	ABASU	X	X						X	X	X
Bocce	CMSB									X
Bodybuilding	IFBB	IFBBSud America						X
Bowling	FIQ	PABCON			X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Boxing	AIBA	AMBC	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Canoeing	ICF	COPAC					X	X	X	X	X	X

BMX racing	UCI	COPACI								X	X	X
Mountain biking								X	X	X	X	X
Road cycling			X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Track cycling			X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X	X

Equestrian	FEI	PAEC	X	X						X	X	X
Fencing	FIE	CPE	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Field hockey	FIH	PAHF								X		X

Football	FIFA	CONMEBOL	X	X	X		X				X	X
Futsal	FIFA	CONMEBOL						X	X	X	X	X

Golf	IGF	FSG							X			X

Artistic gymnastics	FIG	CONSUGI	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Rhythmic gymnastics						X	X	X	X	X	X	X

Handball			IHF	PATHF							X	X	X	X
Judo	IJF	PJC	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Karate	WKF	PKF					X	X	X	X	X	X
Modern pentathlon	UIPM											X
Racquetball	IRF	PARC						X

Artistic roller skating	FIRS	CPRS		X				X	X	X	X	X
Roller hockey				X								X
Roller speed skating				X				X	X	X	X	X

Rowing	FISA			X	X				X	X	X	X
Rugby sevens	IRB	CONSUR										X
Sailing	ISAF	SASC		X	X	X		X	X	X	X	X
Scuba diving					X
Shooting	ISSF	CAT	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Softball	ISF	CONPASA					X		X		X
Squash	WSF	FPS									X
Table tennis	ITTF	LATTU		X		X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Taekwondo	WTF	PATU			X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Tennis	ITF	COSAT	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Triathlon	ITU	PATCO						X	X	X	X	X

Beach volleyball	FIVB	CSV									X	X
Indoor volleyball	FIVB	CSV	X	X							X	X

Water skiing	IWWF	IWWF Pan Am								X	X	X
Weightlifting	IWF	PAWC	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Wrestling	FILA	CPLA	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X

Total events			171	249	193	260	296	357	380	463	486	317

References

^ Ediciones de los Juegos (in Spanish), ODESUR, retrieved 5 June 2012
^ Llama Suramericana (in Spanish), ODESUR, retrieved 5 June 2012
^ Rodríguez III, Ernesto (2010), LIBROS DEL CICLO OLÍMPICO ARGENTINO - Libro I de los Juegos Odesur 1978-2010 (in Spanish) (1a. ed.), Buenos Aires: Alarco Ediciones, p. 192, ISBN 978-987-1367-18-4, retrieved 3 June 2012
^ "Para-South American Games to open in Santiago". paralympic.org. Retrieved 27 July 2015.

External links

ODESUR website
South American Games ODESUR page

[odesur-1] Ediciones de los Juegos (in Spanish), ODESUR, retrieved 5 June 2012

[flame-2] Llama Suramericana (in Spanish), ODESUR, retrieved 5 June 2012

[cada-3] Rodríguez III, Ernesto (2010), LIBROS DEL CICLO OLÍMPICO ARGENTINO - Libro I de los Juegos Odesur 1978-2010 (in Spanish) (1a. ed.), Buenos Aires: Alarco Ediciones, p. 192, ISBN 978-987-1367-18-4, retrieved 3 June 2012

[4] "Para-South American Games to open in Santiago". paralympic.org. Retrieved 27 July 2015.

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v t e Events of the ODESUR
South American Games	La Paz 1978 Rosario 1982 Santiago 1986 Lima 1990 Valencia 1994 Cuenca 1998 Brazil 2002 Buenos Aires 2006 Medellín 2010 Santiago 2014 Cochabamba 2018 Asunción 2022
Beach Games	Uruguay 2009 Manta 2011 Vargas 2014 Rosario 2019 Santa Marta 2023
Youth Games	Lima 2013 Santiago 2017 Rosario 2022
Para Games	Santiago 2014

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