Toronto 2015

Games Summary

Toronto was awarded the 2015 Pan American Games on November 6, 2009, defeating bids from Lima, Peru and Bogota, Colombia.

This gave the province of Ontario its first international multi-sport competition since the 1930 British Empire Games in Hamilton. The 2015 Pan Am Games featured 36 sports with 51 disciplines and 364 medal events, more than is currently on the Olympic program.

Daily Recaps

Although centered in Toronto, the Pan Am Games involved numerous municipalities in southern Ontario, with venues stretching around the Golden Horseshoe from Welland and St. Catharines in the west to Oshawa in the east and as far north as Barrie and Minden Hills.

List of TO2015 venues

While the 2015 Pan Am Games utilized many existing facilities, some new venues were also constructed and are intended to have longterm benefit for future Olympic athletes. As an example, the Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and Field House gives Toronto a world class 50m pool and a diving tank. The Milton Pan Am/Parapan Am Velodrome is just the second indoor velodrome in North America to meet current top international standards, providing a much-needed home training base for Canadian track cyclists.

The Pan American Games are a continental multi-sport competition for the countries of North America, South America, Central America and the Caribbean. Held one year prior to a summer Olympic Games, the Pan American Games include all of the sports and disciplines featured on the Olympic program as well as some additional sports governed by international federations that are recognized by the IOC. They are the world’s third-largest multi-sport Games, surpassed only in size by the summer Olympic Games and the Asian Games.

Team Canada at TO2015 Athlete List

Canada at the Pan American Games

Canada has participated in every Pan American Games except the first. At the time, countries of the Commonwealth did not participate in the Pan American Sports Congress which established the Games. Canada previously hosted the fifth and 13^th editions of the Games, both times in Winnipeg, in 1967 and 1999.