South American Games
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Abbreviation | JJSS |
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First event | 1978 in La Paz, Bolivia |
Occur every | four years |
Last event | 2022 in Asunción, Paraguay |
Next event | 2026 in Santa Fe Province, Argentina |
Purpose | Multi-sport event for South America |
Website | odesur.org |
The South American Games (also known as ODESUR Games; Spanish: Juegos Suramericanos; 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 ODESUR (acronym for "Organización Deportiva Suramericana" – South American Sports Organization.[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 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 South American Para 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 Argentine Olympic Committee under the auspices of the Ministry of Education in collaboration with the Sports Secretary of Argentina.[3]
Participants
[edit]15 ODESUR members along to the code COI of each one
Argentina (ARG)
Aruba (ARU)
Bolivia (BOL)
Brazil (BRA)
Chile (CHL)
Colombia (COL)
Curaçao (CUW)[4]
Ecuador (ECU)
Guyana (GUY)
Panama (PAN)
Paraguay (PAR)
Peru (PER)
Suriname (SUR)
Uruguay (URU)
Venezuela (VEN)
Games
[edit]Year | Games | Host City | Host Country | Opened by | Dates | Athletes | Nations | Sports | Top medalling nation |
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1978 | 1 | La Paz | ![]() | Juan Pereda | 3 – 12 November | 480 | 8 | 16 | ![]() |
1982 | 2 | Rosario | ![]() | Reynaldo Bignone | 26 Nov – 5 Dec | 961 | 10 | 19 | ![]() |
1986 | 3 | Santiago | ![]() | Augusto Pinochet | 28 Nov – 8 Dec | 969 | 10 | 17 | ![]() |
1990 | 4 | Lima | ![]() | Alberto Fujimori | 1 – 10 December | 1,070 | 10 | 16 | ![]() |
1994 | 5 | Valencia | ![]() | Rafael Caldera | 19 – 28 November | 1,599 | 14 | 19 | ![]() |
1998 | 6 | Cuenca | ![]() | Gustavo Noboa | 21 – 31 October | 1,525 | 14 | 24 | ![]() |
2002 | 7 | Belém, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo | ![]() | Almir Gabriel, Fernando Henrique Cardoso and others (each city had its own opening ceremonies) | 1 – 11 August | 2,069 | 13 | 24 | ![]() |
2006 | 8 | Buenos Aires | ![]() | Néstor Kirchner | 9 – 19 November | 2,938 | 15 | 28 | ![]() |
2010 | 9 | Medellín | ![]() | Álvaro Uribe | 19 March – 30 March | 3,751 | 15 | 31 | ![]() |
2014 | 10 | Santiago | ![]() | Sebastián Piñera | 7 March – 18 March | 3,499 | 14 | 33 | ![]() |
2018 | 11 | Cochabamba | ![]() | Evo Morales | 26 May – 8 June | 4,010 | 14 | 35 | ![]() |
2022 | 12 | Asunción | ![]() | Diego Galeano Harrison | 1 – 15 October | 4,476 | 15 | 34 | ![]() |
2026 | 13 | Curicó | ![]() | 12 – 26 September |
Para Games
[edit]Year | Games | Host City | Host Country | Opened by | Dates | Athletes | Nations | Sports | Top medalling nation |
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2014 | 1 | Santiago[5] | ![]() | Michelle Bachelet | 26 March – 30 March | 600+ | 8 | 7 | ![]() |
2018 | – | Cochabamba[6] | ![]() | Cancelled | |||||
2026 | 2 | Valledupar[7] | ![]() | Gustavo Petro | 800+ |
Youth Games
[edit]Year | Games | Host City | Host Country | Opened by | Dates | Athletes | Nations | Sports | Top medalling nation |
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2013 | 1 | Lima | ![]() | 20 September – 29 September | 1200 | 14 | 19 | ![]() | |
2017 | 2 | Santiago | ![]() | Michelle Bachelet | 29 September – 8 October | 1279 | 14 | 20 | ![]() |
2022 | 3 | Rosario | ![]() | April 28 – May 8 | 2500 | 15 | 26 | ![]() |
Beach Games
[edit]Year | Games | Host City | Host Country | Opened by | Dates | Athletes | Nations | Sports | Top medalling nation |
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2009 | 1 | Punta del Este/Montevideo | ![]() | 3–13 December | 12 | 9 | ![]() | ||
2011 | 2 | Manta | ![]() | 2–12 December | 675 | 13 | 10 | ![]() | |
2014 | 3 | Vargas | ![]() | 14–24 May | 12 | 10 | ![]() | ||
2017 | – | Pimentel | ![]() | Cancelled | |||||
2019 | 4 | Rosario | ![]() | 14–23 March | 14 | 13 | ![]() | ||
2023 | 5 | Santa Marta | ![]() | 14–21 July | 800 | 15 | 14 | ![]() |
Masters Games
[edit]Year | Games | Host City | Host Country | Opened by | Dates | Athletes | Nations | Sports | Top medalling nation |
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2021 | – | Santiago | ![]() | Cancelled[8] |
School Games
[edit]The South American School Games have been held since 1991. 27th was held in Santiago, Chile.[9][10][11][12][13]
Medals (1978-2022)
[edit]The total medal count for all the Games until 2022 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 | |||||
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Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
1 | ![]() | 940 | 826 | 802 | 2568 |
2 | ![]() | 873 | 700 | 637 | 2210 |
3 | ![]() | 582 | 501 | 498 | 1581 |
4 | ![]() | 566 | 512 | 557 | 1635 |
5 | ![]() | 392 | 487 | 597 | 1476 |
6 | ![]() | 213 | 265 | 403 | 881 |
7 | ![]() | 209 | 289 | 399 | 897 |
8 | ![]() | 76 | 129 | 164 | 369 |
9 | ![]() | 35 | 86 | 163 | 284 |
10 | ![]() | 27 | 70 | 75 | 172 |
11 | ![]() | 16 | 19 | 37 | 72 |
12 | ![]() | 9 | 3 | 12 | 24 |
13 | ![]() | 7 | 7 | 17 | 31 |
14 | ![]() | 3 | 7 | 14 | 24 |
15 | ![]() | 2 | 5 | 15 | 22 |
16 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Total | 3950 | 3907 | 4389 | 12246 |
Sports
[edit]Disciplines from the same sport are grouped under the same color:
Aquatics – Cycling – Football – Gymnastics – Roller sports – Volleyball
See also
[edit]- Ibero American Games
- Pan American Games
- Parapan American Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games
- Central American Games
- Bolivarian Games
- South American Masters Games
- Pan American Masters Games
- South American University Games
- World Indigenous Games
- Indigenous Peoples' Games
- ALBA Games
- CARIFTA Games
References
[edit]- ^ Ediciones de los Juegos (in Spanish), ODESUR, archived from the original on 16 June 2012, retrieved 5 June 2012
- ^ Llama Suramericana (in Spanish), ODESUR, archived from the original on 18 August 2012, 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, archived from the original on 4 January 2012, retrieved 3 June 2012
- ^ Full ODESUR member but not an International Olympic Committee member
- ^ "Para-South American Games to open in Santiago". paralympic.org. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
- ^ "South American Paralympics Cancelled". Around the Rings. 16 April 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ "En Valledupar se firmó el convenio de ciudad sede para la realización de los II Juegos Parasuramericanos 2026" [In Valledupar the host city agreement was signed for the holding of the II Para-South American Games 2026]. www.mindeporte.gov.co (in Spanish). Ministry of Sports (Colombia). 18 April 2024. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ ODESUR volvió a suspender los Juegos Sudamericanos Máster Santiago 2022
- ^ https://santiago2023.org/en/noticias/portada-sitio-web/detalle/709/south-american-school-games-the-first-event-that-will-enjoy-the-infrastructure-legacy-of-santiago-2023 [bare URL]
- ^ https://www.isfsports.org/news/brazilian-school-games-record-breaking-numbers-participation-and-engagement-mark-success-2023 [bare URL]
- ^ https://www.spanish.academy/blog/10-classic-schoolyard-games-kids-play-in-latin-america/ [bare URL]
- ^ https://westernquebec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Games-of-Latin-American-origin.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ https://slidesgo.com/theme/traditional-south-american-games-to-celebrate-national-play-outside-day-in-preschool [bare URL]
External links
[edit]- ODESUR official website
- South American Games at ODESUR web page
- Para South American Games