2023 Pan American Games

Santiago was unanimously elected as the host city at the ANOC General Assembly in Prague on November 4, 2017.[1] This will mark the first time Chile hosts the Pan American Games. Santiago was initially awarded the right to host the 1975 and later 1987 Pan American Games, but withdrew as host both times due to financial and political problems.[4] Most recently, Santiago was a candidate for the 2019 Pan American Games but lost to Lima.[1]

Bidding results

City	NOC name	Votes
Santiago	Chile	Unanimous

The budget for the games is $507 million USD, with $170 million reserved for the building of ten new sporting venues and the upgrade of six arenas.[5] The budget is about 36% of what was spent for the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada and 50% of the last Pan American Games in 2019, in Lima, Peru.[6]

Estadio Nacional is the main stadium for the games (pictured here during the 2015 Copa América football tournament.

Various venues across Santiago and various other cities will be used for the games, including Viña del Mar, Valparaíso and Algarrobo.[7] In March 2022, the first venue for the games was officially inaugurated: the field hockey stadium on the National Stadium Grounds.[8]

In December 2021, a ceremony was held to lay the first brick for the village. The village is expected to cost approximately $100 million USD, and will consist of 1,345 apartments.[9] After the games, the village will be converted to social housing. The village is being built in the Cerrillos Bicentennial Park community of Santiago.[10]

All 41 nations who are members of the Pan American Sports Organization are expected to compete.

A map of all 41 participating nations

A total of 38 sports will be contested at the games.[11] In March 2020, Panam Sports confirmed the sports program would consist of the 28 Olympic sports plus the sports of baseball/softball, karate, roller sports (artistic, speed and skateboarding), surfing and water skiing, leaving the possibility of more sports being added if no new infrastructure costs were added.[12] In December 2020, five additional sports were added to the program: basque pelota, bowling, racquetball squash and sport climbing.[13] Sport climbing and the discipline of skateboarding will be making their debut appearances at the Pan American Games.[13][14] After making its debut at the last edition of the games, bodybuilding will not be contested at these games.

Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events to be contested in each sport/discipline.

In February 2022, Mediapro was announced as the host broadcaster for the games.[15] All sports and disciplines will be televised live, for the first time in the history of the Pan American Games.[15] The cost of producing the feeds will be approximately $11.8 million USD.[15] A total of 1,900 hours of competition will be aired, an increase of 700 from the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.[16]

The official emblem was unveiled on July 17, 2019, at the Centro de Alto Rendimiento CAR. The emblem was designed by Consultora b2o.

A public poll was held online between the 5th and the 25th of August 2021 to choose a mascot for the Games. Five options were presented: Fiu, a many-colored rush tyrant; «Pewü», a pine nut from the Araucaria tree; «Chitama», a runner lizard from the Atacama Region; «Juanchi», a penguin; and «Santi», a winged South American cougar.

On October 16, 2021, Fiu was chosen as the official mascot of Santiago 2023.[17][18]

The slogan was unveiled the same day as the emblem. The slogan of the games is "Follow Your Passion" (Spanish: "Sigue tu pasión").