In four years time, Canada will
be hosting the 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). The
local organizing committee, Toronto2015, is already hard at work preparing the venues and logistics for
this immense event. Canada has hosted the Pan American Games twice—both times
in Winnipeg (1967, 1999).
Photo credit: Mike Ridewood / COC |
Team Canada is made up of 493 athletes (257 men and
236 women), with all ten provinces and the
Northwest Territories represented. The youngest Canadian athlete is Table
Tennis player Anqi Luo of Mississauga, Ontario (age 15), and the oldest will be
Equestrian veteran, Ian Millar of Perth, Ontario (age 64).
The 2011 Pan American Games will be held from October 14 –
30, with the Parapan American Games (the multi-sport event for athletes
with a physical disability) starting on November 12.
The first Pan American Games took place in Buenos Aires,
Argentina in 1951.
For more information on multi-sport events, please visit SIRC.
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