PARAPAN AMERICAN GAMES COMPETITIONS TO START WITH PARA TABLE TENNIS

Lima 2019 is ready to live the next part of the Pan American Games. Now it is turn for the best Para athletes of the Americas, who are coming to our country to compete for the Parapan American Games medals, in its sixth edition held this time in Peru.

The competitions of this multi-sports competition will start one day before the Opening Ceremony. The first Para sport to be premiered is Para table tennis, which will be held in the modern Sports Center 3 built specially for Lima 2019.

The best 127 Para table tennis players will be participating in this competition. The events on August 22 will be carried out in two turns: from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 16:00 to 22:00. Peru will be represented by four Para athletes: Shirley Aguilar, Luis Alberto Traverso, Jesús Yampufe and Guillermo Yáñez.

AUGUST 23

Likewise, the next day, on August 23, date set for the Parapan American Games Opening Ceremony at the National Stadium, men’s sitting volleyball and mixed wheelchair rugby will take place. Both Para sports will be starting at 08:00 in the Callao Sports Center and Villa El Salvador Sports Center Venues, respectively.

On August 24, wheelchair basketball and Judo competitions will start at 08:00 in VIDENA. Also, shooting Para Sport will be starting at 09:00 in Las Palmas Air Base; and football 7-a-side and football 5-a-side will begin at 09:30 and 15:00, respectively, at the Villa María del Triunfo Sports Center.

Wheelchair tennis is set to start by 10:00 at the Lawn Tennis Club, and Para athletics will begin at 15:00 in VIDENA.

It is also worth mentioning that 33 countries will be participating in the Parapan American Games: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, United States, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, US Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Mexico and Nicaragua.

In addition, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela will be participating too.

THE PARAPAN AMERICAN GAMES

In these Parapan American Games, there will be 1890 Para athletes from 33 countries, who will participate in 17 sports and 18 disciplines (1247 men and 643 women). The Peruvian delegation consists of 139 Para athletes who will be participating in 16 out of the 17 sports.

Competitions will take place in 14 venues from August 22 to September 1, 2019. This is the first time that Peru will organize the most important multi-sports event of the Americas and the most significant sporting event in the world after the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Parapan American Games will be qualifiers for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, in 13 Para sports. The Parapan American Games are supported by the Americas Paralympic Committee (APC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

ABOUT IPC AND APC

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is the international governing body of the Paralympic movement. Its objective is to organize the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games and to act as the International Federation of nine sports, in order to supervise and coordinate the World Championships and other competitions.

The Americas Paralympic Committee (APC) was established in August 1997 with the aim of creating a Para sport governing body for the Americas. Since 2007, the Parapan American Games are held by the city that hosts the Pan American Games.

ABOUT THE NATIONAL PARALYMPIC ASSOCIATION OF PERU

The National Paralympic Association of Peru (ANPP) is the governing body of the Paralympic sports movement in Peru. Since 2016, it promotes individual and group Para sports participation. The association also works to transform society by promoting Para sports, as part of the legacy that the Lima 2019 Parapan American Games will leave.