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The Central American Games (Spanish: Juegos Deportivos Centroamericanos) are a multi-sport regional championships event, held quadrennial (every 4 years), typically in the first year after Summer Olympics. The Games are open for member federations of the Central American Sports Organization (Spanish: Organización Deportiva Centroamericana) ORDECA in Central American countries. (in Spanish)
The Games have had an equivalent to the Olympic Flame, being ignited in Q'umarkaj, one of the ancient cultural Mayan centers located in El Quiché, Guatemala. However, some people and organizations have criticised the games for not including the Mesoamerican ballgame, the oldest ball sport in the continent, on the sports programme.
The competition is the second multi-sport event to have the name: the Central American and Caribbean Games began life in 1926 as the Central American Games and had this moniker until it expanded its remit in 1935.
Nations
Editions
1973, 1986, 2001, 20251977, 1994199019972006, 201720102013class=notpageimage| Host cities of the Central American Games
| Games | Year | Host country (as recognized by IOC) |
Host city | Opened by | Dates | Nations | Sports | Competitors | Top nation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | I |  Guatemala
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Guatemala City | Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre | 24 November – 2 December | 6 | 16 | 966 |  Panama
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| 1977 | II |  El Salvador
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San Salvador | Carlos Humberto Romero | 25 November – 4 December | 5 | 18 | 1282 | Panama
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| 1986 | III | Guatemala
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Guatemala City | 4–10 January | 5 | 20 | 1320 | Guatemala
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| 1990 | IV |  Honduras
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Tegucigalpa | José Azcona | 5–14 January | 6 | 22 | 2082 | Guatemala
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| 1994 | V | El Salvador
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San Salvador | Armando Calderón Sol | 25 November – 1 December | 7 | 27 | 2112 | El Salvador
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| 1997 | VI | Honduras
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San Pedro Sula | Carlos Roberto Reina | 5–15 December | 7 | 25 | 2290 | El Salvador
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| 2001 | VII | Guatemala
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Guatemala City | Harris Whitbeck | 22 November – 3 December | 7 | 29 | 2182 | Guatemala
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| 2006 | VIII |  Nicaragua
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Managua | Melitón Sánchez | 2–12 March | 6 | 19 | 1095 | Guatemala
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| 2010 | IX | Panama
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Panama City | Ricardo Martinelli | 9–19 April | 6 | 23 | 1739 | El Salvador
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| 2013 | X |  Costa Rica
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San José | Laura Chinchilla | 3–17 March | 7 | 26 | 2738 | Guatemala
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| 2017 | XI | Nicaragua
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Managua | Daniel Ortega | 3–17 December | 7 | 27 | 3500 | Guatemala
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| 2022 | - | El Salvador
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Santa Tecla | 5–19 December (Cancelled) | 7 | ||||
| 2025 | XII | Guatemala
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Guatemala City | President of Guatemala(execept) | June-July | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
All time medal table (1997 - 2017)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guatemala (GUA) | 535 | 481 | 382 | 1,398 |
| 2 | El Salvador (ESA) | 463 | 351 | 388 | 1,202 |
| 3 | Costa Rica (CRC) | 342 | 343 | 375 | 1,060 |
| 4 | Panama (PAN) | 203 | 235 | 272 | 710 |
| 5 | Nicaragua (NIC) | 166 | 230 | 383 | 779 |
| 6 |  Honduras (HON) | 166 | 225 | 333 | 724 |
| 7 |  Belize (BLZ) | 11 | 25 | 32 | 68 |
| Totals (7 entries) | 1,886 | 1,890 | 2,165 | 5,941 | |
Sports
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Para Games
Main article: Central American Para Games| Year | Event | Opened by | Host Country | Host City | Duration | Countries | Sports | Athletes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | I | Costa Rica
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San Jose | April 13 - April 21 | 6 | |||
| 2018 | II | Nicaragua
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Managua | January 21 - January 28 | 7 |
See also
- Central American and Caribbean Swimming Federation
- Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation
- Latin American Table Tennis Union
- Hispanic America
- Latin America
- Ibero-America
- Afro–Latin Americans
- Latin Americans
- Caribbean Sea
- Central_America#Demographics
References
- Centroamericanos - Resultados en la historia (in Spanish), masgoles.com, archived from the original on September 19, 2012, retrieved August 10, 2012
- Comenzaron los juegos ayer en Guatemala (in Spanish), La Nación, Costa Rica, November 25, 1973, p. 35 (original page no.: 62A), retrieved August 27, 2012
External links
- List of medal winners on Mas Goles (in Spanish)
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