Central American Games

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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.^[1] (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.^[2] 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.

Editions[]

1973, 1986, 2001

1977, 1994

1990

1997

2006, 2017

2010

2013

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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	Guatemala City	Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre	24 November – 2 December	6	16	966	Panama
1977	II	El Salvador	San Salvador	Carlos Humberto Romero	25 November – 4 December	5	18	1282	Panama
1986	III	Guatemala	Guatemala City		4–10 January	5	20	1320	Guatemala
1990	IV	Honduras	Tegucigalpa	José Azcona	5–14 January	6	22	2082	Guatemala
1994	V	El Salvador	San Salvador	Armando Calderón Sol	25 November – 1 December	7	27	2112	El Salvador
1997	VI	Honduras	San Pedro Sula	Carlos Roberto Reina	5–15 December	7	25	2290	El Salvador
2001	VII	Guatemala	Guatemala City	Harris Whitbeck	22 November – 3 December	7	29	2182	Guatemala
2006	VIII	Nicaragua	Managua		2–12 March	6	19	1095	Guatemala
2010	IX	Panama	Panama City	Ricardo Martinelli	9–19 April	6	23	1739	El Salvador
2013	X	Costa Rica	San José	Laura Chinchilla	3–17 March	7	26	2738	Guatemala
2017	XI	Nicaragua	Managua	Daniel Ortega	3–17 December	7	27	3500	Guatemala
2022	XII	El Salvador	Santa Tecla		5–19 December	7

All time medal table (1997 - 2017)[]

The seven countries of Central America and their capitals

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Guatemala (GUA)	535	481	382	1398
2	El Salvador (ESA)	463	351	388	1202
3	Costa Rica (CRC)	342	343	375	1060
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 nations)		1886	1890	2165	5941

Sports[]

Disciplines from the same sport are grouped under the same color:

  –   –   Football –   –   –   Volleyball

Sport (Discipline)		Body		73	77	86	90	94	97	01	06	10	13	17
		World	Central America
		FINA	CCCAN
		FITA
Athletics		IAAF	CADICA	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
		BWF	BPA			†
Baseball		IBAF	COPABE
		FIBA	FIBA Americas
		IFBB					†
		FIQ
		AIBA	AMBC
		FIDE
		UCI	COPACI
		FEI
		FIE
Football		FIFA	UNCAF	X	X	X	X	X	X	X			X	X
		FIG
Handball		IHF												X
		IJF												X
		WKF	PKF
		IRF
		FIRS								†
		FISA				†
		ISAF				†
		ISSF
		ISF
		WSF
		ITTF	LATTU
		WTF	PATU
		ITF	COTECC
		ITU	PATCO											X
Beach Volleyball		FIVB	NORCECA						†
Volleyball
		IWF	PAWC
		UWW
Total sports				16	18	20+3	22+1	27	25+1	29+1	19	23

^†: Exhibition contest

Para Games[]

Year	Event	Opened by	Host Country	Host City	Duration	Countries	Sports	Athletes
2013			Costa Rica	San Jose	April 13 - April 21	6
2018			Nicaragua	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[]

External links[]

• List of medal winners on Mas Goles (in Spanish)