General

For Immediate Release

 

Badminton Canada is pleased to announce that parabadminton has been added to the sport menu for the 2019 Parapan Am Games in Lima, Peru. The Americas Paralympic Committee (APC) has announced that the Lima 2019 Parapan American Games will feature a record 1,850 athletes who will compete in 17 sports, two more than Toronto 2015.

 

The announcement was made following a three day meeting (28 February-1 March) in the Peruvian capital between the APC and Lima 2019 Organising Committee (COPAL).  At the conclusion of the meeting  both parties signed an agreement confirming that Lima would stage the biggest ever Parapan American Games.

 

The 17 sports that will make up the Lima 2019 Parapan American Games sport programme are: athletics, badminton, boccia, cycling, football 5-a-side, football 7-a-side, goalball, judo, powerlifting, shooting, sitting volleyball, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair tennis.  Archery has been removed from the sports programme, whilst badminton, shooting and taekwondo all feature for the first time in the Games which will take place at the end of August 2019.

 

Jose Luis Campo, APC President said: “Following their inclusion in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, both badminton and taekwondo will feature for the first time at a Parapan American Games alongside shooting.  We believe the sports programme for Lima 2019 features an exciting mixture of mass participation sports from the Americas.”

 

The Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games took place between 7-15 August 2015.  The Games featured 1,600 athletes from 28 countries who competed in 15 sports.  During eight days of competition, 10 world, 70 Americas and 239 Games records were broken.