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The Pan American Gymnastics Union organizes Pan American Gymnastics Championships in different disciplines of gymnastics: men's and women's artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, acrobatic gymnastics, trampoline and tumbling, as well as aerobic gymnastics. The Pan American Gymnastics Championships are considered by the International Gymnastics Federation to be the official continental championships for the Americas (comprising North America, South America, Central America and the Caribbean). Pan American Championships have also been organized for the sport of aesthetic group gymnastics.^[1]

History

Artistic gymnastics competitions have been contested in the Americas since 1946, at the fifth edition of the Central American and Caribbean Games. In 1951 , the sport was contested at the inaugural edition of the Pan American Games, and in 1957 the first edition of the South American championships in artistic gymnastics was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1964, the North American Championships in artistic gymnastics was contested for the first time. The meet would be staged until 1968, and in 1969 the competition changed its name to Copa de las Americas (Cup of the Americas) to allow South American nations to compete.^[2] At least one South American nation, Brazil, intended to compete, but eventually the event was attended only by North American nations.^[3]

Only in 1987, with the development and growth of gymnastics around the world, a tournament for junior gymnasts from the Americas was established with competitions in artistic and rhythmic gymnastics.^[4] The event was originally scheduled to take place in 1986, but was ultimately held from February 20 to 28, 1987, in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. It was the first international tournament held on a continental level in the Americas outside of the gymnastics events at the Pan American Games, and the first of its kind for junior gymnasts.^[5]^[6] A tournament for senior artistic and rhythmic gymnasts took place for the first time in 1989, named the Pan American Cup.^[7]^[8] A second edition of the tournament was scheduled for four years later, in December 1993, in Maracaibo, Venezuela, with events in men's and women's artistic gymnastics.^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]

In 1997, the title Pan American Cup was dropped in favor of Pan American Gymnastics Championships. The title Pan American Cup would then be used to represent tournaments between clubs, instead of tournaments between national representatives. The 1997 Pan American Gymnastics Championships was held in Medellín, Colombia, and was attended by artistic and rhythmic gymnasts.^[13]^[14] In 1995, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) recognized aerobic gymnastics (then sport aerobics) as a new competitive gymnastics discipline. The first edition of the Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships was held in Mérida, Venezuela, in 1999.

The FIG recognized two new gymnastics disciplines, acrobatic gymnastics, as well as trampoline and tumbling, in 1999. In 2004, the Pan American Trampoline and Tumbling Championships was organized for the first time in Tampa, United States. The first edition of the Pan American Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships was organized in 2015. In 2018, parkour was introduced by the FIG as a gymnastics discipline. To date, no Pan American Championships in parkour have been held.

Pan American championships also exist for the sport of aesthetic group gymnastics, a discipline not recognized by the FIG, organized, instead, by the International Federation of Aesthetic Group Gymnastics (IFAGG).^[1] The first edition of the tournament was organized in 2017, in Mérida, Mexico.^[15]

Senior editions

Artistic gymnastics

Year	Event	Location	Ref.
1997	1997 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	Medellín	^[16]
2001	2001 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	Cancún	^[17]
2004	2004 Pan American Individual Event Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Maracaibo	^[18]
2005	2005 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	Rio de Janeiro	^[19]
2008	2008 Pan American Individual Event Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Rosario	^[20]^[21]
2010	2010 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	Guadalajara	^[22]
2012	2012 Pan American Individual Event Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Medellín	^[23]
2013	2013 Pan American Individual Event Artistic Gymnastics Championships	San Juan	^[24]
2014	2014 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	Mississauga	^[25]
2016	2016 Pan American Individual Event Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Sucre	^[26]
2017	2017 Pan American Individual Event Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Lima	^[27]
2018	2018 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	Lima	^[27]
2021	2021 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	Rio de Janeiro	^[28]
2022	2022 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	Rio de Janeiro	^[29]
2023	2023 Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Medellín	^[30]
2024	2024 Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Santa Marta	^[31]

Rhythmic gymnastics

Year	Event	Location	Ref.
1997	1997 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	Medellín	^[16]
2001	2001 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	Cancún	^[17]
2005	2005 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	Vitória	^[19]
2010	2010 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	Guadalajara	^[22]
2014	2014 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	Mississauga	^[25]
2016	2016 Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Merida	^[32]
2017	2017 Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Daytona Beach	^[33]
2018	2018 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	Lima	^[27]
2021	2021 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	Rio de Janeiro	^[28]
2022	2022 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	Rio de Janeiro	^[29]
2023	2023 Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Guadalajara	^[34]
2024	2024 Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Ciudad de Guatemala	^[35]

Trampoline and tumbling

Year	Event	Edition	Location	Ref.
2004	2004 Pan American Trampoline and Tumbling Championships	I	Tampa	^[36]
2006	2006 Pan American Trampoline and Tumbling Championships	II	Monterrey	^[37]
2008	2008 Pan American Trampoline and Tumbling Championships	III	Buenos Aires	^[20]
2010	2010 Pan American Trampoline and Tumbling Championships	IV	Daytona Beach	^[22]
2012	2012 Pan American Trampoline and Tumbling Championships	V	Querétaro	^[38]
2014	2014 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	VI	Mississauga	^[25]
2016	2016 Pan American Trampoline and Tumbling Championships	VII	Bogotá	^[39]
2018	2018 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	VIII	Lima	^[27]
2021	2021 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	IX	Rio de Janeiro	^[28]
2022	2022 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	X	Rio de Janeiro	^[29]
2023	2023 Pan American Trampoline and Tumbling Championships	XI	Monterrey	^[40]
2024	2024 Pan American Trampoline and Tumbling Championships	XII	Lima	^[41]

Acrobatic gymnastics

Year	Event	Edition	Location	Ref.
2015	2015 Pan American Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships	I	Caguas	^[42]
2017	2017 Pan American Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships	II	Daytona Beach	^[33]
2019	2019 Pan American Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships	III	Monterrey	^[43]
2022	2022 Pan American Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships	IV	Bogotá	^[44]
2023	2023 Pan American Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships	V	Ibagué	^[45]

Aerobic gymnastics

Year	Event	Edition	Location	Ref.
1999	1999 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships	I	Mérida	^[46]
2001	2001 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships	II	Santiago	^[46]
2005	2005 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships	III	Mexico City	^[46]
2006	2006 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships	IV	San Cristobal	^[46]
2007	2007 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships	V	Morelos	^[46]
2009	2009 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships	VI	Morelos	^[46]
2010	2010 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships	VII	Balneário Camboriú	^[22]
2011	2011 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships	VIII	Yaracuy	^[47]
2012	2012 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships	IX	Acapulco	^[38]
2013	2013 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships	X	Santiago	^[46]
2015	2015 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships	XI	Morelos	^[48]
2016	2016 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships	XII	Lima	^[49]
2017	2017 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships	XIII	Bogotá	^[50]
2018	2018 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships	XIV	Lima	^[51]
2019	2019 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships	XV	Buenos Aires	^[52]
2021	2021 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships	XVI	Oaxtepec	^[53]
2022	2022 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships	XVII	Cúcuta	^[54]
2023	2023 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships	XVIII	Lima	^[55]