2025 Junior Pan American Games
The 2025 Junior Pan American Games, also named Asu 2025, were the second edition of the Junior Pan American Games, an international multi-sports event for athletes aged 17 to 22 in the Americas, organized by Panam Sports. It was held in Asunción, Paraguay between August 9 and 23, 2025. It was the first time that the Pan American Games, either senior or junior, took place in Paraguay.
Bidding process
Three cities expressed interest in hosting the games:- Asunción, Paraguay: At the beginning of the 2022 South American Games, held in Asunción, the President of Paraguay Mario Abdo Benítez announced that the country's capital was being submitted as the host city for the Junior Games with the intention of reusing the infrastructure used for the South American Games.
- Lima, Peru: In 2022, Mayor of Lima Miguel Romero Sotelo, supported by the Peruvian Olympic Committee and the Peruvian Institute of Sport, presented a project submitting Lima as the host city for the games. Infractructure used at the 2019 Pan American Games was expected to be reused for the Junior Games.
- Santa Marta, Colombia: The city was submitted as the host city, celebrating the future 500th anniversary of the city in 2025. The Junior Games would serve as practice for future bids for other multi-sport events.
| City | NOC | Round 1 |
| Asunción | 32 | |
| Santa Marta | 16 |
Venues
Most events took place in venues within Asunción and Luque, with especific events at independent venues located in Ypacaraí and Encarnación.The Games
Sports
336 events in 28 sports were contested. The full sport program was confirmed in 2024. For the 2025 edition, six disciplines were added: open water swimming, BMX freestyle, water skiing, golf, field hockey and rugby sevens. Sports included for the previous editions but dropped for the present were baseball/softball, bowling, boxing and modern pentathlon.- Aquatics
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- * Canoe sprint
- * BMX racing
- * BMX freestyle
- * Mountain biking
- * Road
- * Track
- * Artistic gymnastics
- * Rhythmic gymnastics
- * Trampoline
- Roller sports
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- * Speed skating '
- Volleyball
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- * Freestyle
- * Greco-Roman
Participating National Olympic Committees
All 41 nations who are members of the Panam Sports competed at this edition with a total of 3,975 athletes. The numbers in parentheses represents the number of athletes competed.| Participating National Olympic Committees | |||
 Antigua and Barbuda|2025 Junior|10Medal tableThe official medal table:BroadcastingThe competitions are accessible globally via the Panam Sports Channel website and are also broadcast by rights-holding media partners in various countries.
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Argentina