Pan American Gymnastics Championships

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]

The first edition of the Pan American Championships for youth and junior gymnasts was originally scheduled to take place in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, in 1986, but was ultimately postponed to February 1987.^{[4][5][6][63]}

Artistic gymnastics

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Year	Event	Location	Ref.
1987	1987 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Barquisimeto	[4]
1988	1988 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Ponce	[7]
1990	1990 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Tallahassee	[64]
1992	1992 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships	São Paulo	[65][66]
1994	1994 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Monterrey	[65][67]
1996	1996 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Guatemala City	[68]
1998	1998 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Houston	[69]
2000	2000 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Curitiba	[70]
2002	2002 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Santo Domingo	[71]
2004	2004 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships	San Salvador	[72]
2006	2006 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Québec	[73]
2007	2007 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Guatemala City	[74]
2009	2009 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Aracaju	[75]
2012	2012 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Medellín	[42]
2014	2014 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Aracaju	[44]
2016	2016 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Sucre	[45]
2018	2018 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Buenos Aires	[46]
2021	2021 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Guadalajara	[76]
2022	2022 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	Rio de Janeiro	[48]
2024	2024 Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Santa Marta	[77]
2026	2026 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	Rio de Janeiro	[52]

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Rhythmic gymnastics

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Year	Event	Location	Ref.
1987	1987 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Barquisimeto	[4]
1988	1988 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Salinas	[7]
1990	1990 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Tallahassee	[78]
1992	1992 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	São Paulo	[79]
1994	1994 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Monterrey	[67][79]
1996	1996 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Guatemala City	[68][79]
1998	1998 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Houston	[69][79]
2000	2000 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	San Felipe	[80]
2002	2002 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Santo Domingo	[71][81]
2004	2004 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	San Salvador	[72]
2006	2006 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Toronto	[82]
2007	2007 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	San Cristóbal	[83]
2009	2009 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Havana	[75]
2012	2012 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Córdoba	[84]
2014	2014 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Daytona Beach	[44]
2016	2016 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Merida	[45]
2017	2017 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Daytona Beach	[17][85]
2018	2018 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Medellín	[86]
2019	2019 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Monterrey	[87]
2021	2021 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Guatemala City	[88]
2022	2022 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	Rio de Janeiro	[48]
2023	2023 Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Guadalajara	[89]
2024	2024 Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Guatemala City	[55]
2025	2025 Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	Asunción	[56]
2026	2026 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	Rio de Janeiro	[52]

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Other disciplines

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Year	Event	Location	Discipline(s) competed	Ref.
2006	2006 Pan American Trampoline and Tumbling Championships	Monterrey	Trampoline	[90]
2012	2012 Pan American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships	Acapulco	Aerobic gymnastics	[25]
2014	2014 Pan American Trampoline Championships	Daytona Beach	Trampoline and tumbling	[44]
2015	2015 Pan American Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships	Caguas	Acrobatic gymnastics	[16]
2017	2017 Pan American Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships	Daytona Beach	Acrobatic gymnastics	[17][85]
2018	2018 Pan American Trampoline Championships	Cochabamba	Trampoline and tumbling	[46]
2019	2019 Pan American Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships	Monterrey	Acrobatic gymnastics	[91]
2021	2021 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	Rio de Janeiro	Trampoline	[47]
2022	2022 Pan American Gymnastics Championships	Rio de Janeiro	Trampoline	[48]
2024	2024 Pan American Trampoline and Tumbling Championships	Lima	Trampoline	[61]
2025	2025 Pan American Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships	Carolina	Acrobatic gymnastics	[92]

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Senior

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Year	Event	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2017	2017 Pan American Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships	Mérida	Brazil Marrie Cotia	Mexico Charlottes	Canada Rhythmic Expressions	[15]
2018	2018 Pan American Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships	Santos	Canada Rhythmic Expressions	Brazil Cuba Team	None awarded	[93][94]
2020	2020 Pan American Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships	Toronto	Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada			[95]

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