A Pan American Championship is a top level international sports competition between athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional
sports club
A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports.
Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...
s in the
Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.''Webster's New World College Dictionary'', 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. When viewed as a sing ...
. Typically these championships are recurring, the most common formats being annual, biennial and quadrennial. The
Pan American Games
The Pan American Games, known as the Pan Am Games, is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas. It features thousands of athletes participating in competitions to win different summer sports. It is held among athletes from nations of th ...
is the highest level sporting competition for the region. It is common for there to be sport-specific governing bodies to organise these regional competitions, such as the
Pan American Judo Confederation.
Major tournaments
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Pan American Games
The Pan American Games, known as the Pan Am Games, is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas. It features thousands of athletes participating in competitions to win different summer sports. It is held among athletes from nations of th ...
, a
multi-sport event
A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports among organized teams of athletes from (mostly) nation-states. The first major, modern, multi-sport event of intern ...
between competitors from all nations in the
Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.''Webster's New World College Dictionary'', 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. When viewed as a sing ...
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Championship
In sport, a championship is a competition in which the aim is to decide which individual or team is the champion.
Championship systems
Various forms of competition can be referred to by the term championship.
Title match system
In this sys ...
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World championship
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...
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African Championship
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Asian Championship
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Central American Championships (disambiguation) Central American Championships may refer to:
* Central American Cricket Championship
* Central American Handball Championship
* Central American Championships in Athletics
* Central American Junior and Youth Championships in Athletics
* Centrob ...
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European Championship
A European Championship is the top level international sports competition between European athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs.
In the plural, the European Championships also refers t ...
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European Junior Championships (disambiguation)
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North American Championship
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Canadian Championships Canadian Championships refers to a number of national-level competition in Canada. It may refer to:
* Canadian Championship, the national championship tournament for professional soccer
* Canadian Figure Skating Championships
* Canadian Professiona ...
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Oceania Championship
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South American Championship
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