2025 Junior Pan American Games

The 2025 Junior Pan American Games, also called Asu 2025, were the second time for the Junior Pan American Games. This international multi-sports event brought together athletes aged 17 to 22 from across the Americas. The games were organized by Panam Sports.

These games took place in Asunción, Paraguay, from August 9 to August 23, 2025. This was a special moment because it was the very first time that either the senior or junior Pan American Games were held in Paraguay. Athletes from many countries competed in many different sports, showing their skills and teamwork.

Bidding process

Three cities wanted to host the 2025 Junior Pan American Games. They were Asunción, Paraguay, Lima, Peru, and Santa Marta, Colombia.

Asunción was chosen during a vote on November 28, 2022, in Miami, United States. Lima dropped out just before the vote, leaving Asunción and Santa Marta as the final choices. Asunción won with 32 votes against 16.

2025 Junior Pan American Games bidding results

City	NOC	Round 1
Asunción	Paraguay	32
Santa Marta	Colombia	16

Venues

Most of the games happened in places in Asunción and Luque. Some special events were held in Ypacaraí and Encarnación.

The Games

Sports

The 2025 Junior Pan American Games featured 336 events across 28 different sports. Six new sports were added for this edition: open water swimming, BMX freestyle, water skiing, golf, field hockey, and rugby sevens. Some sports from earlier games, like baseball/softball, bowling, boxing, and modern pentathlon, were not included this time.

The games included popular sports such as 3x3 basketball, aquatics (with events like artistic swimming, diving, open water swimming, and swimming), archery, athletics, badminton, canoeing, cycling (including BMX racing, BMX freestyle, mountain biking, road, and track), fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics (with artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, and trampoline), handball, judo, karate, roller sports (including artistic skating, skateboarding, and speed skating), rowing, rugby sevens, sailing, shooting, squash, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, volleyball (with beach volleyball and volleyball), water skiing, weightlifting, and wrestling (with freestyle and Greco-Roman).

Participating National Olympic Committees

All 41 nations that are members of Panam Sports took part in these games, with a total of 3,975 athletes. The number in parentheses shows how many athletes each nation had.

Participating National Olympic Committees

Antigua and Barbuda (10)  Argentina (341)  Aruba (13)  Bahamas (15)  Barbados (27)  Belize (5)  Bermuda (24)  Bolivia (55)  Brazil (362)  British Virgin Islands (3)  Canada (157)  Cayman Islands (14)  Chile (284)  Colombia (215)  Costa Rica (74)  Cuba (224)  Dominica (3)  Dominican Republic (95)  Ecuador (111)  El Salvador (63)  Grenada (10)  Guatemala (123)  Guyana (35)  Haiti (5)  Honduras (14)  Jamaica (84)  Mexico (377)  Nicaragua (18)  Panama (33)  Paraguay (327) (Host)  Peru (114)  Puerto Rico (109)  Saint Lucia (2)  Saint Kitts and Nevis (5)  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (4)  Suriname (7)  Trinidad and Tobago (74)  United States (220)  Uruguay (126)  Venezuela (175)  Virgin Islands (9)

Schedule

August		9 Sat	10 Sun	11 Mon	12 Tue	13 Wed	14 Thu	15 Fri	16 Sat	17 Sun	18 Mon	19 Tue	20 Wed	21 Thu	22 Fri	23 Sat	Events
Ceremonies (opening / closing)		OC														CC	—N/a
3x3 basketball								●	●	2							2
Aquatics	Artistic swimming												●		2	1	3
	Diving								2	2	2	4					10
	Open water swimming									2							2
	Swimming		8	8	8	6	6										36
Archery			●	●	8												8
Athletics											8	6	10	10	11		45
Badminton			●	●	●	3											3
Canoeing													4	4	2	6	16
Cycling	BMX		●	2										●	2		4
	Mountain biking		2														2
	Road		2							2							4
	Track				4	2	2	4									12
Fencing			2	2	2												6
Field hockey			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	1	1					2
Golf												●	1	●	●	2	3
Gymnastics	Artistic											2	2	5	5		14
	Rhythmic			●	2	6											8
	Trampoline			●	4												4
Handball			●	●	●	●	●	1	●	●	●	●	●	●	1		2
Judo			5	4	5	1											15
Karate														4	4	2	10
Roller sports	Artistic													●	4		4
	Skateboarding		●	2													2
	Speed										4	4	2				10
Rowing		●	5	1	3	4											13
Rugby sevens									●	2							2
Sailing								●	●	5							5
Shooting		●	4	4	3												11
Squash				●	2	●	3	●	2								7
Table tennis									●	1	4	●	●	2			7
Taekwondo								4	4	4							12
Tennis				●	●	●	●	2	3								5
Triathlon													2	1			3
Volleyball	Beach										●	●	●	●	2		2
	Indoor		●	●	●	●	●	1	●	●	●	●	●	●	1		2
Water skiing											●	●	6	4			10
Weightlifting													4	3	3	2	12
Wrestling													6	6	6		18
Total events		0	28	23	41	22	11	12	11	20	19	17	37	39	43	13	0
Cumulative total		0	28	51	92	114	125	137	148	168	187	204	241	280	323	336	336
		9 Sat	10 Sun	11 Mon	12 Tue	13 Wed	14 Thu	15 Fri	16 Sat	17 Sun	18 Mon	19 Tue	20 Wed	21 Thu	22 Fri	23 Sat	Events

Medal table

The official medal table shows the results for the host nation Paraguay.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil	70	50	55	175
2	United States	54	43	45	142
3	Colombia	48	27	40	115
4	Mexico	29	45	55	129
5	Argentina	27	38	30	95
6	Canada	19	21	23	63
7	Cuba	19	13	15	47
8	Chile	18	19	28	65
9	Venezuela	12	15	19	46
10	Puerto Rico	7	7	13	27
11	Guatemala	7	3	4	14
12	Ecuador	6	13	14	33
13	Jamaica	4	5	6	15
14	Paraguay*	3	6	14	23
15	Peru	3	5	15	23
16	Uruguay	1	6	6	13
17	Trinidad and Tobago	1	2	8	11
18	Dominican Republic	1	2	5	8
19	Virgin Islands	1	2	0	3
20	Bolivia	1	1	4	6
21	Bahamas	1	1	2	4
	Nicaragua	1	1	2	4
	Panama	1	1	2	4
24	Aruba	1	1	0	2
25	Cayman Islands	1	0	1	2
26	Dominica	1	0	0	1
	Haiti	1	0	0	1
28	Bermuda	0	2	1	3
	El Salvador	0	2	1	3
30	British Virgin Islands	0	1	1	2
	Grenada	0	1	1	2
32	Barbados	0	1	0	1
33	Guyana	0	0	3	3
34	Costa Rica	0	0	1	1
Totals (34 entries)		338	334	414	1,086

Broadcasting

The games could be watched around the world on the Panam Sports Channel website. Some TV and radio stations in different countries also showed the events.

Territory	Rights holder
Argentina	TyC Sports, DeporTV
Brazil	BandSports (cable), Brazilian Olympic Committee Channel and CazéTV (streaming)
Caribbean	Rush Sports
Canada	Fanatiz
Colombia	Win Sports
Costa Rica	Trivisión
Cuba	Tele Rebelde
Chile	Chilevisión, Televisión Nacional de Chile, Canal 13, Zapping, CDO, NTV
Ecuador	Zapping
Europe	ANOC TV
Mexico	TVC
Panamá	Medcom, TVN Media, Ser TV, COS Cable
Paraguay	Unicanal, Trece, Tigo Sports, Paraguay TV
Peru	Movistar Deportes, Zapping
Puerto Rico	Telemundo
Spain	Fanatiz
United States
Uruguay	Canal 5
Venezuela	TVes