page_title: Pan American Games
section_title: Medal presentation
hierarchical_section_title: Pan American Games / Ceremonies / Medal presentation
caption_attribution_description: English: George Haas, left, Ken Blasi, center, and the third member of the U.S. trap shooting team wave from the winner's platform after being awarded gold medals for their efforts in the 10th Annual Pan American Games. Exact Date Shot Unknown.
context_page_description: The Pan American Games is a major sporting event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The competition is held among athletes from nations of the Americas, every four years in the year before the Summer Olympic Games. The only Winter Pan American Games were held in 1990. In 2021, there will be a Junior Pan American Games for young athletes. The Pan American Sports Organization is the governing body of the Pan American Games movement, whose structure and actions are defined by the Olympic Charter.
  The XVIII Pan American Games were held in Lima from July 26–August 11, 2019; the XIX Pan American Games will be held in Santiago between 20 October-5 November, 2023. Since the XV Pan American Games in 2007, host cities are contracted to manage both the Pan American and the Parapan American Games, in which athletes with physical disabilities compete with one another. The Parapan American Games are held immediately following the Pan American Games.
context_section_description: At the conclusion of each event, medals are ceremoniously distributed to the first, second and third-place finishers. The participants stand a three-tiered podium while receiving their medals. After the medals are given out by an IOC or PASO member, the national flags of the three medalists are raised while the national anthem of the gold medalist's country plays. Volunteering citizens of the host country act as hosts during the medal ceremonies, as they aid the officials who present the medals and act as flag-bearers. For every Pan American Games event, the respective medal ceremony is held, at most, one day after the event's final. When athletics was scheduled for the last days, the men's marathon is held in the last day of the games, and the award ceremony is held before or during the closing ceremonies.
caption: A medal ceremony during the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis.
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