The Pan American Race Walking Cup ( Spanish : Copa Panamericana de Marcha ) is a biennial race walking competition for athletes representing countries from the Americas , organized by the Association of Panamerican Athletics (APA). It was established in 1984 and has featured races for senior men and women, and for junior athletes. The women competed in the 10 km road race until 1996, and then switched to the 20 km road race. In addition, there are separate team competitions. The 2001 event was held in conjunction with the South American Race Walking Cup . In 2011, the organization of the event was transferred from the Pan American Athletics Commission, a subdivision of the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO), to the newly constituted APA .
13-769: The events between 1984 and 2007 are documented in great detail in Spanish (including many historical fotos) by then President of the Pan American Race Walking Committee Rubén Pedro Aguilera from Argentina and is available from the APA website. During the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas , Venezuela , the chief judge Palle Lassen from Denmark, then president of the IAAF race walking committee met with regional officials, namely
26-628: A result, they proposed to create an international event to intensify the development of racewalking in the Americas. Further technical details for the future Pan American Race Walking Cup were cleared during the 1983 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics in Barcelona , Spain , later that year. Only one year later, the inaugural competition took place in Bucaramanga , Colombia . The site
39-778: Is a new regional confederation governing body of athletics for national governing bodies and multi-national federations within Northern , Central, and South America, and the Caribbean, replacing the Pan American Athletics Commission. The organization was founded on October 28, 2011, during the XVI Pan American Games in Guadalajara , Jalisco , Mexico . The inaugural president is Víctor López from Puerto Rico, former president of
52-456: The Canada–US dyad , developed countries that exhibit very high Human Development Indexes and intense economic integration while sharing many socioeconomic characteristics. The World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions has "Northern America" as the seventh of its nine "botanical continents". Its definition differs from the usual political one: Mexico is included, Bermuda
65-592: The Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation (CACAC) . APA organizes the following championships and cups: Due to the constitution, membership in the Association shall consist of World Athletics member federations which are affiliated members of NACAC and CONSUDATLE as ratified by World Athletics . At this time, APA consists of 44 member federations, 31 of them are member of NACAC , while 13 are member of CONSUDATLE . This means that
78-508: The IAAF World Race Walking Challenge . The winner was Jesús Ángel García from [REDACTED] Spain in 3:46:46. Craig Barrett from [REDACTED] New Zealand came in second in 3:51:15. Miguel Solís from [REDACTED] Mexico was 5th in 4:18:02, Juan Emilio Toscano from [REDACTED] Mexico was 6th in 4:18:52, and Saúl Méndez also from [REDACTED] Mexico
91-675: The United States (the contiguous United States and Alaska only, excluding Hawaii , Navassa Island , Puerto Rico , the United States Virgin Islands , and other minor U.S. Pacific territories ). Maps using the term Northern America date back to 1755, when the region was occupied by France , Great Britain , and Spain . The Solemn Act of the Declaration of Independence of Northern America in 1813 applied to Mexico. Today, Northern America includes
104-625: The APA also comprises the 3 IAAF members without a recognized National Olympic Committee that are therefore no member of the Pan American Sports Organization namely Anguilla, Montserrat, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. This athletics and track and field article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Northern America Northern America is the northernmost subregion of North America as well as
117-703: The northernmost region in the Americas . The boundaries may be drawn significantly differently depending on the source of the definition. In one definition, it lies directly north of Middle America . Northern America's land frontier with the rest of North America then coincides with the Mexico–United States border . Geopolitically , according to the United Nations' scheme of geographical regions and subregions , Northern America consists of Bermuda , Canada , Greenland , Saint Pierre and Miquelon and
130-628: The period 1984 to 2007 were published. : In 2000, the Mexican Athletics Federation used the event as trials for the Olympic Games in Sydney. Cristian Berdeja from [REDACTED] Mexico started out of competition and came in third in 1:23.46. : In 2000 Germán Sánchez from [REDACTED] Mexico started out of competition and came in third in 3:48:06. : In 2003, the medallists were extracted from
143-474: The president of the Pan American Athletics Commission, Amadeo Francis from Puerto Rico, César Moreno Bravo from México, and Jerzy Hausleber, the famous Polish coach of the Mexican racewalkers, as well as Rubén Aguilera (Argentina), Francesco Alongi (USA), Julián Díaz Rodríguez (Cuba), José Clemente Gonçalves (Brazil), Luigi Giordano (Canada), Alfonso Marques de la Mora (México) and Oscar Suman Carrillo (Panamá). As
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#1732791106343156-742: Was 7th in 4:19:12, but all three of them were not registered for participation at the Pan American Race Walking Cup. However, there are conflicting information: another source declares Miguel Solís from [REDACTED] Mexico as bronze medal winner. :In 1990, Marisela Chávez from [REDACTED] Mexico started out of competition and came in third in 46:48. : In 2000, Mara Ibáñez from [REDACTED] Mexico started out of competition and came in second in 1:34:52. Association of Panamerican Athletics The Association of Panamerican Athletics ( APA ; Spanish : Asociación Panamericana de Atletismo )
169-475: Was chosen because its central location within the Americas, and moreover, race walking was already successfully practiced here. Gold medal winners were published. The results for the Mexican athletes were published by the Federation of Mexican Athletics Associations (FMAA). On overview for the years 1984-2005 was given. Further results were assembled from other sources. More recently, complete results for
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