1955 Pan American Games

II Pan American Games
Poster of the 1955 Pan American Games.
HostMexico City, Mexico
Nations22
Athletes2,583
Events146 in 17 sports
OpeningMarch 12
ClosingMarch 26
Opened byPresident Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
Main venueEstadio Olímpico Universitario

The 1955 Pan American Games opened on March 12, 1955, in the University Stadium (now Olympic Stadium) in Mexico City, Mexico, in front of a capacity crowd of 100,000 spectators.

A total of 2,583 athletes from 22 nations marched in review and formed ranks upon the infield.[1] The nations paraded into the stadium in Spanish alphabetical order: Argentina, Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, El Salvador, United States, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Netherlands Antilles, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Mexico.[2][3] The hot sun, combined with the high altitude, caused two members of the U.S. team to collapse. Both quickly recovered.

  1. ^ "II Pan American Games". la84foundation.org. Archived from the original on 2010-05-06. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
  2. ^ The History of the Pan American Games Curtis Ray Emery, 1964
  3. ^ Jornal dos Sports (1955) (in Portuguese)

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