1990 South American Games

Template:Short description Template:Template other The IV South American Games (Spanish: Juegos Sudamericanos; Portuguese: Jogos Sul-Americanos) were a multi-sport event held in 1990 in Lima, Peru, with some events in Arequipa (cycling and weightlifting) and Trujillo (artistic gymnastics and taekwondo). The Games were organized by the South American Sports Organization (ODESUR). An appraisal of the games and detailed medal lists were published elsewhere, emphasizing the results of the Argentinian teams.

The games were officially opened by Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori. Torch lighter at the Estadio Nacional del Perú was Olympic silver medalist, volleyball player Cecilia Tait.

Colombia rather preferred to participate at the Central American and Caribbean Games at Ciudad de México taking place almost at the same time, and sent no athletes. Venezuela also preferred to participate at the Central American and Caribbean Games, but sent at least a small contingent of 56 athletes.

Participants

10 ODESUR members participated on the games, Colombia did not participate because preferred to participate the 1990 Central American and Caribbean Games

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Chile
• Ecuador
• Paraguay
• Peru (Hosts)
• Suriname
• Uruguay
• Venezuela

Medal count

The medal count for these Games is tabulated below. This table is sorted by the number of gold medals earned by each country. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next, and then the number of bronze medals.

Sports

• Aquatic sports
  • File:Swimming pictogram.svg Swimming
• File:Athletics pictogram.svg Athletics
• File:Baseball pictogram.svg Baseball
• File:Bowling pictogram.svg Bowling^‡
• File:Boxing pictogram.svg Boxing
• Cycling
  • File:Cycling (road) pictogram.svg Road Cycling
  • File:Cycling (track) pictogram.svg Track Cycling
• File:Fencing pictogram.svg Fencing
• Gymnastics
  • File:Gymnastics (artistic) pictogram.svg Artistic Gymnastics
  • File:Gymnastics (rhythmic) pictogram.svg Rhythmic Gymnastics
• File:Judo pictogram.svg Judo^†
• File:Sailing pictogram.svg Sailing
• File:Shooting pictogram.svg Shooting
• File:Table tennis pictogram.svg Table Tennis
• File:Taekwondo pictogram.svg Taekwondo
• File:Tennis pictogram.svg Tennis
• File:Weightlifting pictogram.svg Weightlifting
• File:Wrestling pictogram.svg Wrestling

Notes

^†: The male judo competition was reserved to junior representatives (U-20).

^‡: The bowling competition was reserved to junior representatives (U-20).

External links

• Lima 90 ODESUR page