Pan American Taekwondo Championships

Pan American Taekwondo Championships or simply Pan Am Taekwondo Championships are the American taekwondo senior championships, first held in 1978 in Mexico City.^[1] The event is held every two years by the Pan American Taekwondo Union and it's considered by the World Taekwondo as the continental tournament and a Grade 4 tournament for the world and olympic rankings.^[2]

Pan American Taekwondo Championships

Current event or competition: 2024 Pan American Taekwondo Championships
Competition details
Discipline	Taekwondo
Type	kyourugui, biennial
Organiser	Pan American Taekwondo Union (PATU)
History
First edition	1978 in Mexico City, Mexico
Editions	20 (2018)

The championships should not be confused with:

• the Pan American Games taekwondo competitions, which form part of a continental multi-sport event in the Olympic tradition.
• the ITF Pan American Taekwondo Championships, a championships organised by the International Taekwondo Federation.^[3]

List of tournaments

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Number	Edition	Host city and country	Men's champion	Women's champion	Events
1	1978 (details)	Mexico City, Mexico	Mexico	—	8
2	1982 (details)	Ponce, Puerto Rico	United States	United States	16
3	1984 (details)	Paramaribo, Suriname	United States	—	8
4	1986 (details)	Guayaquil, Ecuador	United States	United States	16
5	1988 (details)	Lima, Peru	Canada	United States	16
6	1990 (details)	Bayamón, Puerto Rico	Canada	United States	16
7	1992 (details)	Colorado Springs, United States	Mexico	Mexico	16
8	1994 (details)	Heredia, Costa Rica	Mexico	Mexico	16
9	1996 (details)	Havana, Cuba	Cuba	United States	16
10	1998 (details)	Lima, Peru	Mexico	United States	16
11	2000 (details)	Oranjestad, Aruba	United States	United States	16
12	2002 (details)	Quito, Ecuador	Mexico	United States	16
13	2004 (details)	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	Mexico	United States	16
14	2006 (details)	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Mexico	Canada	16
15	2008 (details)	Caguas, Puerto Rico	Argentina	Canada	16
16	2010 (details)	Monterrey, Mexico	Mexico	Mexico	16
17	2012 (details)	Sucre, Bolivia	United States	United States	16
18	2014 (details)	Aguascalientes, Mexico	Mexico	Canada	16
19	2016 (details)	Queretaro, Mexico	Mexico	Mexico	16
20	2018 (details)	Spokane, United States	Mexico	Brazil	16
21	2021 (details)	Cancún, Mexico	Mexico	Brazil	16
22	2022 (details)	Punta Cana, Dominican Republic	Brazil	Brazil	16
22	2024 (details)	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Canada	United States	16

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	88	57	82	227
2	Mexico	80	54	66	200
3	Canada	49	32	86	167
4	Brazil	33	44	71	148
5	Cuba	20	8	16	44
6	Venezuela	18	13	41	72
7	Dominican Republic	12	28	34	74
8	Colombia	11	28	42	81
9	Argentina	11	15	35	61
10	Puerto Rico	7	20	55	82
11	Ecuador	5	8	32	45
12	Chile	4	8	26	38
13	Peru	4	3	16	23
14	Netherlands Antilles	3	2	9	14
15	Guatemala	2	10	13	25
16	U.S. Virgin Islands	2	1	9	12
17	Panama	2	1	3	6
18	Costa Rica	1	12	15	28
19	Suriname	1	3	4	8
20	Nicaragua	1	0	1	2
21	Trinidad and Tobago	0	2	1	3
22	Uruguay	0	1	4	5
23	El Salvador	0	1	2	3
	Jamaica	0	1	2	3
25	Haiti	0	1	1	2
26	Paraguay	0	1	0	1
27	Honduras	0	0	8	8
28	Aruba	0	0	5	5
29	Bolivia	0	0	4	4
30	Grenada	0	0	1	1
	Guadeloupe	0	0	1	1
	Guyana	0	0	1	1
Totals (32 entries)		354	354	686	1,394