MI­A­MI, Flori­da – The city of Li­ma in Pe­ru will host the 2027 Pan Am Games.

The Pan Am Sports Or­gan­i­sa­tion (PA­SO) an­nounced dur­ing a cer­e­mo­ny on Wednes­day in the Unit­ed States that the Pe­ru­vian cap­i­tal was cho­sen by mem­ber coun­tries with 28 votes in favour in a nar­row vote at the ex­tra­or­di­nary gen­er­al as­sem­bly.

“We’re hap­py for this win,” Pres­i­dent of the Pe­ru­vian Olympic Com­mit­tee, Ren­zo Man­yari. “We will work to make every­one’s ex­pe­ri­ence the best they have ever had, and they have the ab­solute de­vo­tion of more than 33 mil­lion Pe­ru­vians. Thank you for trust­ing us.”

The de­ci­sion comes af­ter both cities an­nounced their bids last month in the wake of the city of Bar­ran­quil­la in Colom­bia be­ing stripped of host­ing rights for fail­ing to meet con­trac­tu­al oblig­a­tions.

“I want to high­light the trans­paren­cy of the process, and the broth­er­hood of both na­tions that com­pet­ed health­ily for the right to host the 2027 Pan Amer­i­can Games,” PA­SO pres­i­dent, Neven Il­ic.

“I want to con­grat­u­late Li­ma, all of Pe­ru and the Pres­i­dent of the Pe­ru­vian Olympic Com­mit­tee, Ren­zo Man­yari for this tremen­dous achieve­ment.

“A few years ago, they shook an en­tire con­ti­nent with ex­cite­ment and to­day, with more ex­pe­ri­ence and spec­tac­u­lar in­fra­struc­ture, they want to re­peat or im­prove the suc­cess achieved in 2019.”

The pre­vi­ous edi­tion of the Pan Am Games was held last year in San­ti­a­go, Chile.

CMC