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1990 South American Games

Multi-sport event in Lima, Peru

Field	Value
name	IV South American Games
logo	SouthAmGames 1990.png
size	100
caption	1990 South American Games logo
host_city	Lima
country	PER
nations	10
athletes	1,070
events	16 sports
opening
closing
opened_by	Alberto Fujimori
torch_lighter	Cecilia Tait
stadium	Estadio Nacional del Perú
previous	1986 Santiago
next	1994 Valencia

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).{{ Citation |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140314073724/http://www.odesur.org/lima-90-peru/ |archive-date = 2014-03-14 |url-status = dead 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
- [[Image:Swimming pictogram.svg|30px]] Swimming
[[Image:Athletics pictogram.svg|30px]] Athletics
[[Image:Baseball pictogram.svg|30px]] Baseball
[[Image:Bowling pictogram.svg|30px]] Bowling‡
[[Image:Boxing pictogram.svg|30px]] Boxing
Cycling
- [[Image:Cycling (road) pictogram.svg|30px]] Road Cycling
- [[Image:Cycling (track) pictogram.svg|30px]] Track Cycling
[[Image:Fencing pictogram.svg|30px]] Fencing
Gymnastics
- [[Image:Gymnastics (artistic) pictogram.svg|30px]] Artistic Gymnastics
- [[Image:Gymnastics (rhythmic) pictogram.svg|30px]] Rhythmic Gymnastics
[[Image:Judo pictogram.svg|30px]] Judo†
[[Image:Sailing pictogram.svg|30px]] Sailing
[[Image:Shooting pictogram.svg|30px]] Shooting
[[Image:Table tennis pictogram.svg|30px]] Table Tennis
[[Image:Taekwondo pictogram.svg|30px]] Taekwondo
[[Image:Tennis pictogram.svg|30px]] Tennis
[[Image:Weightlifting pictogram.svg|30px]] Weightlifting
[[Image:Wrestling pictogram.svg|30px]] Wrestling

Notes

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

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

References

Rodríguez III, Ernesto. (2010). "LIBROS DEL CICLO OLÍMPICO ARGENTINO - Libro I de los Juegos Odesur 1978-2010". Alarco Ediciones.

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