(6 Nov 2009)
1. Wide of Pan American Games announcement ceremony
2. Pan American Sports Organisation President Mario Vazquez Rana receiving vote results
3. Wide of stage
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mario Vazquez Rana, Pan American Sports Organisation President: (++includes cutaway of audience++)
"I want to inform you that the city that has won the responsibility for the games and will host the games in 2015 is Toronto."
5. Various of Toronto delegation cheering and celebrating and hugging each other
6. Toronto delegation on stage
STORYLINE:
Toronto was awarded the 2015 Pan American Games at a ceremony in the Mexican city of Guadalajara on Friday.
In a secret ballot, the Pan American Sports Organisation voted for the Canadian city which failed twice to land the summer Olympics.
Toronto won on the first ballot with 33 votes, eliminating Bogota, and Lima, Peru.
Lima received 11 votes and Bogota 7, one vote of the 52 was null.
Canada has held the event twice, in Winnipeg in 1967 and 1999.
The 2007 games were in Rio de Janeiro, which served as a springboard last month for its winning bid for the 2016 Olympics.
The 2011 Pan American Games are to be held in Guadalajara, which has faced major delays in organising the event.
In its presentation on Friday, Toronto emphasised that many of the facilities needed for the games were already built.
Officials suggested their option was "risk free" and said they were planning to build an athletes' village and an aquatic centre, no matter the outcome of the vote.
Toronto officials said the games would be held from July 10-26, 2015, with the Para-Pan American Games set for August 7-14.
The first Pan American Games were held in 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Of the 42 member nations of the Pan Am Sports Organisation, only 10 have hosted the event.
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