The Paraguayan team consisted of 71 athletes (48 women and 23 men) competing in 18 sports. This marked the largest team the country has ever sent to the Pan American Games.[citation needed]
Paraguay won a total of five medals at the games, a record for one edition of the games.[5] The country also won its first ever gold medal at the Pan American Games when golfer Fabrizio Zanotti won the men's individual event.[6]
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors (per gender) participating at the games per sport/discipline.
Paraguay qualified a women's team (of 12 athletes) by finishing in the top seven nations at the 2017 FIBA Women's AmeriCup. This marks the country's debut in women's basketball at the Pan American Games.[7]
Paraguay qualified a men's team of three athletes by winning the bronze medal at the 2018 Pan American Championships in Santiago, Chile.[24] Paraguay later qualified one female at the final qualification tournament.[25]
^"Participating Countries". www.lima2019.pe/. Lima Organizing Committee for the 2019 Pan and Parapan American Games (COPAL). Archived from the original on 20 June 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
^"Abanderados Lima 2019" [Flagbearers Lima 2019] (PDF). www.lima2019.pe/ (in Spanish). Lima 2019 Organizing Committee for the 2019 Pan and Parapan American Games. 27 July 2019. p. 4. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
^"Zanotti makes history with Pan American Games gold". www.europeantour.com/. The PGA European Tour. 12 August 2019. Retrieved 18 May 2020. European Tour star Fabrizio Zanotti made history for his home nation over the weekend after winning Paraguay's first ever gold medal in the Pan America Games at Lima Golf Club in Peru.
^"Clasificados Lima 2019 Karate" [Qualified Lima 2019 Karate] (PDF). www.files.pkf3.webnode.es/ (in Spanish). Pan American Karate Federation. 15 April 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2019.