The 2024 Pan-American Masters Video games (PAMG) had been already dedicated to Cleveland.

Now, the 2 sides have set a date.

The Olympic-like occasion for athletes 30 years and older can be held July 12-21 of that 12 months in Northeast Ohio, the Higher Cleveland Sports activities Fee (GCSC) introduced on Tuesday, Aug. 30.

The PAMG, which is held each 4 years within the Americas, will embody greater than 7,500 athletes from 50 international locations and supply greater than $18 million in financial affect to the native economic system, the GCSC mentioned.

That is the primary time the occasion can be held in america and is predicted to be the most important worldwide occasion in Cleveland’s historical past. The video games function as much as 30 medal-contending sports activities, together with monitor and area, tennis, basketball, pickleball and biking.

A full listing of sports activities and disciplines can be introduced this fall.

“The 2024 Pan-American Masters Video games will proceed to construct upon Cleveland’s lengthy legacy and distinctive capacity to host massive multisport occasions corresponding to 2004 Worldwide Youngsters’s Video games, 2013 Nationwide Senior Video games, 2014 Homosexual Video games and 2016 Transplant Video games of America,” GCSC president and CEO David Gilbert mentioned in an announcement. “The Video games … will proceed to showcase Cleveland as one of many prime U.S. cities for internet hosting main occasions.”

The Junaid Household Basis, Provide Facet U.S.A. and TransDigm are among the many main companions supporting the video games. The Cleveland group can get entangled with PAMG by taking part as an athlete, a volunteer, a spectator or by company help by visiting ClevelandMasters2024.com.