Estadio Telmex de Atletismo, Athletics stadium in Zapopan, Mexico.
The Estadio Panamericano, also called Estadio Charros or Charropark, is a baseball and athletics stadium in Zapopan, near Guadalajara. Built for the 2011 Pan American Games, it has an eight-lane tartan track plus an adjoining warm-up track, and its permanent capacity was raised to 16,000 for the 2018 Caribbean Series.
Built for the 2011 Pan American Games, the stadium opened in October 2011 and gained IAAF certification days before the Games, where it hosted the athletics competition. After the Games it served as a concert venue and for sports including baseball. On 14 September 2014 the Charros de Jalisco bought it, and it hosted Pool D of the 2017 World Baseball Classic.
The stadium's nickname, Charropark, comes from the Charros de Jalisco, the winter-league baseball team that bought the venue on 14 September 2014 and plays in the Liga Mexicana del Pacífico. Since 2021 the Mariachis de Guadalajara of the Liga Mexicana de Béisbol have also used it, so baseball crowds now fill a ground built for athletics.
The stadium sits in Zapopan, within the Guadalajara metropolitan area, and is reached by city bus and light rail lines serving the wider conurbation. The playing field lies below the stands, so spectators enter at concourse level and walk down to their seats. The eight-lane tartan track and the adjoining warm-up track remain part of the grounds.
The stadium hosted Pool D of the first round of the 2017 World Baseball Classic, a detail many visitors miss. Its athletics past survives in the eight-lane tartan track and the adjoining warm-up track built for the 2011 Pan American Games.
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