The four fitness and bodybuilding events included on the schedule for the Games are men’s games classic bodybuilding, men’s physique, women’s bikini-fitness and women’s fitness.

IFBB President Rafael Santonja met Marco Antonio Arze Mendoz, the President of the Bolivian Olympic Committee (COB), at today's Organización Deportiva Suramericana (ODESUR) General Meeting in Asunción, Paraguay, and thanked him for the support he gave the IFBB in their pursuit of a place at the South American Games.

ODESUR are a governing body comprising of 15 South American National Olympic Committees and are responsible for organising the South American Games.

Fitness and bodybuilding will join 35 other sports at the 2018 South American Games.

The Games will run from May 26 to June 8 and will see athletes from 14 South American and Caribbean countries take part.