Sailing at the 2015 Pan American Games
Sailing pictogram for the games
VenueRoyal Canadian Yacht Club
DatesJuly 12–19
No. of events10 (2 men, 3 women, 5 open)
Competitors148 from 20 nations
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Sailing competitions at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto will be held from July 12 to 19 at the Royal Canadian Yacht Club's ferry station and parking lot on the mainland side of the harbour.[1][2] A total of ten events will be contested (two for men, three for women and five mixed gender events).[2]

Originally nine medal events were scheduled to be contested at the games, but a tenth medal event (the women's 49erFX) was added to the program. This was done to get the event to have more gender equality.[3]

The top placing athlete from North America and South America in the men's laser and women's laser radial, will all qualify for the sailing competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[4]

Competition schedule

The Royal Canadian Yacht Club was the venue for the sailing competitions.

The following is the competition schedule for the sailing competitions:[5]

PPreliminary races MMedal race
Event↓/Date →Sun 12Mon 13Tue 14Wed 15Thu 16Fri 17Sat 18Sun 19
Men's RS:XPPPPPPMM
Men's LaserPPPPPPMM
Women's RS:XPPPPPPMM
Women's Laser RadialPPPPPPMM
Women's 49erFXPPPPPPMM
Open SunfishPPPPPPMM
Open SnipePPPPPPMM
LightningPPPPPPMM
Hobie 16PPPPPPMM
Open J/24PPPPPPMM

Competition format

All ten classes will contest a series of opening races and conclude with a medal race which will consist of the top 50% of the boats (with a five boat minimum). All boats will compete in a twelve series opening race, except the RS:X and 49erFX (which will compete in a sixteen race opening series). The first six days will see all boats compete in two races each except the RS:X and 49erFX, which will compete in three races on the first four days of racing. The last two days of competition will each see five medal races.[6]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Canada)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Argentina3115
2 Brazil2226
3 Guatemala2002
4 United States1236
5 Puerto Rico1012
6 Ecuador1001
7 Canada*0213
8 Mexico0202
9 Uruguay0101
10 Chile0022
Totals (10 entries)10101030

Medalists

Sailing during the games

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
RS:X
 Ricardo Santos
 Brazil		 David Mier
 Mexico		 Mariano Reutemann
 Argentina
Laser
 Juan Ignacio Maegli
 Guatemala		 Robert Scheidt
 Brazil		 Lee Parkhill
 Canada

Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
RS:X
 Patrícia Freitas
 Brazil		 Demita Vega
 Mexico		 Marion Lepert
 United States
Laser Radial
 Paige Railey
 United States		 Dolores Moreira
 Uruguay		 Fernanda Decnop
 Brazil
49erFX
  Argentina
Maria Sol Branz
Victoria Travascio		  Brazil
Martine Grael
Kahena Kunze		  United States
Paris Henken
Helena Scutt

Open events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Sunfish
 Jonathan Martinetti
 Ecuador		 Luke Ramsay
 Canada		 Andrés Ducasse
 Chile
Snipe
  Puerto Rico
Raúl Ríos
Fernando Monllor		  Argentina
Diego Lipszyc
Luis Soubie		  United States
Augie Diaz
Kathleen Tocke
Lightning
  Argentina
Javier Conte
Nicolás Fracchia
María Salerno		  United States
Justin Coplan
Caroline Patten
Danielle Prior		  Brazil
María Altimira
Cláudio Biekarck
Gunnar Ficker
Hobie 16
  Guatemala
Jason Hess
Irene Abascal		  United States
Mark Modderman
Grace Modderman		  Puerto Rico
Enrique Figueroa
Franchesca Valdes
J/24
  Argentina
Matias Pereira
Guillermo Bellinotto
Federico Ambrus
Juan Pereyra		  Canada
Terry McLaughlin
Sandy Andrews
David Ogden
David Jarvis		  Chile
Matías Seguel
Cristobal Lira
Marc Jux
Sergio Baeza Roth

Participating nations

A total of 21 countries have qualified athletes. The number of athletes a nation has entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.

Qualification

A total of 140 sailors and 85 boats will qualify to compete at the games. A nation may enter a maximum of one boat in each of the ten events and a maximum of eighteen athletes. Each event will have different qualifying events that began in 2013.[7] However, on December 22, 2014 the Pan American Sailing Federation announced the total quota was raised to 148 athletes and 93 boats (with the laser and laser standard events each receiving an additional four boats). This was done because the event became an Olympic qualifier.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Competition Schedule" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Report to the Members of the Pan American Sailing Federation (PASAF) on the meeting of the Executive Committee held on 19 and 20 July 2014 in Toronto" (PDF). panamsailing.org/. Pan American Sailing Federation. 21 July 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  3. ↑ "10th Medal at Toronto2015 for 49FX=". panamsailing.org/. Pan American Sailing Federation. 20 March 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  4. 1 2 "Qualification System for Sailing, 2015 Pan American Games" (PDF). panamsailing.org/ (2nd ed.). Pan American Sailing Federation. 22 December 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  5. ↑ "Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games Ticket Program Guide" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 20 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  6. ↑ "Notice of Race 2015 Pan American Games Regatta" (PDF). panamsailing.org/. Pan American Sailing Federation (PASAF). Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "2015 Qualifying System and Regatta Schedule" (PDF). panamsailing.org/ (2nd ed.). Pan American Sailing Federation. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
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