Sailing at the 2015 Pan American Games

Sailing at the XVII Pan American Games
Venue Royal Canadian Yacht Club
Dates July 12–19, 2015
Competitors 148 from 20 nations
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Laser men women
49erFX women
Sunfish open
Snipe open
Lightning open
Hobie 16 open
J/24 open

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 12 Mon 13 Tue 14 Wed 15 Thu 16 Fri 17 Sat 18 Sun 19
Men's RS:XPP P P P P M M
Men's LaserPP P P P P M M
Women's RS:XPP P P P P M M
Women's Laser RadialPP P P P P M M
Women's 49erFXPP P P P P M M
Open SunfishPP P P P P M M
Open SnipePP P P P P M M
LightningPP P P P P M M
Hobie 16PP P P P P M M
Open J/24PP P P P P M M

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

Key
  The host country is highlighted in lavender blue
 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Argentina 3 1 1 5
2 Brazil 2 2 2 6
3 Guatemala 2 0 0 2
4 United States 1 2 3 6
5 Puerto Rico 1 0 1 2
6 Ecuador 1 0 0 1
7 Canada 0 2 1 3
8 Mexico 0 2 0 2
9 Uruguay 0 1 0 1
10 Chile 0 0 2 2
Total 10 10 10 30

Medalists

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
Patricia Freitas
 Brazil
Demita Vega
 Mexico
Marion Lepert
 United States
Laser Radial
Paige Railey
 United States
Dolores Moreira
 Uruguay
Fernanda Decnop
 Brazil
49erFX
 Argentina (ARG)
Maria Sol Branz
Victoria Travascio
 Brazil (BRA)
Martine Soffiatti Grael
Kahena Kunze
 United States (USA)
Paris Henken
Helena Scutt

Open events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Sunfish
Jonathan Martinetti
 Ecuador
Luke Ramsay
 Canada
Andres Ducasse
 Chile
Snipe
 Puerto Rico (PUR)
Raúl Ríos
Fernando Monllor
 Argentina (ARG)
Diego Lipszyc
Luis Soubie
 United States (USA)
Augie Diaz
Kathleen Tocke
Lightning
 Argentina (ARG)
Javier Conte
Nicolás Fracchia
María Salerno
 United States (USA)
Justin Coplan
Caroline Patten
Danielle Prior
 Brazil (BRA)
María Altimira
Claudio Biekarck
Gunnar Ficker
Hobie 16
 Guatemala (GUA)
Jason Hess
Irene Abascal van Blerk
 United States (USA)
Mark Modderman
Grace Modderman
 Puerto Rico (PUR)
Enrique Figueroa
Franchesca Valdes
J/24
 Argentina (ARG)
Matias Pereira
Guillermo Bellinotto
Federico Ambrus
Juan Pereyra
 Canada (CAN)
Terry McLaughlin
Sandy Andrews
David Ogden
David Jarvis
 Chile (CHI)
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). http://panamsailing.org/. Pan American Sailing Federation. 21 July 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014. External link in |website= (help)
  3. "10th Medal at Toronto2015 for 49FX=". http://panamsailing.org/. Pan American Sailing Federation. 20 March 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2014. External link in |website= (help)
  4. 1 2 "Qualification System for Sailing, 2015 Pan American Games" (PDF). http://panamsailing.org/ (2nd ed.). Pan American Sailing Federation. 22 December 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014. External link in |website= (help)
  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). http://panamsailing.org/. Pan American Sailing Federation (PASAF). Retrieved 15 February 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  7. "2015 Qualifying System and Regatta Schedule" (PDF). http://panamsailing.org/ (2nd ed.). Pan American Sailing Federation. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 14 September 2014. External link in |website= (help)
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