Field hockey at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's tournament

Men's field hockey
at the 2015 Pan American Games
Tournament details
Host country	Canada
City	Toronto
Dates	14–25 July
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	Pan Am / Parapan Am Fields
Final positions
Champions	Argentina (9th title)
Runner-up	Canada
Third place	Chile
Tournament statistics
Matches played	24
Goals scored	136 (5.67 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Gonzalo Peillat (14 goals)
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The men's field hockey tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games was held in Toronto, Canada at the Pan Am / Parapan Am Fields from July 14 to 25.^[1]

For these Games, the men competed in an 8-team tournament. The teams were grouped into two pools of four teams each for a round-robin preliminary round. All teams will advance to an eight team single elimination bracket.^[2]

Argentina were the defending champions from the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, defeating Canada, 3–1 in the final.

The winner of this tournament, if not already qualified, qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.^[3]

Qualification[]

A total of eight men's teams qualified to compete at the games. The top two teams at the South American and Central American and Caribbean Games qualified for the tournament. The host nation (Canada) automatically qualified as well. The remaining three spots were given to the three best teams from the 2013 Pan American Cup that had not qualified yet. This happened after the two qualification tournaments in 2014 were played. Each nation may enter one team (16 athletes per team).^[4]^[5]

Summary[]

Event	Date	Location	Quotas	Qualifier(s)
Host	N/A	N/A	1	Canada
2013 Pan American Cup	10–17 August 2013	Brampton	3	United States Mexico Brazil
2014 South American Games	8–16 March 2014	Santiago	2	Argentina Chile
2014 Central American and Caribbean Games	16–24 November 2014	Veracruz	2	Cuba Trinidad and Tobago
Total			8

Pools[]

Pools were based on the world rankings as of January 21, 2015. Teams were placed into pools using the serpentine system. Teams ranked 1, 4, 5 and 8 would be in Pool A, while teams ranked 2, 3, 6 and 7 would be in Pool B.^[6]

Rankings are listed in parenthesis.

Pool A	Pool B
Argentina (6) United States (27) Trinidad and Tobago (30) Cuba (48)	Canada (16) Chile (25) Brazil (33) Mexico (36)

Rosters[]

At the start of the tournament, all eight participating countries had up to 16 players on their rosters.^[2]

Competition format[]

In the first round of the competition, teams were divided into two pools of four teams, and play followed round robin format with each of the teams playing all other teams in the pool once. Teams were awarded three points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a loss.^[2]

Following the completion of the pool games, all eight teams advanced to a single elimination round consisting of four quarterfinal games, two semifinal games, and the bronze and gold medal matches. Losing teams competed in classification matches to determine their ranking in the tournament. A penalty stroke competition took place, if a classification match ended in a draw, to determine a winner.^[2]

All games were played in four 15 minute quarters.^[2]

Medalists[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament	Argentina Juan Manuel Vivaldi Gonzalo Peillat Juan Gilardi Pedro Ibarra Facundo Callioni Matías Paredes Joaquin Menini Lucas Vila Ignacio Ortiz Juan Martín López Nicolas Della Torre Isidoro Ibarra Matias Rey Manuel Brunet Agustin Mazzili Lucas Rossi	Canada Brenden Bissett David Carter Taylor Curran Adam Froese Matthew Guest Gabriel Ho-Garcia David Jameson Gordon Johnston Ben Martin Devohn Noronha-Teixeira Sukhi Panesar Mark Pearson Matthew Sarmento Iain Smythe Scott Tupper	Chile Vicente Martín Tarud Fernando Renz Nicolás Renz Martín Rodríguez

Results[]

The official schedule was revealed on February 18, 2015.^[7]

All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4)

Preliminary round[]

The Pan Am / Parapan Am Fields at the University of Toronto's back campus, was the venue for the men's field hockey tournament

Pool A[]

Pos	Team v	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Argentina	3	3	0	0	22	4	+18	9	Quarter-finals
2	United States	3	1	1	1	5	10	−5	4
3	Cuba	3	0	2	1	9	10	−1	2
4	Trinidad and Tobago	3	0	1	2	3	15	−12	1

Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result.^[8]

14 July 2015
09:00

Argentina	11–0	Trinidad and Tobago
Peillat 26', 57' Vila 29', 30', 34' Paredes 37' Della Torre 42' Mazzili 56' Callioni 57', 60' Menini 59'	Report

Umpires:
You Suolong (CHN)
Federico Garcia (URU)

14 July 2015
11:00

United States	3–3	Cuba
9' 24' 28'	Report	32' 51', 59'

Umpires:
Matias Barbosa (CHI)
David Sweetman (GBR)

16 July 2015
09:00

Trinidad and Tobago	2–2	Cuba
51' 59'	Report	22', 53'

Umpires:
Daniel Basto Rivero (MEX)
Grant Hundley (USA)

16 July 2015
11:00

United States	0–6	Argentina
	Report	Mazzili 15' Brunet 19' Peillat 38', 47' Callioni 41' Della Torre 54'

Umpires:
Francisco Vázquez (ESP)
Gavin Caldecott (CAN)

18 July 2015
09:00

Argentina	5–4	Cuba
Vila 18' Peillat 28', 37', 55' Menini 29'	Report	21' 47', 57' 52'

Umpires:
Gavin Caldecott (CAN)
Matias Barbosa (CHI)

18 July 2015
11:00

Trinidad and Tobago	1–2	United States
14'	Report	6' 13'

Umpires:
Francisco Vázquez (ESP)
You Suolong (CHN)

Pool B[]

Pos	Team v	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Canada (H)	3	3	0	18	2	+16	9	Quarter-finals
2	Chile	3	2	1	6	4	+2	6
3	Brazil	3	1	2	3	12	−9	3
4	Mexico	3	0	3	3	12	−9	0

Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result.^[9]
(H) Host

14 July 2015
17:00

Chile	3–2	Mexico
25' Martín 34' Rodríguez 56'	Report	2' 55'

Umpires:
Grant Hundley (USA)
Donny Gobinsingh (TTO)

14 July 2015
19:00

Canada	9–1	Brazil
Bissett 8' Tupper 17' Pearson 28', 35' Ho-Garcia 31' Froese 34' Guest 39', 44' 50'	Report	Borges 9'

Umpires:
Andres Ledesma (ARG)
Francisco Vázquez (ESP)

16 July 2015
17:00

Brazil	1–0	Mexico
Paixao 44'	Report

Umpires:
You Suolong (CHN)
Donny Gobinsingh (TTO)

16 July 2015
19:00

Chile	0–1	Canada
	Report	Pearson 6'

Umpires:
Federico Garcia (URU)
Saleem Aaron (USA)

18 July 2015
17:00

Brazil	1–3	Chile
Borges 42'	Report	N. Renz 11' 14' Rodríguez 40'

Umpires:
Saleem Aaron (USA)
Grant Hundley (USA)

18 July 2015
19:00

Canada	8–1	Mexico
Ho-Garcia 6', 14', 52', 54' Sarmento 31', 47' Guest 38' 55'	Report	36'

Umpires:
Federico Garcia (URU)
Andres Ledesma (ARG)

Classification round[]

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Gold medal match

21 July

Argentina	12
		23 July
Mexico	0
		Argentina	6
21 July
		Chile	0
Chile	6
				25 July
Cuba	2
				Argentina	3
21 July
				Canada	0
United States	1 (1)
		23 July
Brazil (s.o.)	1 (3)
		Brazil	0 (3)
21 July
		Canada (s.o.)	0 (5)	Bronze medal match
Canada	3
				25 July
Trinidad and Tobago	0
				Chile	4

				Brazil	1

Quarter-finals[]

21 July 2015
09:00

Argentina	12–0	Mexico
Brunet 2' Peillat 7', 28', 30', 59' Paredes 18', 39' Vila 20', 31', 51' Gilardi 39' Mazzili 56'	Report

Umpires:
Saleem Aaron (USA)
Matias Barbosa (CHI)

21 July 2015
11:30

Chile	6–2	Cuba
38' 43' F. Renz 46' Martín 47', 60' Rodríguez 57'	Report	15' 51'

Umpires:
You Suolong (CHN)
Andres Ledesma (ARG)

21 July 2015
17:00

United States	1–1	Brazil
57'	Report Penalties	Borges 34'
Penalties
	1–3	Paixão Y. van der Heijden P. van der Heijden

Umpires:
Federico Garcia (URU)
Gavin Caldecott (CAN)

21 July 2015
19:30

Canada	3–0	Trinidad and Tobago
Smythe 3' Sarmento 29' Tupper 50'	Report

Umpires:
Francisco Vázquez (ESP)
Grant Hundley (USA)

Fifth to eighth place classification[]

Cross-overs		Fifth place

23 July

Mexico	3
		25 July
Cuba	1
		Mexico	2
23 July
		United States	6
United States	2

Trinidad and Tobago	1
		Seventh place

		25 July

		Cuba	0

		Trinidad and Tobago	13

Cross-overs[]

23 July 2015
09:00

Mexico	3–1	Cuba
29' 32' 50'	Report	43'

Umpires:
Donny Gobinsingh (TTO)
Francisco Vázquez (ESP)

23 July 2015
11:00

United States	2–1	Trinidad and Tobago
27' 38'	Report	36'

Umpires:
Gavin Caldecott (CAN)
Matias Barbosa (CHI)

Seventh and eighth place[]

25 July 2015
09:00

Cuba	0–13	Trinidad and Tobago
	Report	Pierre 5', 13', 26' 6', 47' 20', 35', 46' 28' 31', 33' 43' 44'

Umpires:
Matias Barbosa (CHI)
Saleem Aaron (USA)

Fifth and sixth place[]

25 July 2015
11:00

Mexico	2–6	United States
19' 30'	Report	3', 11', 17' 22' 45' 51'

Umpires:
Gavin Caldecott (CAN)
Donny Gobinsingh (TTO)

Semi-finals[]

23 July 2015
17:00

Argentina	6–0	Chile
Vila 6' Peillat 30', 42', 44' Paredes 44' Brunet 60'	Report

Umpires:
Suolong You (CHN)
Federico Garcia (URU)

23 July 2015
19:00

Brazil	0–0	Canada
	Report Penalties
Penalties
Y. van der Heijden P. van der Heijden Smith	3–5	Pearson Noronha-Teixeira Panesar Johnston Froese

Umpires:
Andres Ledesma (ARG)
Saleem Aaron (USA)

Bronze medal match[]

25 July 2015
17:00

Chile	4–1	Brazil
N. Renz 5', 32' 19' Martín 20'	Report	Smith 60'

Umpires:
Andres Ledesma (ARG)
Grant Hundley (USA)

Gold medal match[]

25 July 2015
19:00

Argentina	3–0	Canada
Ibarra 25' Vila 33' Brunet 47'	Report

Umpires:
Francisco Vázquez (ESP)
Federico Garcia (URU)

Final standings[]

As per statistical convention in field hockey, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
	A	Argentina	6	6	0	0	43	4	+39	18	Gold medal
	B	Canada (H)	6	4	1	1	21	5	+16	13	Silver medal
	B	Chile	6	4	0	2	16	13	+3	12	Bronze medal
4	B	Brazil	6	1	2	3	5	17	−12	5	Fourth place

5	A	United States	6	3	2	1	14	14	0	11	Eliminated in quarterfinals
6	B	Mexico	6	1	0	5	8	31	−23	3
7	A	Trinidad and Tobago	6	1	1	4	17	20	−3	4
8	A	Cuba	6	0	2	4	12	32	−20	2

Source: FIH
(H) Host

Goalscorers[]

There were 136 goals scored in 24 matches, for an average of 5.67 goals per match.

14 goals

Gonzalo Peillat

9 goals

Lucas Vila

6 goals

5 goals

Gabriel Ho-Garcia

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

Nicolás Della Torre
Joaquín Menini
Scott Tupper

1 goal

References[]

^ "Pan Am Games Detailed Competition Schedule" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 15 September 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 October 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Sport Technical Manual Field Hockey" (PDF). panamhockey.org/. TO2015. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
^ "Qualification System – Games of the XXXI Olympiad – Rio 2016 Field hockey" (PDF). corporate.olympics.com.au. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
^ "Qualification System Field hockey" (PDF). panamhockey.org/. TO2015. December 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
^ "PAHF announces teams qualified for 2015 Pan American Games". panamhockey.org/. Pan American Hockey Federation. 27 November 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
^ "PAHF announce Pools for 2015 Pan American Games". panamhockey.org/. Pan American Hockey Federation. 23 January 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
^ "Schedule announced for 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto". panamhockey.org/. Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF). 18 February 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
^ FIH Tournament Regulations
^ FIH Tournament Regulations

External links[]

World Rankings as of January 21, 2015

[1] "Pan Am Games Detailed Competition Schedule" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 15 September 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 October 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2014.

[manual-2] "Sport Technical Manual Field Hockey" (PDF). panamhockey.org/. TO2015. Retrieved 13 February 2015.

[3] "Qualification System – Games of the XXXI Olympiad – Rio 2016 Field hockey" (PDF). corporate.olympics.com.au. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 18 September 2014.

[4] "Qualification System Field hockey" (PDF). panamhockey.org/. TO2015. December 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2014.

[5] "PAHF announces teams qualified for 2015 Pan American Games". panamhockey.org/. Pan American Hockey Federation. 27 November 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2014.

[6] "PAHF announce Pools for 2015 Pan American Games". panamhockey.org/. Pan American Hockey Federation. 23 January 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2014.

[7] "Schedule announced for 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto". panamhockey.org/. Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF). 18 February 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2015.

[8] FIH Tournament Regulations

[9] FIH Tournament Regulations

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