Sailing at the 2015 Pan American Games

Sailing at the XVII Pan American Games
Sailing at the XVII Pan American Games
	Sailing pictogram for the games
Venue	Royal Canadian Yacht Club
Dates	July 12–19
No. of events	10 (2 men, 3 women, 5 open)
Competitors	148 from 20 nations
	«2011 2019»

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]

P	Preliminary races	M	Medal race

Event↓/Date →	Sun 12	Mon 13	Tue 14	Wed 15	Thu 16	Fri 17	Sat 18	Sun 19
Men's RS:X	P	P	P	P	P	P	M	M
Men's Laser	P	P	P	P	P	P	M	M
Women's RS:X	P	P	P	P	P	P	M	M
Women's Laser Radial	P	P	P	P	P	P	M	M
Women's 49erFX	P	P	P	P	P	P	M	M
Open Sunfish	P	P	P	P	P	P	M	M
Open Snipe	P	P	P	P	P	P	M	M
Lightning	P	P	P	P	P	P	M	M
Hobie 16	P	P	P	P	P	P	M	M
Open J/24	P	P	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[]

* Host nation (Canada)


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
Totals (10 nations)		10	10	10	30

Medalists[]

Sailing during the games

Men's events[]

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

Women's events[]

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

Open events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sunfish details	Ecuador	Luke Ramsay Canada	Andres Ducasse Chile
Snipe details	Puerto Rico Raúl Ríos	Argentina	United States Augie Diaz Kathleen Tocke
Lightning details	Argentina Javier Conte	United States	Brazil Claudio Biekarck
Hobie 16 details	Guatemala	United States	Puerto Rico Enrique Figueroa
J/24 details	Argentina	Canada Terry McLaughlin	Chile

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.

Argentina (16)
Aruba (1)
Brazil (18)
Canada (18)
Chile (14)
Colombia (7)
Costa Rica (1)
Cuba (3)
Ecuador (7)
El Salvador (1)
Guatemala (5)
Mexico (11)
Peru (10)
Puerto Rico (5)
Saint Lucia (1)
Trinidad and Tobago (2)
United States (14)
Uruguay (2)
Venezuela (6)
Virgin Islands (4)

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]

References[]

^ "Competition Schedule" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
^ ^a ^b "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.
^ "10th Medal at Toronto2015 for 49FX=". panamsailing.org/. Pan American Sailing Federation. 20 March 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Qualification System for Sailing, 2015 Pan American Games" (PDF). panamsailing.org/ (2nd ed.). Pan American Sailing Federation. 22 December 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
^ "Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games Ticket Program Guide" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 20 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
^ "Notice of Race 2015 Pan American Games Regatta" (PDF). panamsailing.org/. Pan American Sailing Federation (PASAF). Retrieved 15 February 2015.
^ "2015 Qualifying System and Regatta Schedule" (PDF). panamsailing.org/ (2nd ed.). Pan American Sailing Federation. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 14 September 2014.

[1] "Competition Schedule" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2014.

[a-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.

[qualification-4] "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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