Sailing at the 2015 Pan American Games

International sporting event
Sailing at the 2015 Pan American Games
Sailing pictogram for the games
VenueRoyal Canadian Yacht Club
Sugar Beach
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 was 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] Spectator viewing areas were available for free on Sugar Beach and the surrounding boardwalk.[3] A total of ten events were 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.[4]

The top placing athlete from North America and South America in the men's laser and women's laser radial, all qualified for the sailing competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[5]

Competition schedule

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

The following is the competition schedule for the sailing competitions:[6]

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 contested a series of opening races and conclude with a medal race which consisted of the top 50% of the boats (with a five boat minimum). All boats competed in a twelve series opening race, except the RS:X and 49erFX (which competed in a sixteen race opening series). The first six days saw all boats compete in two races each except the RS:X and 49erFX, which competed in three races on the first four days of racing. The last two days of competition saw five medal races each.[7]

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
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 		Patrícia 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 Grael
Kahena Kunze 		 United States
Paris Henken
Helena Scutt

Open events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Sunfish
details 		Jonathan Martinetti
 Ecuador 		Luke Ramsay
 Canada 		Andrés Ducasse
 Chile
Snipe
details 		 Puerto Rico
Raúl Ríos
Fernando Monllor 		 Argentina
Diego Lipszyc
Luis Soubie 		 United States
Augie Diaz
Kathleen Tocke
Lightning
details 		 Argentina
Javier Conte
Nicolás Fracchia
María Salerno 		 United States
Justin Coplan
Caroline Patten
Danielle Prior 		 Brazil
María Altimira
Cláudio Biekarck
Gunnar Ficker
Hobie 16
details 		 Guatemala
Jason Hess
Irene Abascal 		 United States
Mark Modderman
Grace Modderman 		 Puerto Rico
Enrique Figueroa
Franchesca Valdes
J/24
details 		 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 qualified 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 had different qualifying events that began in 2013.[8] 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.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Competition Schedule" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Ng, Callum (8 June 2015). "Venue Guide: Sugar Beach to become viewpoint for TO2015 sailing". www.olympic.ca/. Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
  4. ^ "10th Medal at Toronto2015 for 49FX=". panamsailing.org/. Pan American Sailing Federation. 20 March 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games Ticket Program Guide" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 20 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  7. ^ "Notice of Race 2015 Pan American Games Regatta" (PDF). panamsailing.org/. Pan American Sailing Federation (PASAF). Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  8. ^ "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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