Sailing at the 2015 Pan American Games

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]

Sailing at the XVII Pan American Games
Sailing pictogram for the games
Venue	Royal Canadian Yacht Club
Dates	July 12–19, 2015
Competitors	148 from 20 nations
«2011 2019»

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	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.

•  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]

See also

• Sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics

References

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