Sailing at the 2015 Pan American Games

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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] 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]

DatesJuly 12–19
No. of events10 (2 men, 3 women, 5 open)
Competitors148 from 20 nations
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Sailing at the 2015 Pan American Games
Sailing pictogram for the games
VenuesRoyal 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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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]

PPreliminary races MMedal race
More information Event↓/Date →, Sun 12 ...
Event↓/Date →Sun 12Mon 13Tue 14Wed 15Thu 16Fri 17Sat 18Sun 19
Men's RS:XPPPPPPMM
Men's LaserPPPPPPMM
Women's RS:XPPPPPPMM
Women's Laser RadialPPPPPPMM
Women's 49erFXPPPPPPMM
Open SunfishPPPPPPMM
Open SnipePPPPPPMM
LightningPPPPPPMM
Hobie 16PPPPPPMM
Open J/24PPPPPPMM
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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)

More information Rank, Nation ...
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
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Medalists

Sailing during the games

Men's events

Women's events

Open events

More information Event, Gold ...
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Sunfish
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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
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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]

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