Sailing at the 2019 Pan American Games

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Sailing at the 2019 Pan American Games
Sailing pictogram
VenueYacht Club Peruano
DatesAugust 3–10, 2019
Competitors168 from 26 nations
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Sailing competitions at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru took place between August 3 and 10, 2019 at the Yacht Club Peruano in the city of Paracas.[1]

Ten medal events were contested. Two of the events were for men, three for women, two were open (any gender can compete) and three are mixed (entries are required to include both genders). Eight of the events were carried over from the 2015 Games, with the Nacra 17 and Kites events replacing the Hobie 16 and J/24.[2] A total of 148 athletes across 106 boats qualified to compete at the games.[3] On January 17, 2019, it was announced that an 11th medal event would be contested, the 49er, for men. A total of 168 sailors and 116 boats were scheduled to compete.[4][5][6]

The top placing athlete (not already qualified) from North America and South America in the men's laser and women's laser radial, qualified for the sailing competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, along with the top two boats in the 49er, 49erfx and Nacra 17 events will also qualify.[7]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Peru)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Brazil5229
2 Argentina2327
 United States2327
4 Canada1113
5 Guatemala1001
6 Uruguay0202
7 Peru*0022
8 Aruba0011
 Chile0011
Totals (9 entries)11111133

Medalists

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
RS:X
details
Bautista Saubidet Birkner
 Argentina
Pedro Pascual
 United States
Mack van den Eerenbeemt
 Aruba
Laser
details
Juan Ignacio Maegli
 Guatemala
Bruno Fontes
 Brazil
Charlie Buckingham
 United States
49er
details
 Brazil
Marco Grael
Gabriel Borges
 Argentina
Yago Lange
Klaus Lange
 Canada
Alexander Heinzemann
Justin Barnes

Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
RS:X
details
Patrícia Freitas
 Brazil
María Celia Tejerina
 Argentina
María Belén Bazo
 Peru
Laser Radial
details
Sarah Douglas
 Canada
Charlotte Rose
 United States
Lucía Falasca
 Argentina
49erFX
details
 Brazil
Martine Grael
Kahena Kunze
 United States
Stephanie Roble
Maggie Shea
 Argentina
Victoria Travascio
María Sol Branz

Open events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Sunfish
details
Matheus Dellagnelo
 Brazil
Luke Ramsay
 Canada
Renzo Sanguineti
 Peru
Kites
details
Bruno Lobo
 Brazil
Nicolás Landauer
 Uruguay
William Cyr
 United States

Mixed events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Snipe
details
 United States
Ernesto Rodriguez
Hallie Schiffman
 Uruguay
Ricardo Fabini
Florencia Parnizari
 Brazil
Rafael Martins
Juliana Duque
Lightning
details
 Argentina
Javier Conte
Paula Salerno
Ignacio Giammona
 Brazil
Cláudio Biekarck
Isabel Ficker
Gunnar Ficker
 Chile
Felipe Robles
Andrés Guevara
Paula Herman
Nacra 17
details
 United States
Riley Gibbs
Anna Weis
 Argentina
Mateo Majdalani
Eugenia Bosco
 Brazil
Samuel Albrecht
Gabriela Nicolino

Participating nations

A total of 26 countries qualified sailors, a record high.[8][9][10] The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.[11]

Qualification

A total of 168 sailors and 116 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 17 athletes. Each event had different qualifying events that began in 2017. The host nation (Peru) automatically qualified in all ten events (17 athletes).[12][3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Pan American Schedule" (PDF). www.lima2019.pe. Lima Organizing Committee for the 2019 Pan and Parapan American Games (COPAL). 13 June 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Sailing Events Confirmed for 2019 Pan American Games". www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/. Scuttlebutt Sailing News. 26 May 2017. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Qualification System manual" (PDF). www.panamsports.org/. Pan American Sports Organization. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  4. ^ "49er added to Pan Am Games sports programme as athlete quote increased". www.sailing.org/. World Sailing. 18 January 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  5. ^ "Additional Medal Event at Pan Am". www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/. Scuttlebutt Sailing News. 17 January 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  6. ^ Diamond, James (22 January 2019). "Lima 2019 to feature 49er class after Organising Committee increase sailing athlete quota". Insidethegames.biz. Dunsar Media. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  7. ^ "World Sailing (WS) Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Tokyo 2020" (PDF). www.sailing.org/. World Sailing. 15 March 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  8. ^ "Status of NOC Qualification – 2019 Pan American Games – Sailing" (PDF). panamsailing.org/. Pan American Sailing Federation. 15 May 2019. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  9. ^ "Record growth for 2019 Pan Am Games". www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/. Scuttlebutt Sailing News. 16 May 2019. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  10. ^ "26 nations to compete at the 2019 Panam Games". www.sailing.org/. World Sailing. 16 May 2019. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
  11. ^ "Number of entries by NOC as of 3 August 2019" (PDF). www.lima2019.pe. Lima 2019 Organizing Committee for the 2019 Pan and Parapan American Games. 3 August 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 June 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  12. ^ "Qualifying System and Regatta Schedule Sailing – 2019 Pan American Games, Lima, Peru" (PDF). panamsailing.org/. Pan American Sailing Federation. 18 January 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2019.