Surfing at the 2019 Pan American Games

Surfing competitions at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru are scheduled to be held between July 30th and August 4th, 2019 at Punta Rocas in the Punta Negra District.[1]

Surfing at the XVIII Pan American Games
Surfing pictogram
Venue	Punta Rocas
Dates	July 30 – August 4, 2019
Competitors	88
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The sport of surfing will be making its Pan American Games debut. In July 2015, days before the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada, the then Pan American Sports Organization added the sport to the Pan American Games sports program.[2] In 2016, the International Olympic Committee made several changes to its sports program, which were subsequently implemented for these games. Surfing was added, but was already included in the 2019 program an year earlier.[3][4]

8 medal events are scheduled to be contested. Four per each gender A total of 88 surfers will qualify to compete at the games.[5]

The event will be used as a qualifier for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[6]

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Peru)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Peru*	3	3	1	7
2	Brazil	2	1	1	4
3	Colombia	2	0	0	2
4	United States	1	1	2	4
5	Argentina	0	1	1	2
6	Ecuador	0	1	0	1
	Uruguay	0	1	0	1
8	Canada	0	0	1	1
	El Salvador	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		8	8	8	24

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Open surf	Luca Mesinas  Peru	Leandro Usuna  Argentina	Bryan Pérez  El Salvador
SUP surf	Giorgio Gómez  Colombia	Tamil Martino  Peru	Daniel Hughes  United States
SUP race	Connor Baxter  United States	Vinnicius Martins  Brazil	Itzel Delgado  Peru
Longboard	Benoit Clemente  Peru	Julián Schweizer  Uruguay	Cole Robbins  United States

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Open surf	Daniella Rosas  Peru	Dominic Barona  Ecuador	Ornella Pellizzari  Argentina
SUP surf	Isabella Gómez  Colombia	Vania Torres  Peru	Nicole Pacelli  Brazil
SUP race	Lena Guimarães  Brazil	Candice Appleby  United States	Mariecarmen Rivera  Puerto Rico
Longboard	Chloé Calmon  Brazil	María Fernanda Reyes  Peru	Mathea Olin  Canada

Qualification

Main article: Surfing at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

A total of 88 surfers will qualify across various qualification tournaments. The host nation Peru, will be automatically be allocated ten quota spots across the eight events. A country can enter a maximum ten surfers (five per gender).[5]

See also

• Surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics

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. Butler, Nick (7 July 2015). "Surfing added to Lima 2019 Pan American Games programme". Insidethegames.biz. Dunsar Media. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
3. "Tokyo 2020 event programme to see major boost for female, youth and urban appeal". www.olympic.org/. International Olympic Committee. 9 June 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
4. Mather, Victor (9 June 2017). "Olympics Adds 3-on-3 Basketball and Mixed Gender Relays". The New York Times. New York City, New York. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
5. "Qualification System manual" (PDF). www.panamsports.org/. Pan American Sports Organization. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
6. "International Surfing Association (ISA) Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Tokyo 2020" (PDF). www.wkf.net/. International Surfing Association (ISA). 16 March 2018. Retrieved 16 September 2018.

External links

• Results book