Water skiing at the 2015 Pan American Games

Water skiing at the 2015 Pan American Games
Water skiing and wakeboarding pictogram for the games
Venues	Ontario Place West Channel
Dates	July 20–23, 2015
No. of events	9 (5 men, 4 women)
Competitors	39 from 12 nations
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Water skiing competitions at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto was held from July 20 to 23, 2015 at the Ontario Place West Channel. ^[1] The competition was split into two disciplines, water skiing and wakeboarding. Men and women will contest the water skiing events (four each in total) and the wakeboard board competition is only open to men. Therefore, there will be a total of nine medal events in the sport. ^[2]

Competition schedule

The Ontario Place West Channel, in Toronto, was the venue for the water skiing competitions

The following is the competition schedule for the water skiing competitions: ^[3]

P	Preliminaries	½	Semifinals	F	Final

Event↓/Date →	Mon 20	Tue 21	Wed 22	Thu 23
Men's jump		P		F
Men's slalom		P		F
Men's tricks	P			F
Men's overall			F
Men's wakeboard	½		F
Women's jump		P		F
Women's slalom		P		F
Women's tricks	P			F
Women's overall			F

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Canada)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada*	4	5	0	9
2	United States	3	3	2	8
3	Chile	1	1	2	4
4	Peru	1	0	0	1
5	Argentina	0	0	3	3
6	Mexico	0	0	1	1
	Venezuela	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		9	9	9	27

Medalists

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Jump details	Ryan Dodd   Canada	Rodrigo Miranda   Chile	Felipe Miranda   Chile
Slalom details	Nate Smith   United States	Jason McClintock   Canada	Javier Julio   Argentina
Tricks details	Adam Pickos   United States	Jaret Llewellyn   Canada	Javier Julio   Argentina
Overall details	Felipe Miranda   Chile	Jaret Llewellyn   Canada	Javier Julio   Argentina
Wakeboard details	Rusty Malinoski   Canada	Daniel Powers   United States	Juan Mendez   Venezuela

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Jump details	Regina Jaquess   United States	Whitney McClintock   Canada	Fernanda Naser   Chile
Slalom details	Whitney McClintock   Canada	Regina Jaquess   United States	Erika Lang   United States
Tricks details	Natalia Cuglievan   Peru	Whitney McClintock   Canada	Erika Lang   United States
Overall details	Whitney McClintock   Canada	Regina Jaquess   United States	Carolina Chapoy   Mexico

Participating nations

A total of 12 countries have qualified athletes. The number of athletes a nation has entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.

•   Argentina  (5)
•   Brazil  (2)
•   Canada  (5)
•   Chile  (4)
•   Colombia  (5)
•   Dominican Republic  (1)
•   Ecuador  (1)
•   Guatemala  (1)
•   Mexico  (5)
•   Peru  (4)
•   United States  (5)
•   Venezuela  (1)

Qualification

Main article: Water skiing at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification

A total of 40 athletes will qualify to compete at the games. The top 8 nations (including the host nation, Canada) at the 2014 Pan American Championship, will each receive four athlete quotas in water skiing. A further 8 spots are made available for wakeboard qualifiers. A nation may enter a maximum of three athletes in each gender in the water skiing competition. ^{[4] [5]}

References

1. "Competition Schedule" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
2. "Ontario Place West Channel". toronto2015.org. TO2015 . Retrieved 19 October 2014.
3. "Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games Ticket Program Guide" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 20 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
4. "Canada Names Athletes Headed to Colombia for Pan Am Championships". waterski-wakeboard.ca/. Water Ski Wakeboard Canada. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
5. "Sport Technical Manual Water skiing". scribd.com. TO2015 . Retrieved 13 June 2015.