# 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. Spectator viewing areas were available for free on Sugar Beach and the surrounding boardwalk. A total of ten events were contested (two for men, three for women and five mixed gender events).
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.
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.

## Competition schedule

The following is the competition schedule for the sailing competitions:
| 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 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.

## 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 entries) | Totals (10 entries) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |

## Medalists
### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| RS:X details | Ricardo Santos Brazil | David Mier Mexico | Mariano Reutemann Argentina |
| Laser details | Juan Ignacio Maegli Guatemala | Robert Scheidt Brazil | Lee Parkhill Canada |

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| RS:X details | Patrícia Freitas Brazil | Demita Vega Mexico | Marion Lepert United States |
| Laser Radial details | Paige Railey United States | Dolores Moreira Uruguay | Fernanda Decnop Brazil |
| 49erFX details | Argentina Maria Sol Branz Victoria Travascio | Brazil Martine Grael Kahena Kunze | United States Paris Henken Helena Scutt |

### Open events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Sunfish details | 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 |

## 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 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. 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.