Pan American Surf Games Panama 2023 | |
Edition: | 16th |
Organiser: | Pan American Surf Association Asociación Panameña de Surf |
Sports: | Surfing |
Host City: | Santa Catalina town |
Country: | Panama |
Dates: | 21–30 April |
Nations: | 19 |
Athletes: | 234 |
Events: | 8 (4 men and 4 women) |
Stadium: | Playa Santa Catalina |
Opened By: | Alcides Hidalgo (Mayor of Soná) |
Website: | Panama 2023 |
Previous: | Venao 2022 |
The 2023 Pan American Surf Games, also known as 2023 PASA Games, was the sixteenth edition of the Pan American Surfing Games, the main competition organized by the Pan American Surf Association. It was held at Playa Santa Catalina in Soná District, Panama from 21 to 30 April 2023.[1]
More than 270 athletes from 19 national teams competed in 8 surfing events; comprising Shortboard, Longboard, SUP surf and SUP race each for men and women.[2]
The competition awarded 42 individual qualification slots for the surfing competitions at the 2023 Pan American Games.[2]
The defending champions, Brazil, clinched victory once again in the competition, amassing a total of 12,430 points and securing 4 out of the 8 gold medals at stake. Argentina claimed the second position with 11,540 points and 2 gold medals. Following closely, Peru finished third with 11,338 points and 1 gold medal, while Canada secured the fourth position with 10,978 points and 1 gold medal.[3]
The games were held over a 10-day period, from 21 to 30 April. The opening ceremony took place on 21 April, with the competitions starting on 22 April.[4] [5] [6]
QR1 | Qualifying round 1 | QR2 | Qualifying round 2 | QR3 | Qualifying round 3 | QR4 | Qualifying round 4 | SF | Semi-finals | F | Final |
Event↓/Date → | Sat 22 | Sun 23[7] | Mon 24[8] | Tue 25[9] | Wed 26[10] | Thu 27[11] | Fri 28[12] | Sat 29[13] | Sun 30[14] | ||||
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Men's Shortboard | QR1 (24) | QR2 (12) | QR3 (6) | QR4 (4) | SF (2) | F (1) | |||||||
Men's Longboard | QR1 (12) | QR2 (6) | QR3 (4) | SF (2) | F (1) | ||||||||
Men's SUP surf | QR1 (6) | QR2 (3) | SF (2) | F (1) | |||||||||
Men's SUP race | F (1) | ||||||||||||
Women's Shortboard | QR1 (16) | QR2 (8) | QR3 (4) | SF (2) | F (1) | ||||||||
Women's Longboard | QR1 (8) | QR2 (4) | SF (2) | F (1) | |||||||||
Women's SUP surf | QR1 (6) | QR2 (3) | SF (2) | F (1) | |||||||||
Women's SUP race | F (1) | ||||||||||||
Heats (Total 146) | 8 | 6 | 18 | 22 | 24 | 21 | 21 | 20 | 6 |
19 out of the 26 national associations affiliated to Pan American Surf Association entered the competition. Each nation was able to enter a maximum of 20 surfers (10 men and 10 women), with up to 4 surfers per gender in the Shortboard event and up to 2 surfers per gender in each Longboard, SUP surf and SUP race events.[1]
Copper | |||||||||
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Shortboard | 17.04 pts | 16.44 pts | 14.10 pts | 13.13 pts | |||||
Longboard | 15.46 pts | 15.03 pts | 14.73 pts | 9.96 pts | |||||
SUP surf | 15.00 pts | 13.86 pts | 12.20 pts | 9.63 pts | |||||
SUP race | 44:24 | 46:08 | 46:53 | 47:09 |
Copper | |||||||||
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Shortboard | 13.16 pts | 9.77 pts | 9.50 pts | 7.60 pts | |||||
Longboard | 11.00 pts | 8.40 pts | 4.77 pts | 4.50 pts | |||||
SUP surf | 10.87 pts | 8.80 pts | 8.77 pts | 2.40 pts | |||||
SUP race | 49:07 | 51:25 | 52:22 | 52:50 |
The final ranking per teams was drawn up by adding each surfer's individual points earning in the events in which they competed. Surfers obtained points according to the final position they occupied in each event. In Open, Longboard and SUP surf events, the surfers eliminated before the final occupied a certain position, as follows:
Non-initiators and non-finishers surfers received zero points. Points awarded according to the position were as follows:
The first place of the final ranking per teams was declared as the champion team of the 2023 Pan American Surfing Games.
Rank | Team | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||
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1000 | 555 | 390 | 360 | 1000 | 400 | 360 | 320 | 730 | 610 | 1000 | 610 | 860 | 730 | 730 | 610 | 1000 | 555 | 610 | 0 | 12430 | |||
730 | 555 | 500 | 240 | 730 | 500 | 320 | 320 | 555 | 500 | 450 | 450 | 555 | 450 | 1000 | 555 | 730 | 670 | 1000 | 730 | 11540 | |||
610 | 500 | 450 | 360 | 610 | 555 | 500 | 240 | 1000 | 500 | 555 | 500 | 610 | 555 | 860 | 670 | 860 | 425 | 528 | 450 | 11338 | |||
4 | 860 | 360 | 300 | 240 | 670 | 610 | 400 | 360 | 390 | 360 | 860 | 610 | 1000 | 670 | 610 | 390 | 528 | 500 | 860 | 400 | 10978 | ||
5 | 360 | 300 | 240 | 240 | 400 | 400 | 400 | 360 | 450 | 360 | 500 | 360 | 555 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 610 | 583 | 670 | 583 | 8721 | ||
6 | 500 | 450 | 450 | 360 | 500 | 400 | 360 | 360 | 390 | 390 | 400 | 400 | 610 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 438 | 0 | 555 | 500 | 8413 | ||
7 | 670 | 610 | 450 | 240 | 240 | 240 | 240 | 240 | 500 | 500 | 450 | 400 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 488 | 400 | 488 | 425 | 8381 | ||
8 | 500 | 450 | 360 | 300 | 500 | 320 | 320 | 320 | 670 | 360 | 730 | 450 | 488 | 390 | — | — | 462 | 413 | 413 | 395 | 7841 | ||
9 | 450 | 360 | 240 | 240 | 360 | 320 | 240 | 240 | 450 | 450 | 400 | 400 | 488 | 390 | 488 | 488 | 450 | 385 | 475 | 385 | 7699 | ||
10 | 390 | 360 | 240 | 240 | 450 | 360 | 320 | 320 | 450 | 450 | 400 | 400 | 390 | — | 555 | 488 | — | — | 438 | — | 6251 | ||
11 | 390 | 360 | 360 | 240 | 450 | 450 | 360 | 320 | 610 | 360 | 555 | — | 390 | 390 | — | — | — | — | 462 | — | 5697 | ||
12 | 360 | 300 | 300 | 240 | 320 | 320 | 240 | 240 | 555 | 360 | 670 | — | — | — | 555 | — | — | — | — | — | 4460 | ||
13 | 390 | 300 | 240 | 240 | 320 | 320 | 240 | — | 860 | 450 | 500 | — | — | — | — | — | 475 | — | — | — | 4335 | ||
14 | 300 | 240 | 240 | 240 | 320 | 240 | — | — | 390 | 360 | 400 | — | — | — | — | — | 395 | 390 | 390 | 380 | 4285 | ||
15 | 360 | 300 | 300 | 240 | 555 | 320 | 240 | — | 390 | — | 500 | — | 488 | 450 | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | 4143 | ||
16 | 390 | 390 | 300 | 300 | 860 | 450 | — | — | 390 | 360 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3440 | ||
17 | 300 | 240 | 240 | 240 | 400 | — | — | — | 360 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1780 | ||
18 | 240 | 240 | 240 | 240 | — | — | — | — | 360 | 360 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1680 | ||
19 | 144 | — | — | — | 400 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 544 |