Bowling at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's doubles explained

Event:Men's doubles
Games:2015
Venue:Pan Am Bowling Centre
Dates:July 22–23
Competitors:28
Nations:14
Win Value:5607
Win Label:Winning score
Gold:François Lavoie
Dan MacLelland
Goldnoc:CAN
Silver:Jaime González
Manuel Otalora
Silvernoc:COL
Bronze:Devin Bidwell
Tommy Jones
Bronzenoc:USA
Prev:2011
Next:2019

The men's doubles competition of the bowling events at the 2015 Pan American Games was held on July 22 and 23 at Planet Bowl (Pan Am Bowling Centre), due to naming rights the venue was known as the latter for the duration of the games.[1] [2] [3]

Canadian pair François Lavoie and Dan MacLelland went onto secure the gold medal, with Lavoie scoring a perfect game in the fifth round, the first in Pan American Games history.[4] [5]

Schedule

All times are Eastern Standard Time (UTC-3).

DateTimeRound
July 22, 2015 10:05 1–6 Games
July 23, 2015 15:05 7–12 Games

Qualification

See main article: Bowling at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. A total of 14 countries qualified two bowlers each through various events. This is summarized below.

EventVacanciesQualifiedBowlers
per NOC
Total
Host nation 122
South American Games 4


28
Pan American Sports Festival 7





214
Central American and Caribbean Games2
24
TOTAL 28

Medalists

Men's doubles
François Lavoie
Dan MacLelland

Jaime González
Manuel Otalora

Devin Bidwell
Tommy Jones

Results

Rank Nation Atthlete Total Grand Total[6] Notes
François Lavoie
Dan MacLelland
2677
2930
5607
Jaime González
Manuel Otalora
2574
2715
5289
Devin Bidwell
Tommy Jones
2521
2682
5203
Alejandro Cruz
Mario Quintero
2601
2580
5181
Amleto Monacelli
Ildemaro Ruiz
2662
2500
5162
Rodolfo Madriz
James Stanley
2543
2507
5050
Manuel Fernandez
Alex Prats
2446
2527
4973
Cristian Azcona
Jean Pérez
2446
2519
4965
Charles Robini
Marcelo Suartz
2397
2529
4926
10Julio Acosta
Giancarlo Mateucchi
2262
2467
4729
11Juan Narvaez
Carlos Olmos
2286
2423
4709
12Armando Batres
José Morales
2245
2310
4555
13Bryan Helmeyer
Jason Odor
2263
2238
4501
14Ricardo Dalla Rosa
Ruben Favero
2187
2176
4363

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pan Am Bowling Centre . toronto2015.org . . 15 September 2014.
  2. Web site: Competition Schedule . 18 August 2014 . toronto2015.org . . 7 September 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140903164841/http://images.toronto2015.org/system/asset_pdfs/2043/original/pan-am-games-schedule.pdf?1407975204 . 3 September 2014 . dead .
  3. News: . Planet Bowl chosen as Pan Am Games' bowling venue . . Toronto, Canada. 4 December 2013 . 21 February 2015 .
  4. Web site: Francois Lavoie rolls perfect game to lift Canada to bowling gold. Bitton. Tyler. 23 July 2015. www.cbc.ca/sports/. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). 8 January 2022.
  5. Web site: Francois Lavoie, Dan MacLelland shatter five records to cruise to Men's Doubles gold medal. 24 July 2015. www.bowlingdigital.com/. Bowling Digital. 8 January 2022. Lavoie ended the 300 game jinx ended when he fired the first 300 game in Pan American Games history in the fifth game.
  6. Web site: Men's doubles Bowling final results. 22 July 2015. 8 January 2022. TO2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151018043658/http://results.toronto2015.org/IRS/resTO2015/pdf/TO2015/BL/TO2015_BL_C73_BLM201A02.pdf. 18 October 2015.