Cycling at the 2015 Pan American Games explained

Event:Cycling
Games:2015
Venues:

Ontario Place West Channel (Road races)

Dates:July 10–25
Num Events:18 (9 men, 9 women)
Competitors:227
Nations:24
Prev:2011
Next:2019

Cycling competitions at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto were held July 10 to 25, 2015 at four different venues.[1] The BMX competitions took place at the Centennial Park Pan Am BMX Centre in Toronto, the mountain biking competitions happened at the Hardwood Ski and Bike (Hardwood Mountain Bike Park) in Oro-Medonte, due to naming rights the venue was known as the latter for the duration of the games.[2] The road races happened in the streets of Downtown Toronto with the start and finish being adjacent to the Ontario Place West Channel. Finally the track cycling events occurred at the Milton Velodrome in Milton. The road cycling time trials happened in the streets surrounding the velodrome (Milton Time Trial Course).[3]

Competition schedule

The following was the competition schedule for the cycling competitions:[4]

BMX, mountain biking and road cycling
Event↓/Date →Fri 10 Sat 11 Sun 12 Wed 22 Sat 25
BMX
Q ¼ ½F
Q ½F
Mountain biking
F
F
Road cycling
Men's road raceF
F
F
F
Track cycling
Event↓/Date → Thu 16 Fri 17 Sat 18 Sun 19
H F
FL PR ER IP SR TT
H ¼ ½F
H F
H F
H F
FL PR ER IP SR TT
H ¼ ½F
H F
H F

FL = Flying Lap, PR = Points Race, ER = Elimination Race, IP = Individual Pursuit, SR = Scratch Race, TT = Time Trial

Medalists

BMX

Men
Women

Mountain biking



Road cycling

Men's road race

Men's time trial
Women's time trial

Track cycling

Men's team pursuit

Juan Esteban Arango
Arles Castro
Fernando Gaviria
Jhonatan Restrepo


Mauro Agostini
Maximiliano Richeze
Walter Pérez
Adrián Richeze
Juan Merlos

Eric Johnstone
Sean MacKinnon
Rémi Pelletier-Roy
Edward Veal
Adam Jamieson


Allison Beveridge
Laura Brown
Jasmin Glaesser
Kirsti Lay


Jennifer Valente
Sarah Hammer
Kelly Catlin
Lauren Tamayo
Ruth Winder

Sofía Arreola
Íngrid Drexel
Mayra Del Rocio Rocha
Lizbeth Salazar

Men's individual sprint

Men's team sprint

Hugo Barrette
Evan Carey
Joseph Veloce

Hersony Canelón
César Marcano
Ángel Pulgar

Flavio Cipriano
Kacio Freitas
Hugo Osteti
Women's team sprint

Kate O'Brien
Monique Sullivan

Lisandra Guerra
Marlies Mejías

Diana García
Juliana Gaviria
Men's keirin
Women's keirin
Men's omnium
Women's omnium

Participation

A total of 24 countries qualified athletes. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.

Qualification

See main article: Cycling at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. A total of 228 cyclists qualified to compete at the games (146 in road and track combined, 36 in mountain biking and 38 in BMX). A nation was able to enter at most 24 athletes (16 among road and track cycling, four in mountain biking and four in BMX). The host nation (Canada) automatically entered a full team of 24 athletes (14 male and 10 female).[5]

See also

Notes and References

  1. 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 .
  2. News: Persaud . Travis . 17 July 2014 . Oro-Medonte biking facility ready to host Pan Am Games . . . 13 August 2014 .
  3. News: Gregory . Michael . 17 June 2014 . Milton to host Pan Am Games cycling time trial events . InsideHalton.com . . 13 August 2014 .
  4. Web site: Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games Ticket Program Guide . 20 April 2015 . toronto2015.org . . 26 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150420184712/http://images.toronto2015.org/system/asset_pdfs/4013/original/pan-am-games-ticket-guide-042015.pdf . 20 April 2015 . dead .
  5. Web site: Qualification System – Cycling. www.copaci.org/. Pan American Cycling Confederation. 7 September 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140908063526/http://www.copaci.org/documentos/QUALIFICATION%20SYSTEM%20-%20CYCLING%20-%20PAN-AMERICAN%20GAMES%20TORONTO%202015.pdf. 8 September 2014.