Panama at the 2019 Pan American Games explained

Noc:	PAN
Nocname:	Comité Olímpico de Panamá
Year:	2019
Date:	26 July–11 August 2019
Games:	Pan American Games
Location:	Lima, Peru
Competitors:	84
Sports:	18
Flagbearer:	Carolena Carstens (opening)
Gold:	0
Silver:	0
Bronze:	4
Rank:	28
Appearances:	auto

Panama competed at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru from July 26 to August 11, 2019.^[1] ^[2]

A total of 84 athletes (46 men and 38 women) were named to the Panamanian team, marking the largest delegation the country has ever sent to the Pan American Games.^[3]

On July 5, 2019, athlete Alonso Edward was named as the country's flag bearer during the opening ceremony.^[4] However, it was later announced taekwondo athlete Carolena Carstens would carry the flag, as Edward would not be in Lima for the opening ceremony.^[5] ^[6]

Panama won four medals at these edition of the games, ranking 28th overall.^[7] The four medals marked the most won at a single edition of the games for the country since 1987.

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors (per gender) participating at the games per sport/discipline.

width=140	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Athletics (track and field)	3	5	8
Badminton	1	1	2
Bowling	2	0	2
Boxing	1	1	2
Fencing	0	1	1
Football	18	18	36
Golf	2	1	3
Judo	2	2	4
Karate	1	1	2
Modern pentathlon	1	0	1
Shooting	5	0	5
Surfing	0	1	1
Swimming	4	5	9
Taekwondo	0	1	1
Triathlon	2	0	2
Weightlifting	2	1	3
Wrestling	1	0	1
Total	46	38	84

Medalists

The following competitors from Panama won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.

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Name	Sport	Event
Alvis Almendra	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 87 kg
Kristine Jiménez	Judo	Women's 52 kg
Héctor Cención	Karate	Men's individual kata
Miryam Roper	Judo	Women's 57 kg

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Medals by sport
Sport				Total
	0	0	2	2
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1
Total	0	0	4	4

Athletics (track and field)

See main article: Athletics at the 2019 Pan American Games and Athletics at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification. Panama qualified eight track and field athletes (three men and five women).^[3]

Key

Note–Ranks given for track events are for the entire round
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser
SB = Seasonal best
DNF = Did not finish

Track and road events

Athlete	Event	Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
	align=left rowspan=2	Men's 200 m	20.65	6 Q	20.55	4
	DNF
Yassir Cabrera	Men's 20 km walk	1:25:39	9
	Women's 400 m hurdles	56.70	8 q	57.20	7
Rolanda Bell	align=left rowspan=2	Women's 3000 m steeplechase	10:34.76	10
Andrea Ferris	10:17.21	9

Field events

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position
Aixa Middleton	Discus throw	53.80 SB	8
Nathalee Aranda	Long jump	6.55 SB	4

Badminton

See main article: Badminton at the 2019 Pan American Games and Badminton at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification. Panama qualified a team of two badminton athletes (one per gender).^[8] ^[9] ^[10]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Kyle Seixas	Men's singles	W 2–0 (21–17, 21–17)	L 0–2 (11–21, 12–21)	did not advance
Kelly Yau	Women's singles	L 0–2 (4–21, 3–21)	did not advance
Kyle Seixas Kelly Yau	Mixed doubles		L 0–2 (11–21, 7–21)	did not advance

Bowling

See main article: Bowling at the 2019 Pan American Games and Bowling at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification.

Athlete	Event	Qualification / Final														Round robin	Semifinal	Final
		Block 1						Block 2						Total	Rank		Semifinal
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total	Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Grand total	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Donald Lee	align=left rowspan=2	Men's singles	195	258	216	217	188	201	226	161	142	227	179	211	2421	26	did not advance
Santiago Escobar	164	178	202	167	168	183	196	130	214	179	173	229	2183	31	did not advance
Donald Lee Santiago Escobar	Men's doubles	388	471	393	376	378	319	400	388	344	400	435	358	4650	14

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 2019 Pan American Games and Boxing at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification. Panama qualified two boxers (one man and one woman).^[11] ^[12]

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Orlando Martínez	Men's 60 kg	L 1–4	did not advance
Atheyna Bylon	Women's 69 kg	L 2–3	did not advance

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 2019 Pan American Games and Cycling at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification. Panama received a reallocated quota for a male road cyclist.^[13]

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Christofer Jurado	Road race	4:06:28	4
Time trial	47:01.6	5

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 2019 Pan American Games and Fencing at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification. Panama qualified one female fencer in the sabre discipline.^[14]

Women

Football

See main article: Football at the 2019 Pan American Games. Panama qualified a men's and women's team, and each will consist of 18 athletes, for a total of 36.^[15]

Men's tournament

See main article: Football at the 2019 Pan American Games – Men's tournament. Panama's men's team qualified by being the top ranked team from the Central American region at the 2018 CONCACAF U-20 Championship.

RosterHead coach: Julio Dely Valdés

Three overage players were named on 11 July 2019. The 18-man squad was announced on 13 July 2019.^[16] Midfielder Justin Simons was replaced by Maikell Díaz.

Group A

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Women's tournament

See main article: Football at the 2019 Pan American Games – Women's tournament. Panama's women's team qualified by being the top ranked team from the Central American region at the 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship.^[17]

RosterHead coach: Victor Daniel Suarez

The following players were called-up.^[18]

Group B

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Golf

See main article: Golf at the 2019 Pan American Games and Golf at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification. Panama qualified a full team of four golfers (two men and two women).^[19] However, only three golfers were entered.^[3]

Athlete(s)	Event	Final
Athlete(s)	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Total	To par	Rank
Jean Louis Ducruet	align=left rowspan=2	Men's individual	71	76	74	76	297	+13	=30
Michael Mendez	73	76	72	81	302	+18	32
Laura Restrepo	Women's individual	78	72	76	74	300	+16	=21
Jean Louis Ducruet Michael Mendez Laura Restrepo	Mixed team	149	148	148	150	595	+27	15

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 2019 Pan American Games and Judo at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification. Panama qualified four judoka (two men and two women).^[3] ^[20]

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Bernabé Vergara	Men's 60 kg	W 01S2–00	L 00S2–01S2	Did not advance	L 00S1–01S1	Did not advance	=7
José Luis Ortega	Men's 90 kg	L 00S1–10	did not advance
Kristine Jiménez	Women's 52 kg		L 00S3–10	Did not advance	W 10S2–00	W 01S2–00S1
Miryam Roper	Women's 57 kg		W 10S1–01S2	L 00S1–10S2		W 10S1–00S1

Karate

See main article: Karate at the 2019 Pan American Games and Karate at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification. Panama qualified two karatekas (one per gender).^[21]

Kata

Kumite

Modern Pentathlon

See main article: Modern pentathlon at the 2019 Pan American Games and Modern pentathlon at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification. Panama qualified one male modern pentathlete.^[3]

Men

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 2019 Pan American Games and Shooting at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification. Panama qualified five male sport shooters.^[22]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Juan Campos	align=left rowspan=2	10 m air pistol	560	21	did not advance
David Muñoz	556	26	did not advance
Marco Chu	Skeet	101	26	did not advance
Manuel García	align=left rowspan=2	Trap	111	=17	did not advance
Eduardo Taylor	116	=7	did not advance

Surfing

See main article: Surfing at the 2019 Pan American Games and Surfing at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification. Panama received a reallocated spot for one female surfer in the sport's debut at the Pan American Games.^[3]

Women

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 2019 Pan American Games and Swimming at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification. Panama qualified nine swimmers (four men and five women).^[3] ^[23]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Isaac Beitía	50 m freestyle	23.48	19	did not advance
100 m freestyle	51.18	16 QB	52.03	16
align=left rowspan=2	Hernán González	100 m backstroke	59.65	21	did not advance
200 m backstroke	2:11.84	22	did not advance
align=left rowspan="2"	Édgar Crespo	100 m breaststroke	1:02.95	16 QB	1:02.31	11
200 m breaststroke	2:24.12	16 QB	2:21.60	13
align=left rowspan="2"	Bernhard Christianson	200 m individual medley	2:04.00	8 QA	2:03.28	6
400 m individual medley	4:28.34	10 QB	4:25.93	10
Isaac Beitía Hernán Gonzalez Bernhard Christianson Édgar Crespo	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:31.26	7
Hernán Gonzalez Édgar Crespo Bernhard Christianson Isaac Beitía	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:51.41	8 QA	3:50.52	8

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Catharine Cooper	50 m freestyle	26.81	16 QB	27.01	16
100 m freestyle	59.66	23	did not advance
Ireyra Tamayo	200 m freestyle	2:12.46	20	did not advance
Nimia Murua	100 m backstroke	1:05.63	19	did not advance
Carolina Cermelli	200 m backstroke	2:22.14	17	did not advance
align=left rowspan="2"	Emily Santos	100 m breaststroke	1:12.39	13 QB	1:14.45	14
200 m breaststroke	2:45.21	17	did not advance
Ireyra Tamayo Emily Santos Nimia Murua Catharine Cooper	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	4:05.16	7
Carolina Cermelli Emily Santos Ireyra Tamayo Catherine Cooper	4 × 100 m medley relay	4:27.87	9	did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Isaac Beitia Catherine Cooper Ireyra Tamayo Hernán Gonzalez	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:55.11	9	did not advance
Carolina Cermelli Édgar Crespo Bernhard Christianson Ireyra Tamayo	4 × 100 m medley relay	4:06.11	9	did not advance

Taekwondo

See main article: Taekwondo at the 2019 Pan American Games and Taekwondo at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification. Panama received one wildcard in the women's 57 kg event.^[24]

Kyorugi

Triathlon

See main article: Triathlon at the 2019 Pan American Games and Triathlon at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification. Panama qualified two male triathletes.^[3]

Men

Athlete	Event	Swim (1.5 km)	Trans 1	Bike (40 km)	Trans 2	Run (8.88 km)	Total	Rank
Billy Gordon	align=left rowspan=2	Individual	19:32	0:57	1:26:4	0:34	36:38	2:04:00	26
Petter Vega	19:50	0:53	1:25:3	0:25	36:27	2:02:24	25

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 2019 Pan American Games and Weightlifting at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification. Panama qualified two male weightlifters and received a reallocated spot for a female lifter.^[25]

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
Ariel Batista	Men's 73 kg	110	11	No mark		did not finish
Eustaciano Arías	Men's 81 kg	130	5	155	5	285	5
Erika Ortega	Women's 49 kg	70	10	83	8	153	8

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 2019 Pan American Games and Wrestling at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification. Panama received one wild card in the Greco-Roman discipline.^[26]

Men

Non-competing sports

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 2019 Pan American Games and Equestrian at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification. Panama qualified one athlete in equestrian jumping.^[27] However, no athlete from Panama competed.

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 2019 Pan American Games and Gymnastics at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification. Panama qualified one female artistic gymnast.^[28] However, no gymnast from the country competed.

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