2022 Pan American Surf Games

Pan American Surf Games
Panama 2022Host city| Pedasí

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Country| Panama
Organisers| Pan American Surf Association
Asociación Panameña de Surf
Edition| 15th
Nations| 17
Athletes| 234
Sport| Surfing
Events| 8 (4 men and 4 women)
Dates| 7–13 August
Opened by| Miguel Batista (Mayor of Pedasí)
Main venue| Playa Venao
Website| Panama 2022

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The 2022 Pan American Surf Games, also known as PASA Games 2022, was the fifteenth edition of the Pan American Surf Games the main competition organized by the Pan American Surf Association. It was held at Playa Venao in Pedasí District, Panama from 7 to 13 August 2022.[1]

234 athletes from 17 national teams competes in 8 surfing events; comprising Open (shortboard), Longboard, SUP surf and SUP race each for men and women.[2]

The competition served to seed the surfers and teams in the 2023 Pan American Surf Games, which in turn will serve as qualifier for the 2023 Pan American Games.[3]

Brazil won the competition with a total of 15,195 points and 6 out of the 8 gold medals at stake. The defending champions Peru finished second with 12,017 points and 1 gold medal. Argentina (11,055 points and 1 gold medal) and Mexico (9,285 points) were third and fourth respectively.[4]

## Schedule

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The games were held over a 7-day period, from 7 to 13 August. The opening ceremony took place on 7 August, with the competitions starting on 8 August.[5][6][7][8]

R1 | Round 1  | R2 | Round 2  | QF | Quarter-finals  | SF | Semi-finals  | F | Final

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Event↓/Date → | Mon 8 | Tue 9 | Wed 10 | Thu 11 | Fri 12 | Sat 13

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Men's Open |  |  | R1 |  | R2 | QF | SF | F
Men's Longboard |  | R1 | QF |  | SF | F |
Men's SUP surf | R1 | QF | SF |  | F |  |
Men's SUP race |  |  | F |  |  |
Women's Open |  |  |  | R1 | R2 | QF | SF | F
Women's Longboard |  | R1 | QF |  | SF | F |
Women's SUP surf | R1 | QF | SF |  | F |  |
Women's SUP race |  |  | F |  |  |

## Participating nations

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17 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 Open events and up to 2 surfers per gender in each Longboard, SUP surf and SUP race events.[9] The number of surfers per national team (if given) is shown in brackets.

* Argentina (18)[10][11]
* Brazil (19)[12][13]
* Chile (13)[14]
* Colombia (9)[15]
* Costa Rica (12)[16]
* Dominican Republic (3)[17]
* Ecuador (13)[18]
* El Salvador (4)[19]
* Guatemala (5)[20]
* Jamaica (5)[21]
* Mexico (18)[22]
* Nicaragua (2)[23]
* Panama (18)[24][25]
* Peru (19)[26][27]
* Puerto Rico (19)
* Uruguay (11)[28]
* Venezuela (14)[29][30]

## Medal table

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* Host nation (Panama)

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Brazil| 6| 4| 1| 11
2|  Peru| 1| 1| 3| 5
3|  Argentina| 1| 1| 2| 4
4|  Mexico| 0| 1| 0| 1
Panama*| 0| 1| 0| 1
6|  Ecuador| 0| 0| 1| 1
Uruguay| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (7 entries)| 8| 8| 8| 24

## Results

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### Men's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze  | Copper

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Open
details | Mateus Sena
Brazil | 13.76 pts  | Jean González
Panama | 13.40 pts  | Lucca Mesinas
Peru | 13.37 pts  | Miguel Tudela
Peru | 12.03 pts
Longboard
details | Jefson Silva
Brazil | 13.26 pts  | Rodrigo Sphaier
Brazil | 12.20 pts  | Nacho Pignataro
Uruguay | 9.97 pts  | Julian Schweizer
Uruguay | 9.27 pts
SUP surf
details | Luiz Diniz
Brazil | 16.17 pts  | Felipe Rodríguez
Mexico | 12.37 pts  | Tamil Martino
Peru | 12.00 pts  | Leonardo Gimenes
Brazil | 10.64 pts
SUP race
details | Itzel Delgado
Peru | 37:36.99  | David Leão
Brazil | 37:38.30  | Franco Fachin
Argentina | 38:31.48  | Omelv García
Puerto Rico | 39:06.91

### Women's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze  | Copper

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Open
details | Sophia Medina
Brazil | 12.57 pts  | Laura Raupp
Brazil | 12.07 pts  | Dominic Barona
Ecuador | 10.70 pts  | Daniella Rosas
Peru | 10.03 pts
Longboard
details | Chloé Calmon
Brazil | 15.33 pts  | Atalanta Batista
Brazil | 9.73 pts  | Camila Kaspar
Peru | 7.67 pts  | Coco Bonilla
Mexico | 7.23 pts
SUP surf
details | Lucía Cosoleto
Argentina | 13.00 pts  | Vania Torres
Peru | 11.40 pts  | Aline Adisaka
Brazil | 7.10 pts  | Gabriela Sztamfater
Brazil | 5.87 pts
SUP race
details | Lena Guimarães
Brazil | 42:12.04  | Juliana González
Argentina | 42:28.74  | Natalia de la Lama
Argentina | 42:38.83  | Aline Adisaka
Brazil | 42:55.30

### Final ranking per teams

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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:

* Eliminated in round 1 (Open events): 33th place (3rd place of each heat) and 49th place (4th place of each heat)
* Eliminated in round 1 (Longboard and SUP surf) and round 2 (Open): 17th place (3rd place of each heat) and 25th place (4th place of each heat)
* Eliminated in quarter-finals: 9th place (3rd place of each heat) and 13th place (4th place of each heat)
* Eliminated in semi-finals: 5th place (3rd place of each heat) and 7th place (4th place of each heat)

Non-initiators and non-finishers surfers received zero points. Points awarded according to the position were as follows:

|  |  | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 25 | 33 | 48

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1000 | 860 | 730 | 670 | 610 | 583 | 555 | 528 | 500 | 488 | 475 | 462 | 450 | 438 | 425 | 413 | 400 | 395 | 390 | 385 | 380 | 360 | 320 | 240

The first place of the final ranking per teams was declared as the champion team of the 2022 Pan American Surf Games.

Rank  | Team  | MO1 | MO2 | MO3 | MO4 | WO1 | WO2 | WO3 | WO4 | ML1 | ML2 | WL1 | WL2 | MSS1 | MSS2 | WSS1 | WSS2 | MSR1 | MSR2 | WSR1 | WSR2 | Total

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|  Brazil | 1000 | 555 | 500 | 500 | 1000 | 860 | 450 | 400 | 1000 | 860 | 1000 | 860 | 1000 | 670 | 730 | 670 | 860 | 610 | 1000 | 670 | 15195
|  Peru | 730 | 670 | 400 | 360 | 670 | 610 | 610 | 555 | 610 | 555 | 730 | 610 | 730 | 450 | 860 | 450 | 1000 | 400 | 555 | 462 | 12017
|  Argentina | 610 | 555 | 320 | 320 | 555 | 450 | 400 | 360 | 500 | 500 | 610 | 390 | 555 | 500 | 1000 | 610 | 730 | 500 | 860 | 730 | 11055
4 |  Mexico | 400 | 400 | 320 | 240 | 450 | 400 | 400 | 360 | 500 | 450 | 670 | 450 | 860 | 500 | 610 | 450 | 462 | 425 | 488 | 450 | 9285
5 |  Puerto Rico | 320 | 320 | 320 | 320 | 500 | 400 | 320 | 320 | 400 | 400 | 500 | 500 | 610 | 610 | 555 | 500 | 670 | 583 | 583 | 438 | 9169
6 |  Panama | 860 | 610 | 500 | 320 | 400 | 360 | 360 | 240 | 400 | 400 | 390 | 390 | 450 | 390 | 450 | 390 | 528 | 438 | 610 | 425 | 8911
7 |  Ecuador | 450 | 400 | 360 | 320 | 730 | 360 | 320 | 320 | 400 | 360 | 555 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 555 | 500 | 413 | — | 500 | 475 | 8368
8 |  Venezuela | 450 | 400 | 360 | 360 | 500 | 360 | 360 | 320 | 400 | 400 | 500 | 450 | 500 | 450 | 500 | 450 | 475 | 390 | 528 | 413 | 8566
9 |  Chile | 450 | 400 | 400 | 360 | 500 | 500 | 320 | 320 | 555 | 450 | 555 | 450 | 555 | 390 | 500 | — | 395 | 385 | 0 | 0 | 7485
10 |  Uruguay | 360 | 240 | 240 | 240 | 400 | 320 | 320 | 320 | 730 | 670 | 450 | 390 | 390 | 390 | 450 | 450 | 488 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6848
11 |  Costa Rica | 450 | 400 | 360 | 320 | 450 | 400 | 320 | 320 | 610 | 400 | 450 | 390 | 450 | — | — | — | 380 | — | — | — | 5700
12 |  Colombia | 320 | 320 | 240 | — | 320 | 320 | — | — | 450 | 450 | 500 | — | 500 | 390 | — | — | 555 | 450 | — | — | 4815
13 |  Guatemala | 320 | 320 | 240 | — | 320 | 240 | — | — | 360 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1800
14 |  Dominican Republic | 360 | 320 | — | — | 320 | — | — | — | 360 | 360 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1720
15 |  El Salvador | 500 | 240 | 240 | — | — | — | — | — | 500 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1480
16 |  Jamaica | 320 | 240 | 240 | — | 240 | 240 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1280
17 |  Nicaragua | 240 | — | — | — | 360 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 600

Note: "—" Denotes that there were no competitors for that position

## External links

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* 2022 Pan American Surf Games at PASA website.
* Final results summary

## References

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1. ^ "PASA Announces PASA Games 2022 in Venao, Panama". Pan American Surf Association. 12 May 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
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4. ^ "Brazil Is the 2022 Pan American Surfing Champion". Pan American Surf Association. 13 August 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
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6. ^ "Este es el cronograma del panamericano de surf" [This is the schedule of the Pan American Surf] (in Spanish). Duke Surf. 6 August 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
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17. ^ Bretón, Francybel (10 August 2022). "DOMINICANOS DOMANDO OLAS EN LOS JUEGOS PANAMERICANOS DE SURF 2022" [Dominicans taming waves at the 2022 Pan American Surf Games] (in Spanish). Récord. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
18. ^ "El surf ecuatoriano inicia el camino a los Juegos de Santiago 2023" [Ecuadorian surfing begins the road to the Santiago 2023 Games] (in Spanish). Expreso. 8 August 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
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20. ^ "¡Nuestros surfers se van al Pan American Surf Association" [Our surfers go to the Pan American Surf Association!] (in Spanish). Asociación de Surf de Guatemala. 5 August 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022 - via Facebook.
21. ^ Swaby, Alrick (9 August 2022). "5 Member Team To Represent Jamaica At Pan American Championships" (in Spanish). Nationwide 90FM. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
22. ^ "Fuerte equipo mexicano confirmado para el panamericano de Panamá" [Strong Mexican team confirmed for the Pan American in Panama] (in Spanish). Duke Surf. 2 August 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
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*[MO1]: Men's Open 1
*[MO2]: Men's Open 2
*[MO3]: Men's Open 3
*[MO4]: Men's Open 4
*[WO1]: Women's Open 1
*[WO2]: Women's Open 2
*[WO3]: Women's Open 3
*[WO4]: Women's Open 4
*[ML1]: Men's Longboard 1
*[ML2]: Men's Longboard 2
*[WL1]: Women's Longboard 1
*[WL2]: Women's Longboard 2
*[MSS1]: Men's SUP surf 1
*[MSS2]: Men's SUP surf 2
*[WSS1]: Women's SUP surf 1
*[WSS2]: Women's SUP surf 2
*[MSR1]: Men's SUP race 1
*[MSR2]: Men's SUP race 2
*[WSR1]: Women's SUP race 1
*[WSR2]: Women's SUP race 2