2023 Pan American Surfing Games

Pan American Surf Games
Panama 2023Host city| Santa Catalina town

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Country| Panama
Organisers| Pan American Surf Association
Asociación Panameña de Surf
Edition| 16th
Nations| 19
Athletes| 234
Sport| Surfing
Events| 8 (4 men and 4 women)
Dates| 21–30 April
Opened by| Alcides Hidalgo (Mayor of Soná)
Main venue| Playa Santa Catalina
Website| Panama 2023

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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]

## Schedule[edit]

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

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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

## Participating nations[edit]

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]

* Argentina (18)[15][16]
* Barbados (6)[17][18]
* Brazil (20)[19][20]
* Canada
* Chile
* Colombia
* Costa Rica (17)[21]
* Dominican Republic (4)[22]
* Ecuador
* El Salvador (12)[23][24]
* Guatemala (13)[25]
* Mexico
* Nicaragua
* Panama
* Peru (20)[26]
* Puerto Rico
* United States
* Uruguay (11)[27][28]
* Venezuela

## Medal table[edit]

* Host nation (Panama)

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Brazil| 4| 1| 3| 8
2|  Argentina| 2| 0| 4| 6
3|  Canada| 1| 3| 0| 4
4|  Peru| 1| 2| 0| 3
5|  Barbados| 0| 1| 0| 1
Uruguay| 0| 1| 0| 1
7|  Costa Rica| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (7 entries)| 8| 8| 8| 24

## Results[edit]

### Men's events[edit]

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze  | Copper

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Shortboard
details | Krystian Kymerson
Brazil | 17.04 pts  | Cody Young
Canada | 16.44 pts  | Leandro Usuna
Argentina | 14.10 pts  | Isauro Elizondo
Panama | 13.13 pts
Longboard
details | Piccolo Clemente
Peru | 15.46 pts  | Julian Schweizer
Uruguay | 15.03 pts  | Carlos Bahia
Brazil | 14.73 pts  | Anthony Mesén
Costa Rica | 9.96 pts
SUP surf
details | Finn Spencer
Canada | 15.00 pts  | Wellington Reis
Brazil | 13.86 pts  | Luiz Diniz
Brazil | 12.20 pts  | Jeffrey Spencer
Canada | 9.63 pts
SUP race
details | Guilherme Batista
Brazil | 44:24  | Itzel Delgado
Peru | 46:08  | Franco Faccín
Argentina | 46:53  | Santino Basaldella
Argentina | 47:09

### Women's events[edit]

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze  | Copper

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Shortboard
details | Silvana Lima
Brazil | 13.16 pts  | Chelsea Tuach
Barbados | 9.77 pts  | Lucía Indurain
Argentina | 9.50 pts  | Sanoa Olin
Canada | 7.60 pts
Longboard
details | Chloé Calmon
Brazil | 11.00 pts  | Olivia Stokes
Canada | 8.40 pts  | Lia Díaz
Costa Rica | 4.77 pts  | Sindy Portillo
El Salvador | 4.50 pts
SUP surf
details | Lucía Cosoleto
Argentina | 10.87 pts  | Vania Torres
Peru | 8.80 pts  | Aline Adisaka
Brazil | 8.77 pts  | Brissa Málaga
Peru | 2.40 pts
SUP race
details | Juliana González
Argentina | 49:07  | Lina Augaitis
Canada | 51:25  | Natalia de la Lama
Argentina | 52:22  | Maricarmen Rivera
Puerto Rico | 52:50

### Final ranking per teams[edit]

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:
* Men's Shortboard: 49th place (3rd place of each heat)
* Women's Shortboard: 33th place (3rd place of each heat) and 49th place (4th place of each heat)
* Men's Longboard: 25h place (3rd place of each heat)
* Women's Longboard: 17th place (3rd place of each heat)
* SUP surf for both genders: 13th place (3rd place of each heat) and 19th place (4th place of each heat)
* Eliminated in round 2:
* Men's Shortboard: 25th place (3rd place of each heat) and 37th place (4th place of each heat)
* Women's Shortboard: 17th place (3rd place of each heat) and 25th place (4th place of each heat)
* Men's Longboard: 13th place (3rd place of each heat) and 19th place (4th place of each heat)
* Women's Longboard: 9th place (3rd place of each heat) and 3th place (4th place of each heat)
* SUP surf for both genders: 7th place (3rd place of each heat) and 10th place (4th place of each heat)
* Eliminated in round 3:
* Men's Shortboard: 13th place (3rd place of each heat) and 19th place (4th place of each heat)
* Women's Shortboard: 9th place (3rd place of each heat) and 13th place (4th place of each heat)
* Men's Longboard: 9th place (3rd place of each heat)
* Eliminated in round 4
* Men's Shortboard: 9th place (3rd place of each heat)
* Eliminated in semi-finals:
* Shortboard, Longboard and SUP surf in both genders: 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:

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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 2023 Pan American Surfing Games.

Rank  | Team  | MS1 | MS2 | MS3 | MS4 | WS1 | WS2 | WS3 | WS4 | ML1 | ML2 | WL1 | WL2 | MSS1 | MSS2 | WSS1 | WSS2 | MSR1 | MSR2 | WSR1 | WSR2 | Total

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|  Brazil | 1000 | 555 | 390 | 360 | 1000 | 400 | 360 | 320 | 730 | 610 | 1000 | 610 | 860 | 730 | 730 | 610 | 1000 | 555 | 610 | 0 | 12430
|  Argentina | 730 | 555 | 500 | 240 | 730 | 500 | 320 | 320 | 555 | 500 | 450 | 450 | 555 | 450 | 1000 | 555 | 730 | 670 | 1000 | 730 | 11540
|  Peru | 610 | 500 | 450 | 360 | 610 | 555 | 500 | 240 | 1000 | 500 | 555 | 500 | 610 | 555 | 860 | 670 | 860 | 425 | 528 | 450 | 11338
4 |  Canada | 860 | 360 | 300 | 240 | 670 | 610 | 400 | 360 | 390 | 360 | 860 | 610 | 1000 | 670 | 610 | 390 | 528 | 500 | 860 | 400 | 10978
5 |  Puerto Rico | 360 | 300 | 240 | 240 | 400 | 400 | 400 | 360 | 450 | 360 | 500 | 360 | 555 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 610 | 583 | 670 | 583 | 8721
6 |  Mexico | 500 | 450 | 450 | 360 | 500 | 400 | 360 | 360 | 390 | 390 | 400 | 400 | 610 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 438 | 0 | 555 | 500 | 8413
7 |  Panama | 670 | 610 | 450 | 240 | 240 | 240 | 240 | 240 | 500 | 500 | 450 | 400 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 488 | 400 | 488 | 425 | 8381
8 |  Costa Rica | 500 | 450 | 360 | 300 | 500 | 320 | 320 | 320 | 670 | 360 | 730 | 450 | 488 | 390 | — | — | 462 | 413 | 413 | 395 | 7841
9 |  Venezuela | 450 | 360 | 240 | 240 | 360 | 320 | 240 | 240 | 450 | 450 | 400 | 400 | 488 | 390 | 488 | 488 | 450 | 385 | 475 | 385 | 7699
10 |  Ecuador | 390 | 360 | 240 | 240 | 450 | 360 | 320 | 320 | 450 | 450 | 400 | 400 | 390 | — | 555 | 488 | — | — | 438 | — | 6251
11 |  Chile | 390 | 360 | 360 | 240 | 450 | 450 | 360 | 320 | 610 | 360 | 555 | — | 390 | 390 | — | — | — | — | 462 | — | 5697
12 |  El Salvador | 360 | 300 | 300 | 240 | 320 | 320 | 240 | 240 | 555 | 360 | 670 | — | — | — | 555 | — | — | — | — | — | 4460
13 |  Uruguay | 390 | 300 | 240 | 240 | 320 | 320 | 240 | — | 860 | 450 | 500 | — | — | — | — | — | 475 | — | — | — | 4335
14 |  Guatemala | 300 | 240 | 240 | 240 | 320 | 240 | — | — | 390 | 360 | 400 | — | — | — | — | — | 395 | 390 | 390 | 380 | 4285
15 |  Colombia | 360 | 300 | 300 | 240 | 555 | 320 | 240 | — | 390 | — | 500 | — | 488 | 450 | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | 4143
16 |  Barbados | 390 | 390 | 300 | 300 | 860 | 450 | — | — | 390 | 360 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3440
17 |  Nicaragua | 300 | 240 | 240 | 240 | 400 | — | — | — | 360 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1780
18 |  Dominican Republic | 240 | 240 | 240 | 240 | — | — | — | — | 360 | 360 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1680
19 |  United States | 144 | — | — | — | 400 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 544

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

## External links[edit]

* 2023 Pan American Surf Games at PASA website.

## References[edit]

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*[MS1]: Men's Shortboard 1
*[MS2]: Men's Shortboard 2
*[MS3]: Men's Shortboard 3
*[MS4]: Men's Shortboard 4
*[WS1]: Women's Shortboard 1
*[WS2]: Women's Shortboard 2
*[WS3]: Women's Shortboard 3
*[WS4]: Women's Shortboard 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