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The 2015 Pan American Surf Games, also referred to as PASA Games 2015 and officially named XI Pan American Surfing Games Claro Open 2015 for sponsorship reasons, was the eleventh edition of the Pan American Surf Games, the main competition organized by the Pan American Surf Association. It was held at Punta Rocas beach in Punta Negra District, Lima, Peru from 2 to 6 December 2015.

Athletes from 11 national teams competes in 13 surfing events; comprising Open (Shortboard), SUP surf, SUP race, Bodyboard prone and Paddleboard race each for men and women, plus Longboard, Bodyboard dropknee and Juniors Under–20 (shortboard) events only for men.

Peru won the competition with 11 out of the 13 gold medals at stake. Chile, Ecuador and Venezuela were second, third and fourth respectively.

Schedule

The games were held over a 5-day period, from 2 to 6 December.

Participating nations

10 out of the 26 national associations affiliated to Pan American Surf Association, in addition to Bolivia, entered the competition.

•  Argentina
•  Bolivia (1)
•  Brazil
•  Canada
•  Chile (18)
•  Costa Rica
•  Ecuador
•  Peru
•  Puerto Rico
•  Uruguay
•  Venezuela

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Peru)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Peru*	11	8	6	25
2	Chile	1	3	4	8
3	Venezuela	1	1	0	2
4	Ecuador	0	1	2	3
5	Canada	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		13	13	13	39

Results

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze		Copper
Open details	Alonso Correa  Peru	14.00 pts	Joaquín del Castillo  Peru	12.33 pts	Juninho Urcia  Peru	11.67 pts	Nicolás Vargas  Chile	9.50 pts
Junior details	Juninho Urcia  Peru	11.27 pts	Sebastián Correa  Peru	9.90 pts	Lucca Mesinas  Peru	9.39 pts	Alonso Correa  Peru	9.10 pts
Longboard details	Lucas Garrido Lecca  Peru	13.40 pts	Miguel Maturana  Chile	11.90 pts	Jorge Vílchez  Peru	8.63 pts	Ignacio Pignataro  Uruguay	8.13 pts
Bodyboard prone details	Jorge Hurtado  Peru	11.17 pts	Diego Berríos  Chile	10.23 pts	Nicolás Durán  Chile	6.66 pts	Kevin Torres  Chile	6.57 pts
Bodyboard dropknee details	César Bauer  Peru	15.00 pts	Manuel Rodríguez  Peru	12.26 pts	Leonardo Alar  Chile	9.33 pts	Francisco Alvarado  Chile	7.53 pts
SUP surf details	José Gómez  Peru	15.33 pts	Tamil Martino  Peru	12.00 pts	José Quintana  Chile	5.46 pts	Sebastián Gómez  Peru	5.10 pts
SUP race details	Tamil Martino  Peru	40:15	Itzel Delgado  Peru	43:14	Andrés de la Cruz  Peru	48:43	Alan Vogt  Chile	48:46
Paddleboard race details	Luis Escudero  Peru	43:41	Sebastián Ríos  Peru	45:07	Orlando Rufasto  Peru	45:47	Felipe Sepulveda  Chile	50:36

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze		Copper
Open details	Analí Gómez  Peru	13.90 pts	Dominic Barona  Ecuador	12.40 pts	Melanie Giunta  Peru	6.90 pts	Vania Torres  Peru	6.56 pts
Bodyboard prone details	Valentina Díaz  Chile	11.04 pts	Carolina Botteri  Peru	10.70 pts	Macarena Lecaros  Chile	8.17 pts	Ángela López  Peru	5.64 pts
SUP surf details	Brissa Málaga  Peru	12.76 pts	Edimar Luque  Venezuela	7.83 pts	Clew Meagher  Canada	5.13 pts	Marina Loayza  Peru	4.03 pts
SUP race details	Edimar Luque  Venezuela	51:56	Giannisa Vecco  Peru	55:56	Lisette Prado  Ecuador	1:04:36	Rocío Larrañaga  Peru	1:09:01
Paddleboard race details	Rocío Larrañaga  Peru	48:45	Lorena Fica  Chile	51:53	Lisette Prado  Ecuador	1:05:23	Not awarded	—

Final ranking per teams

The final ranking per teams was drawn up by adding the individual points earning by the best four surfers in the men's Open event, the best two surfers in the women's Open event and the best surfer in the remaining 11 events. Surfers obtained points according to the final position they occupied in each event.

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

Rank				4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	25	33	37	49	61	73	85
Points	1000	860	730	670	610	583	555	528	500	488	475	462	450	438	425	413	400	395	390	385	380	360	320	300	240	180	144	120

The first place of the final ranking per teams was declared as the champion team of the 2016 Pan American Surf Games.

Rank	Team
	Peru
	Chile
	Ecuador
4	Venezuela
5	Brazil
6	Uruguay
7	Argentina
8	Canada
9	Costa Rica
10	Puerto Rico
11	Bolivia

References

1. "PASA announces the XI Pan American Surfing Games CLARO OPEN 2015". Pan American Surf Association. 20 November 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
2. "2016 Claro Open Pan Americans are ready to start". Pan American Surf Association. 7 October 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
3. "Peru wins the XI Pan American Suring Games Claro Open 2015". Pan American Surf Association. 7 December 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
4. "Juegos Panamericanos de Surf Claro Open 2015 - Punta Rocas 2 al 6 de Diciembre" (PDF). Pan American Surf Association. 2 December 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
5. "El primer surfer boliviano participa en el Panamericano de Perú" [The first Bolivian surfer competes at the Pan American in Peru] (in Spanish). Los Tiempos. 7 December 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
6. "Nómina chilena para el Panamericano de Surf "Claro Open Surf – Punta Rocas – Lima 2015"" [Chilean list for the Surfing Pan American "Claro Open Surf - Punta Rocas - Lima 2015"] (in Spanish). Latin Wave. 27 November 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
7. "Perú gana los XI Juegos Panamericanos de Surfing" [Peru wins the XI Pan American Suring Games] (in Spanish). Pan American Surf Association. 7 December 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2022.

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