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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.

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.

The competition awarded 42 individual qualification slots for the surfing competitions at the 2023 Pan American Games.

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.

Schedule

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.

Participating nations

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.

•  Argentina (18)
•  Barbados (6)
•  Brazil (20)
•  Canada
•  Chile
•  Colombia
•  Costa Rica (17)
•  Dominican Republic (4)
•  Ecuador
•  El Salvador (12)
•  Guatemala (13)
•  Mexico
•  Nicaragua
•  Panama
•  Peru (20)
•  Puerto Rico
•  United States
•  Uruguay (11)
•  Venezuela

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Panama)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze		Copper
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	Julián 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

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze		Copper
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

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:

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

• 2023 Pan American Surf Games at PASA website.

References

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