Toronto 2015 Pan American Games medals and quotas wrap-up

21.07.2015

Cassio Rippel

XVII Pan American Games · Toronto, CAN

The fifteen Olympic Shooting events took place from July 12th to July 19th in Toronto, Canada, and saw the USA Shooting team claim the top of the final table.

The seventeenth edition of the Pan American Games is still underway in Toronto, Canada, but the  Shooting sport already assigned its fifteen Gold medals and its twenty quota places for the next Olympic Games.

The United States shooting team collected 13 total medals, ensuring the top spot of the final medal table. Led by the Golds awarded to Connor Davis in the 10m Air Rifle Men, Brad Balsley in the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men, Kimberly Rhode in the Skeet Women, and Thomas Bayer in the Skeet Men, the US Shooting athletes enhanced their loot with 6 Silver and 3 Bronze medals.

 Medals standings

Rank	Country	G	S	B	Tot	OQ
1	United States of America	4	6	3	13	5
2	Brazil	3	1	-	4	2
3	Canada	3	-	1	4	2
4	Cuba	2	1	2	5	1
5	Mexico	1	1	1	3	1
6	Guatemala	1	-	1	2	1
6	Peru	1	-	1	1	2
8	Argentina	-	4	-	4	4
9	Venezuela	-	1	1	2	1
10	Dominican Republic	-	1	-	2	-
11	Chile	-	-	1	1	-
11	Colombia	-	-	1	1	-
11	Ecuador	-	-	1	1	-
11	El Salvador	-	-	1	1	-
11	Puerto Rico	-	-	1	1	1
		15	15	15	45	20

Brazil, the host country of the 2016 Summer Games, ended in 2nd place thanks to 3 Gold medals collected by Felipe Almeida Wu in the 10m Air Pistol Men, Julio Almeida in the 50m Pistol Men, and Cassio Cesar Rippel in the 50m Rifle Prone Men event, while the only other medal earned by the Brazilian team is a Silver, won by Emerson Duarte in the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men.

The 3rd place of the table is occupied by the host country of the PAG, Canada, who paired the 3 Golds collected by Brazil with Lynda Kiejko in the 10m Air Pistol Women and in the 25m Pistol Women, and Amanda Chudoba in the Trap Women, also adding a Bronze medal signed by Michel Dion in the 50m Rifle Prone event.

 Quota places by event

Event	Name	Nat
50m Rifle 3 Positions Men	George Norton	USA
50m Rifle Prone Men	Cassio Cesar Rippel	BRA
10m Air Rifle Men	Connor Davis	USA
	Julio Iemma	VEN
50m Pistol Men	Marko Carrillo	PER
25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men	Brad Balsley	USA
10m Air Pistol Men	Felipe Almeida Wu	BRA
Trap Men	Francisco Boza	PER
	Fernando Borello	ARG
Double Trap Men	Hebert Brol Cardenas	GUA
Skeet Men	Thomas Bayer	USA
	Juan Miguel Rodriguez Martinez	CUB
50m Rifle 3 Positions Women	Amelia Rosa Fournel	ARG
	Yarimar Mercado Martinez	PUR
10m Air Rifle Women	Goretti Alejandra Zumaya Flores	MEX
	Fernanda Russo	ARG
25m Pistol Women	Sandra Uptagrafft	USA
10m Air Pistol Women	Lynda Kiejko	CAN
Trap Women	Amanda Chudoba	CAN
Skeet Women	Melisa Gil	ARG

There were twenty Olympic quota places for Rio 2016 up for grabs in Toronto: two for the 10m Air Rifle events, the Trap Men, the Skeet Men and the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women, and one for any other remaining event.

Once again, USA engrossed the most of them collecting 5 slots, followed by Argentina with 4 and

by three other countries with 2: Brazil, Canada and Peru. Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela and Puerto Rico, finally, all finished with one Rio 2016 spot.

No World Record or Final World Record has been set in Toronto during the eight days of competitions.

Marco Vettoretti

Posted by Thom Erik Syrdahl

Source - ISSF Website