Water skiing at the 2015 Pan American Games

Water skiing competitions at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto was held from July 20 to 23 at the Ontario Place West Channel.^[1] The competition was split into two disciplines, water skiing and wakeboarding. Men and women will contest the water skiing events (four each in total) and the wakeboard board competition is only open to men. Therefore, there will be a total of nine medal events in the sport.^[2]

Water skiing at the 2015 Pan American Games
Water skiing and wakeboarding pictogram for the games
Venues	Ontario Place West Channel
Dates	July 20–23
No. of events	9 (5 men, 4 women)
Competitors	39 from 12 nations
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Competition schedule

The Ontario Place West Channel, in Toronto, was the venue for the water skiing competitions

The following is the competition schedule for the water skiing competitions:^[3]

P	Preliminaries	½	Semifinals	F	Final

Event↓/Date →	Mon 20	Tue 21	Wed 22	Thu 23
Men's jump		P		F
Men's slalom		P		F
Men's tricks	P			F
Men's overall			F
Men's wakeboard	½		F
Women's jump		P		F
Women's slalom		P		F
Women's tricks	P			F
Women's overall			F

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Canada)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada*	4	5	0	9
2	United States	3	3	2	8
3	Chile	1	1	2	4
4	Peru	1	0	0	1
5	Argentina	0	0	3	3
6	Mexico	0	0	1	1
	Venezuela	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		9	9	9	27

Medalists

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Jump details	Ryan Dodd  Canada	Rodrigo Miranda  Chile	Felipe Miranda  Chile
Slalom details	Nate Smith  United States	Jason McClintock  Canada	Javier Julio  Argentina
Tricks details	Adam Pickos  United States	Jaret Llewellyn  Canada	Javier Julio  Argentina
Overall details	Felipe Miranda  Chile	Jaret Llewellyn  Canada	Javier Julio  Argentina
Wakeboard details	Rusty Malinoski  Canada	Daniel Powers  United States	Juan Mendez  Venezuela

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Jump details	Regina Jaquess  United States	Whitney McClintock  Canada	Fernanda Naser  Chile
Slalom details	Whitney McClintock  Canada	Regina Jaquess  United States	Erika Lang  United States
Tricks details	Natalia Cuglievan  Peru	Whitney McClintock  Canada	Erika Lang  United States
Overall details	Whitney McClintock  Canada	Regina Jaquess  United States	Carolina Chapoy  Mexico

Participating nations

A total of 12 countries have qualified athletes. The number of athletes a nation has entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.

•  Argentina (5)
•  Brazil (2)
•  Canada (5)
•  Chile (4)
•  Colombia (5)
•  Dominican Republic (1)
•  Ecuador (1)
•  Guatemala (1)
•  Mexico (5)
•  Peru (4)
•  United States (5)
•  Venezuela (1)

Qualification

Main article: Water skiing at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification

A total of 40 athletes will qualify to compete at the games. The top 8 nations (including the host nation, Canada) at the 2014 Pan American Championship, will each receive four athlete quotas in water skiing. A further 8 spots are made available for wakeboard qualifiers. A nation may enter a maximum of three athletes in each gender in the water skiing competition.^[4][5]