Posted April 25, 2023
Updated April 30, 2023 SA Champs
OVERVIEW
The Santiago (CHI) 2023 Pan Am Games will be held October 25 – November 5, 2023. The Sailing Events will be held in Algarrobo at the Cofradia Nautica del Pacifico. This is approximately 105 km west of Santiago, Chile. More INFO
For this edition of the Games, the Sunfish has been designated the “Regional Dinghy” with separate Women’s and Men’s Divisions. Each division will consist of eight sailors from different countries. Country qualification process CLICK HERE.
COUNTRY QUALIFICATION SYSTEM
Before a sailor can qualify to participate in the Pan Am Games, their country must first qualify per the following protocol:
- The host country will automatically qualify one
- A series of designated Country Qualifying Regattas will be held where sailors from any Pan Am country can compete. See schedule below.
- In these successive regattas, the highest placing female or male sailors from not-yet- qualified countries will earn a country berth to send a sailor to the actual games.
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Country Qualifying Regattas |
Location |
Dates |
# per gender |
Qualified |
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2023 Mid-Winters – This is an open regatta that is also serving as Pan Am country qualifying regattas. |
Pensacola Yacht Club, FL, USA |
March 29- April 1 |
3 |
Men: PER, USA, CAN
Women: PER, USA, VEN |
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2023 South American Central and Caribbean Championship – This is an open regatta that is also serving as Pan Am country qualifying regattas. |
Club de Regatas Lima, Paracas, PER |
April 26-29 |
3 |
Men: GUA, VEN, PUR
Women: ARG, CUB, GUA |
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2023 Central American and Caribbean Games – Closed event only for countries in this region. |
San Salvador, El Salvador |
June 23-July 8 |
1 |
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Host Country |
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1 |
CHILE |
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Total qualifying countries |
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8 |
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UNITED STATES SUNFISH CLASS ASSOCIATION SAILOR QUALIFYING PROCESS
The US earned a berth for both genders for 2023, a US Pan Am Games Trial regatta will be sailed at Sayville Yacht Club, NY, July 7-9, 2023, to select the one sailor to fill each berth. This Trial will be open to 15 men and 15 women USSCA members who qualified for this event through their performances in the following regattas or via resume application (see later). Active USSCA membership of the relevant year is required for all qualifying events.
NOR for Pan Am US Sunfish Trials at Sayville YC, NY July 7-9, 2023 (published 5/31/2023)
| Female: | The top three female US finishers in the 2022 USSCA North Americans (June 2022 Hyannis YC, MA) |
Qualifiers: Amanda Callahan, Laura Jeffers, Kira Munger |
| The top three female US finishers in the 2022 USSCA Women’s North American Championship (September 2022, Lake Bluff YC, IL) |
Qualifiers: Elaine Parshall, Gail Heausler, Susan Tillman Berg |
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| The top three female US finishers in the 2023 USSCA US National Championship at Midwinters (March 2023, Pensacola YC, FL) |
Qualifiers: Caroline Young, Sydney Karnovsky, Mary Ellen Brown |
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| The top three female US finishers in the 2023 USSCA North Americans (June 9-11,2023, Island Bay YC, IL) | TBD June 11 | |
| 3 Application/ Resume Entry due 11:59pm on June 16, 2023 | See below | |
| Male: | The top four male US finishers in the 2022 USSCA North Americans (June 2022 Hyannis YC, MA) |
Qualifiers: Dan Hesse, Doug Kaukeinen, Mike Ingham, Chris Carroll |
| The top four male US finishers in the 2023 USSCA US National Championship at Midwinters (March 2023, Pensacola YC, FL) |
Qualifiers: Conner Blouin, Eduardo Cordero, David Loring, Hank Saurage |
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| The top four male US finishers in the 2023 USSCA North American Championship (June 2023, Island Bay YC, IL) | TBD June 11 | |
| 3 Application/ Resume Entry due 11:59pm on June 16, 2023 | See below |
USSCA Pan Am Trials Application/Resume Entry due no later than 11:59 p.m. EDT on June 16, 2023.
Three (3) US female sailors and three (3) US male sailors will qualify to sail in the US PAG Trials based on a resume/application via email to Olympic@ussailing.org, due no later than 11:59 p.m. EDT on June 16, 2023.
Resumes will be judged based on sailing achievement in the most recent three years with weighting towards the national-level qualifying events.
If a sailor with an automatic qualification entry is unable to compete in the US Sunfish PAG Trials, the International Selection Committee reserves the right to fill unused spots by the application/resume’ process described above.
US TRIAL PROVISIONS
- Competitors must intend to compete in October 2023 at the Pan American Games in Chile should they win the US Trials.
- Competitors must be US Citizens with a valid passport that does not expire before May 4, 2024 and the ability to travel outside the U.S.
