2023 Pan American Surfing Games

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.

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Qualifying round 1

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Qualifying round 2

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Qualifying round 3

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Qualifying round 4

Semi-finals

Final

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, 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.

Results

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
*Women's Shortboard: 33th place and 49th place
*Men's Longboard: 25h place
*Women's Longboard: 17th place
*SUP surf for both genders: 13th place and 19th place
Eliminated in round 2:
*Men's Shortboard: 25th place and 37th place
*Women's Shortboard: 17th place and 25th place
*Men's Longboard: 13th place and 19th place
*Women's Longboard: 9th place and 3th place
*SUP surf for both genders: 7th place and 10th place
Eliminated in round 3:
*Men's Shortboard: 13th place and 19th place
*Women's Shortboard: 9th place and 13th place
*Men's Longboard: 9th place
Eliminated in round 4
*Men's Shortboard: 9th place
Eliminated in semi-finals:
*Shortboard, Longboard and SUP surf in both genders: 5th place and 7th place

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																					Total
		1000	555	390	360	1000	400	360	320	730	610	1000	610	860	730	730	610	1000	555	610	0	12430
		730	555	500	240	730	500	320	320	555	500	450	450	555	450	1000	555	730	670	1000	730	11540
		610	500	450	360	610	555	500	240	1000	500	555	500	610	555	860	670	860	425	528	450	11338
4		860	360	300	240	670	610	400	360	390	360	860	610	1000	670	610	390	528	500	860	400	10978
5		360	300	240	240	400	400	400	360	450	360	500	360	555	450	450	450	610	583	670	583	8721
6		500	450	450	360	500	400	360	360	390	390	400	400	610	450	450	450	438	0	555	500	8413
7		670	610	450	240	240	240	240	240	500	500	450	400	450	450	450	450	488	400	488	425	8381
8		500	450	360	300	500	320	320	320	670	360	730	450	488	390	—	—	462	413	413	395	7841
9		450	360	240	240	360	320	240	240	450	450	400	400	488	390	488	488	450	385	475	385	7699
10		390	360	240	240	450	360	320	320	450	450	400	400	390	—	555	488	—	—	438	—	6251
11		390	360	360	240	450	450	360	320	610	360	555	—	390	390	—	—	—	—	462	—	5697
12		360	300	300	240	320	320	240	240	555	360	670	—	—	—	555	—	—	—	—	—	4460
13		390	300	240	240	320	320	240	—	860	450	500	—	—	—	—	—	475	—	—	—	4335
14		300	240	240	240	320	240	—	—	390	360	400	—	—	—	—	—	395	390	390	380	4285
15		360	300	300	240	555	320	240	—	390	—	500	—	488	450	—	—	—	—	0	—	4143
16		390	390	300	300	860	450	—	—	390	360	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3440
17		300	240	240	240	400	—	—	—	360	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1780
18		240	240	240	240	—	—	—	—	360	360	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1680
19		144	—	—	—	400	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	544