Taekwondo at the 2015 Pan American Games

Taekwondo at the XVII Pan American Games
Venue	Mississauga Sports Centre
Dates	July 19–22, 2015
Competitors	109 from 28 nations
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Taekwondo at the 2015 Pan American Games
Men			Women
	58 kg			49 kg
	68 kg			57 kg
	80 kg			67 kg
	+80 kg			+67 kg

Taekwondo competitions at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto will be held from July 19 to 22 at the Hershey Centre (Mississauga Sports Centre) in Mississauga. Due to naming rights the arena will be known as the latter for the duration of the games. A total of eight taekwondo events will be held: four each for men and women.

Competition schedule

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The Hershey Centre (Mississauga Sports Centre), in Mississauga, was the venue for the taekwondo competitions.

The following is the competition schedule for the taekwondo competitions:

E

Eliminations

R

Repechage

B

Bronze medal matches

F

Final

Event↓/Date →	Wed 15				Thu 16				Fri 17				Sat 18
Men's 58 kg	E	R	B	F
Men's 68 kg					E	R	B	F
Men's 80 kg									E	R	B	F
Men's +80 kg													E	R	B	F
Women's 49 kg	E	R	B	F
Women's 57 kg					E	R	B	F
Women's 67 kg									E	R	B	F
Women's +67 kg													E	R	B	F

Medal table

Key

  The host country is highlighted in lavender blue

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	3	0	2	5
	Cuba (CUB)	3	0	2	5
3	Mexico (MEX)	2	4	1	7
4	Dominican Republic (DOM)	0	2	1	3
5	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
6	Venezuela (VEN)	0	1	0	1
7	Colombia (COL)	0	0	4	4
8	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	2	2
	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	2	2
10	Puerto Rico (PUR)	0	0	1	1
Total		8	8	16	32

Medalists

The following is the list of medallists per event.

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (58 kg)	Carlos Navarro  Mexico	Luisito Pie  Dominican Republic	Lucas Guzman  Argentina
			Harold Avella  Colombia
Lightweight (68 kg)	Saúl Gutiérrez  Mexico	Maxime Potvin  Canada	Miguel Angel Trejos  Colombia
			Luis Colon III  Puerto Rico
Middleweight (80 kg)	Jose Cobas  Cuba	Moisés Hernández  Dominican Republic	Steven López  United States
			Rene Lizarraga  Mexico
Heavyweight (+80 kg)	Rafael Alba  Cuba	Carlos Rivas  Venezuela	Marc-Andre Bergeron  Canada
			Philip Yun  United States

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (49 kg)	Yania Aguirre  Cuba	Itzel Manjarrez  Mexico	Iris Sing  Brazil
			Candelaria Martes  Dominican Republic
Lightweight (57 kg)	Cheyenne Lewis  United States	Paulina Armeria  Mexico	Doris Patiño  Colombia
			Yamicel Nunez  Cuba
Middleweight (67 kg)	Paige McPherson  United States	Victoria Heredia  Mexico	Daima Villalon  Cuba
			Alexis Arnoldt  Argentina
Heavyweight (+67 kg)	Jackie Galloway  United States	María Espinoza  Mexico	Jessica Bravo  Colombia
			Raphaella Galacho  Brazil

Participating nations

A total of 28 nations have qualified athletes. The number of athletes a nation has entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.

•  Argentina (6)
•  Aruba (2)
•  Bolivia (1)
•  Brazil (8)
•  Canada (8)
•  Chile (5)
•  Colombia (8)
•  Costa Rica (1)
•  Cuba (7)
•  Dominican Republic (6)
•  Ecuador (2)
•  El Salvador (1)
•  Guatemala (5)
•  Haiti (1)
• 22x20px Honduras (3)
•  Jamaica (2)
•  Mexico (8)
•  Nicaragua (2)
•  Panama (2)
•  Paraguay (1)
•  Peru (3)
•  Puerto Rico (6)
•  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1)
•  Suriname (1)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (1)
•  United States (8)
•  Uruguay (2)
•  Venezuela (6)
•  Virgin Islands (2)

Qualification

Main article: Taekwondo at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification

A total of 109 taekwondo athletes will qualify to compete at the games. The top twelve athletes, along with the host nation per weight category, excluding the women's +67 kg (which will qualify only 8 athletes) will qualify at qualification tournament in March 2015. A further nine wildcards (five male, four female) will be distributed by the Pan American Taekwondo Union, to countries which did not qualify any athletes at the qualification tournament.