Pan Am Gymnastics Guide
Pan American Gymnastics: Games, Championships and Qualification
Pan American gymnastics is the sport as organised across the Americas and the Caribbean: a continental union founded in 1971, gymnastics at every Pan American Games since 1951, and championships that decide who goes to the Games. Pan Am Gymnastics Guide is an independent reference to all three, starting with the Toronto 2015 qualification lists this domain once published.
On this page
Start with what you came for
- Toronto 2015 qualificationHow 176 places were shared out after the 2014 Pan American Championships.
- The four 2014 listsThe men's, women's, rhythmic and trampoline allocations, line by line.
- Pan American GamesGymnastics at the Games since Buenos Aires 1951.
- Who runs the sportThe Pan American Gymnastics Union and how it fits under the FIG.
- The disciplinesArtistic, rhythmic and trampoline, and the union's other disciplines.
How gymnasts qualified for Toronto 2015
Places in gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games were won at the 2014 Pan American Gymnastics Championships in Mississauga, Ontario, held from 20 August to 1 September 2014. The Games had room for 176 gymnasts — 114 in artistic gymnastics, 46 in rhythmic and 16 in trampoline — and no nation could enter more than 22 across all three disciplines: five men and five women in artistic, six in the rhythmic group and two individuals, and two per trampoline event.
The places went to countries, not to named gymnasts: each national Olympic committee then chose who would fill them, and places a country declined could be passed to another. That is why the lists drawn up in September 2014 differ in a few lines from the entries that finally competed at the Toronto Coliseum from 11 to 20 July 2015, where 24 nations took part.
| Discipline | Places | How they were won in 2014 |
|---|---|---|
| Men's artistic | 57 | Top 8 teams: 5 each; next teams: 2–3 each; the rest to individual all-around finishers, one per nation |
| Women's artistic | 57 | Top 8 teams: 5 each; teams 9–11: 2 each; then one place per nation from the individual all-around |
| Rhythmic, individual | 16 | Top 6 nations: 2 each; next 4 nations without a place: 1 each |
| Rhythmic, group | 30 | Top 5 groups of six gymnasts |
| Trampoline | 16 | Top 2 teams: 2 per event; then 4 more nations per event from the individual competition |
Every nation's places, and how they changed before the Games, are on the page Toronto 2015 gymnastics qualification.
The four 2014 lists this domain once hosted
In September 2014 the Pan American Gymnastics Union published four one-page lists, in Spanish, titled Países clasificados a Juegos Panamericanos 2015 — countries qualified for the 2015 Pan American Games. They sat on this domain under /en/documentos/ and are still cited by Wikipedia in English, Spanish and Portuguese, which is why their old addresses lead here. What each one said:
| List | What it allocated |
|---|---|
| Men's artistic (MAG) | 57 gymnasts from 20 federations: USA, Colombia, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Canada, Cuba, Chile and Mexico 5 each; Argentina 2 + 1; Venezuela, Peru and Costa Rica 2; eight more nations 1 |
| Women's artistic (GAF) | 57 gymnasts from 22 NOCs: eight teams of 5, Chile, Puerto Rico and Peru 2 each, and 11 nations 1 each from the all-around |
| Rhythmic (RYT) | Two individuals for the USA, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Argentina and Venezuela; one for Colombia, Ecuador, Chile and Cuba; groups for Brazil, the USA, Mexico, Canada and Cuba |
| Trampoline (TRA) | Canada and the USA 2 men and 2 women each; Mexico, Brazil and Argentina 1 man and 1 woman; Colombia 1 man; Venezuela 1 woman |
Allocations, not final entries. The women's list itself says the places are not nominal and may be reassigned once nations confirm or decline them. In the end Costa Rica took one of its two men's places and the other went to Venezuela. On the women's side the sources disagree over whether Uruguay's place passed to Chile: see the women's artistic list.
Gymnastics at the Pan American Games
Men's artistic gymnastics has been on the programme of every Pan American Games since the first, in Buenos Aires in 1951, and women's events since Chicago 1959. Rhythmic gymnastics joined at Indianapolis in 1987, and trampoline — contested by men in 1955 and 1959 — returned for good at Rio de Janeiro in 2007. Every edition is listed in gymnastics at the Pan American Games.
| Games | Host | Events (men / women) |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 9 / 15 |
| 2011 | Guadalajara, Mexico | 9 / 15 |
| 2015 | Toronto, Canada | 9 / 15 |
| 2019 | Lima, Peru | 9 / 15 |
| 2023 | Santiago, Chile | 10 / 16 |
In Toronto the 24 events were eight men's artistic events (team, all-around and six apparatus), six women's artistic events (team, all-around and four apparatus), eight rhythmic events (five individual and three group) and one trampoline event for each sex.
Who runs gymnastics in the Americas
The Pan American Gymnastics Union — Unión Panamericana de Gimnasia in Spanish, abbreviated UPAG, or PAGU in English — is the continental union of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) for the Americas. The FIG's own history dates its founding to 1971, in Cali, Colombia. Its members are the national gymnastics federations of the region, and it organises the Pan American Gymnastics Championships, whose results feed qualification for the Pan American Games. More in the Pan American Gymnastics Union explained.
The union's official website is upag-pagu.com. This domain, upag-gymnastics.com, carried an earlier version of the union's site until the mid-2010s and later lapsed; Pan Am Gymnastics Guide has no connection with the union and speaks for no federation. For entries, rules and official results, go to the union, the FIG or the national federation concerned.
The disciplines
- Artistic gymnastics. Men compete on six apparatus — floor, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars and horizontal bar — and women on four: vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor.
- Rhythmic gymnastics. Women perform to music with a hand apparatus, either alone or in groups of five on the floor, with a sixth gymnast as reserve in Pan American Games teams.
- Trampoline. Gymnasts perform routines of ten skills on a trampoline. Synchronised trampoline, double mini-trampoline and tumbling are contested at championships but not at the Games.
- Beyond the Games. The union also governs acrobatic and aerobic gymnastics, gymnastics for all and parkour, which hold their own continental events.
Frequently asked questions
How many gymnasts competed at the 2015 Pan American Games?
176 gymnasts from 24 nations: 114 in artistic gymnastics, 46 in rhythmic gymnastics and 16 in trampoline, competing at the Toronto Coliseum from 11 to 20 July 2015.
Where did gymnasts qualify for Toronto 2015?
At the 2014 Pan American Gymnastics Championships in Mississauga, Ontario (20 August – 1 September 2014). Team and individual results there decided how many places each nation received.
Is this the Pan American Gymnastics Union's website?
No. Pan Am Gymnastics Guide is an independent site on a domain the union once used. The union's official website is upag-pagu.com.
Where are the old PDF lists from upag-gymnastics.com?
Their addresses now lead to this guide, which summarises each list. The original files can still be read through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, which Wikipedia links to.
Pan Am Gymnastics Guide is an independent reference site. It is not the Pan American Gymnastics Union (UPAG/PAGU), whose official website is upag-pagu.com, and it is not affiliated with the union, the FIG, Panam Sports or any previous operator of this domain.