The dust has settled after four days of intense competition, and one team is left standing tall. The team that traveled the farthest to this Pan Am Championship in Argentina also took home the most gold, and a number of other titles to boot.
Team Canada - 15th Pan Am Championship
Canada not only took more gold, but way more gold: six big ones compared to Brazil and Mexico with three each, and the U.S.A. with two. Along with our four bronze medals, Canada tied with team U.S.A. in total medal count, at ten each.
Women's Team - Photo: Eric Ahn
| Female Results – 15th Pan Am Championship | ||
| Canadian Team | ||
| Fin | Yvette Yong | Gold |
| Fly | Ivett Gonda | Bronze |
| Bantam | Shannon Condie | Top 8 |
| Feather | Michelle Ge | Bronze |
| Light | Karine Sergerie | Gold |
| Welter | Erin Smibert | Top 16 |
| Middle | Dasha Peregoudova | Gold |
| Heavy | Dominique Bosshart | Gold |
Men's Team
| Male Results – 15th Pan Am Championship | ||
| Canadian Team | ||
| Fin | Maikol Pinto | Bronze |
| Fly | Jocelyn Addison | Gold |
| Bantam | Ali Ghafour | Top 8 |
| Feather | Akmal Farah | Bronze |
| Light | J.F. Lebreux | Top 8 |
| Welter | Sebastien Michaud | Gold |
| Middle | Francois Coulombe-Fortier | Top 8 |
| Heavy | Eric Ahn | Top 16 |
Overall, our Women’s Team was ranked number one, and our Men’s Team finished third. The star of the Women’s Team was undoubtedly Quebec’s Karine Sergerie, who won all her matches without a single point scored against her, and was presented the event’s Women’s MVP award. While Sergerie and three others (Gonda, Bosshart and Peregoudova) managed a perfect score at the 2006 Canadian Nationals, doing it at a major international competition is a very rare accomplishment.
| 15th Pan Am Championship – Team Results | |||
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | |
| CANADA | 6 | 0 | 4 |
| U.S.A. | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| MEXICO | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Two other awards recognized some of the accomplished officials that make these kinds of results possible; Master Raymond Mourad of Montreal was awarded Best Coach, and Master Barbara Marian of Cobourg Ontario was awarded Best Female Referee.
Although Team Canada also scored ten total medals in the last Pan Ams, the solitary gold in 2004 went to Ivett Gonda (Fin), and silver to Eric Ahn (Heavy). This year’s results are in fact the best we’ve seen in 16 years, since the 7th Pan American Championships in 1990. At that time our Men’s team placed first overall and our Women’s third, with a total of 4 gold medals.
Video: Akmal Farah (Canada) in red beats Manuel Sarabia (Argentina) 6 to 1 in the quarter-finals
Video: Francois Coulombe-Fortier (Canada) takes it to sudden-death overtime with Fernando Gonzalez (Argentina)
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