Panama at the 2019 Pan American Games

Panama competed at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru from July 26 to August 11, 2019.^[1][2]

Panama at the 2019 Pan American Games
IOC code	PAN
NOC	Comité Olímpico de Panamá
in Lima, Peru 26 July–11 August 2019
Competitors	84 in 18 sports
Flag bearer	Carolena Carstens (opening)
Medals Ranked 28th	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 4 Total 4
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A total of 84 athletes (46 men and 38 women) were named to the Panamanian team, marking the largest delegation the country has ever sent to the Pan American Games.^[3]

On July 5, 2019, athlete Alonso Edward was named as the country's flag bearer during the opening ceremony.^[4] However, it was later announced taekwondo athlete Carolena Carstens would carry the flag, as Edward would not be in Lima for the opening ceremony.^[5][6]

Panama won four medals at these edition of the games, ranking 28th overall.^[7] The four medals marked the most won at a single edition of the games for the country since 1987.

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors (per gender) participating at the games per sport/discipline.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Athletics (track and field)	3	5	8
Badminton	1	1	2
Bowling	2	0	2
Boxing	1	1	2
Fencing	0	1	1
Football	18	18	36
Golf	2	1	3
Judo	2	2	4
Karate	1	1	2
Modern pentathlon	1	0	1
Shooting	5	0	5
Surfing	0	1	1
Swimming	4	5	9
Taekwondo	0	1	1
Triathlon	2	0	2
Weightlifting	2	1	3
Wrestling	1	0	1
Total	46	38	84

Medalists

The following competitors from Panama won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Bronze Alvis Almendra Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 87 kg August 7  Bronze Kristine Jiménez Judo Women's 52 kg August 8  Bronze Héctor Cención Karate Men's individual kata August 9  Bronze Miryam Roper Judo Women's 57 kg August 9

Medals by sport Sport Total Judo 0 0 2 2 Karate 0 0 1 1 Wrestling 0 0 1 1 Total 0 0 4 4

Athletics (track and field)

Alonso Edward pictured at the 2012 Summer Olympics, finished fourth in the 200 m event at Lima 2019

Main articles: Athletics at the 2019 Pan American Games and Athletics at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

Panama qualified eight track and field athletes (three men and five women).^[3]

Key

• Note–Ranks given for track events are for the entire round
• Q = Qualified for the next round
• q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser
• SB = Seasonal best
• DNF = Did not finish

Track and road events

Athlete	Event	Semifinals		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Alonso Edward	Men's 200 m	20.65	6 Q	20.55	4
Virjilio Griggs		DNF
Yassir Cabrera	Men's 20 km walk	—		1:25:39	9
Gianna Woodruff	Women's 400 m hurdles	56.70	8 q	57.20	7
Rolanda Bell	Women's 3000 m steeplechase	—		10:34.76	10
Andrea Ferris		—		10:17.21	9

Field events

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
		Distance	Position
Aixa Middleton	Discus throw	53.80 SB	8
Nathalee Aranda	Long jump	6.55 SB	4

Badminton

Main articles: Badminton at the 2019 Pan American Games and Badminton at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

Panama qualified a team of two badminton athletes (one per gender).^[8][9][10]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Kyle Seixas	Men's singles	Howell (BAR) W 2–0 (21–17, 21–17)	Araya (CHI) L 0–2 (11–21, 12–21)	did not advance
Kelly Yau	Women's singles	Wynter (JAM) L 0–2 (4–21, 3–21)	did not advance
Kyle Seixas Kelly Yau	Mixed doubles	—	Baque / Zambrano (ECU) L 0–2 (11–21, 7–21)	did not advance

Bowling

Main articles: Bowling at the 2019 Pan American Games and Bowling at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

Athlete	Event	Qualification / Final														Round robin											Semifinal	Final
		Block 1						Block 2						Total	Rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Grand total	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Donald Lee	Men's singles	195	258	216	217	188	201	226	161	142	227	179	211	2421	26	did not advance
Santiago Escobar		164	178	202	167	168	183	196	130	214	179	173	229	2183	31	did not advance
Donald Lee Santiago Escobar	Men's doubles	388	471	393	376	378	319	400	388	344	400	435	358	4650	14	—

Boxing

Main articles: Boxing at the 2019 Pan American Games and Boxing at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

Panama qualified two boxers (one man and one woman).^[11][12]

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Orlando Martínez	Men's 60 kg	Pezo (PER) L 1–4	did not advance
Atheyna Bylon	Women's 69 kg	Jones (USA) L 2–3	did not advance

Cycling

Main articles: Cycling at the 2019 Pan American Games and Cycling at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

Christofer Jurado competed in two road cycling events

Panama received a reallocated quota for a male road cyclist.^[13]

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Rank
Christofer Jurado	Road race	4:06:28	4
	Time trial	47:01.6	5

Fencing

Main articles: Fencing at the 2019 Pan American Games and Fencing at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

Panama qualified one female fencer in the sabre discipline.^[14]

Women

Athlete	Event	Pool Round		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Victories	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Eileen Grench	Sabre	3	6 Q	Infante (MEX) W 15–8	Page (CAN) L 13–15	did not advance		5

Football

Main article: Football at the 2019 Pan American Games

Panama qualified a men's and women's team, and each will consist of 18 athletes, for a total of 36.^[15]

Men's tournament

Main article: Football at the 2019 Pan American Games – Men's tournament

Panama's men's team qualified by being the top ranked team from the Central American region at the 2018 CONCACAF U-20 Championship.

Roster

Head coach: Julio Dely Valdés

Three overage players were named on 11 July 2019. The 18-man squad was announced on 13 July 2019.^[16] Midfielder Justin Simons was replaced by Maikell Díaz.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Samuel Baptista	(1998-03-08)8 March 1998 (aged 21)	0	0	Costa del Este
2	2DF	Iván Anderson	(1997-11-24)24 November 1997 (aged 21)	0	0	Tauro
3	2DF	José Garibaldi	(1997-05-28)28 May 1997 (aged 22)	0	0	Arabe Unido
4	2DF	Emmanuel Chanis	(1998-12-21)21 December 1998 (aged 20)	0	0	Plaza Amador
5	2DF	Manuel Torres	(1978-11-21)21 November 1978 (aged 40)	35	1	Independiente La Chorrera
6	2DF	Samir Ramírez	(1997-04-27)27 April 1997 (aged 22)	0	0	Universitario
7	4FW	Luis Zúñiga	(1997-01-27)27 January 1997 (aged 22)	0	0	Pirata
8	3MF	Adalberto Carrasquilla	(1998-11-28)28 November 1998 (aged 20)	1	0	Tauro
9	4FW	Jorman Aguilar	(1994-09-11)11 September 1994 (aged 24)	2	0	Independiente La Chorrera
10	3MF	Rafael Águila	(1997-01-29)29 January 1997 (aged 22)	0	0	Veraguas
11	3MF	Maikell Díaz	(2000-02-16)16 February 2000 (aged 19)	0	0	Alianza
12	1GK	Aldo Ciel	(1997-12-03)3 December 1997 (aged 21)	0	0	Arabe Unido
13	2DF	Jorge Gutiérrez	(1998-09-01)1 September 1998 (aged 20)	0	0	Tauro
14	3MF	Abdiel Ayarza	(1992-09-12)12 September 1992 (aged 26)	0	0	Independiente La Chorrera
15	3MF	Alejandro Ferrara	(1998-09-20)20 September 1998 (aged 20)	0	0	Arabe Unido
16	3MF	Andrés Peñalba	(1997-07-08)8 July 1997 (aged 22)	0	0	Universitario
17	2DF	Gilberto Hernández	(1997-06-26)26 June 1997 (aged 22)	0	0	Arabe Unido
18	4FW	Tomás Rodríguez	(1999-03-09)9 March 1999 (aged 20)	0	0	Alianza

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mexico	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7	Knockout stage
2	Argentina	3	2	0	1	7	5	+2	6
3	Panama	3	0	2	1	2	4	−2	2	Fifth place match
4	Ecuador	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1	Seventh place match

Source: Lima 2019
Rules for classification: Tie-breakers

29 July 2019 (2019-07-29)

10:00

Panama	0–0	Mexico
	Report

Estadio Universidad San Marcos

Referee: José Argote (Venezuela)

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1 August 2019 (2019-08-01)

10:00

Panama	1–1	Ecuador
Zúñiga 27'	Report	Campana 53'

Estadio Universidad San Marcos

Referee: Miguel Santibañez (Peru)

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4 August 2019 (2019-08-04)

10:00

Panama	1–3	Argentina
Aguilar 45'	Report	Gaich 4' Lomonaco 14' Valenzuela 80'

Estadio Universidad San Marcos

Referee: Ulises Mereles (Paraguay)

Women's tournament

Main article: Football at the 2019 Pan American Games – Women's tournament

Panama's women's team qualified by being the top ranked team from the Central American region at the 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship.^[17]

Roster

Head coach: Victor Daniel Suarez

The following players were called-up.^[18]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Yenith Bailey	(2001-03-29)29 March 2001 (aged 18)			Tauro
12	1GK	Sasha Fábrega	(1990-10-23)23 October 1990 (aged 28)			Aliadas FC
4	2DF	Katherine Castillo	(1996-03-23)23 March 1996 (aged 23)			Universitario
13	2DF	Rebeca Espinosa	(1992-07-05)5 July 1992 (aged 27)			Universitario
2	2DF	Hilary Jaén	(2002-08-29)29 August 2002 (aged 16)			Tauro
3	2DF	María Murillo	(1996-12-15)15 December 1996 (aged 22)			Atlético Nacional
5	2DF	Yomira Pinzón	(1996-08-23)23 August 1996 (aged 22)			Pozoalbense
8	3MF	Laurie Batista	(1996-05-29)29 May 1996 (aged 23)			Universitario
10	3MF	Marta Cox	(1997-07-20)20 July 1997 (aged 22)			Cortuluá
15	3MF	María Guevara	(2000-10-04)4 October 2000 (aged 18)			Universitario
11	3MF	Natalia Mills	(1993-03-22)22 March 1993 (aged 26)			Fundación Albacete
6	3MF	Aldrith Quintero	(2002-01-01)1 January 2002 (aged 17)			Tauro
7	3MF	Gloria Sáenz	(2002-07-02)2 July 2002 (aged 17)			Atlético Nacional
14	3MF	Deysire Salazar	(2004-05-04)4 May 2004 (aged 15)			Tauro
16	4FW	Lineth Cedeño	(2000-12-05)5 December 2000 (aged 18)			Joventut Almassora
18	4FW	Ángela Evans	(1993-07-21)21 July 1993 (aged 26)			Kilkenny United
17	4FW	Erika Hernández	(1999-03-17)17 March 1999 (aged 20)			Universitario
9	4FW	Karla Riley	(1997-09-18)18 September 1997 (aged 21)			Pozoalbense

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Costa Rica	3	2	1	0	6	2	+4	7	Knockout stage
2	Argentina	3	2	1	0	4	0	+4	7
3	Panama	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1	Fifth place match
4	Peru (H)	3	0	1	2	2	7	−5	1	Seventh place match

Source: Lima 2019
Rules for classification: Tie-breakers
(H) Hosts

28 July 2019 (2019-07-28)

17:30

Panama	1–3	Costa Rica
Mills 14'	Report	Chinchilla 73', 85' Blanco 79'

Estadio Universidad San Marcos

Referee: Susana Corella (Ecuador)

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31 July 2019 (2019-07-31)

17:30

Panama	0–1	Argentina
	Report	Larroquette 66'

Estadio Universidad San Marcos

Referee: Yercinia Correa (Venezuela)

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3 August 2019 (2019-08-03)

20:30

Panama	1–1	Peru
Cox 39' (pen.)	Report	Otiniano 41'

Estadio Universidad San Marcos

Referee: Yercinia Correa (Venezuela)

Golf

Main articles: Golf at the 2019 Pan American Games and Golf at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

Panama qualified a full team of four golfers (two men and two women).^[19] However, only three golfers were entered.^[3]

Athlete(s)	Event	Final
		Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Total	To par	Rank
Jean Louis Ducruet	Men's individual	71	76	74	76	297	+13	=30
Michael Mendez		73	76	72	81	302	+18	32
Laura Restrepo	Women's individual	78	72	76	74	300	+16	=21
Jean Louis Ducruet Michael Mendez Laura Restrepo	Mixed team	149	148	148	150	595	+27	15

Judo

Main articles: Judo at the 2019 Pan American Games and Judo at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

Panama qualified four judoka (two men and two women).^[3][20]

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Bernabé Vergara	Men's 60 kg	Molina (GUA) W 01S2–00	Almenares (CUB) L 00S2–01S2	Did not advance	Diaz (USA) L 00S1–01S1	Did not advance	=7
José Luis Ortega	Men's 90 kg	Peña (VEN) L 00S1–10	did not advance
Kristine Jiménez	Women's 52 kg	Bye	Acosta (CUB) L 00S3–10	Did not advance	Elizeche (ARG) W 10S2–00	Gamarra (PER) W 01S2–00S1
Miryam Roper	Women's 57 kg	Bye	Amaris (COL) W 10S1–01S2	Rosa (DOM) L 00S1–10S2	Bye	García (MEX) W 10S1–00S1

Karate

Main articles: Karate at the 2019 Pan American Games and Karate at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

Panama qualified two karatekas (one per gender).^[21]

Kata

Men

Athlete	Event	Round Robin		Final / BM
		Points	Rank	Opposition Result	Rank
Hector Cencion	Individual kata	22.52	3 QB	Tejada (ECU) W 23.98–23.32

Kumite

Women

Athlete	Event	Round Robin				Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Raquel Bozelli	–55 kg	Kumizaki (BRA) L 0–1	Aros (CHI) W 8–1	Flores (MEX) L 0–1	3	did not advance

Modern Pentathlon

Main articles: Modern pentathlon at the 2019 Pan American Games and Modern pentathlon at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

Panama qualified one male modern pentathlete.^[3]

Men

Athlete	Event	Fencing (Épée One Touch + Bonus round)			Swimming (200m Freestyle)			Riding (Show Jumping)			Shooting/Running (10 m Air Pistol/3000m)			Total Points	Final Rank
		Wins	Rank	MP Points	Time	Rank	MP Points	Penalties	Rank	MP Points	Time	Rank	MP Points
Samuel Smith	Individual	8	29	152	2:25.29	27	260	43	18	257	13:48.00	30	472	1141	21

Shooting

Main articles: Shooting at the 2019 Pan American Games and Shooting at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

Panama qualified five male sport shooters.^[22]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Juan Campos	10 m air pistol	560	21	did not advance
David Muñoz		556	26	did not advance
Marco Chu	Skeet	101	26	did not advance
Manuel García	Trap	111	=17	did not advance
Eduardo Taylor		116	=7	did not advance

Surfing

Main articles: Surfing at the 2019 Pan American Games and Surfing at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

Panama received a reallocated spot for one female surfer in the sport's debut at the Pan American Games.^[3]

Women

Athlete	Event	Main round 1	Main round 2	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Main round 3	Repechage 3	Repechage 4	Repechage 5	Main round 4	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Enilda Alonso	Open surf	Ribeiro (BRA) L 8.77–8.90	Did not advance	Anderson (CHI) L 7.33–10.10	did not advance							=13

Swimming

Main articles: Swimming at the 2019 Pan American Games and Swimming at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

Panama qualified nine swimmers (four men and five women).^[3][23]

Key

• Note – Ranks given are for the entire round
• NR – National record
• QA – Qualified for Final A
• QB – Qualified for Final B

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Isaac Beitía	50 m freestyle	23.48	19	did not advance
	100 m freestyle	51.18	16 QB	52.03	16
Hernán González	100 m backstroke	59.65	21	did not advance
	200 m backstroke	2:11.84	22	did not advance
Édgar Crespo	100 m breaststroke	1:02.95	16 QB	1:02.31	11
	200 m breaststroke	2:24.12	16 QB	2:21.60	13
Bernhard Christianson	200 m individual medley	2:04.00	8 QA	2:03.28	6
	400 m individual medley	4:28.34	10 QB	4:25.93	10
Isaac Beitía Hernán Gonzalez Bernhard Christianson Édgar Crespo	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	—		3:31.26	7
Hernán Gonzalez Édgar Crespo Bernhard Christianson Isaac Beitía	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:51.41	8 QA	3:50.52	8

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Catharine Cooper	50 m freestyle	26.81	16 QB	27.01	16
	100 m freestyle	59.66	23	did not advance
Ireyra Tamayo	200 m freestyle	2:12.46	20	did not advance
Nimia Murua	100 m backstroke	1:05.63	19	did not advance
Carolina Cermelli	200 m backstroke	2:22.14	17	did not advance
Emily Santos	100 m breaststroke	1:12.39	13 QB	1:14.45	14
	200 m breaststroke	2:45.21	17	did not advance
Ireyra Tamayo Emily Santos Nimia Murua Catharine Cooper	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	—		4:05.16	7
Carolina Cermelli Emily Santos Ireyra Tamayo Catherine Cooper	4 × 100 m medley relay	4:27.87	9	did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Isaac Beitia Catherine Cooper Ireyra Tamayo Hernán Gonzalez	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:55.11	9	did not advance
Carolina Cermelli Édgar Crespo Bernhard Christianson Ireyra Tamayo	4 × 100 m medley relay	4:06.11	9	did not advance

Taekwondo

Main articles: Taekwondo at the 2019 Pan American Games and Taekwondo at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

Panama received one wildcard in the women's 57 kg event.^[24]

Kyorugi

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Carolena Carstens	-57 kg	Núñez (CUB) W 20–0	Villegas (MEX) W 35–15	Zolotic (USA) L 10–24	—	Aguirre (CHI) L 7–12	=5

Triathlon

Main articles: Triathlon at the 2019 Pan American Games and Triathlon at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

Panama qualified two male triathletes.^[3]

Men

Athlete	Event	Swim (1.5 km)	Trans 1	Bike (40 km)	Trans 2	Run (8.88 km)	Total	Rank
Billy Gordon	Individual	19:32	0:57	1:26:4	0:34	36:38	2:04:00	26
Petter Vega		19:50	0:53	1:25:3	0:25	36:27	2:02:24	25

Weightlifting

Main articles: Weightlifting at the 2019 Pan American Games and Weightlifting at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

Panama qualified two male weightlifters and received a reallocated spot for a female lifter.^[25]

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Ariel Batista	Men's 73 kg	110	11	No mark		did not finish
Eustaciano Arías	Men's 81 kg	130	5	155	5	285	5
Erika Ortega	Women's 49 kg	70	10	83	8	153	8

Wrestling

Main articles: Wrestling at the 2019 Pan American Games and Wrestling at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

Panama received one wild card in the Greco-Roman discipline.^[26]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Alvis Almendra	Greco-Roman 87 kg	Bye	Leyva (MEX) L 0–8	Did not advance	—	Muñoz (COL) W 2–1

Non-competing sports

Equestrian

Main articles: Equestrian at the 2019 Pan American Games and Equestrian at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

Panama qualified one athlete in equestrian jumping.^[27] However, no athlete from Panama competed.

Gymnastics

Main articles: Gymnastics at the 2019 Pan American Games and Gymnastics at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

Panama qualified one female artistic gymnast.^[28] However, no gymnast from the country competed.

See also

• Panama at the 2020 Summer Olympics