Chloé Calmon (BRA) and Jefson Silva (BRA) are the 2022 Pan American Longboard Champions

Posted By: PASA Media 12 August, 2022

Tomorrow, Saturday, August 13, the Champion Team of the PASA Games Panama 2022 will be crowned
Results and Team Ranking HERE
Photo gallery of the day HERE

Chloé Calmon from Brazil defended her 2018 Pan American Champion, agter winning the Women’s Longboard Gold Medal at the 2022 Panama PASA Games.

The Brazilian dominated the difficult wave conditions to score an impressive total of 15.33 points in the Final Heat.

In second place and with the Silver Medal, Atalanta Batista also from Brazil scored a total of 9.73 points in the final.

In third place and with the Bronze Medal Camila Kaspar from Peru, scored a total 7.67.

And in the fourth position, the Copper Medal went to Coco Bonilla from Mexico with a score of 7.23 in the grand final.

With the last lights of the day, the Men’s Longboard Final was run, where the Gold Medal was won by Jefson Silva from Brazil, with a total score of 13.26.

The Silver Medal was won by Rodrigo Sphaier, also from Brazil, who scored a total of 12.20 points.

Nacho Pignataro from Uruguay closed in third place to take the Bronze Medal by scoring 9.97 points.

And the Copper Medal went to Julian Schweizer from Uruguay, with a total score of 9.27.

On this penultimate day of the PASA Games Panama 2022, the Round 2 and quarterfinals of the Open categories were also held, for both men and women.

The best of the day in the Men’s Open category was surfer Jean Carlos González from Panama, 2013 World Runner-up.

González used his local knowledge to take advantage of the best waves of his Heat, to add a total score of 16.06 points, against 13.74 points from Deivid Silva from Brazil, 13.4 from Malakai Martínez from Costa Rica and 6.94 from Tomás Tudela from Peru.

Gonzalez also advanced in his Quarterfinal Heat and is alongside his compatriot Tao Rogríguez in the Semifinals.

This is how the Open Men’s Semis are
Semifinal 1

Mateus Sena (Brazil)
Tao Rodriguez (Panama)
Happy Messias (Brazil)
Jean Carlos Gonzalez (Panama)

Semifinal 2

Lucca Messinas (Peru)
Tomas Lopez (Argentina)
Santiago Muniz (Argentina)
Miguel Tudela (Peru)

In the Women’s Open category, the best was Laura Raupp from Brazil, who scored 15.44 points in her Round of 16. In this Heat, Raupp defeated Josefina Ane from Argentina (7.86pts), Mia Calderon from Puerto Rico (7.66pts) and Isabella Goodwin from Panama (6.97pts).

Raupp managed to advance to the Semifinals, along with her compatriot Sophia Medina.

The Women’s Open Semifinals are as follows:
semi-final 1
Sol Aguirre (Peru)
Dominic Barona (Ecuador)
Laura Raupp (Brazil)
Ornella Pellizari (Argentina)

semi-final 2
Daniella Rosas (Peru)
Arena Rodriguez (Peru)
Melani Giunta (Peru)
Sophia Medina (Brazil)

Tomorrow after the finals of the Open categories, the 2022 Pan American Champion Team will be defined.

Follow the event on pasasurf.org and the Pan Am Sports channels.

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