Toronto 2015 qualification
Toronto 2015 Gymnastics Qualification
Toronto 2015 gymnastics qualification was settled at a single competition, the 2014 Pan American Gymnastics Championships in Mississauga, Ontario. The union turned the results into four lists in September 2014 — men's artistic, women's artistic, rhythmic and trampoline — and 176 places went to 24 nations. This page brings the four together; each discipline has its own page with the list line by line.
On this page
The four disciplines
From Mississauga 2014 to Toronto 2015
| When | What | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Aug – 1 Sep 2014 | 2014 Pan American Gymnastics Championships, the only qualifying event, organised by Gymnastics Canada | Mississauga, Ontario |
| September 2014 | The union publishes four lists of places won, one per discipline | upag-gymnastics.com, /en/documentos/ |
| 11–15 July 2015 | Artistic gymnastics at the Games | Toronto Coliseum |
| 17–20 July 2015 | Rhythmic gymnastics | Toronto Coliseum |
| 18–19 July 2015 | Trampoline | Toronto Coliseum |
The Toronto Coliseum is the Ricoh Coliseum at Exhibition Place, renamed for the Games because of naming rights; it seated about 7,200 per session. Places belonged to national Olympic committees, not to gymnasts: each country chose who filled them, and a country could decline a place so that it passed to the next in line.
176 places in six kinds
| Kind of place | On the 2014 lists | As finally distributed | Nations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's artistic | 57 | 57 | 20 |
| Women's artistic | 57 | 57 | 21 |
| Rhythmic individual | 16 | 16 | 10 |
| Rhythmic group | 30 | 30 | 5 |
| Trampoline men | 8 | 8 | 6 |
| Trampoline women | 8 | 8 | 6 |
| All gymnastics | 176 | 176 | 24 |
A nation could enter at most 22 gymnasts across the three disciplines: five men and five women in artistic gymnastics, a rhythmic group of six plus two individuals, and two gymnasts in each trampoline event. In artistic gymnastics, only a nation with five gymnasts could enter the team competition.
Every nation's places
Canada and the United States filled the maximum of 22. The table follows Wikipedia's qualification summary, which is built on the Toronto 2015 sport technical manuals; a dash means no place.
| Nation | Men's artistic | Women's artistic | Rhythmic individual | Rhythmic group | Trampoline men | Trampoline women | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina (ARG) | 3 | 5 | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| Bahamas (BAH) | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Bermuda (BER) | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Bolivia (BOL) | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Brazil (BRA) | 5 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 20 |
| Canada (CAN) | 5 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 22 |
| Cayman Islands (CAY) | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Chile (CHI) | 5 | 3 | 1 | – | – | – | 9 |
| Colombia (COL) | 5 | 5 | 1 | – | 1 | – | 12 |
| Costa Rica (CRC) | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Cuba (CUB) | 5 | 5 | 1 | 6 | – | – | 17 |
| Dominican Republic (DOM) | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Ecuador (ECU) | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 3 |
| El Salvador (ESA) | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Guatemala (GUA) | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Honduras (HON) | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Mexico (MEX) | 5 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 20 |
| Panama (PAN) | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Peru (PER) | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| Puerto Rico (PUR) | 5 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 7 |
| Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| United States (USA) | 5 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 22 |
| Uruguay (URU) | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Venezuela (VEN) | 3 | 5 | 2 | – | – | 1 | 11 |
| Total | 57 | 57 | 16 | 30 | 8 | 8 | 176 |
What changed between the lists and the Games
The lists themselves warned that places were not nominal and could be reassigned once nations confirmed or declined them. Two changes are recorded:
- Men's artistic. Costa Rica won two places but used one; the other went to Venezuela, which went to Toronto with three men. See the men's list.
- Women's artistic. The final summary gives Chile a third place and Uruguay none, yet the published Toronto results include a Uruguayan gymnast. See the women's list for what the sources say.
The rhythmic and trampoline lists match the final distribution line for line.
What the places produced
| Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States (USA) | 11 | 13 | 5 | 29 |
| Canada (CAN) | 5 | 3 | 6 | 14 |
| Brazil (BRA) | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| Colombia (COL) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Cuba (CUB) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| Guatemala (GUA) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Mexico (MEX) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Dominican Republic (DOM) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Venezuela (VEN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
9 of the 24 nations won a gymnastics medal in Toronto. Guatemala's two places — one man, one woman, both won through the all-around in Mississauga — brought the men's floor gold and the women's floor bronze.
The four PDFs this domain published
The lists were one-page PDFs in Spanish named Países clasificados a JP 2015 followed by the discipline code: MAG (men's artistic), GAF (gimnasia artística femenina), RYT (rhythmic) and TRA (trampoline). Wikipedia in English, Spanish and Portuguese cites them, and their old addresses on upag-gymnastics.com now lead to the matching page here. The Internet Archive kept copies on 12 September 2014:
- Men's artistic list (MAG), archived copy
- Women's artistic list (GAF), archived copy
- Rhythmic list (RYT), archived copy
- Trampoline list (TRA), archived copy
An independent summary. Pan Am Gymnastics Guide is not the Pan American Gymnastics Union and publishes no official results. The union's website is upag-pagu.com.
Frequently asked questions
How did gymnasts qualify for the 2015 Pan American Games?
Through 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; nations then chose the gymnasts.
How many gymnasts competed in gymnastics at Toronto 2015?
176 places from 24 nations: 114 in artistic gymnastics, 46 in rhythmic and 16 in trampoline.
What was the most gymnasts one country could send?
22: five men and five women in artistic gymnastics, six in the rhythmic group and two rhythmic individuals, and two per trampoline event.
Who published the qualification lists?
The Pan American Gymnastics Union, in September 2014, on the site it then ran at upag-gymnastics.com. The union's current site is upag-pagu.com; this guide is independent of it.
Keep reading
- Toronto 2015 Men's Artistic Gymnastics QualificationToronto 2015 men's artistic gymnastics qualification: the union's 2014 list of 57 places for 20 nations, line by line, the rules behind it and the one change.
- Toronto 2015 Women's Artistic Gymnastics QualificationToronto 2015 women's artistic gymnastics qualification: the union's signed 2014 list of 57 places for 22 nations, the rules, and where the sources disagree.
- Toronto 2015 Rhythmic Gymnastics QualificationToronto 2015 rhythmic gymnastics qualification: the union's 2014 list of 16 individual places and five groups, the rules behind it and the medals they won.
- Toronto 2015 Trampoline QualificationToronto 2015 trampoline qualification: the union's 2014 list of eight places for men and eight for women, nation by nation, the rules and the Toronto medals.
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.