Field hockey at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's tournament

Men's field hockey
at the 2015 Pan American Games
Tournament details
Host country	Canada
City	Toronto
Dates	14–25 July
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	Pan Am / Parapan Am Fields
Final positions
Champions	Argentina (9th title)
Runner-up	Canada
Third place	Chile
Tournament statistics
Matches played	24
Goals scored	136 (5.67 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Gonzalo Peillat (14 goals)
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The men's field hockey tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games was held in Toronto, Canada at the Pan Am / Parapan Am Fields from July 14 to 25.^[1]

For these Games, the men competed in an 8-team tournament. The teams were grouped into two pools of four teams each for a round-robin preliminary round. All teams will advance to an eight team single elimination bracket.^[2]

Argentina were the defending champions from the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, defeating Canada, 3–1 in the final.

The winner of this tournament, if not already qualified, qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.^[3]

Qualification

A total of eight men's teams qualified to compete at the games. The top two teams at the South American and Central American and Caribbean Games qualified for the tournament. The host nation (Canada) automatically qualified as well. The remaining three spots were given to the three best teams from the 2013 Pan American Cup that had not qualified yet. This happened after the two qualification tournaments in 2014 were played. Each nation may enter one team (16 athletes per team).^[4]^[5]

Summary

Event	Date	Location	Quotas	Qualifier(s)
Host	—	—	1	Canada
2013 Pan American Cup	10–17 August 2013	Brampton	3	United States Mexico Brazil
2014 South American Games	8–16 March 2014	Santiago	2	Argentina Chile
2014 Central American and Caribbean Games	16–24 November 2014	Veracruz	2	Cuba Trinidad and Tobago
Total			8

Pools

Pools were based on the world rankings as of January 21, 2015. Teams were placed into pools using the serpentine system. Teams ranked 1, 4, 5 and 8 would be in Pool A, while teams ranked 2, 3, 6 and 7 would be in Pool B.^[6]

Rankings are listed in parentheses.

Pool A	Pool B
Argentina (6) United States (27) Trinidad and Tobago (30) Cuba (48)	Canada (16) Chile (25) Brazil (33) Mexico (36)

Rosters

At the start of the tournament, all eight participating countries had up to 16 players on their rosters.^[2]

Competition format

In the first round of the competition, teams were divided into two pools of four teams, and play followed round robin format with each of the teams playing all other teams in the pool once. Teams were awarded three points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a loss.^[2]

Following the completion of the pool games, all eight teams advanced to a single elimination round consisting of four quarterfinal games, two semifinal games, and the bronze and gold medal matches. Losing teams competed in classification matches to determine their ranking in the tournament. A penalty stroke competition took place, if a classification match ended in a draw, to determine a winner.^[2]

All games were played in four 15 minute quarters.^[2]

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament	Argentina Juan Manuel Vivaldi Gonzalo Peillat Juan Gilardi Pedro Ibarra Facundo Callioni Matías Paredes Joaquin Menini Lucas Vila Ignacio Ortiz Juan Martín López Nicolas Della Torre Isidoro Ibarra Matias Rey Manuel Brunet Agustin Mazzili Lucas Rossi	Canada Brenden Bissett David Carter Taylor Curran Adam Froese Matthew Guest Gabriel Ho-Garcia David Jameson Gordon Johnston Ben Martin Devohn Noronha-Teixeira Sukhi Panesar Mark Pearson Matthew Sarmento Iain Smythe Scott Tupper Paul Wharton	Chile Richardo Achondo Prada A. Berczely Fernando Binder Wiener Felipe Eggers Andrés Fuenzalida Ignacio Gajardo Adrián Henríquez Thomás Kannegiesser Sebastián Kapsch Vicente Martín Tarud Fernando Renz Nicolás Renz Sven Richter Martín Rodríguez Raimundo Valenzuela Jaime Zarhi

Results

The official schedule was revealed on February 18, 2015.^[7]

All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4)

Preliminary round

The Pan Am / Parapan Am Fields at the University of Toronto's back campus, was the venue for the men's field hockey tournament

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Argentina	3	3	0	0	22	4	+18	9	Quarter-finals
2	United States	3	1	1	1	5	10	−5	4
3	Cuba	3	0	2	1	9	10	−1	2
4	Trinidad and Tobago	3	0	1	2	3	15	−12	1

Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result.^[8]

14 July 2015
09:00

Argentina	11–0	Trinidad and Tobago
Peillat 26', 57' Vila 29', 30', 34' Paredes 37' Della Torre 42' Mazzili 56' Callioni 57', 60' Menini 59'	Report

Umpires:
You Suolong (CHN)
Federico Garcia (URU)

14 July 2015
11:00

United States	3–3	Cuba
Runzi 9' Kaeppeler 24' Holt 28'	Report	Tritzant 32' Blanco 51', 59'

Umpires:
Matias Barbosa (CHI)
David Sweetman (GBR)

16 July 2015
09:00

Trinidad and Tobago	2–2	Cuba
Toussaint 51' Eccles 59'	Report	Blanco 22', 53'

Umpires:
Daniel Basto Rivero (MEX)
Grant Hundley (USA)

16 July 2015
11:00

United States	0–6	Argentina
	Report	Mazzili 15' Brunet 19' Peillat 38', 47' Callioni 41' Della Torre 54'

Umpires:
Francisco Vázquez (ESP)
Gavin Caldecott (CAN)

18 July 2015
09:00

Argentina	5–4	Cuba
Vila 18' Peillat 28', 37', 55' Menini 29'	Report	Blanco 21' Veitia 47', 57' Aguilera 52'

Umpires:
Gavin Caldecott (CAN)
Matias Barbosa (CHI)

18 July 2015
11:00

Trinidad and Tobago	1–2	United States
Campbell 14'	Report	Holt 6' Grassi 13'

Umpires:
Francisco Vázquez (ESP)
You Suolong (CHN)

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Canada (H)	3	3	0	18	2	+16	9	Quarter-finals
2	Chile	3	2	1	6	4	+2	6
3	Brazil	3	1	2	3	12	−9	3
4	Mexico	3	0	3	3	12	−9	0

Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result.^[9]
(H) Hosts

14 July 2015
17:00

Chile	3–2	Mexico
Richter 25' Martín 34' Rodríguez 56'	Report	Campillo 2' Pedraza 55'

Umpires:
Grant Hundley (USA)
Donny Gobinsingh (TTO)

14 July 2015
19:00

Canada	9–1	Brazil
Bissett 8' Tupper 17' Pearson 28', 35' Ho-Garcia 31' Froese 34' Guest 39', 44' Wharton 50'	Report	Borges 9'

Umpires:
Andres Ledesma (ARG)
Francisco Vázquez (ESP)

16 July 2015
17:00

Brazil	1–0	Mexico
Paixao 44'	Report

Umpires:
You Suolong (CHN)
Donny Gobinsingh (TTO)

16 July 2015
19:00

Chile	0–1	Canada
	Report	Pearson 6'

Umpires:
Federico Garcia (URU)
Saleem Aaron (USA)

18 July 2015
17:00

Brazil	1–3	Chile
Borges 42'	Report	N. Renz 11' Richter 14' Rodríguez 40'

Umpires:
Saleem Aaron (USA)
Grant Hundley (USA)

18 July 2015
19:00

Canada	8–1	Mexico
Ho-Garcia 6', 14', 52', 54' Sarmento 31', 47' Guest 38' Wharton 55'	Report	Campillo 36'

Umpires:
Federico Garcia (URU)
Andres Ledesma (ARG)

Classification round

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Gold medal match

21 July

Argentina	12
		23 July
Mexico	0
		Argentina	6
21 July
		Chile	0
Chile	6
				25 July
Cuba	2
				Argentina	3
21 July
				Canada	0
United States	1 (1)
		23 July
Brazil (s.o.)	1 (3)
		Brazil	0 (3)
21 July
		Canada (s.o.)	0 (5)	Bronze medal match
Canada	3
				25 July
Trinidad and Tobago	0
				Chile	4

				Brazil	1

Quarter-finals

21 July 2015
09:00

Argentina	12–0	Mexico
Brunet 2' Peillat 7', 28', 30', 59' Paredes 18', 39' Vila 20', 31', 51' Gilardi 39' Mazzili 56'	Report

Umpires:
Saleem Aaron (USA)
Matias Barbosa (CHI)

21 July 2015
11:30

Chile	6–2	Cuba
Prada 38' Richter 43' F. Renz 46' Martín 47', 60' Rodríguez 57'	Report	Blanco 15' Tritzant 51'

Umpires:
You Suolong (CHN)
Andres Ledesma (ARG)

21 July 2015
17:00

United States	1–1	Brazil
Sundeen 57'	Report Penalties	Borges 34'
Penalties
Harris Runzi Linney Cunningham	1–3	Paixão Y. van der Heijden Sousa P. van der Heijden

Umpires:
Federico Garcia (URU)
Gavin Caldecott (CAN)

21 July 2015
19:30

Canada	3–0	Trinidad and Tobago
Smythe 3' Sarmento 29' Tupper 50'	Report

Umpires:
Francisco Vázquez (ESP)
Grant Hundley (USA)

Fifth to eighth place classification

Cross-overs		Fifth place

23 July

Mexico	3
		25 July
Cuba	1
		Mexico	2
23 July
		United States	6
United States	2

Trinidad and Tobago	1
		Seventh place

		25 July

		Cuba	0

		Trinidad and Tobago	13

Cross-overs

23 July 2015
09:00

Mexico	3–1	Cuba
Campillo Lopez 29' Pedraza Saenz 32' García Miranda 50'	Report	Gutierrez 43'

Umpires:
Donny Gobinsingh (TTO)
Francisco Vázquez (ESP)

23 July 2015
11:00

United States	2–1	Trinidad and Tobago
Holt 27' Sundeen 38'	Report	Marcano 36'

Umpires:
Gavin Caldecott (CAN)
Matias Barbosa (CHI)

Seventh and eighth place

25 July 2015
09:00

Cuba	0–13	Trinidad and Tobago
	Report	Pierre 5', 13', 26' Reynos 6', 47' Murray 20', 35', 46' Emmanuel 28' Gilkes 31', 33' Campbell 43' Mouttet 44'

Umpires:
Matias Barbosa (CHI)
Saleem Aaron (USA)

Fifth and sixth place

25 July 2015
11:00

Mexico	2–6	United States
Garcia Lopez 19' Borquez Silva 30'	Report	Holt 3', 11', 17' Barminski 22' Harris 45' Sundeen 51'

Umpires:
Gavin Caldecott (CAN)
Donny Gobinsingh (TTO)

Semi-finals

23 July 2015
17:00

Argentina	6–0	Chile
Vila 6' Peillat 30', 42', 44' Paredes 44' Brunet 60'	Report

Umpires:
Suolong You (CHN)
Federico Garcia (URU)

23 July 2015
19:00

Brazil	0–0	Canada
	Report Penalties
Penalties
Y. van der Heijden P. van der Heijden Felipe Réus Smith	3–5	Pearson Noronha-Teixeira Panesar Johnston Froese

Umpires:
Andres Ledesma (ARG)
Saleem Aaron (USA)

Bronze medal match

25 July 2015
17:00

Chile	4–1	Brazil
N. Renz 5', 32' Kannegiesser 19' Martín 20'	Report	Smith 60'

Umpires:
Andres Ledesma (ARG)
Grant Hundley (USA)

Gold medal match

25 July 2015
19:00

Argentina	3–0	Canada
Ibarra 25' Vila 33' Brunet 47'	Report

Umpires:
Francisco Vázquez (ESP)
Federico Garcia (URU)

Final standings

As per statistical convention in field hockey, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
	A	Argentina	6	6	0	0	43	4	+39	18	Gold medal
	B	Canada (H)	6	4	1	1	21	5	+16	13	Silver medal
	B	Chile	6	4	0	2	16	13	+3	12	Bronze medal
4	B	Brazil	6	1	2	3	5	17	−12	5	Fourth place

5	A	United States	6	3	2	1	14	14	0	11	Eliminated in quarterfinals
6	B	Mexico	6	1	0	5	8	31	−23	3
7	A	Trinidad and Tobago	6	1	1	4	17	20	−3	4
8	A	Cuba	6	0	2	4	12	32	−20	2

Source: FIH
(H) Hosts

Goalscorers

There were 136 goals scored in 24 matches, for an average of 5.67 goals per match.

14 goals

Gonzalo Peillat

9 goals

Lucas Vila

6 goals

5 goals

Gabriel Ho-Garcia

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

References

^ "Pan Am Games Detailed Competition Schedule" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 15 September 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 October 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Sport Technical Manual Field Hockey" (PDF). panamhockey.org/. TO2015. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
^ "Qualification System – Games of the XXXI Olympiad – Rio 2016 Field hockey" (PDF). corporate.olympics.com.au. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
^ "Qualification System Field hockey" (PDF). panamhockey.org/. TO2015. December 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 December 2017. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
^ "PAHF announces teams qualified for 2015 Pan American Games". panamhockey.org/. Pan American Hockey Federation. 27 November 2014. Archived from the original on 4 December 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
^ "PAHF announce Pools for 2015 Pan American Games". panamhockey.org/. Pan American Hockey Federation. 23 January 2014. Archived from the original on 4 July 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
^ "Schedule announced for 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto". panamhockey.org/. Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF). 18 February 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
^ FIH Tournament Regulations
^ FIH Tournament Regulations

External links

World Rankings as of January 21, 2015

[1] "Pan Am Games Detailed Competition Schedule" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 15 September 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 October 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2014.

[manual-2] "Sport Technical Manual Field Hockey" (PDF). panamhockey.org/. TO2015. Retrieved 13 February 2015.

[3] "Qualification System – Games of the XXXI Olympiad – Rio 2016 Field hockey" (PDF). corporate.olympics.com.au. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 18 September 2014.

[4] "Qualification System Field hockey" (PDF). panamhockey.org/. TO2015. December 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 December 2017. Retrieved 18 September 2014.

[5] "PAHF announces teams qualified for 2015 Pan American Games". panamhockey.org/. Pan American Hockey Federation. 27 November 2014. Archived from the original on 4 December 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2014.

[6] "PAHF announce Pools for 2015 Pan American Games". panamhockey.org/. Pan American Hockey Federation. 23 January 2014. Archived from the original on 4 July 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2014.

[7] "Schedule announced for 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto". panamhockey.org/. Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF). 18 February 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2015.

[8] FIH Tournament Regulations

[9] FIH Tournament Regulations

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