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Canada competed at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile from October 20 to November 5, 2023. This was Canada's 18th appearance at the
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, having competed at every Games since the second edition in 1955. In February 2023, Guadalajara 2011 and London 2012 weightlifting gold medallist
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was named as the country's
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. On October 12, 2023 a final team of 473 athletes (208 men and 265 women) competing in 36 sports was confirmed by the Canadian Olympic Committee. A total of 235 coaches and support staff will also accompany the team. This number was later reduced to 469 (207 men and 262 women) after four athletes withdrew from the team. Beach volleyball athletes Melissa Humana-Paredes and
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were the country's flagbearers during the
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. Meanwhile, gold medalists at the games breakdancer
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(Phil Wizard) and canoeist
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were the country's flagbearers during the
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. The Canadian team finished with 164 medals, including 46 gold. Both numbers represent the second highest at a single non-hosted edition of the games. This placed Canada in fourth on the medal table, third in terms overall medals. The Canadian team did not compete in the sports of baseball, basketball, basque pelota and
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(soccer).


Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors (per gender) participating at the games per sport/discipline. *One alternate in each water polo team is not included in the overall count. Both alternates did end up competing for their respective teams.


Medallists

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Archery

Canada qualified eight archers during the
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. The official team of eight athletes (five men and three women) was named on October 2, 2023. ;Men ;Women ;Mixed


Athletics (track and field)

Canada qualified 27 athletes (13 men and 14 women). The final team was named on September 21, 2023. Tatiana Aholou, Adam Keenan, Myles Misener-Daley and Grace Fetherstonhaugh were later withdrawn, while Kiana Gibson as added, making the final teams size 24 athletes (11 men and 13 women). Misener-Daley declined his invitation after confusion over selection and wanting to be ready for the
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;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 ''or'', in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target *NR = National record *GR = Games record *PB = Personal best *NM = No mark *N/A = Round not applicable for the event *Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round
;Men ;Track and road events ;Women ;Track and road events ;Field events ;Combined events – Women's heptathlon


Artistic swimming

Canada automatically qualified a full team of nine artistic swimmers. The team was officially named on September 19, 2023.


Badminton

Canada qualified a total of ten badminton athletes (five per gender). Canada qualified two athletes through the
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, Colombia (Brian Yang and Rachel Chan). A further eight quotas were earned by Canadian athletes, by finishing first overall in the Pan American Games ranking. The official team of ten athletes (five per gender) was named on September 22, 2023. Men Women Mixed


Beach volleyball

Canada qualified four beach volleyball athletes (one pair per gender), by being ranked in the top three of the FIVB Beach World rankings as of June 30, 2023. The team was officially named on September 20, 2023.


Bowling

Canada qualified two men through the 2022 PABCON Champion of Champions held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The team of two bowlers was officially named on September 5, 2023.


Boxing

Canada qualified 12 boxers through the Pan American Qualification tournament. Since the boxing tournament was open entry due to its status as an Olympic qualifier, Boxing Canada entered boxers in all 13 events. The full team of 13 boxers (seven men and six women) was officially named on September 14, 2023. ;Men ;Women


Breaking

Canada qualified four break-dancers (two per gender). The official team of four athletes was named on August 25, 2023.


Canoeing


Slalom

Canada qualified a total of three slalom athletes (one man and two women). After reallocations, Canada earned two additional quotas (one man and one woman) for a total of five spots (two men and three women). The team was officially named on June 28, 2023. ;Kayak cross *Only one per country could advance to the next round.


Sprint

Canada qualified a total of 18 sprint athletes (nine men and nine women). The final team of 18 athletes (nine per gender) was named on September 28, 2023. ;Men ;Women


Cycling

Canada qualified a total of 30 cyclists (15 men and 15 women). A final team of 26 cyclists were named to the team (13 per gender).


BMX

Canada qualified four BMX racers (two men and two women) through the UCI World Rankings. ;Racing


Mountain biking

Canada qualified four mountain bikers at the 2023 Pan American Championships.


Road

Canada qualified four road cyclists (two per gender) at the Pan American Championships. Some cyclists will compete in both the road and track disciplines.


Track

Canada qualified a team of 18 track cyclists (nine men and nine women). A team of 16 was named (eight per gender, with some also competing in the road events). On October 12, 2023, it was announced
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was replaced by Kiara Lylyk. ;Sprint ;Pursuit *Ernst competed in the qualification round and received a medal ;Keirin ;Madison ;Omnium


Diving

Canada qualified nine divers (four men and five women). The team was officially named on August 22, 2023.
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was later added to the team, bringing the team size to ten divers (five per gender), but ultimately did not compete. ;Men ;Women


Equestrian

Canada qualified a full team of four riders in dressage, eventing and show-jumping based on FEI world rankings released on September 11, 2023. The official team of 12 equestrians (three men and nine women) was named on October 4, 2023.


Dressage


Eventing


Jumping


Fencing

Canada qualified a full team of 18 fencers (nine men and nine women), after all six teams finished at least in the top seven at the
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in Ascuncion, Paraguay. The official team was named on September 6, 2023. On October 12, 2023, it was announced Bogdan Hamilton was replaced by Patrick Liu. ;Individual ;Men ;Women ;Team


Field hockey

;Summary


Men's tournament

Canada qualified a men's team (of 16 athletes) by finishing 3rd at the 2022 Pan American Cup. ;Roster
The team roster of 16 athletes was named on September 26, 2023. * Brenden Bissett *
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* Sam Cabral * Taylor Curran * Sean Davis *
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* Thomson Harris * Gordon Johnston * James Kirkpatrick *
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Balraj Panesar Balraj Singh Panesar (born March 16, 1996) is a Canadian field hockey player who plays as a defender or midfielder for the English Premier Club Beeston HC and the Canadian national team. Early life Panesar was born on March 16, 1996 in Sur ...
* Keegan Pereira *
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Oliver Scholfield Oliver William Scholfield (born September 11, 1993) is a Canadian field hockey player who plays as a forward for the Vancouver Hawks and the Canadian national team. International career Scholfield made his debut for the senior national team in ...
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;Group B ---- ---- ;Semifinals ;Bronze medal match


Women's tournament

Canada qualified a women's team (of 16 athletes) by finishing 3rd at the 2022 Pan American Cup. ;Roster
The team roster of 16 athletes was named on September 26, 2023. *
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* Kenzie Girgis *
Sara Goodman Sara Goodman (born 22 October 1999) is a Canadian field hockey player. Personal life Sara Goodman was born and raised in Duncan, British Columbia. Career Under–21 Goodman made her debut for the Canadian U–21 team in 2016, at the Pan Americ ...
* Rowan Harris *
Karli Johansen Karli Johansen (born 26 March 1992) is a women's field hockey player from Canada. Johansen made her senior international debut in 2013, and has been a member of the Canadian women's national team since. She has represented her country at three ...
* Kathleen Leahy * Sam McCrory *
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Anna Mollenhauer Anna Margaret Mollenhauer (born 18 September 1999) is a field hockey player from Canada, who plays as a midfielder. Personal life Anna Mollenhauer was born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia. Her mother, Nancy, was also a Canadian inter ...
* Thora Rae *
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* Melanie Scholz *
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* Elise Wong
;Group B ---- ---- ;Semifinals ;Bronze medal match


Golf

Canada qualified a full team of four golfers (two men and two women). The team was officially announced on September 26, 2023.


Gymnastics

Canada's team of 21 gymnasts (seven men and 14 women) was officially named on September 27, 2023.


Artistic

Canada qualified a team of ten gymnasts in artistic (five men and five women) at the 2023 Pan American Championships. Men
Team final & individual qualification Qualification Legend: Q = Qualified to apparatus final Individual finals Women
Team final & individual qualification Qualification Legend: Q = Qualified to apparatus final


Rhythmic

Canada qualified two individual gymnasts and five gymnasts for the group event in rhythmic. ;Individual ;Group


Trampoline

Canada qualified four gymnasts in trampoline (two men and two women) at the 2023 Pan American Championships. Individual Synchronized


Handball

;Summary


Women's tournament

Canada qualified a women's team (of 14 athletes) by winning the USA-CAN Qualifying Round. The final roster was named on August 31, 2023. ;Roster
Canada's roster of 14 athletes was officially named on August 31, 2023. On October 12, 2023, it was announced Maksi Pallas was replaced by Katya Chan. * Nassima Benhacine * Teodora Bosonea * Katya Chan * Vassilia Gagnon * Samantha Koosau * Laurie Lacasse * Rosali Langlois * Myriam Laplante *
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* Audrey Marcoux * Alexandra Pivin * Émily Routhier * Haven Wong * Myriam Zimmer
;Group A ---- ---- ;Fifth to eighth place semifinals ;Seventh place match


Judo

Canada has qualified 8 judokas (six men and two women). The official team of eight athletes was named on October 2, 2023. Alexandre Arencibia later withdrew from the team and was not replaced. This meant the team dropped to seven judoka (five men and two women). ;Men ;Women


Karate

Canada qualified a total of six karatekas (one man and five women). Yamina Lahyanssa qualified through the
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, Colombia, two athletes through the 2023 North American Cup and the remaining three through the 2023 Pan American Championships qualifying event. The team was officially named on July 14, 2023. The six qualified athletes marked the most karatekas Canada has sent to an edition of the Pan American Games. Hana Furumoto-Deshaies did not compete as her arm injury did not recover in time for the games. All her matches were forfeited. ;Kata ;Kumite


Modern pentathlon

Canada qualified four modern pentathletes (two men and two women). Canada was later reallocated a women's quota spot. The final team of five athletes (two men and three women) was officially named on September 27, 2023. ;Individual ;Semifinals ;Relays


Racquetball

Canada qualified four racquetball athletes (two men and two women). Canada's team of four athletes was officially named on August 1, 2023. Men Women Mixed


Roller sports


Skateboarding

Canada qualified a team of four athletes (two men and two women) in skateboarding. The team was officially named on August 30, 2023.


Rowing

Canada qualified a team of 15 athletes (seven men and eight women) along with a coxswain. The final team of 16 athletes (seven men and nine women) was named on September 27, 2023. ;Men ;Women ;Mixed


Rugby sevens

;Summary


Men's tournament

Canada men's team is automatically qualified to the Pan American Games. ;Roster The team roster of 12 athletes was named on October 3, 2023. * Phil Berna * Jack Carson * Elias Ergas * Ethan Hager *
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Lockie Kratz Lockie Kratz (born 27 March 2000) is a Canadian rugby union player, currently playing for the New Orleans Gold of Major League Rugby (MLR) and the Canadian national team. His preferred position is centre. Early life Kratz was born in San Di ...
* Matt Percillier *
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* Alex Russell * Kal Sager * Jake Thiel


Women's tournament

Canada women's team is automatically qualified to the Pan American Games. ;Roster The team roster of 12 athletes was named on October 3, 2023. *
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* Caroline Crossley *
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Olivia De Couvreur Olivia De Couvreur (born 20 February 2000) is a Canadian rugby sevens player. She won a gold medal at the 2019 Pan American Games as a member of the Canada women's national rugby sevens team. De Couvreur took up the game of rugby after watching ...
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Asia Hogan-Rochester Asia Hogan-Rochester (born April 20, 1999) is a Canadian rugby sevens player. She won a gold medal at the Rugby sevens at the 2019 Pan American Games – Women's tournament, 2019 Pan American Games as a member of the Canada women's national rugby ...
* Eden Kilgour *
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Breanne Nicholas Breanne Nicholas is a Canadian rugby sevens player. She won a gold medal at the 2019 Pan American Games as a member of the Canada women's national rugby sevens team. In June 2021, Nicholas was named to Canada's 2020 Summer Olympics team. She a ...
* Carissa Norsten * Lucie Romeo * Shalaya Valenzuela *
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Sailing

Canada qualified 10 boats for a total of 15 sailors. Sailors were qualified to be nominated to the team in February, March and April 2023. The full team of 15 sailors (seven men and eight women) was officially named on September 20, 2023. ;Men ;Women ;Mixed


Shooting

Canada qualified a total of 16 quota spots (shooters) at the 2022 Americas Shooting Championships. The final team was named on September 22, 2023 and consisted of 14 sport shooters (six men and eight women). Canada declined a spot in the men's trap event and Lindsay Boddez was scheduled to double up in the women's trap and skeet events. Men Women Mixed


Softball

Canada qualified a team by virtue of its campaign at the 2022 Pan American Championships. ;Summary ;Roster The team roster of 16 athletes was named on June 22, 2023. * Dawn Bodrug * Rylie Crane *
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* Larissa Franklin * Sara Groenewegen * Kelsey Harshman * Zoe Hicks * Kianna Jones * Janet Leung * Grace Messmer * Callum Pilgrim * Erika Polidori * Morgan Rackel * Morgan Reimer * Nicole Rivait *
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;Group B ---- ---- ;Super round ;Bronze medal match


Sport climbing

Canada qualified ten sport climbers (six men and four women) in the inaugural appearance of the sport at the
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. The official team of ten athletes was named on August 29, 2023. Canada finished the games with one bronze medal by Alannah Yip in the women's boulder & lead event. This marked the country's first ever Pan American Games medal in the sport. Boulder & lead Speed


Squash

Canada qualified a full team of six athletes (three men and three women) through the 2023 Pan American Squash Championships. The team was officially named on August 30, 2023. On October 12, 2023, it was announced Danielle Letourneau was replaced by Nikole Todd. Men Women Mixed


Surfing

Canada qualified eight surfers (three men and five women). However, surfer Erin Brooks could not compete for Canada due to not receive Canadian citizenship in time. The official team of seven surfers (three men and four women) was named on October 4, 2023. ;Race


Swimming

On April 6, 2023
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announced the pool team of 36 athletes (18 per gender), representing the maximum team size. This was the first full team officially named to Canada's Pan American Games team. The team was named based on results at the 2023 Canadian Swimming Trials held in Toronto. The team has a mix of young and experienced swimmers, who are using the event as preparation for the
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. A total of 11 former Olympians, including Olympic Gold medalist
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were named to the team. On April 17 2023, the open water swimming team was named to the games after the Canadian trials held on April 14, 2023 in the
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. As part of the announcement it was announced pool swimmers Ben Miller and Rebecca Smith withdrew from the team and were replaced with
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and Julie Brousseau respectively. Benjamin Cote will compete in both disciplines, meaning the team size for swimming is 38 athletes (19 per gender). On October 12, 2023, it was announced
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was replaced by Bailey O’Regan.
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, Ella Varga and Mabel Zavaros were on the preliminary team announcement, but were not named in the final team by the Canadian Olympic Committee. This mean the final team size was 35 athletes (19 men and 16 women). ;Men * Swimmers who raced only in the heats, but received medals. ;Women * Swimmers who raced only in the heats, but received medals. ;Mixed * Swimmers who raced only in the heats, but received medals.


Table tennis

Canada qualified a full team of six athletes (three men and three women) through the 2023 Pan American Games selection tournament held in Toronto, Ontario. The final team was named on July 19, 2023. ;Men ;Women ;Mixed


Taekwondo

Canada qualified 9 athletes (five men and four women) during the Pan American Games Qualification Tournament. The team of nine athletes was officially named on May 1, 2023. Kyorugi ;Men ;Women ;Poomsae


Tennis

Canada qualified four tennis players (one man and three women). The team was officially named on October 4, 2023. Later Stacey Fung and Carol Zhao withdrew from the team, reducing the team size to two athletes (one male and one female).


Triathlon

Canada qualified a team of four triathletes (two men and two women) after finishing third at the 2023 Pan American Mixed Relays Championship. Canada also qualified one additional male and female quota, for a final team size of six athletes (three per gender). The team was officially named on September 14, 2023. The team named was a developmental team. ;Mixed relay


Water polo

;Summary


Men's tournament

Canada automatically qualified a men's team (of 12 athletes). ;Roster
Canada's roster of 12 athletes was officially named on September 28, 2023. Bryant Jourdie was the alternate and competed at the event. * Jérémie Blanchard * Nicolas Constantin-Bicari * Jérémie Côté * Bogdan Djerkovic * Reuel D’Souza * Aleksa Gardijan * Leo Hachem *
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* Brody McKnight * Jason O’Donnell * Gaelan Patterson *
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;Group B ---- ---- ;Quarterfinals ;Semifinals ;Bronze medal match


Women's tournament

Canada automatically qualified a women's team (of 12 athletes). ;Roster
Canada's roster of 12 athletes was officially named on September 28, 2023. Daphne Guevremont was the alternate and competed at the event. *
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* Serena Browne * Floranne Carroll * Axelle Crevier * Jessica Gaudreault * Rae Lekness *
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* Hayley McKelvey * Kindred Paul * Clara Vulpisi * Emma Wright
;Group A ---- ---- ;Quarterfinals ;Semifinals ;Gold medal match


Water skiing

Canada qualified two wakeboarders (one of each gender) during the 2022 Pan American Championship. Canada also qualified four water skiers during the 2022 Pan American Water skiing Championship. The team of six athletes (two men and four women) was officially named on September 15, 2023. ;Waterski and Wakeboard ;Men ;Women ;Water ski Overall


Weightlifting

Canada qualified six weightlifters (three per gender). The final team of six weightlifters was officially named on September 25, 2023.


Wrestling

Canada qualified 11 wrestlers (six men and five women) through the
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and the
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. Canada's team of 11 athletes was officially named on August 3, 2023. Later Lachlan McNeil, Darthe Capellan,
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and
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all withdrew from the team, bringing the team size down to seven wrestlers (three men and four women).
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and Alex Moore were also replaced by Shauna Kuebeck and
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respectively due to injury. The Canadian wrestling team finished with five medals, one silver and four bronze. ;Men ;Women


Non-competing sports


Basketball

Canada qualified a men's team (of 12 athletes) by finishing fourth in the
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. However, the spot was declined. Canada qualified a women's team (of 12 athletes) after finishing third at the
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. However, the spot was declined. Canada also qualified both 3x3 teams, but neither team was sent.


Football (soccer)

Canada qualified a women's team of 18 athletes by finishing 2nd in the
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. However, the team was withdrawn and did compete, after Soccer Canada cited 'scheduling issues'.


Volleyball

Canada's men's team qualified for the games, however did not compete.


See also

* Canada at the 2023 Parapan American Games *
Canada at the 2024 Summer Olympics Canada is scheduled to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France from July 26 to August 11, 2024. Since Canada's debut in 1900 Summer Olympics, 1900, Canadians, Canadian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games ...


References

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