2016 Pan American Track Cycling Championships

2016 Pan American Track Cycling Championships

Venue	Aguascalientes, Mexico
Date(s)	(2016-10-05 - 2016-10-09)October 5–9, 2016
Velodrome	Velódromo Bicentenario
Nations participating	15
Events	19

The 2016 Pan American Track Cycling Championships took place at the Velódromo Bicentenario, Aguascalientes, Mexico, October 5–9, 2016.^[1]

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sprint[2]	Fabián Puerta  Colombia	Jair Tjon En Fa  Suriname	Santiago Ramírez  Colombia
1 km time trial[3]	Santiago Ramírez  Colombia	Diego Peña  Colombia	Stefan Ritter  Canada
Keirin[4]	Fabián Puerta  Colombia	Leandro Bottasso  Argentina	Kwesi Browne  Trinidad and Tobago
Scratch[5]	José Alfredo Santoyo  Mexico	Zak Kovalcik  United States	Edwing Sutherland  Barbados
Points race[6]	Juan Esteban Arango  Colombia	Manuel Rodas  Guatemala	Ruben Ramos  Argentina
Individual pursuit[6]	Eduardo Estrada  Colombia	Jay Lamoureux  Canada	Edison Bravo  Chile
Omnium[2]	Aidan Caves  Canada	Julio Padilla  Guatemala	Zak Kovalcik  United States
Madison[4]	Chile Antonio Cabrera Edison Bravo	Colombia Eduardo Estrada Jordan Parra	Argentina Ruben Ramos Sebastian Trillini
Team sprint[5]	Colombia Rubén Murillo Fabián Puerta Santiago Ramírez	Argentina Leandro Bottasso Pablo Perruchoud Juan Pablo Serrano	Canada Patrice Pivin Joel Archambault Stefan Ritter
Team pursuit[5]	Colombia Juan Esteban Arango Brayan Sánchez Eduardo Estrada Wilmar Paredes	Canada Ed Veal Aidan Caves Jay Lamoureux Adam Jamieson	Chile Antonio Cabrera Edison Bravo Nicolás González Diego Ferreyra

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sprint[4]	Jessica Salazar  Mexico	Yuli Verdugo  Mexico	Daniela Gaxiola  Mexico
500 m time trial[6]	Jessica Salazar  Mexico[nb 1]	Martha Bayona  Colombia	Juliana Gaviria  Colombia
Keirin[3]	Daniela Gaxiola  Mexico	Juliana Gaviria  Colombia	Martha Bayona  Colombia
Individual pursuit[5]	Kelly Catlin  United States	Marlies Mejías  Cuba	Jasmin Glaesser  Canada
Points race[2]	Jasmin Glaesser  Canada	Arlenis Sierra  Cuba	Ariane Bonhomme  Canada
Scratch[3]	Yareli Salazar  Mexico	Paola Muñoz  Chile	Arlenis Sierra  Cuba
Omnium[4]	Marlies Mejías  Cuba	Yareli Salazar  Mexico	Yeny Lorena Colmenares  Colombia
Madison[4][nb 2]	Mexico Mayra Rocha Sofía Arreola	United States Colleen Gulick Christina Birch	Cuba Marlies Mejías Iraida Garcia
Team sprint[5]	Mexico Jessica Salazar Yuli Verdugo	Colombia Juliana Gaviria Martha Bayona	United States Mandy Marquardt Madalyn Godby
Team pursuit[3]	Canada Jasmin Glaesser Ariane Bonhomme Kinley Gibson Jamie Gilgen	Mexico Yareli Salazar Mayra Rocha Sofía Arreola Jessica Bonilla	Chile Javiera Reyes Constanza Paredes Carolina Oyarzo Paola Muñoz

Records

In addition to the women's 500m time trial world record, Pan American records were also set in the following events:

• Men's sprint (flying 200m time trial/qualifying round): 9"487 by Fabián Puerta^[8]
• Men's 1 km time trial: 59"135 by Santiago Ramírez^[8]
• Men's individual pursuit (bronze medal final): 4'13"007 by Edison Bravo^[9]
• Men's team sprint (gold medal final): 42"772 by Colombia (Rubén Murillo, Fabián Puerta and Santiago Ramírez)^[8]
• Men's team pursuit (gold medal final): 3'55"362 by Colombia (Juan Arango, Brayan Sánchez, Eduardo Estrada and Wilmar Paredes)^[8]
• Women's sprint (flying 200m time trial/qualifying round): 10"474 by Jessica Salazar^[10]
• Women's team sprint (qualifying round): 32"568 by Mexico (Jessica Salazar and Yuli Verdugo)^[11]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Colombia (COL)	7	5	4	16
2	Mexico (MEX)	6	3	1	10
3	Canada (CAN)	3	2	4	9
4	Cuba (CUB)	1	2	1	4
5	Chile (CHI)	1	1	3	5
6	United States (USA)	1	1	2	4
7	Argentina (ARG)	0	2	2	4
8	Guatemala (GUA)	0	2	0	2
9	Suriname (SUR)	0	1	0	1
10	Barbados (BAR)	0	0	1	1
	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		19	19	19	57

Notes

1. Jessica Salazar set a world record of 32"268^[7] to win the women's 500m time trial.
2. Held as an exhibition event. No medals were awarded for this discipline.

References

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