Bowling at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's doubles

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Men's doubles at the 2015 Pan American Games
Venue	Pan Am Bowling Centre
Dates	July 22–23
Competitors	28 from 14 nations
Winning score	5607
Medalists
François Lavoie Dan MacLelland   Canada   Jaime González Manuel Otalora   Colombia   Devin Bidwell Tommy Jones   United States
«2011 2019»

The men's doubles competition of the bowling events at the 2015 Pan American Games was held on July 22 and 23 at Planet Bowl (Pan Am Bowling Centre), due to naming rights the venue was known as the latter for the duration of the games.^[1][2][3]

Canadian pair François Lavoie and Dan MacLelland went onto secure the gold medal, with Lavoie scoring a perfect game in the fifth round, the first in Pan American Games history.^[4][5]

Schedule

During the competition

All times are Eastern Standard Time (UTC-3).

Date	Time	Round
July 22, 2015	10:05	1–6 Games
July 23, 2015	15:05	7–12 Games

Qualification

Main article: Bowling at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification

A total of 14 countries qualified two bowlers each through various events. This is summarized below.

Event	Vacancies	Qualified	Bowlers per NOC	Total
Host nation	1	Canada	2	2
South American Games	4	Colombia  Venezuela  Argentina  Brazil	2	8
Pan American Sports Festival	7	United States  Mexico  Costa Rica  Puerto Rico  Dominican Republic  Panama  Aruba	2	14
Central American and Caribbean Games	2	El Salvador  Guatemala	2	4
TOTAL				28

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's doubles	Canada François Lavoie Dan MacLelland	Colombia Jaime González Manuel Otalora	United States Devin Bidwell Tommy Jones

Results

Rank	Nation	Athlete	Total	Grand Total[6]	Notes
	Canada	François Lavoie Dan MacLelland	2677 2930	5607
	Colombia	Jaime González Manuel Otalora	2574 2715	5289
	United States	Devin Bidwell Tommy Jones	2521 2682	5203
4	Mexico	Alejandro Cruz Mario Quintero	2601 2580	5181
5	Venezuela	Amleto Monacelli Ildemaro Ruiz	2662 2500	5162
6	Costa Rica	Rodolfo Madriz James Stanley	2543 2507	5050
7	Dominican Republic	Manuel Fernandez Alex Prats	2446 2527	4973
8	Puerto Rico	Cristian Azcona Jean Pérez	2446 2519	4965
9	Brazil	Charles Robini Marcelo Suartz	2397 2529	4926
10	El Salvador	Julio Acosta Giancarlo Mateucchi	2262 2467	4729
11	Panama	Juan Narvaez Carlos Olmos	2286 2423	4709
12	Guatemala	Armando Batres José Morales	2245 2310	4555
13	Aruba	Bryan Helmeyer Jason Odor	2263 2238	4501
14	Argentina	Ricardo Dalla Rosa Ruben Favero	2187 2176	4363

References

1. "Pan Am Bowling Centre". toronto2015.org. TO2015. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
2. "Competition Schedule" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 18 August 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
3. "Planet Bowl chosen as Pan Am Games' bowling venue". Etobicoke Guardian. Toronto, Canada. 4 December 2013. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
4. Bitton, Tyler (23 July 2015). "Francois Lavoie rolls perfect game to lift Canada to bowling gold". www.cbc.ca/sports/. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Retrieved 8 January 2022.
5. "Francois Lavoie, Dan MacLelland shatter five records to cruise to Men's Doubles gold medal". www.bowlingdigital.com/. Bowling Digital. 24 July 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2022. Lavoie ended the 300 game jinx ended when he fired the first 300 game in Pan American Games history in the fifth game
6. "Men's doubles Bowling final results" (PDF). TO2015. 22 July 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 October 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2022.