Beach volleyball at the 2011 Pan American Games

Beach volleyball competitions at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara were held from October 17 to October 23 at the Pan American Beach Volleyball Stadium in Puerto Vallarta.[1]

Beach volleyball at the XVI Pan American Games
Venue	Pan American Beach Volleyball Stadium
Dates	October 17 – October 23
Competitors	64 from 19 nations
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Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Mexico)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil	2	0	0	2
2	Mexico*	0	1	0	1
	Venezuela	0	1	0	1
4	Argentina	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 nations)		2	2	2	6

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Alison Cerutti and Emanuel Rego  Brazil	Igor Hernández and Farid Mussa  Venezuela	Santiago Etchgaray and Pablo Suarez  Argentina
Women's	Larissa França and Juliana Felisberta  Brazil	Bibiana Candelas and Mayra García  Mexico	Yarleen Santiago and Yamileska Yantin  Puerto Rico

Qualification

64 athletes will compete (32 male and 32 female). Each nation is allowed to enter a maximum of one pair in each event. Mexico as hosts gets one spot automatically in each events, while the top ten nations from the North American and the top five from South American rankings on June 30, 2011 will also qualify from each gender.[2]

Event	Men's	Women's
Host nation	Mexico	Mexico
North America[3]	Puerto Rico  Canada  United States  Cuba  Dominican Republic  Costa Rica  El Salvador  Guatemala  Jamaica  Nicaragua	United States  Canada  Costa Rica  Puerto Rico  Cuba  Guatemala  El Salvador  Trinidad and Tobago  Nicaragua
South America[4]	Chile  Brazil  Uruguay  Argentina  Venezuela	Brazil  Colombia  Argentina  Uruguay  Ecuador  Chile
Total	16	16

Qualification summary

NOC	Men	Women	Total athletes
Argentina	X	X	4
Brazil	X	X	4
Canada	X	X	4
Chile	X	X	4
Colombia		X	2
Costa Rica	X	X	4
Cuba	X	X	4
Dominican Republic	X		2
Ecuador		X	2
El Salvador	X	X	4
Guatemala	X	X	4
Jamaica	X		2
Mexico	X	X	4
Nicaragua	X	X	4
Puerto Rico	X	X	2
Trinidad and Tobago		X	2
United States	X	X	4
Uruguay	X	X	4
Venezuela	X		2
Total athletes	32	32	64
Total NOCs	16	16	19

References

1. Beach Volleyball Archived July 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
2. Qualification standards
3. V NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit Ranking
4. CSV confirma los participantes en los Juegos Panamericanos (in Spanish)