1967 Winnipeg Pan American Games

1967 Winnipeg Pan American Games
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City	Winnipeg, Canada
Team Gold Medalist	USA
All-Around Gold Medalist	Linda Metheny (USA)
Vault Gold Medalist	Linda Metheny (USA)
Uneven Bars Gold Medalist	Susan McDonnell (CAN)
Balance Beam Gold Medalist	Linda Metheny (USA)
Floor Exercise Gold Medalist	Linda Metheny (USA)
Preceded by	1963 São Paulo Pan American Games
Succeeded by	1971 Cali Pan American Games

The 1967 Pan American Games were held in Winnipeg, Canada from July 23 to August 6, 1967.

Winnipeg was chosen as host of the Pan American Games on its second try. It first bid for the fourth Pan American Games at the 1959 PASO meeting in Chicago. It lost to São Paulo, Brazil. The Winnipeg Pan American Society then turned its sights to 1967 and was named host nation at the PASO meeting at the São Paulo Games.

Format of Competition

The format was very similar to that of the Olympic Games. Each country was allowed to enter a team of eight gymnasts, but in contrast to the previous Olympics not more than six of them were allowed to participate in all exercises. Nations with incomplete teams, could enter one to three gymnasts for the individual competition. Six best gymnasts on the apparatus in the team competition (by sum of two scores - for compulsory and optional routine) qualified for that apparatus finals. The new feature of the competition was in women's events: each of them was judged by four judges. The highest and lowest marks were dropped and an average of two remaining marks constituted the score.

The scoring in the team competition was different from the one at the previous Olympics, its principle became the same: five best scores constituted the team's score for the routine; these scores constituted the overall team's totals.

Results

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team	USA Linda Metheny Joyce Tanac Kathy Gleason Marie Walther Donna Schaenzer Deborah Bailey	Canada Susan McDonnell Sandra Hartley Marilyn Minaker Glenna Sebestyen Suzanne Cloutier Dianne Masse	Cuba Zulema Bregado Nancy Aldama Manuela Ponce Yolanda Vega Yolanda Williams Julia Uría
All-Around	Linda Metheny United States of America (USA)	Joyce Tanac United States of America (USA)	Marie Walther United States of America (USA)
Vault	Linda Metheny United States of America (USA)	Donna Schaenzer United States of America (USA)	Marie Walther United States of America (USA)
Uneven Bars	Susan McDonnell Canada (CAN)	Linda Metheny United States of America (USA)	Kathy Gleason United States of America (USA)
Balance Beam	Linda Metheny United States of America (USA)	Deborah Bailey United States of America (USA)	Zulima Bregado Cuba (CUB)
Floor Exercise	Linda Metheny United States of America (USA)	Joyce Tanac United States of America (USA)	Donna Schaenzer United States of America (USA)

Medal Count

Rank	Country				Total
1	USA	5	5	4	14
2	Canada	1	1	0	2
3	Cuba	0	0	2	2