Sailing has been a sport of the Pan American Games since the inaugural 1951 Pan American Games, being contested in every edition, except for the 1955 edition.

[1][2][3] Updated after the 2023 Pan American Games.

At the 1959 edition, Barton Kirkconell from Jamaica[4] and Rawle Barrow from Trinidad and Tobago[5] earned, together, a bronze medal at the Flyting Dutchman class.

The medal is credited to the West Indies Federation.

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