Canoeing_at_the_2015_Pan_American_Games_–_Qualification
A quota of 160 canoers (40 slalom and 120 sprint) will be allowed to qualify. Both slalom and sprint will have one qualification event each at the Pan American Olympic Festival, where a specific number of boats per event will qualify. For the sprint events a total of three athlete quotas have been reserved for nations that have not qualified an athlete. A nation may enter a maximum of six male kayakers, four male canoers, five female kayakers, and one female canoer. A maximum of fifteen athletes can compete for a nation in sprint, while a maximum of six can compete in slalom. In slalom nations may choose to have the same athlete in the same event, reducing the number of athletes from forty. The remaining quotas (after teams select their squads) in sprint will be reallocated to countries not already qualified. The host nation (Canada) is guaranteed participation in each event, granted it partakes in the qualification events. Countries qualifying athletes in the K-1 and C-1 slalom events for men but not the C-2 event may compete in the C-2 event using athletes qualified in the first two events.[1][2]
| NOC | Slalom | Sprint | Total | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Women | Men | Women | Boats | Athletes | |||||||||||||||
| K1 | C1 | C2 | K1 | C1 | K1 200 | K2 200 | K1 1000 | K2 1000 | K4 1000 | C1 200 | C1 1000 | C2 1000 | K1 200 | K1 500 | K2 500 | K4 500 | C1 200 | |||
 Argentina | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 13 | 17 | |||||
 Brazil | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 15 | 20 | |||
 Canada | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 18 | 21 |
 Chile | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 7 | 10 | |||||||||||
 Colombia | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 8 | 8 | ||||||||||
 Costa Rica | X | X | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
 Cuba | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 11 | 15 | |||||||
 Dominican Republic | X | X | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
 Ecuador | X | X | X | X | X | 5 | 5 | |||||||||||||
 Guatemala | X | X | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
 Mexico | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 13 | 18 | |||||
 Paraguay | X | X | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
 Peru | X | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
 Puerto Rico | X | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
 United States | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 12 | 14 | ||||||
 Uruguay | X | X | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
 Venezuela | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 9 | 18 | |||||||||
| Total: 17 NOCs | 9 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 160 | |
- Nations may enter boats in any of the sprint events, granted they have enough quotas for that discipline.
Qualification timeline
| Event | Date | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 Pan American Sports Festival | July 11–13, 2014 |  Huauchinango, Mexico |
Qualification table
| Event[3] | K1 Men | C1 Men | C2 Men | K1 Women | C1 Women |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pan American Olympic Festival | Brazil Argentina Canada United States Venezuela Costa Rica Colombia Mexico Chile | Brazil Argentina United States Venezuela Canada Mexico Colombia Costa Rica | Brazil Argentina United States Venezuela Canada | Brazil Argentina Canada United States Paraguay Mexico Venezuela Chile | Brazil Paraguay United States Argentina Canada |
| Total 10 NOC's | 9 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 5 |
17 countries took part in qualification races. Out of those 17, ten managed to qualify a single quota. The remaining seven who competed (Barbados, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago and Uruguay) were eligible for the three remaining quotas reserved for countries not having any quotas at the qualification event. However the results of the Pan American Championships were used instead to determine the wildcards, with two of the previously nations not qualified (Guatemala and Dominican Republic) receiving a quota, along with the United States in the women's canoe event.[4]
- Argentina had qualified ten male kayakers and six female kayakers (the maximum allowed is six for male and five for female), this created a further five athlete quotas.
- Canada had qualified 23 athletes, with the maximum being 15 athletes. This created a further eight athlete quotas.
- Cuba has qualified eight female athletes (with a maximum allowing for five female). This created an additional three athlete quotas.
- Mexico has qualified ten male kayakers and six female kayakers (the maximum allowed is six for male and five for female), this created an additional five athlete quotas.
- A minimum total of 21 athlete quotas had to be redistributed.
Qualification timeline
| Event | Date | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 Pan American Sports Festival[5] | September 4–7, 2014 | Mexico City, Mexico |
Men's K1 200m
Men's K2 200m
Men's K1 1000m
Men's K2 1000m
Men's K4 1000m
Men's C1 200m
Men's C1 1000m
Men's C2 1000m
Women's K1 200m
Women's K1 500m
Women's K2 500m
| Competition | Vacancies | Qualified |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 Pan American Championship | 5 | Cuba Colombia United States Mexico Canada |
| Reallocation | 1 | Puerto Rico |
| TOTAL | 6 |
Women's K4 500m
Women's C1 200m
- "Pan American Games 2015 Slalom Qualification System" (PDF). copaconline.com. Pan American Canoe Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
- "COPAC Canoe/Kayak Sprint Qualifier System for the Pan American Games; Toronto 2015" (PDF). copaconline.com. Pan American Canoe Federation. 4 November 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
- "Boats Qualified after the Pan American Olympic Festival" (PDF). copaconline.com. Pan American Canoe Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
- "2015 Panam Games Qualification Wild Card Distribution" (PDF). copaconline.com. Pan American Canoe Federation (COPAC). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 February 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- "2015 Panamerican Games Qualification Overall Table of Qualifiers" (PDF). copaconline.com. Pan American Canoe Federation (COPAC). 9 February 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 February 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2015.