Canoeing at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification explained

See main article: Canoeing at the 2015 Pan American Games.

Qualification systems

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]

Qualification summary

NOC	Slalom					Sprint													Total
	width=33 colspan=3	Men !	Women		Men								Women					width=50 rowspan="2"	Boats !	width=50 rowspan="2"	Athletes
	width=33	K1!	width=33	C1!	width=33	C2 !	width=33	K1 !	width=33	C1!	width=33	K1 200 !	width=33	K2 200 !	width=33	K1 1000 !	width=33	K2 1000 !	width=33	K4 1000 !	width=33	C1 200 !	width=33	C1 1000 !	width=33	C2 1000 !	width=33	K1 200 !	width=33	K1 500 !	width=33	K2 500 !	width=33	K4 500!	width=33	C1 200
	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X				X	X		X		13	17
	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X			X		X	X	15	20
	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	18	21
	X			X						X		X	X	X				X	7	10
	X	X				X						X		X	X	X	X		8	8
	X	X																	2	2
								X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	11	15
											X	X							2	1
						X					X			X	X			X	5	5
						X		X											2	1
	X	X		X		X	X	X	X	X		X	X			X	X	X	13	18
				X	X														2	2
																		X	1	1
																X			1	2
	X	X	X	X	X	X	X							X	X	X	X	X	12	14
							X			X									2	6
	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.

Slalom

Qualification timeline

width=350	Event !	width=200	Date !	width=200	Venue
	July 11–13, 2014	Huauchinango, Mexico

Qualification table

width=170	Event^[3] !	width=160	K1 Men !	width=160	C1 Men !	width=160	C2 Men !	width=160	K1 Women !	width=160	C1 Women

Total 10 NOC's	9	8	5	8	5

Sprint

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.

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

width=350	Event !	width=200	Date !	width=200	Venue
2014 Pan American Sports Festival^[4]	September 4–7, 2014	Mexico City, Mexico

Men's K1 200m

Competition	Vacancies	Qualified
2014 Pan American Championship	4
Host nation	1
Reallocation	2
Wildcard	1
TOTAL	8

Men's K2 200m

Competition	Vacancies	Qualified
2014 Pan American Championship	4
Host nation	1
Reallocation	2
TOTAL	7

Men's K1 1000m

Competition	Vacancies	Qualified
2014 Pan American Championship	5
Wildcard	1
TOTAL	6

Men's K2 1000m

Competition	Vacancies	Qualified
2014 Pan American Championship	4
Host nation	1
TOTAL	5

Men's K4 1000m

Competition	Vacancies	Qualified
2014 Pan American Championship	4
Host nation	1
Reallocation	3
TOTAL	8

Men's C1 200m

Competition	Vacancies	Qualified
2014 Pan American Championship	4
Host nation	1
Wildcard^[5]	1
TOTAL	6

Men's C1 1000m

Competition	Vacancies	Qualified
2014 Pan American Championship	4
Host nation	1
Wildcard	1
TOTAL	6

Men's C2 1000m

Competition	Vacancies	Qualified
2014 Pan American Championship	4
Host nation	1
TOTAL	5

Women's K1 200m

Competition	Vacancies	Qualified
2014 Pan American Championship	5
Reallocation	2
TOTAL	7

Women's K1 500m

Competition	Vacancies	Qualified
2014 Pan American Championship	5
Host nation	1
Reallocation	1
TOTAL	7

Women's K2 500m

Competition	Vacancies	Qualified
2014 Pan American Championship	5
Reallocation	1
TOTAL	6

Women's K4 500m

Competition	Vacancies	Qualified
2014 Pan American Championship	5
Reallocation	3
TOTAL	8

Women's C1 200m

Competition	Vacancies	Qualified
2014 Pan American Championship	6
Wildcard	2
TOTAL	8

External links

Sprint Pan American Championship results

Notes and References

Web site: Pan American Games 2015 Slalom Qualification System . copaconline.com . Pan American Canoe Federation . 12 August 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140812204351/http://copaconline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/COPAC-Qualifier-system-40.pdf . 12 August 2014 . dead .
Web site: COPAC Canoe/Kayak Sprint Qualifier System for the Pan American Games; Toronto 2015 . 4 November 2013 . copaconline.com . Pan American Canoe Federation . 12 August 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140812212256/http://copaconline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Final-Doc.-Qualification-October.pdf . 12 August 2014 . dead .
Web site: Boats Qualified after the Pan American Olympic Festival . copaconline.com . Pan American Canoe Federation . 12 August 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140812210547/http://copaconline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Slalom-Pan-Am-qualification-Toronto-2015_16072014.pdf . 12 August 2014 . dead .
Web site: 2015 Panamerican Games Qualification Overall Table of Qualifiers . 9 February 2015 . copaconline.com . Pan American Canoe Federation (COPAC) . 11 February 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150211231157/http://copaconline.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Overal-Table-of-Qualifiers.pdf . 11 February 2015 . dead .
Web site: 2015 Panam Games Qualification Wild Card Distribution . copaconline.com . Pan American Canoe Federation (COPAC) . 10 February 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150210190632/http://copaconline.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Wild-Card-Distribution.pdf . 10 February 2015 . dead .