Canoeing at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

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The following is about the qualification system and qualified countries for the Canoeing at the 2019 Pan American Games competition to be held in Lima, Peru.

Qualification timeline

Events	Date	Venue
2018 Pan American Canoe Sprint Championships [1] [2]	September 13–16	Dartmouth
2019 Pan American Canoe Slalom Championships	April 26–28	Três Coroas

Qualification system

A total of 169 canoe and kayak athletes will qualify to compete. 125 will qualify in sprint (60 per gender plus five wild cards) and 44 in canoe slalom (22 per gender). ^[3] The host nation (Peru) is guaranteed two quotas in the slalom events and it must qualify in sprint. A nation may enter a maximum of 6 athletes in slalom (three per gender) and 16 in sprint. ^[3] The 2018 Pan American Canoe Sprint Championships and the 2019 Pan American Canoe Slalom Championships will be used to distribute the quotas.

Qualification summary

NOC	Slalom						Sprint												Total
	Men			Women			Men						Women						Boats	Athletes
	K1	C1	EK1	K1	C1	EK1	K1 200	K1 1000	K2 1000	K4 500	C1 1000	C2 1000	K1 200	K1 500	K2 500	K4 500	C1 200	C2 500
Argentina	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X	X			15	17
Belize							X	X					X	X	X				5	3
Bolivia	X		X																2	1
Brazil	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X			X	X	16	15
Canada	X	X		X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	15	20
Chile	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X			X		X	X	X	X	X	X	14	12
Colombia							X	X									X	X	4	3
Costa Rica	X	X																	2	1
Cuba							X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	12	12
Dominican Republic							X	X	X		X								4	3
Ecuador							X	X	X		X	X	X	X	X		X		9	6
Guatemala							X	X									X		3	2
Jamaica							X	X											2	1
Mexico	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	15	19
Paraguay				X	X														2	1
Peru	X	X		X	X								X	X	X	X			8	8
Puerto Rico							X	X	X				X	X					5	3
Trinidad and Tobago							X	X	X										3	2
United States	X	X		X	X			X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		14	17
Uruguay								X	X	X	X								4	5
Venezuela	X	X		X	X	X					X	X	X	X	X	X			11	11
Total: 21 NOCs	10	9	5	9	9	4	16	16	11	7	11	6	12	12	10	8	9	6	170	165

Slalom

A total of 44 quota spots are available in slalom (34 in slalom and 10 in extreme). The top 9 in each kayak event (including the host nation, Peru) will qualify along with the top 8 in each canoe event. An athlete can only compete in one slalom event (but can compete in two if the country has not qualified a spot in the other event). One wild card spot will also be allocated A further 5 spots will be available for each extreme event. All athletes qualified in slalom can compete in the extreme events. ^[3] At the end of qualification, one spot in kayak women, women's extreme kayak and men's canoe slalom along with the wild card quota (for a total of four quotas) were not used. ^{[4] [5]}

Qualification table

Event	K1 Men	C1 Men	K1 Women	C1 Women	Extreme K1 Men	Extreme K1 Women
2019 Pan American Canoe Slalom Championships	Argentina   Bolivia   Brazil   Canada   Chile   Costa Rica   Mexico   Peru   United States   Venezuela	Argentina   Brazil   Canada   Chile   Costa Rica   Mexico   Peru   United States   Venezuela	Argentina   Brazil   Canada   Chile   Mexico   Paraguay   Peru   United States   Venezuela	Argentina   Brazil   Canada   Chile   Mexico   Paraguay   Peru   United States   Venezuela	Argentina   Bolivia   Brazil   Chile   Mexico	Argentina   Brazil   Chile   Venezuela
Total 11 NOC's	10	9	9	9	5	4

• Countries in italics are double starters (the athlete qualified in another event but is also starting in the other event). Countries are listed in alphabetical order.
• Note: Total quotas awarded were 40 (9 in men's kayak, 7 in men's canoe, 8 in both women's kayak and canoe, 5 in men's extreme and 4 in women's kayak). The total numbers above reflect double starters.
• Other countries may double up until the conclusion of entries.

Sprint

A total of 125 quotas were distributed. An athlete can only qualify one boat for their country. In each discipline the competitions will start with the larger boats and work their way down till the last event. In the second event and onward (if applicable) for each discipline, places can only be qualified by athletes that have not already qualified. Countries qualified in the largest boat per discipline/gender are required to compete in the smaller boats as well (even if they do not qualify additional athletes). This is summarized per event below. There will be 5 wild card spots handed out to countries that failed to qualify, but competed at the qualification tournament. An athlete qualifying in event can compete in another event, as long as no other boat from their country is competing. ^{[3] [6]}

Only one country did not qualify: Jamaica. They will be awarded with a wild card slot in the event their athlete competed. The other four wild card spots will be reallocated. The USA qualified one more athlete then the maximum allowed in men's kayak. That spot will be reallocated. In both canoe disciplines, both filled their quotas. In women's kayak 11 quota spots need to be reallocated. Argentina qualified an extra slot in kayak (11 in total) which will need to be reallocated, leaving a total of 17 spots to be reallocated.

Three nations: Dominican Republic, Venezuela and host nation Peru received reallocated quotas even though they did not compete at the qualifiers.

Men's K4 500m

Competition	Boats	Athlete total	Qualified
2018 Pan American Championship	6	24	Canada   Argentina   Mexico   Brazil   Cuba   United States
Reallocation	1	1	Uruguay
TOTAL	7	25

• Uruguay received an extra kayak slot to enter a boat.

Men's K2 1000m

Competition	Boats	Athlete total	Qualified
2018 Pan American Championship	5	10	Argentina   Uruguay   United States   Puerto Rico   Ecuador
2018 Pan American Championship required to compete	4	N/A	Canada   Mexico   Brazil   Cuba
Reallocation	2	3	Dominican Republic   Trinidad and Tobago
TOTAL	11	13

• Trinidad and Tobago received one extra athlete slot to enter in this event.

Men's K1 1000m

Competition	Boats	Athlete total	Qualified
2018 Pan American Championship	5	5	Uruguay   Colombia   United States   Belize   Trinidad and Tobago
2018 Pan American Championship required to compete	4	N/A	Canada   Mexico   Brazil   Cuba
Entries from other events	5	N/A	Argentina   Chile   Dominican Republic   Ecuador   Puerto Rico
Reallocation	1	1	Guatemala
Wildcard	1	1	Jamaica
TOTAL	16	7

Men's K1 200m

Competition	Boats	Athlete total	Qualified
2018 Pan American Championship	5	5	Ecuador   Argentina   Canada   Chile   Mexico
2018 Pan American Championship required to compete	2	N/A	Brazil   Cuba
Entries from other events	9	N/A	Belize   Colombia   Dominican Republic   Guatemala   Jamaica   Puerto Rico   Trinidad and Tobago   Uruguay   United States
TOTAL	17	5

Men's C2 1000m

Competition	Boats	Athlete total	Qualified
2018 Pan American Championship	4	8	Cuba   Brazil   Canada   Mexico   Colombia
Reallocation	2	4	Ecuador   Venezuela
TOTAL	6	12

• Colombia declined its two athlete quotas.

Men's C1 1000m

Competition	Boats	Athlete total	Qualified
2018 Pan American Championship	5	5	Argentina   Canada   Chile   Colombia   Mexico   United States
2018 Pan American Championship required to compete	2	N/A	Cuba   Brazil
Entries from other events	2	N/A	Ecuador   Venezuela
Reallocation	2	2	Dominican Republic   Peru
TOTAL	10	7

• Colombia declined its quota

Women's K4 500m

Competition	Boats	Athlete total	Qualified
2018 Pan American Championship	6	24	Canada   Mexico   Argentina   Chile   Cuba   United States
Reallocation	2	8	Peru   Venezuela
TOTAL	8	32

Women's K2 500m

Competition	Boats	Athlete total	Qualified
2018 Pan American Championship	5 1	10 2	Ecuador   Colombia
2018 Pan American Championship required to compete	6	N/A	Canada   Mexico   Argentina   Chile   Cuba   United States
Entries from other events	2	N/A	Peru   Venezuela
Reallocation	1	1	Belize
TOTAL	10	10 3

• Colombia declined its quota.
• Belize was given an extra quota to compete in the event.

Women's K1 500m

Competition	Boats	Athlete total	Qualified
2018 Pan American Championship	5 3	5 3	Brazil   Puerto Rico   Belize
2018 Pan American Championship required to compete	6	N/A	Canada   Mexico   Argentina   Chile   Cuba   United States
Entries from other events	3	N/A	Ecuador   Peru   Venezuela
TOTAL	12	3

Women's K1 200m

Competition	Boats	Athlete total	Qualified
2018 Pan American Championship	5 2	5 2	Canada   Argentina   Colombia
2018 Pan American Championship required to compete	4	N/A	Mexico   Chile   Cuba   United States
Entries from other events	5	N/A	Belize   Brazil   Ecuador   Peru   Venezuela
TOTAL	11	2

Women's C2 500m

Competition	Boats	Athlete total	Qualified
2018 Pan American Championship	5	10	Canada   Cuba   Chile   Brazil   Colombia
Reallocation	1	1	Mexico
TOTAL	6	11

• Mexico was given an extra quota to compete in the event.

Women's C1 200m

Competition	Boats	Athlete total	Qualified
2018 Pan American Championship	6	6	Brazil   Canada   Ecuador   Guatemala   Mexico   United States
2018 Pan American Championship required to compete	3	N/A	Cuba   Chile   Colombia
TOTAL	9	6

References

1. "City of Lakes welcomes Pan-Am paddlers". CTV News . Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 13 September 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2018. The championship runs until Sunday and serves as a qualifier for the 2019 Pan-American games in Peru
2. Pavitt, Michael (14 September 2018). "Canadian success continues at Pan American Canoe Sprint Championships". Insidethegames.biz. Dunsar Media. Retrieved 15 September 2018. In many disciplines, the Championships will serve as a qualifier for the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima.
3. "Qualification System manual" (PDF). www.panamsports.org/. Pan American Sports Organization. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
4. Aline, Mona (28 May 2019). "COPAC is proud to announce the Quota Distribution for Canoe Slalom and Extreme Slalom". www.copaconline.com/. Pan American Canoe Federation (COPAC). Retrieved 28 May 2019.
5. "Accepted Quotas 2019 Lima Games Doubling options" (PDF). www.copaconline.com/. Pan American Canoe Federation (COPAC). 28 May 2019. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
6. Aline, Mona (5 June 2019). "COPAC is proud to announce the Quota Distribution for Canoe Sprint". www.copaconline.com/. Pan American Canoe Federation (COPAC). Retrieved 9 June 2019.