# Canoeing at the 2015 Pan American Games

Canoeing competitions at the 2015 Pan American Games surrounding Toronto were held in two disciplines: the sprint, from 11 to 14 July and the slalom, from 18 to 19 July. The slalom competition will be held at the Minden Wild Water Preserve in Minden Hills. The sprint events were staged at the Welland Pan Am Flatwater Centre in Welland.
At the Pan American Sports Organization's 2013 general assembly in Jamaica, canoe slalom competitions were added to the program. This was the first time slalom was staged at the Pan American Games. Furthermore, women also competed in canoe races for the first time ever in both disciplines.
The winners of the five canoe slalom competitions (besides the C-1 women event, which is not an Olympic event) qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. If Brazil, the host nation of the Olympics, won any events, the runner up qualified instead.

## Competition schedule

The following is the competition schedule for the canoeing competitions:
| H | Heats | ½ | Semifinals | F | Final |
Slalom :
| Event↓/Date → | Sat 18 | Sun 19 | Sun 19 |
| Men's slalom C-1 | H | ½ | F |
| Men's slalom C-2 | H | ½ | F |
| Men's slalom K-1 | H | ½ | F |
| Women's slalom C-1 | H | ½ | F |
| Women's slalom K-1 | H | ½ | F |
Sprint :
| Event↓/Date → | Sat 11 | Sat 11 | Sun 12 | Sun 12 | Mon 13 | Mon 13 | Tue 14 |
| Men's C-1 200 metres | | | H | ½ | | | F |
| Men's C-1 1000 metres | H | ½ | | | F | F | |
| Men's C-2 1000 metres | H | ½ | | | F | F | |
| Men's K-1 200 metres | | | H | ½ | | | F |
| Men's K-1 1000 metres | H | ½ | | | F | F | |
| Men's K-2 200 metres | | | H | ½ | | | F |
| Men's K-2 1000 metres | H | ½ | | | F | F | |
| Men's K-4 1000 metres | | | F | F | | | |
| Women's C-1 200 metres | | | | | | | F |
| Women's K-1 200 metres | | | H | ½ | | | F |
| Women's K-1 500 metres | H | ½ | | | F | F | |
| Women's K-2 500 metres | | | | | H | ½ | F |
| Women's K-4 500 metres | F | F | | | | | |

## Medal table

* Host nation (Canada)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Cuba | 6 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| 2 | Canada* | 5 | 5 | 4 | 14 |
| 3 | Brazil | 3 | 6 | 5 | 14 |
| 4 | United States | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 5 | Argentina | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| 6 | Ecuador | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Mexico | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (7 entries) | Totals (7 entries) | 18 | 18 | 19 | 55 |

## Medalists
### Slalom

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's C-1 details | Casey Eichfeld United States | Cameron Smedley Canada | Felipe Borges Brazil |
| Men's C-2 details | United States Devin McEwan Casey Eichfeld | Brazil Charles Correa Anderson Oliveira | Argentina Lucas Rossi Sebastián Rossi |
| Men's K-1 details | Michal Smolen United States | Pedro Gonçalves Brazil | Ben Hayward Canada |
| Women's C-1 details | Ana Sátila Brazil | Colleen Hickey United States | Haley Daniels Canada |
| Women's K-1 details | Jazmyne Denhollander Canada | Ana Sátila Brazil | Ashley Nee United States |

### Sprint
#### Men

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's C-1 200 m details | Isaquias Queiroz Brazil | Jason McCoombs Canada | Arnold Rodriguez Cuba |
| Men's C-1 1000 m details | Isaquias Queiroz Brazil | Mark Oldershaw Canada | Everardo Cristóbal Mexico |
| Men's C-2 1000 m details | Canada Benjamin Russell Gabriel Beauchesne-Sévigny | Brazil Erlon de Souza Silva Isaquias Queiroz | Cuba Serguey Torres José Carlos Bulnes |
| Men's K-1 200 m details | Mark de Jonge Canada | Edson Silva Brazil | César de Cesare Ecuador |
| Men's K-1 1000 m details | Jorge Garcia Cuba | Daniel Dal Bo Argentina | Adam van Koeverden Canada |
| Men's K-2 200 m details | Argentina Ezequiel Di Giacomo Rubén Voisard | Cuba Fidel Vargas Reinier Torres | Brazil Hans Heinrich Mallmann Edson Freitas da Silva |
| Men's K-2 200 m details | Argentina Ezequiel Di Giacomo Rubén Voisard | Cuba Fidel Vargas Reinier Torres | Canada Mark de Jonge Pierre-Luc Poulin |
| Men's K-2 1000 m details | Cuba Jorge Garcia Reinier Torres | Argentina Pablo de Torres Gonzalo Carreras | Brazil Celso Dias de Oliveira Junior Vagner Junior Souta |
| Men's K-4 1000 m details | Cuba Jorge Garcia Renier Mora Reinier Torres Alex Menendez | Brazil Roberto Maehler Vagner Junior Souta Celso Dias de Oliveira Junior Gilvan Bitencourt Ribeiro | Argentina Daniel Dal Bo Juan Ignacio Caceres Pablo de Torres Gonzalo Carreras |

#### Women

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Women's C-1 200 m details | Laurence Vincent Lapointe Canada | Anggie Avegno Ecuador | Valdenice Conceição Brazil |
| Women's K-1 200 m details | Yusmari Mengana Cuba | Michelle Russell Canada | Sabrina Ameghino Argentina |
| Women's K-1 500 m details | Yusmari Mengana Cuba | Michelle Russell Canada | Ana Paula Vergutz Brazil |
| Women's K-2 500 m details | Cuba Yusmari Mengana Yurieni Guerra | Argentina Sabrina Ameghino Alexandra Keresztesi | Mexico Karina Alanís Maricela Montemayor |
| Women's K-4 500 m details | Canada Émilie Fournel Kathleen Fraser Michelle Russell Hannah Vaughan | Cuba Daniela Martin Yurieni Guerra Lisandra Torres Jessica Hernandez | Argentina Maria Magdalena Garro Sabrina Ameghino Alexandra Keresztesi Brenda Rojas |

## Participating nations

A total of 17 countries have qualified athletes. The number of athletes a nation has entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.
* Argentina (17)
* Brazil (19)
* Canada (19)
* Chile (10)
* Colombia (8)
* Costa Rica (2)
* Cuba (15)
* Dominican Republic (1)
* Ecuador (5)
* Guatemala (1)
* Mexico (16)
* Paraguay (1)
* Peru (1)
* Puerto Rico (2)
* United States (11)
* Uruguay (6)
* Venezuela (16)

## Qualification

A quota of 160 canoers (40 slalom and 120 sprint) will be allowed to qualify. A maximum of fifteen athletes can compete for a nation in sprint, while a maximum of six can compete in slalom.