# Canoeing at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification
## 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.

## Qualification summary

| NOC | Slalom | Slalom | Slalom | Slalom | Slalom | Sprint | Sprint | Sprint | Sprint | Sprint | Sprint | Sprint | Sprint | Sprint | Sprint | Sprint | Sprint | Sprint | Total | Total |
| NOC | Men | Men | Men | Women | Women | Men | Men | Men | Men | Men | Men | Men | Men | Women | Women | Women | Women | Women | Boats | Athletes |
| NOC | 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 | Boats | Athletes |
| 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.

## Slalom
### Qualification timeline

| Event | Date | Venue |
| 2014 Pan American Sports Festival | July 11–13, 2014 | Huauchinango, Mexico |

### Qualification table

| Event | 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 |

## 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

| Event | Date | Venue |
| 2014 Pan American Sports Festival | September 4–7, 2014 | Mexico City, Mexico |

### Men's K1 200m

| Competition | Vacancies | Qualified |
| 2014 Pan American Championship | 4 | Argentina Ecuador Brazil Mexico |
| Host nation | 1 | Canada |
| Reallocation | 2 | Colombia United States |
| Wildcard | 1 | Guatemala |
| TOTAL | 8 | |

### Men's K2 200m

| Competition | Vacancies | Qualified |
| 2014 Pan American Championship | 4 | Argentina Brazil Mexico Venezuela |
| Host nation | 1 | Canada |
| Reallocation | 2 | United States Uruguay |
| TOTAL | 7 | |

### Men's K1 1000m

| Competition | Vacancies | Qualified |
| 2014 Pan American Championship | 5 | Cuba Brazil Argentina Mexico Canada |
| Wildcard | 1 | Guatemala |
| TOTAL | 6 | |

### Men's K2 1000m

| Competition | Vacancies | Qualified |
| 2014 Pan American Championship | 4 | Cuba Argentina Mexico Brazil |
| Host nation | 1 | Canada |
| TOTAL | 5 | |

### Men's K4 1000m

| Competition | Vacancies | Qualified |
| 2014 Pan American Championship | 4 | Argentina Mexico Venezuela Chile |
| Host nation | 1 | Canada |
| Reallocation | 3 | Brazil Cuba Uruguay |
| TOTAL | 8 | |

### Men's C1 200m

| Competition | Vacancies | Qualified |
| 2014 Pan American Championship | 4 | Brazil Cuba Venezuela Ecuador |
| Host nation | 1 | Canada |
| Wildcard | 1 | Dominican Republic |
| TOTAL | 6 | |

### Men's C1 1000m

| Competition | Vacancies | Qualified |
| 2014 Pan American Championship | 4 | Brazil Cuba Colombia Mexico |
| Host nation | 1 | Canada |
| Wildcard | 1 | Dominican Republic |
| TOTAL | 6 | |

### Men's C2 1000m

| Competition | Vacancies | Qualified |
| 2014 Pan American Championship | 4 | Cuba Mexico Chile Venezuela |
| Host nation | 1 | Canada |
| TOTAL | 5 | |

### Women's K1 200m

| Competition | Vacancies | Qualified |
| 2014 Pan American Championship | 5 | Cuba Argentina Canada Colombia United States |
| Reallocation | 2 | Chile Ecuador |
| TOTAL | 7 | |

### Women's K1 500m

| Competition | Vacancies | Qualified |
| 2014 Pan American Championship | 5 | Cuba United States Brazil Argentina Colombia |
| Host nation | 1 | Canada |
| Reallocation | 1 | Ecuador |
| TOTAL | 7 | |

### 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

| Competition | Vacancies | Qualified |
| 2014 Pan American Championship | 5 | Cuba Argentina Mexico Brazil Canada |
| Reallocation | 3 | Colombia United States Venezuela |
| TOTAL | 8 | |

### Women's C1 200m

| Competition | Vacancies | Qualified |
| 2014 Pan American Championship | 6 | Brazil Ecuador Canada Chile Mexico Cuba |
| Wildcard | 2 | United States Peru |
| TOTAL | 8 | |