Canoeing at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification

Qualification systems

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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

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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.

Slalom

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Qualification timeline

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

Qualification table

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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

Sprint

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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

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Event Date Venue
2014 Pan American Sports Festival[5] September 4–7, 2014   Mexico City, Mexico

Men's K1 200m

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

Men's K2 200m

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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

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Competition Vacancies Qualified
2014 Pan American Championship 5   Cuba
  Brazil
  Argentina
  Mexico
  Canada
Wildcard[4] 1   Guatemala
TOTAL 6

Men's K2 1000m

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

Men's K4 1000m

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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

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

Men's C1 1000m

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

Men's C2 1000m

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

Women's K1 200m

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

Women's K1 500m

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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

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Competition Vacancies Qualified
2014 Pan American Championship 5   Cuba
  Colombia
  United States
  Mexico
  Canada
Reallocation 1   Puerto Rico
TOTAL 6

Women's K4 500m

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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

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Competition Vacancies Qualified
2014 Pan American Championship 6   Brazil
  Ecuador
  Canada
  Chile
  Mexico
  Cuba
Wildcard[4] 2   United States
  Peru
TOTAL 8

References

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  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "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.
  5. ^ "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.
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