Water skiing at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification

Qualification system edit

Forty athletes qualified to compete at the games. The top eight nations (including the host nation, Canada) at the 2014 Pan American Championship, each received four athlete quotas in water skiing. A further eight spots were made available for wakeboard qualifiers. A nation could enter a maximum of three athletes in each gender in the water skiing competition.[1][2]

Qualification timeline edit

Event Date Venue
2014 Pan American Water Ski Championships[1] April 14–19   Bogotá
2015 Pan American Wakeboard Championships February 12–15   Buenos Aires

Qualification summary edit

NOC Water skiing Wakeboarding Total athletes
  Argentina 4 1 5
  Brazil 1 1 2
  Canada 4 1 5
  Chile 4 4
  Colombia 4 1 5
  Dominican Republic 1 1
  Ecuador 1 1
  Guatemala 1 1
  Mexico 4 1 5
  Peru 4 4
  United States 4 1 5
  Venezuela 1 1
Total: 12 NOCs 31 8 40

Water skiing edit

Eight nations took part at the Pan American Championships, and thus all eight qualify a full team.[3]

Event Qualified NOC's Water skiers
per NOC
Total
2014 Pan American Championship   Argentina
  Brazil
  Canada
  Chile
  Colombia
  Mexico
  Peru
  United States
4 28
2014 Pan American Championship   Brazil 1 1
Reallocation   Dominican Republic
  Guatemala
1 2
TOTAL 31
  • Brazil sent one water ski athlete, the remaining slots were reallocated.

Wakeboarding edit

Event Qualified Noc's Wakeboarders
per NOC
Total
Host nation   Canada 1 1
2014 Pan American Championship   Argentina
  Brazil
  Colombia
  Ecuador
  Mexico
  United States
  Venezuela
1 7
TOTAL 8

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Canada Names Athletes Headed to Colombia for Pan Am Championships". waterski-wakeboard.ca. Water Ski Wakeboard Canada. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  2. ^ "Sport Technical Manual Water skiing". scribd.com. TO2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  3. ^ "Panamerican Championship 2014" (PDF). iwwfed-ea.org. International Water Ski Federation. Retrieved 19 October 2014.

External links edit