Water skiing at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification

Main article: Water skiing at the 2015 Pan American Games

Qualification system

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

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

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

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

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