Archery at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification explained

See main article: Archery at the 2015 Pan American Games.

Qualification system

A total of 64 archers (32 per gender) will qualify to compete at the games. There was three qualification tournaments for countries to qualify their athletes. A nation may enter only three athletes per gender. If a nation does qualify the maximum number of athletes, it will also qualify for the team event in the respective gender.^[1]

The top five teams plus the host nation will qualify three athletes per respective gender at the Pan American Championships. The Top athletes in each gender will also qualify from the Pan American Olympic Festival. Eight individual slots are also up for qualification at the 2014 Pan American Championship. Finally, four slots per gender will also be available at a last chance qualification tournament in 2015. If a country winning a slot at the Pan American Olympic Festival, wins a team slot later, the individual quota is added to the eight available at the Pan American Championship.^[1]

A nation may also qualify a team if it managed to qualify up to three individuals at the three qualification tournaments. An archer may not compete in the last chance qualification event, if they have already qualified a quota for their country.^[1]

Qualification timeline

Event	Date	Venue
	July 17–19	Toluca
2014 Pan American Championship^[2] ^[3]	October 19–25	Rosario
2015 Copa Merengue^[4]	March 16–22	Santo Domingo

Qualification summary

Nation					Total
	width=65	Individual	width=65	Team	width=65	Individual	width=65	Team	width=55	Athletes
	2		3	X	5
	3	X	3	X	6
	3	X	3	X	6
	3	X	3	X	6
	3	X	3	X	6
			1		1
	3	X	3	X	6
	2		2		4
	1				1
	1		1		2
	2		1		3
	3	X	3	X	6
	2				2
	3	X	3	X	6
	1		3	X	4
Total: 15 NOCs	32	7	32	9	64

Men

Event	Criterion	Qualified	Archers per NOC	Total
Host nation	–		3	3
	–	–	1	0
	Team event		3	15
	Individual event		2	6
	Individual event		1	4
2015 Copa Merengue	Individual event		2	2
	Individual event		1	2
TOTAL				32

1. The United States and Mexico won individual spots at the Pan American Olympic Festival, but later won team spots. This mean the two individual quotas were added to the Pan American Championships.

Women

Event	Criterion	Qualified	Archers per NOC	Total
Host nation	–		3	3
	–	–	1	0
	Team event		3	15
	Individual event		3	3
	Individual event		2	4
	Individual event		1	3
2015 Copa Merengue	–		1	4
TOTAL				32

1. The United States and Colombia won individual spots at the Pan American Olympic Festival, but later won team spots. This mean the two individual quotas were added to the Pan American Championships.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Qualification System Archey . coparco.org/ . World Archery Americas . 23 October 2014.
2. Web site: Places allocated for the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games. 23 October 2014. coparco.org/. World Archery Americas. 23 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141205234543/http://www.coparco.org/InfoBulletins/2014/No652014.pdf. 5 December 2014. dead.
3. Web site: Pan American Championships 2014.
4. Web site: FINAL distribution of spots for the archery competition of the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games. 20 March 2015 . coparco.org/ . World Archery Americas . 21 March 2015.