Water skiing at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification explained

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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	April 14–19	Bogotá
2015 Pan American Wakeboard Championships	February 12–15	Buenos Aires

Qualification summary

NOC	width=80	Water skiing !	width=80	Wakeboarding !	width=100	Total athletes
	4	1	5
	1	1	2
	4	1	5
	4		4
	4	1	5
	1		1
		1	1
	1		1
	4	1	5
	4		4
	4	1	5
		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
		4	28
		1	1
Reallocation		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		1	1
		1	7
TOTAL			8

External links

• 2014 Pan American Water Ski Championship results
• 2015 Pan American Wakeboard Championship results

Notes and References

1. Web site: Canada Names Athletes Headed to Colombia for Pan Am Championships . waterski-wakeboard.ca . Water Ski Wakeboard Canada . 19 October 2014.
2. Web site: Sport Technical Manual Water skiing. scribd.com . . 13 June 2015.
3. Web site: Panamerican Championship 2014 . iwwfed-ea.org . International Water Ski Federation . 19 October 2014.