See main article: Water skiing at the 2019 Pan American Games. The following is the qualification system and qualified countries for the Water skiing at the 2019 Pan American Games competitions.
A total of 48 athletes will qualify to compete at the games. The top seven nations (including the host nation, Peru) at the 2018 Pan American Water Skiing Championship, will each receive four athlete quotas. The remaining spots (four) will be distributed as two per nation (one per gender) to the next best ranked countries. A further 8 spots are made available for wakeboard qualifiers in each event. A nation may enter a maximum of six athletes, with the host nation Peru receiving automatic qualification for all six spots.[1]
| Events | Date | Venue | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 Pan American Wakeboard Championships | October 10–14 |  Bogota | |
| 2018 Pan American Wakeboard Championships | November 2–3 |  Chapala | |
| 2018 Pan American Water skiing championships | November 12–18 | Santiago |
| NOC | width=80 | Water skiing ! | width=80 | Men's wakeboarding ! | width=80 | Women's wakeboarding ! | width=100 | Total athletes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||
| 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| 2 | 2 | |||||||
| 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 4 | 1 | 5 | ||||||
| 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| Total: 10 NOCs | 32 | 8 | 8 | 48 |
| Event | Qualified NOC's | Water skiers per NOC | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host | 4 | 4 | ||
| [2] | 4 | 24 | ||
| 2 | 4 | |||
| TOTAL | 32 | |||
A total of nine countries qualified in wakeboarding.[3]
| Event | Quotas | Qualified Men | Qualified Women | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host nation | ||||
| 2017 Pan American Championship[4] [5] | ||||
| 2018 Pan American Championship[6] [7] | ||||
| Reallocation | ||||
| TOTAL | 8 | 8 | 8 |