See main article: Water skiing at the 2023 Pan American Games. The following is the qualification system and qualified countries for the Water skiing at the 2023 Pan American Games competitions.
A total of 48 athletes will qualify to compete at the games. The host nation, Chile, automatically qualifies four athletes in water ski and two in wakeboard. The top seven nations at the 2022 Pan American Water Skiing Championship will each receive four athlete quotas. A further 7 spots are made available for wakeboard qualifiers in each event.[1]
| Events | Date | Venue | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Pan American Wakeboard Championships | May 13–15 |  Nova Lima | |
| 2022 South American Games | October 7–9 | Asuncion | |
| 2022 Pan American Water skiing championships | November 29 – December 3 | 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 | |||||
| 4 | 4 | |||||||
| 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | |||||||
| 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| Total: 10 NOCs | 32 | 8 | 8 | 48 |
| Event | Qualified NOC's | Water skiers per NOC | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host | 4 | 4 | ||
| 2022 Pan American Championship[2] | 4 | 24 | ||
| 2022 Pan American Championship | 2 | 2 | ||
| TOTAL | 32 | |||
A total of eight countries qualified in wakeboarding.
| Event | Quotas | Qualified Men[3] | Qualified Women[4] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host nation | ||||
| 2022 Pan American Championship | [5] | |||
| 2022 South American Games | ||||
| TOTAL | 8 | 8 | 8 |