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competitions at the 2019 Pan American Games in

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, are scheduled to be held at the Rio Canete located in the city of

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( slalom) and Albufera Medio Mundo in the city of

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( sprint). The sprint competitions will start on July 27 and finish on the 30th, while slalom will start on the August 2nd and finish on the 4th. In 2016, the

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(IOC) made several changes to its sports program, which were subsequently implemented for these games. Included in this was the addition of the women's C2 500 metres event in sprint (the women's C1 200 metres event was also added to the Olympics, but was already contested at the

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). This also meant the removal of two men's events in sprint (C1 200 and K2 200). Also added to just the Pan American Games program was the addition of two extreme (head to head) slalom kayak events. 18 medal events are scheduled to be contested, 12 in sprint (six per gender) and six in slalom (three per gender).

Medal table

Medalists

Slalom

Sprint

;Men ;Women

Qualification

A total of 169 canoe and kayak athletes will qualify to compete. 125 will qualify in sprint (60 per gender plus five wild cards) and 44 in canoe slalom (22 per gender). The host nation (Peru) is guaranteed two quotas in the slalom events and it must qualify in sprint. A nation may enter a maximum of 6 athletes in slalom (three per gender) and 16 in sprint.

References

External links

Results book – Canoeing – SlalomResults book – Canoeing – Sprint
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