Beach volleyball at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification

Qualification system

A total of sixteen teams per gender qualified to compete at the games. The host nation (Canada) qualified in each event, along with the top five ranked nations in South America and the top ten nations ranked in North, Central America and the Caribbean. The rankings on January 1, 2015 were used to determine the teams.[1]

Qualification summary

NOC	Men	Women	Athletes
Aruba	X		2
Argentina	X	X	4
Brazil	X	X	4
Canada	X	X	4
Cayman Islands		X	2
Chile	X	X	4
Colombia		X	2
Costa Rica		X	2
Cuba	X	X	4
El Salvador	X	X	4
Guatemala	X	X	4
Mexico	X	X	4
Nicaragua	X	X	4
Puerto Rico	X	X	4
Saint Lucia	X		2
Trinidad and Tobago	X	X	4
United States	X	X	4
Uruguay	X	X	4
Venezuela	X		2
Total: 19 NOC's	16	16	64

Men

North, Central America and the Caribbean[2] Rank NOC Total 1  United States 5600 2  Canada 5560 3  Puerto Rico 5310 4  Mexico 5110 5  Guatemala 3220 6  Costa Rica 2740 7  Cuba 2710 8  Dominican Republic 2506 9  Trinidad and Tobago 2270 10  El Salvador 2090 11  Saint Lucia 1751 12  Aruba 1685 13  Nicaragua 1555 14  Virgin Islands 989 15  Cayman Islands 765 16  Barbados 490 17  Honduras 440 18  Jamaica 421 19  Saint Kitts and Nevis 325 20  Bahamas 280 21  Antigua and Barbuda 185 22  Grenada 150 23  Dominica 70 23  Belize 70 25  Panama 60 26  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 35 27  British Virgin Islands 10 28  Suriname 5

South America[3][4] Rank NOC Total 1  Brazil 1640 2  Chile 1580 3  Argentina 1460 4  Uruguay 1080 5  Venezuela 1000 6  Colombia 740 7  Paraguay 700 8  Bolivia 540 9  Peru 400 10  Ecuador 200

• As the host nation Canada, was ranked among the top ten nations, the eleventh nation (Saint Lucia) qualified as well. The Dominican Republic and Costa Rica declined their quotas. Their spots were given to the twelfth and thirteenth nations (Aruba and Nicaragua respective).

Women

North, Central America and the Caribbean[5]

Rank NOC Total 1  United States 6420 2  Mexico 5730 3  Canada 5645 4  Costa Rica 4475 5  Puerto Rico 3120 6  Guatemala 3000 7  Cuba 2280 8  Dominican Republic 2205 9  Trinidad and Tobago 2085 10  El Salvador 1615 11  Nicaragua 1435 12  Cayman Islands 1135 13  Honduras 1110 14  Saint Lucia 750 15  Saint Kitts and Nevis 695 16  Virgin Islands 671 17  Jamaica 470 18  Barbados 340 19  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 240 20  Grenada 35 21  Bahamas 25

South America[6][4] Rank NOC Total 1  Brazil 1680 2  Argentina 1600 3  Colombia 1180 4  Uruguay 1120 5  Chile 1080 6  Venezuela 980 7  Paraguay 900 8  Bolivia 620 9  Peru 620 10  Ecuador 300

• As the host nation Canada, was ranked among the top ten nations, the eleventh nation (Nicaragua) qualified as well. The Dominican Republic declined its quota.

References

1. "Volleyball Canada Internal Nomination Procedures (INP) for Beach Volleyball at the 2015 Toronto Pan Am Games" (PDF). volleyball.ca/. Volleyball Canada. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
2. "Men´s Ranking 2011-2014" (PDF). norceca.net/. North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation (NORCECA). Retrieved 19 December 2014.
3. "RANKING VOLEY DE PLAYA 2013 -2014 - MASCULINO" [Beach volleyball rankings 2013-14 Male] (PDF). voleysur.org (in Spanish). Confederación Sudamericana de Voleibol. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
4. "Presidente de la CSV realiza reunión anual de la Comisión de Organización Deportiva" [President of the CSV performs annual meeting of the Commission on Sports Organization]. voleysur.org (in Spanish). Confederación Sudamericana de Voleibol (CSV). 13 December 2014. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
5. "Women´s Ranking 2011-2014" (PDF). norceca.net/. North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation (NORCECA). Retrieved 19 December 2014.
6. "RANKING VOLEY DE PLAYA 2013-204 - FEMENINO" [Beach volleyball rankings 2013-14 Female] (PDF). voleysur.org (in Spanish). Confederación Sudamericana de Voleibol. Retrieved 19 December 2014.