Swimming at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

A total of 350 swimmers will qualify in the pool and a total of 40 additional open water swimmers will qualify as well. As Host Country, Peru automatically will qualify 18 male and 18 female competitors in the pool.[1] Each National Olympic Comitte (NOC) may use proven swim times attained during the qualification period of those swimmers who have met the qualifying standards established by the UANA for the 2019 Pan American Games at a competition recognized by the FINA from the official list of approved qualifying competitions for the 18th FINA World Aquatics Championships held in Gwangju, Korea. Each event (besides the relays) have an A standard (two entries allowed) or a B standard (one entry allowed). Countries not qualified can enter one male and one female swimmer through the universality rule. In open water, Canada and the USA automatically qualify two per gender, with eight spots being awarded in each gender to CONSANAT and CCCAN.[1]

The time standards (all long course) for the 2019 Pan American Games are:

A total of 37 countries qualified swimmers or received universality spots. Only 326 of 350 quota spots were distributed. A total of 167 male swimmers and 159 swimmers were entered.[2]

NOC	Men	Women	Athletes
Antigua and Barbuda	1	1	2
Argentina	11	6	17
Aruba	2	1	3
Bahamas	6	4	10
Barbados	3	2	5
Bermuda	1	2	3
Bolivia	3	1	4
Brazil	18	17	35
Canada	2	14	16
Cayman Islands	2	1	3
Chile	5	4	9
Colombia	8	6	14
Costa Rica	2	1	3
Cuba	7	5	12
Dominican Republic	1	1	2
Ecuador	5	4	9
El Salvador	1	2	3
Grenada	1	1	2
Guatemala	2	2	4
Guyana	1	1	2
Haiti	1	1	2
Honduras	3	4	7
Jamaica	1	1	2
Mexico	11	11	22
Nicaragua	2	2	4
Panama	4	5	9
Paraguay	5	4	9
Peru	15	15	30
Puerto Rico	4	3	7
Saint Lucia	1	0	1
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1	1	2
Suriname	1	1	2
Trinidad and Tobago	3	3	6
United States	18	18	36
Uruguay	2	3	5
Venezuela	11	10	21
Virgin Islands	2	1	3
Total: 37 NOC's	167	159	326