Starting Thursday in Rio, twenty-one Pan American nations will race for the quota places allocated to the Americas for the Paris Olympics and Paralympics.
Five crews will qualify for Paris out of the Men's & Women's Singles, two crews in the Lightweight Doubles, and only the winning crew out of the three Para events: the two PR1 Singles and the Paralympic's newest event, the PR3 Mixed Double.
Each of the nations racing this week will be limited to one Paralympic and two Olympic spots, with the exception of Chile and Mexico. Those two nations can only earn one Olympic place, having already qualified one crew each at Worlds last year: the W2- for Chile and the LM2x for Mexico. Any nation placing more crews in quota places than it can accept would select the crew(s) that qualify. An unused quota place passes to the next place in that event.
The men's single field will once again be the deepest, with nineteen scullers, seven of whom are returning Olympians. The women's single features nine entries and four Olympians.
Tokyo Olympians will also be in the mix for the light doubles, with Chile's intact LM2x returning and Uruguay's Felipe Kluver Ferreira lining up with a new partner while his 202One boatmate Bruno Cetraro Berriolo pursues the single. On the women's side, both Argentina's Evelyn Maricel Silvestro and Guatamala's Yulis Lopez will race with new partners in hopes of getting back to a second Games.
One change to the America's Qualifier this year is that only two light doubles (per gender) can qualify, down from three in previous years. World Rowing made the change to address rowing's slightly lower athlete quota for Paris.
The Para PR1 singles include entries from Canada, which did not send para athletes to Belgrade. In those races, Argentina's Brenda Sardon of Argentina and Mexico's Michel Munoz Malagon will be racing for spots at their second Paralympic Games. Mexico also has the most senior crew in the four boat PR3 Mixed Double field.
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