This section tabulates the heads of qualification in a form suitable to be filled in as events progress. The full qualification rules[1] for canoeing (slalom) published by ICF contain intricate conditions too lengthy for inclusion in Wikipedia.
For the slalom events, the men competed in C-1, C-2, and K-1. Women competed in K-1 only. Qualifications were allocated to NOCs, not to specific competitors.[2]
This section tabulates the heads of qualification in a form suitable to be filled in as events progress. The full qualification rules[3] for canoeing (sprint) published by ICF contain intricate conditions too lengthy for inclusion in Wikipedia.
NOCs are limited to one boat per event, and in kayaking to 8 men and 6 women positions.
Qualification enables an NOC to participate, not necessarily in the person of the paddler who gained the qualification.
Quotas given are for boats.
Italic: National federation has qualified a boat but the athlete that did this was already counted in another boat
^: ICF decided that two of the events in Oceania needed to be reattributed to the World Championships lists because the events seen as invalid due to lack of eligible competitors.