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Four nations, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica and El Salvador, were guaranteed to compete in Santiago 2023 after Chloe Calmón (BRA), Olivia Stokes (CAN), Roan Reyes (BRA) and Sindy Portillo (ESA) took the Pan American podium today in that order from gold to copper in the women's longboard, in the Pan American Championship that today concluded its seventh day of championship in Santa Catalina.

The nomination for the classification has not yet been made by name and surname because the event with the highest hierarchy for the classification of the other four places in the longboard category will be the ISA World Championship that will take place between May 7 and 13 in El Salvador.

Since the maximum quota per country is one athlete, it may happen that a surfer from the same country as Calmón, Stokes, Reyes and Portillo surpasses them in the Salvadoran event and therefore ends up without using the partial classification they achieved here.

We will have to wait until between the 7th and the 13th for those names to be confirmed or to go further down the ranking.

If any of them manages to be eligible through the ISA in El Salvador, they will drop further down the rankings and there are several interesting things happening there because the one who remains in this Pan American for qualification is Samantha Wilson, who if that happens will occupy the slot of the host country.

In this way, we would have to go to the previous round and the qualifying round, so if it happens that only one of these four or those four countries qualifies for the World Cup in El Salvador, the slot would go to the Peruvian Ana Camila Kaspar.

If she were to drop one more place in the ranking, in that case the spot would go to Uruguayan Inés Beisso.

If it happens that three people from those countries qualify through the ISA World Cup, Iana Ramirez from Puerto Rico would also qualify.

And finally, if the four nations mentioned above qualify in El Salvador, then they would give the qualification to the Colombian Margarita Conde.