2020 Canoe Slalom Oceania Championships (Olympic Qualifier)

For the slalom events, the men and women competed each in C-1 and K-1. Qualifications were allocated to NOCs, not to specific competitors. NOCs were limited to one boat per event. Qualification spots were earned as follows: World Championships: The top placed boats (considering only one boat per NOC) earned their NOCs a qualification. 18 qualification spots were available in the K-1 events, and 11 in the C-1. Continental Qualification Events: Only NOCs that did not earn qualification in a given event through the World Championships were eligible. For the K-1 and C-1 events, 1 qualification spot was available for each continent. These were assigned to continents based on World Championship results: the best ranked non-qualifying NOCs from three different continents at the World Championships earned their continent one boat qualification place. Host country: Japan, as the host country, is guaranteed one entry in each event if not already qualified. Tripartite Commission: Canoeing (both slalom and sprint) has a total of 2 qualification spots that would be awarded through Tripartite Commission invitations. Reallocation: Unused quota spots were reallocated.

NOCs are limited to one boat per event, and in kayaking to 6 men and 6 women positions. Qualification enables an NOC to participate, not necessarily in the person of the paddler who gained the place. Quotas given are for boats.[2] Qualification spots were earned as follows: World Championships: The top placed boats (considering only one boat per NOC) earned their NOCs a qualification. 5 boat qualification spots were available in the K-1 events with an additional place reserved for the host country each in the men's 1000 m and women's 500 m, 6 in the K-2 events, 10 in the K-4 events, 6 in the C-1 events (1 of which was reserved for the host country in the 1000 metre event), and 8 in the C-2 event. World Cup 2: The top placed boat (considering only one boat per NOC) in each individual event earned their NOCs a qualification. Continental Qualification Events: Only NOCs that did not earn qualification in a given event through the World Championships were eligible. For the K-1 and C-1 events, 1 boat qualification spot was available for each continent (except that Europe received 2 spots). For the K-2 events, Europe was guaranteed two boat qualification spots but only 6 total qualification spots were available for the remaining 4 continents; these were assigned to continents based on World Championship results: the best ranked non-qualifying NOCs from four different continents at the World Championships earned their continent one boat qualification place. Host country: Japan, as the host country, was guaranteed entries in certain events as listed in the World Championship section. Tripartite Commission: Canoeing (both slalom and sprint) had a total of 2 qualification spots that would be awarded through Tripartite Commission invitations. Reallocation: Unused quota spots were reallocated. In practice, this was used where some of an NOC's competitors in a larger boat category also competed in a smaller category, freeing up the athlete quota spot that NOC had earned in the smaller category.

^* Host quota Italic: National federation has qualified a boat but the athlete that did this was already counted in another boat AQ: National federation has qualified a boat but one of two athletes that did this was already counted in another boat TR: National federation has received an invitation from the Tripartite Commission ^: ICF decided that some of the events in Africa and Oceania needed to be reattributed to the World Championships lists because the events seen as invalid due to lack of eligible competitors. º: ICF decided that two quota places were combined together and reallocated to the next best ranked NOC not qualified in a larger boat category, should they be available from team boats in the same gender and category. South Africa declined all their quotas obtained in African Games 2019.