The venue hosted the water polo competitions, but in the other side of the centre (an Olympic sized pool).

El Salvador and Guyana made their sport debuts at the Pan American Games.

A maximum total of 88 athletes (44 men and 44 women) qualified to compete at the games.

As host nation, Canada automatically qualified a full team of eights athletes.

[6] Badminton Canada mistakenly entered three time defending Pan American Championships gold medalists Adrian Liu and Derrick Ng in overlapping events, which is a World Badminton Federation rule violation.