A total of 109 taekwondo athletes will qualify to compete at the games.
The top twelve athletes, along with the host nation per weight category, excluding the women's +67 kg (which will qualify only 8 athletes) will qualify at qualification tournament in March 2015.
A further nine wildcards (five male, four female) will be distributed by the Pan American Taekwondo Union, to countries which did not qualify any athletes in the qualification tournament.
[1] Only five nations did qualify any athletes, which allowed for four countries to receive an additional quota through a wildcard.
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