^* 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.