Weightlifting at the 2011 Pan American Games – Qualification

The top eighteen teams with the combined scores at the 2009 and 2010 Pan American Championship would qualify athletes, with the teams finishing higher, qualifying more athletes. Mexico as hosts enters a full team for each gender. Each nation may only enter a maximum of two athletes per weight category.

Men

 * Dominican Republic declined one quota.
 * Chile withdrawn due to drug failure

Women

 * Aruba had originally qualified a team of one female athlete, however that athlete (Jennifer Pifter) tested positive for drugs and was suspended. The athlete was replaced by an athlete from Honduras.