Skateboarding
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Skateboarding pictogram for the 2020 Summer Olympics
VenueAriake Urban Sports Park
Dates25 July – 5 August 2021
No. of events4
Competitors80 from 25 nations

Skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics was an event held in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[1][2][3] It was the debut appearance of skateboarding at the Summer Olympics.[4] Skateboarding was one of four new sports added to the Olympic program for 2020;[5] it is also provisionally approved for the 2024 Summer Olympic games.[6] The proposal to add skateboarding to the Olympics was approved in August 2016.[4]

Qualification

There were 80 quota spots available for skateboarding. Each event had 20 competitors: three qualified from the World Championships, 16 from the world rankings, and one from the host country of the Olympics, Japan.[7] The qualification for the event was managed by World Skate.

Events

Four medal events were held:[8] Both events consist of two rounds, prelims and finals.[9] The Park and Street events had their own specially designed courses that took into account gender and stance in order to have equality.[10]

Park
Street

Competition schedule

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9).[11][12]

DayDateStartFinishEventPhase
Day 2Sunday 25 July 20219:0013:55Men's streetPrelims Heats/Final
Day 3Monday 26 July 20219:0013:55Women's streetPrelims Heats/Final
Day 12Wednesday 4 August 20219:0013:40Women's parkPrelims Heats/Final
Day 13Thursday 5 August 20219:0013:40Men's parkPrelims Heats/Final

Participating NOCs

A total of 80 skateboarders from 25 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated.[13]

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Japan)

RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Japan*3115
2 Australia1001
3 Brazil0303
4 United States0022
5 Great Britain0011
Totals (5 entries)44412

Medal events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's park
 Keegan Palmer
 Australia		 Pedro Barros
 Brazil		 Cory Juneau
 United States
Women's park
 Sakura Yosozumi
 Japan		 Kokona Hiraki
 Japan		 Sky Brown
 Great Britain
Men's street
 Yuto Horigome
 Japan		 Kelvin Hoefler
 Brazil		 Jagger Eaton
 United States
Women's street
 Momiji Nishiya
 Japan		 Rayssa Leal
 Brazil		 Funa Nakayama
 Japan

See also

References

  1. ↑ "IOC approves five new sports for Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 - Olympic News". Olympic.org. Retrieved 2016-08-08.
  2. ↑ "Skateboarding Is Now an Olympic Sport". RIDE Channel. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
  3. ↑ "Ariake Urban Sports Park". lg.jp. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  4. 1 2 How skateboarding made it to the Olympics: an institutional perspective. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
  5. ↑ "IOC approves five new sports for Olympic Games Tokyo 2020". International Olympic Committee. 2019-02-18. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  6. ↑ "IOC Official news announcing the provisional inclusion of Skateboarding in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris". olympic.org. 2019-06-25. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
  7. ↑ Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Skateboarding; World Skate, 6 April 2018
  8. ↑ "TOKYO 2020 EVENT PROGRAMME TO SEE MAJOR BOOST FOR FEMALE PARTICIPATION, YOUTH AND URBAN APPEAL". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
  9. ↑ "Skateboarding - News, Athletes, Highlights & More". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-10-11.
  10. ↑ "Skateboarding | Olympic Sport". Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-10-11. Retrieved 2021-10-11.
  11. ↑ "Schedule - Skateboarding Tokyo 2020 Olympics". Olympian Database. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  12. ↑ "Skateboarding Competition Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  13. ↑ "Skateboarding - Athlete Profiles". www.olympics.com/tokyo-2020/. Tokyo Organizing Committee for the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. Archived from the original on 11 August 2021. Retrieved 10 August 2021.

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