Skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics is an event to be held in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[2][3] It will be the debut appearance of skateboarding at the Summer Olympics. Skateboarding is one of five new sports added to the Olympic program specifically for 2020,[4] rather than as a permanent sport.[5]

Skateboarding
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
VenueAriake Urban Sports Park,[1] Tokyo Japan
Dates25 July – 5 August 2021
No. of events4
Competitors80
Skateboarding at the
2020 Summer Olympics
Qualification
Parkmenwomen
Streetmenwomen

Qualification
Main article: Skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

There are 80 quota spots available for skateboarding. Each event will have 20 competitors qualify: 3 from the World Championships, 16 from world rankings, and 1 from the host, Japan.[6]

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC), the governing body for each country’s Olympic goings-on, is allowed six men and six women for skateboarding, but no more than three athletes per gender per event.PP

— Amanda Capritto[7]

Event qualification is currently managed by World Skate.

Events

Four medal events will be held:[8]

  • Men
    • Park
    • Street
  • Women
    • Park
    • Street

Location

Skateboarding at the 2020 Olympics was originally scheduled to take place inside the Aomi Urban Venue.[9][10] However, the plan now is that Skateboarding competitions will be held at the Ariake Urban Sports Park,[11] Tokyo Japan.

Competition schedule

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9).[12][13]

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

Medalists
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men’s park
Women’s park
Men’s street
Women’s street

See also

References
  1. "Ariake Urban Sports Park". lg.jp. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  2. "IOC approves five new sports for Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 - Olympic News". Olympic.org. Retrieved 2016-08-08.
  3. "Skateboarding Is Now an Olympic Sport". RIDE Channel. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
  4. "IOC approves five new sports for Olympic Games Tokyo 2020". International Olympic Committee. 2019-02-18. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  5. "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.
  6. Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Skateboarding; World Skate, 6 April 2018
  7. "Everything you should know about skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics". cnet.com. 2019-08-10. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  8. "TOKYO 2020 EVENT PROGRAMME TO SEE MAJOR BOOST FOR FEMALE PARTICIPATION, YOUTH AND URBAN APPEAL". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
  9. Zaccardi, Nick (2016-12-07). "Tokyo 2020 Olympic venues approved for new sports". OlympicTalk. Retrieved 2017-05-08.
  10. "Aomi Urban Sports Park". lg.jp. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  11. "Ariake Urban Sports Park". lg.jp. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  12. "Schedule - Skateboarding Tokyo 2020 Olympics". Olympian Database. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  13. "Skateboarding Competition Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2020.


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