Skateboarding at the Summer Olympics

Skateboarding at the Summer Olympics
IOC Code	SKB
Governing body	World Skate
Events	4 (men: 2; women: 2)
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Medalists

Competitions in the sport of skateboarding, governed by World Skate, have been held at two editions of the Summer Olympic Games. First selected as one of the discretionary sports at the 2020 and 2024 games, skateboarding will be inducted as one of the mandatory sports at the 2028 games. Athletes compete in the disciplines of park and street skateboarding – each their own events. Japan has won both the most gold medals (5) and most medals overall (9).

Bid for inclusion

In September 2015, skateboarding was included in a shortlist along with baseball, softball, karate, surfing, and sport climbing to be considered for inclusion in the 2020 Summer Olympics; and in June 2016, the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that they would support the proposal to include all of the shortlisted sports in the 2020 Games. Finally, on August 3, 2016, all five sports (counting baseball and softball together as one sport) were approved for inclusion in the 2020 Olympic program. One of the biggest obstacles for skateboarding for an inclusion at the Olympics was that huge injuries in skateboarding were so risky (which can include death) and the IOC was less likely to take liabilities. Also the skateboarding sub-culture helped push the idea that the Olympic Games were too "mainstream" for the sport, and as a result skateboarding organizations did not campaign heavily for the sport's inclusion.

Summary

Games	Year	Events	Best Nation
32	2020	4	Japan (1)
33	2024	4	Japan (2)
34	2028	4

Events

Current program

Event	2020	2024	2028	Total
Men's park	X	X	X	3
Men's street	X	X	X	3
Women's park	X	X	X	3
Women's street	X	X	X	3
Total	4	4	4	12

Participating nations

The following nations have taken part in the Olympic skateboarding competition. The numbers in the table indicate the number of competitors sent to that year's Olympics.

Nation	2020	2024	2028	Years
Australia	5	9		2
Argentina	5	2		2
Austria	1	2		2
Brazil	10	12		1
Canada	4	4		1
China	2	4		2
Colombia	1	1		2
Chile	1	7		2
Czech Republic	1	1		2
Denmark	1	1		2
France	5	7		2
Finland	1	1		2
Germany	2	2		2
Great Britain	2	3		2
Indonesia	–	4		1
Iran	–	1		1
Italy	3	2		2
Japan	10	10		2
Kazakhstan	1	1		2
Morocco	5	1		2
New Zealand	–	2		1
Netherlands	2	2		2
Poland	1	2		2
Portugal	1	2		2
Peru	1	7		2
Philippines	1	7		2
Puerto Rico	2	1		2
ROC	3	–	–	1
Slovenia	2	1		2
South Africa	3	3		2
South Korea	2	3		2
Spain	4	5		2
Sweden	1	1		2
Switzerland	1	1		2
Thailand	5	1		2
Ukraine	–	2		1
United States	10	12		2
Nations	19	22		24
Skateboarders	40	68
Year	2020	2024	2028	3

Medal table

Sources:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	5	3	1	9
2	Australia	3	0	0	3
3	Brazil	0	3	2	5
4	United States	0	2	3	5
5	Great Britain	0	0	2	2
Totals (5 entries)		8	8	8	24

Medalists

Men

Park

Further information: Park skateboarding

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2020 Tokyo	Keegan Palmer  Australia	Pedro Barros  Brazil	Cory Juneau  United States
2024 Paris	Keegan Palmer  Australia	Tom Schaar  United States	Augusto Akio  Brazil
2028 Los Angeles

Street

Further information: Street skateboarding

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2020 Tokyo	Yuto Horigome  Japan	Kelvin Hoefler  Brazil	Jagger Eaton  United States
2024 Paris	Yuto Horigome  Japan	Jagger Eaton  United States	Nyjah Huston  United States
2028 Los Angeles

Women

Park

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2020 Tokyo	Sakura Yosozumi  Japan	Kokona Hiraki  Japan	Sky Brown  Great Britain
2024 Paris	Arisa Trew  Australia	Kokona Hiraki  Japan	Sky Brown  Great Britain
2028 Los Angeles

Street

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2020 Tokyo	Momiji Nishiya  Japan	Rayssa Leal  Brazil	Funa Nakayama  Japan
2024 Paris	Coco Yoshizawa  Japan	Liz Akama  Japan	Rayssa Leal  Brazil
2028 Los Angeles

External links

• Video - Full Replay: Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Women's Street First Skateboarding Contest (olympics.com, IOC, OBS, english)
• Video - Full Replay: Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Men's Street First Skateboarding Contest (olympics.com, IOC, OBS, english)
• Video - Full Replay: Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Women's Park First Skateboarding Contest (olympics.com, IOC, OBS, english)
• Video - Full Replay: Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Men's Park First Skateboarding Contest (olympics.com, IOC, OBS, english)
• Skateboarding at tokyo2020.org