American Skateboarding Olympic Team
Our plans moving forward are both simple in description and complicated in execution.
American skateboarding olympic team. And it is just around the corner. The 16 members of the inaugural u s a skateboarding national team announced in march will compete to qualify for skateboarding at the 2020 tokyo olympic games. It was officially added to the program by vote during the. Men and women will each compete in park and street events.
Skateboard gb has announced its team of 5 who will benefit from uk sport s aspiration fund to help them qualify for the tokyo 2020 olympic games for teamgb sky brown alex decunha sam beckett. Stu gomez photos. Team canada skateboarding will make its olympic debut at tokyo 2020 with four events. Skateboarding will make its debut at the olympic games tokyo 2020 which are now scheduled to take place in 2021.
Both skateboarders huston in skateboard street and schaar in skateboard park will compete in the 2019 qualifier season as official national team members for a chance to represent the united states in the premiere of skateboarding as a sanctioned olympics event. The skateboarding sport 100 is one of the 2020 tokyo olympic games. Monster energy congratulates team riders nyjah huston and tom schaar on joining the first ever usa skateboarding national team. National teams that compete in the olympic games pan american games and other sanctioned team events.
For now we know that there will be two disciplines involved in this sport park and street and each discipline will include both men and women events. It is our responsibility to overlay the olympic structure on skateboarding necessary to send the best skateboarders in the united states to tokyo in 2020 while at the same time contributing to the positive growth of a sport built on the passion of millions of children. In june of 2018 usa skateboarding became the 50th national governing body ngb recognized by the united states olympic committee usoc and responsible for the selection training and fielding of u s.