Olympic Skateboarding Teams List
One of the most decorated skaters of all time nyjah huston is arguably.
Olympic skateboarding teams list. As skateboarding is new to the olympics there are many things that are being cleared up and put together. Official list of all summer winter and historical olympic sports. The skateboarding sport 100 is one of the 2020 tokyo olympic games. 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.
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. Skateboarding is making its way on to the biggest stage of them all. Skateboarding will make its olympic debut in tokyo 2020. You may have heard that the 2019 2020 usa national skateboard championships were held last weekend 10 18 at the california skateparks training facility ca tf in vista ca and that usa skateboarding usas or us ass as i like to call it announced the usa skateboarding national team roster.
World skate skateboarding will make its olympic debut at tokyo 2020 with four events. The competition will be held at the ariake urban sports park. 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 rather than as a permanent sport. In order to keep up to date on the olypmics check out the rest of our olympic series blog posts.
With the entry lists still to be decided we re taking a look at the big names who will be hoping to make an impact in olympic skateboarding. An action shot of usa s nyjah huston at the x games. Our plans moving forward are both simple in description and complicated in execution. If you want to see the full list of ranks you can check those out here at the worldskate website.
And it is just around the corner. 4 2 men 2 women national federation. The street skateboarding competitions will be held on 26 and 27 july 2020 and the park skateboarding competitions will be held on 5 and 6 august 2020. Usa skateboarding has today confirmed the 16 skateboarders who will represent their nation in olympic qualifying ahead of the tokyo 2020 olympic games.
The team consists of 8 male and 8 female competitors to be split evenly between the park and street disciplines during qualifying for tokyo 2020. Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display. Canada skateboard international federation. Learn about the disciplines sports and events that are part of the olympic movement.
The olympic games in tokyo 2020. Skateboarding at the 2020 summer olympics is an event to be held in the 2020 summer olympics in tokyo japan.