Skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics

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
2024 →

Skateboarding 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]

  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. ^ a b 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.