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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]
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; [1] 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. [2]
For the second consecutive Olympics, Team Japan dominated the street event – and it could do the same in the park category starting August 6. ... Japan aside, women’s skateboarding across both ...
The 2020 Summer Olympics men's park skateboarding competitions took place on August 5, 2021 at the Ariake Urban Sports Park in Tokyo, Japan. [2] Competition format
Yuto Horigome of Japan won the first ever skateboarding competition at the Olympic Games, taking gold in men’s street on Sunday in the city where he learned to skate as a kid and where his sport ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -Yuto Horigome of Japan claimed the first Olympic gold medal in skateboarding after recovering his composure with high-scoring tricks in the final rounds of an event held in his ...
Skateboarding competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics were held from 28 July to 7 August at Place de la Concorde, returning to the program for the second time since the sport's official debut three years earlier in Tokyo 2020. [1]
In the women's park event in Tokyo, Japan's Kokona Hiraki, then 12, won silver and Britain's Sky Brown, only 13, took the bronze. ... ever male competitor in the sport at the Olympic Games ...