![]() To complete the list of participants, the host nation ( Japan) can choose one man and one woman. ![]() The classification to participate in the next Olympic surf games is established in a hierarchical order through the WSL CT, the ISA World Surfing Games and the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima. The IOC established that 40 surfers (20 men and 20 women) of different nationalities will compete in the Olympic surf games, with a maximum of 2 participants by gender and country. As in the other Olympic sports, participants will compete for gold, silver and bronze. Maybe in the future other categories such as longboard are included. July 26th to August 2nd are the days for the Olympic Surf Games.Īt this first edition, Olympic surfing will have a single modality: shortboard. With pacific swell, this surf spot is located 80km western of Tokyio, in Ichinomiya town, where has been some international competitions. The Tsurigasaki beach is the chosen one for this Olympic edition. Where is going to be the championship? Pool wave or natural wave? The IOC (International Olympic Committe) finally settled down the controversy by deciding that the surf event will be at the sea. The announce of surfing becoming an Olympic sport at Tokyo 2020 put some doubts on the table. One beach, one category, and 40 surfers to get the gold. And that’s why today we’ll talk about how Olympic surfing is going to be. ![]() At Latas Surf, apart from catching waves, we like to keep updated with everything that surrounds the surf culture. We cannot deny that right now surfing is growing as a sport and as an industry, in the last decades it has expanded exponentially and has evolved to reach the level of the Olympic category. That’s an interesting debate that we will leave for another time. Given the Olympic’s restrictions on branding and advertising, will surfers will be on logo-less white boards?įerreira, Medina, Smith will be the top seeds for men, Moore, Marks, Gilmore for women.Surfing will make its debut as an Olympic sport at the Tokyo Olympic Games this summer.It is an historical moment for surfing as a sport, although there are contrary opinions that claim that taking surfing at the Olympic level contributes to lose its essence. Will it be in a wave pool like the Surf Ranch? Or in the sea? With surfing’s historic Olympic debut shortly upon us, there is still a bit of confusion as to how it will all work. While the father of modern surfing, Duke Kahanamoku won Olympic Gold in 100m freestyle swimming at Stockholm 1912, up until now the closest surfing has got was the inclusion of other ‘action sports’ such at BMX racing, or snowboarding in the Winter Olympics. Surfing, in its inaugural Olympic appearance in T okyo 2020 will be sh ortboarding, although there is speculation that it might broaden to other formats such as SUP or longboarding in later games. “We want to take sport to the youth… youth-focused events that are popular in Japan and will add to the legacy of the Tokyo Games,” explained IOC president Thomas Bach when the announcement was made. Surfing at the Olympic Games became official when the inclusi on of five new sports for Tokyo 2020 – surfing, skateboarding, sp orts climbing, baseball and karate were ann ounced in Rio in 2016.
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