Olympic Skateboarding

Sky Brown and Bombette Martin both qualified and competed for Team GB at the Olympic Games in the Skateboard Park competition.

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The qualification system is based on World Skateboarding Rankings. Skateboarders will earn points by competing in World Skate sanctioned events during the Olympic qualifying period and will be able to accrue points by competing at these events. Points will be awarded for the different level events, for example skaters will get more points for winning an international event, than they would for winning a regional event.

Olympic Skateboarding will feature two disciplines: Park and Street.

Park

Park (or bowl) competitions take place on a hollowed-out course, which resembles an empty swimming pool, with steep sides and almost vertical at the top. Skaters will perform tricks such as grabs and spins out of the top of the bowl, grinds around the pool coping and aiming to be as creative as possible around the entire course.

Street

The street skateboarding competition course takes its influence from the streets (hence the name) and features stairs, handrails, benches, walls and ledges. This type of skateboarding is most popular across the world and will see skaters doing various flip tricks, grinds, slides and big gaps.

Yes. Skateboarding made its debut as an Olympic sport at the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in 2021 (originally 2020).

A team of 5 experienced judges will decide the winners through a scoring system for each run the skateboarder performs. The criteria will be based on speed, difficulty, originality, timing, stability, air time and the overall flow of the performance.

Park

Each skateboarder will get 3 runs each (in the final). Five judges will score competitors using a 0-100-point scale. The highest and lowest scores are dropped, and the remaining three scores are averaged to calculate a score for each run. The best scored run of each skater will count towards the competition result.

Street

Skateboarders will perform two 45-second runs and five individually scored tricks in each. Both of the runs, and each of the five tricks, will be judged by five judges using a 0-10.0 points scale. The highest and lowest are dropped with the remaining three scores averaged out to give a score for each run and trick (seven scores). The best four scores from runs or tricks will be added to give the total round score (best possible score is 40).

For more technical information about Olympic Skateboard events and disciplines please see World Skate Skateboarding Rulebook.

The Paris 2024 games will have 2 skateboarding disciplines for both male and female; 4 events in all. There will be 20 places for each event, 80 in total.

Of the 20 places for each event :

• 16 athletes will qualify through the Olympic World Skateboarding Rankings, by gaining points from competing a various Olympic qualifying events throughout the year. Most points qualify.
• 3 athletes will directly qualify as the highest-ranked skaters in the World Skate World Skateboarding Championship events
• 1 place will be reserved for the host nation of Japan. This person is the highest-ranked skater in the host nation; in this case, Japan.

Each country is allowed 6 men and 6 women for skateboarding, but no more than 3 athletes per gender, per event. For example, Brazil may have 7 skaters in the top 16, but only the first 3 of those 7 will qualify.

Skateboard GB selected a team of 10 skateboarders in July / August 2022.

The selection process for Skateboard GB utilises various attributes for deciding team members. The Skateboard GB selection panel considered several criteria, including trick difficulty level, trick repertoire, competition results and performances. The next selection period will be in Summer 2023.

Skateboard GB has been working with UK Sport, Sport England and the Home Nation skateboarding governing bodies to create a talent pathway and performance programme, called the Pipeline Project to give British skateboarders the best opportunity to take part in future Olympic Games. The next selection period will be in 2-23.

Skateboard GB is a recipient of UK Sport Progression Funding, enabling us to support British skateboarders to qualify for the next Olympic Games.

There is currently no Paralympic skateboarding events and thus no provision for a Paralympic team at this current time.

Contact and media requests for athletes can be made through our Contact Form. We aim to responded within 24-48 hours.

The selection policy can be found here.