Olympic Skateboarding

The selection policy can be found here.

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

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

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

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.

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

The IOC introduced the Olympic Qualifying Series (OQS); Two events which take place in Shanghai (May 2024) and Budapest (June 2024). The top 44 skateboarders (per discipline / per gender), 176 in total, are allocated place at these events, with a maximum of 6 per gender / per discipline for each country. The OQS competitions carry a much greater weighting of points (almost X3 that of a World Championships), meaning that any competitor can quickly accumulate a lot of points with a god result at either of these events. Competitors also carry forward their points from previous Olympic qualifying events.

World Skate provides the latest skateboarder rankings.

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.

The Paris 2024 games will have 2 skateboarding disciplines for both male and female; 4 events in all. There will be 22 places for each event, 88 in total.

Of the 22 places for each event : -       20 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.

- 1 Place will be reserved for the host nation of France. This person is the highest-ranked skater in the host nation; in this case, France

- 1 Universality Place.

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.

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 difficulty and variety of performed tricks, flow or consistency in the performance, quality of execution, use of course/obstacles in a performance and repetition.

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 each. Both of the runs, and each of the five tricks, will be judged by five judges using a 0-100 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 score from the best run and the score from the two best tricks will be added to give the total round score (best possible score is 300).

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

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.

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

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