Surfing at the 2024 Summer Olympics
2024 Paris Olympic event
| Surfing at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad | |
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| Venue | Teahupo'o reef pass, Tahiti, French Polynesia |
| Dates | 27 July / 5 August 2024 |
| No. of events | 2 (1 men, 1 women) |
| Competitors | 48 from 21 nations |
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Surfing at the 2024 Summer Olympics is scheduled to take place 27 July – 5 August 2024 in Teahupo'o reef pass, Tahiti, French Polynesia, breaking the record for the farthest medal competition to stage outside the host city.[1][2] A total of 48 surfers (24 for each gender) will compete in the shortboard events, augmenting the athlete size by eight more than those in Tokyo 2020.[3]
Venue
The surfing competition will stage in Teahupo'o, Tahiti, the French overseas territory of Polynesia in the southern Pacific. The decision was made to hold the surfing competition in the French territory instead of continental Europe because of the famous massive waves on the island suitable for the surfing competitions.[1]
Qualification
The qualification system for Paris 2024 builds on the previous format used for Tokyo 2020, ensuring the participation of the world's best professional surfers, along with the vast promotion of geographical universal opportunities for surfers around the world at the Games. While the quota of two surfers per gender and country remains intact, two exceptions to this rule have been introduced for the ISA World Surfing Games 2022 and 2024 team champions which may result in some teams seeing their quota expand to three surfers.[4]
Competition schedule
| R1 | Round 1 | R2 | Round 2 | R3 | Round 3 | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | F | Final |
| Event ↓ / Date → | Sat 27 | Sun 28 | Mon 29 | Tue 30 | Wed 31 | ||
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| Men's shortboard | R1 | R2 | R3 | ¼ | ½ | F | |
| Women's shortboard | R1 | R2 | R3 | ¼ | ½ | F | |
This is the current schedule, though depending on weather conditions, events can occur up until August 4.[5]
Participating nations
A total of 48 surfers from 21 nations qualified. Canada made its Olympic debut in the sport.[6]
Australia (4)
Brazil (6)
Canada (1)
China (1)
Costa Rica (1)
El Salvador (1)
France (4) Host
Germany (2)
Indonesia (1)
Israel (1)
Italy (1)
Japan (4)
Mexico (1)
Morocco (1)
New Zealand (2)
Nicaragua (1)
Peru (3)
Portugal (2)
South Africa (3)
Spain (3)
United States (5)
Medal summary
Medal table
* Host nation (France)
| Rank | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| Totals (0 entries) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Medalists
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Women's shortboard details |
See also
References
- ^ a b "Tahiti approved as Olympic surfing venue for 2024 Paris Games". NBC Sports. 3 March 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
- ^ "Paris 2024 – Surfing". Paris 2024. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
- ^ Franceschi Neto, Virgilio (17 August 2022). "How to qualify for surfing at Paris 2024. The Olympics qualification system explained". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
- ^ "International Olympic Committee and ISA Confirm Qualification Process for Surfing Competition at Paris 2024 Olympics". International Surfing Association. 31 May 2022. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
- ^ a b "OLYMPIC SCHEDULE - SURFING". Retrieved 14 March 2024.
- ^ Rachini, Mouhamad (3 November 2023). "Riding the wave to history: B.C. teen first Canadian surfer to qualify for Olympics". www.cbc.ca/radio/. CBC Radio. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
Surfing made its Olympic debut in the 2020 summer games in Tokyo; 20 men and 20 women from across all continents qualified for those games, but none of them were Canadian. Canada's surfing competition debut will come in 2024 though, thanks to Dempfle-Olin's performance in the 2023 Pan American Games.
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