2020 Olympics Skateboarding Team Canada
In tokyo 2020 skateboarding will be a new sport in the olympic program.
2020 olympics skateboarding team canada. Not everyone agrees that this will be good for skateboarding. With the tokyo 2020 olympic games on the horizon and the lima 2019 pan american games coming even sooner team canada is always ready to take on the world. Canada is expected to compete at the 2020 summer olympics in tokyo originally scheduled to take place from 24 july to 9 august 2020 the games have been postponed to 23 july to 8 august 2021 because of the covid 19 pandemic. Love it or loathe it skateboarding is in the olympics.
So in light of the lack of information surrounding olympic skateboarding and more specifically australia s involvement we had a chat with chris middlebrook who is teeing things up for the australian olympic team. Skateboarding surfing and climbing will make their olympic debut at tokyo 2020 where they will be subject to a programme of monitoring. Since the nation s debut in 1900 canadian athletes have appeared in every edition of the summer olympic games with the exception of the 1980 summer olympics in moscow. Canadian pro skater and olympic hopeful annie guglia from.
And in this page what we will focus on is about the national skateboarding teams of every participating country since some of them have assembles their armies. A mix of olympic veterans and rising young stars make canada poised to contend with the world s best in many sports including some which will be on the olympic program for the very first time. Both skateboarders huston in skateboard street and schaar in skateboard park will compete in the 2019 qualifier season as official national team members for a chance to represent the united states in the premiere of skateboarding as a sanctioned olympics event at the 2020 tokyo olympic games. The exact competition dates are july 26th july 27th august 5th and august 6th in the year of 2020.
Skateboard street july 24 25 2020 and skateboard park august 4 5 2020. Roll through central park with tony hawk and talk skateboarding in the 2020 olympics lizzie armanto doing the loop tony s roll at the laureus academy chan. The 2020 tokyo olympic games will feature male and female skateboarders in two disciplines. 4 2 men 2 women national federation.
The competition venue is ariake urban sports park. July 25 26 august 4 5 2021 days 2 3 12 13 events. Skateboarding at tokyo 2020.