Surfing at the Summer Olympics

Surfing at the Summer Olympics
IOC Code	SRF
Governing body	ISA
Events	2 (men: 1; women: 1)
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Medalists

Competitions in the sport of surfing, governed by the International Surfing Association (ISA), have been held at two editions of the Summer Olympic Games. First selected as one of the discretionary sports at the 2020 and 2024 games, surfing will be inducted as one of the mandatory sports at the 2028 games. Athletes compete in the discipline of shortboard surfing, which is the sole event in the sport at the Olympics. The United States have won the most gold medals (2), while Brazil have won the most medals overall (3).

Tsurigasaki, worlds first Olympic surf beach in Japan

Bid for inclusion

In September 2015, surfing was included in a shortlist along with baseball, softball, karate, skateboarding, and sport climbing to be considered for inclusion in the 2020 Summer Olympics. In June 2016, the executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that they would support the proposal to include all of the shortlisted sports in the 2020 Games. Finally, on August 3, 2016, all five sports (counting baseball and softball together as one sport) were approved for inclusion in the 2020 Olympic program.

One of the biggest obstacles to surfing being included in the Olympics for many years was a landlocked country hosting the games which would make surfing events difficult to stage, and another one was that drowning is one of the big risks in surfing, and the IOC was less likely to take high liabilities in the event of a death.

Events

Event	20	24	Years
Men's shortboard	X	X	2
Women's shortboard	X	X	2
Total	2	2

Venues

The surfing competitions took place in the following locations:

Edition	Place
2020	Tsurigasaki beach, Chiba
2024	Teahupo'o reef pass, Tahiti

Medalists

Men's shortboard

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2020 Tokyo	Ítalo Ferreira  Brazil	Kanoa Igarashi  Japan	Owen Wright  Australia
2024 Paris	Kauli Vaast  France	Jack Robinson  Australia	Gabriel Medina  Brazil

Women's shortboard

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2020 Tokyo	Carissa Moore  United States	Bianca Buitendag  South Africa	Amuro Tsuzuki  Japan
2024 Paris	Caroline Marks  United States	Tatiana Weston-Webb  Brazil	Johanne Defay  France

Medal table

Sources:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	2	0	0	2
2	Brazil (BRA)	1	1	1	3
3	France (FRA)	1	0	1	2
4	Australia (AUS)	0	1	1	2
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	1	2
6	South Africa (RSA)	0	1	0	1
Totals (6 entries)		4	4	4	12

External links

• Surfing at tokyo2020.org