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In 2018, the International Surfing Association (ISA) announced that surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics would take place in the ocean, and not in an artificial wave pool. [4] The contest site for the 2020 Games was announced to be Tsurigasaki Beach located about 40 miles (64 km) outside of Tokyo in Ichinomiya , Chiba . [ 5 ]
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. [1] In June 2016, the executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that they would support the proposal to include all of the ...
All winners of the Paris Olympics surfing competition are first-time Olympic medalists, after defending Olympic women’s champion Carissa Moore of the United States — who won at the Tokyo Games ...
2021 ISA World Surfing Games – the top 4 men and 6 women will be awarded quota places. If a NOC or National Olympic Committee qualifies more than the maximum number of athletes, the 2021 ISA World Surfing Games will prevail and any places earned from 2019 will be reawarded to the next highest finishing athlete(s).
Men's and women's surfing at the Tokyo Olympics will take place at Tsurigasaki Beach in Ichinomiya, about 45 miles southeast of Olympic Stadium. ... with the men's final on Aug. 5 followed by the ...
She was the first-ever winner of the Olympic gold medal in women's shortboard surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She is also a five-time world champion, winning in 2011 , 2013 , 2015 , 2019 and 2021 on the World Surf League WSL Women's World Tour .
On a quiet day for waves at Tahiti's Teahupo’o surf break, USA's Caroline Marks edged Brazil's Tatiana Weston-Webb for the gold medal in a dramatic Olympics women's surfing final.
She is the 2023 World Surf League Women's World Tour Champion and an Olympic gold medalist at the 2024 Paris Olympics. She has won multiple national championships and is the youngest woman to compete in a World Surf League event. Marks is the youngest surfer to qualify for the women's Championship Tour. [1] [2]