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American Olympic skateboarding hopefuls will get their first and last chance to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Games by competing in Dew Tour events, the annual skateboard competition and festival held in Long Beach, California. World Skate, Mountain Dew, and the Adventure Sports Network Group made a joint announcement of the plan for Olympic qualifications Thursday.
More than 300 male and female skaters from around the world compete for the Dew Tour title. The World Skateboarding Rankings are maintained by World Skate. Olympic qualification will be based on those rankings in World Skate sanctioned events between now (this year’s Dew Tour) and May 31, 2020 (next year’s Dew Tour). Each country will send a maximum of six men and six women to the Games, with a total of 20 competitors in each Olympic skateboarding event: park and street. The top three finishers at the 2020 World Championships will qualify, one from the host country and the remainder based on their ranking over the qualifying period.
“Our main goal has always been to guarantee the true soul of skateboarding and the top skateboarders in the world to be represented at the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020: we see the cooperation with Dew Tour as one more step towards the fulfillment of the best event possible in the Games,” said World Skate President, Sabatino Aracu.
This comes a month after USA Skateboarding announced its first-ever national team of eight men and eight women who will attempt to qualify for the Olympic team, although hopefuls not named to the national team can still qualify on their own if they’re a top-three finisher at the 2020 World Championships.
