2024: A World Skate Year In Review!

2024: A World Skate Year In Review!

Seasons Greetings from us all at World Skate, as 2024 slips away and the quarter-way point of the new century hoves into view (let that sink in).
2024 was of course a landmark year for skateboarding, with the most-watched Olympic Games in history able to count skateboarding amongst its top four most-searched disciplines online (again, let that sink in).
The World Skateboarding Ranking has continued to chart the rise and fall of fortunes throughout the year and has established itself as the sole barometer of competitive skateboarding success through both Pro Tour and World Championship events each year both inside and outside of Olympic cycles.

Skateboarding in the Olympics is of course only one of our responsibilities as your International Federation- and so let’s take a stroll back through this historic year to look at everything we have collectively achieved together as a community over the last twelve months.

The year began with a re-scheduled 2022 Downhill Skateboarding & Street Luge World Championships in The Philippines, which despite some technical challenges still produced intense and unbelievably scenic racing from a track characterised by danger at every turn.

By February the entire World Skateboarding Tour was back in Dubai for what has to have been the most all-time amazing waterfront location for both Street and Park events over the course of two (largely) sun-kissed weeks of wild skateboarding from the Arabian Gulf, which saw Spain take a double win in Park while Japan repeated the feat in Street- thereby setting up all kinds of drama in the cut for the Olympic Qualifier Series which followed.

OQS Shanghai saw the great reshuffle of the cards in both Park and Street- it was where Jagger Eaton’s Olympic double-discipline dream ended and where the pre-Olympic nerves made huge differences in both fields.

Following hot on Shanghai’s March heels was OQS Budapest in June.
Amid soaring summer temperatures on a beautiful University campus in one of Europe’s most elegant cities, Hungary hosted its biggest-ever skateboarding contests.
Budapest will be remembered for Tom Schaar and Sky Brown’s heroics in Park, Yuto Horigome’s First Olympic Miracle and a Women’s Street contest that brought the house down.

High Summer saw the Paris Olympic Games.
As a subscriber to this newsletter you will already be aware of just how big a success skateboarding was at the Games, but if not just ask Snoop.
As mentioned at the top of this rewind, the IOC’s own analytics for the viewership of the Paris Olympics and skateboarding’s part in it are nothing short of eye-popping.

Huge though Paris was, September brought with it WSG Italia, in which no fewer than 5 skateboarding World Championships were decided over the space of three weeks across that splendid country.
From Vert to Slalom, Park to Downhill to Street, watch an incredible season finale for each just by clicking on the relevant word within this very sentence!

Events aside, 2024 also saw big developments in the spheres of Coaching and Judging for World Skate.
As well as our Coaching Framework being launched at WST Dubai and the Coaching Education and Accreditation System come into effect as a result, we also brought together our Women In Sport High-Performance Pathway and Youth Athlete Development programs at Woodward West in California.
The YAD program will be expanding for 2025, we should also add.
Our Judging Commission (ISJC) were no less busy on the development front this year, with the launch of a dedicated YouTube channel for Judging Education and the launch of our Judging Certification system which is both raising standards of judging at national level but also opening up progression pathways for aspiring judges to move up through the ranks and adjudicate ever-bigger contests as skateboarding continues to expand and develop all around the world.
Finally but no less importantly, we also used our reach and position as skateboarding’s IOC-recognised governing body to give a voice and a platform to the skateboarders who make up our community.

So, all said I think we can agree that 2024 was a year of enormous challenge and consequence for everyone involved in skateboarding.
2025 is a year for building on the successes we created together.
From each of us at World Skate to every single skateboarder who makes up part of our wonderful worldwide community, we wish to thank you all for your energy, passion and enthusiasm in this skateboarding life we share.

More fun awaits us all: Happy New Year for 2025!

World Skate Press Release

 

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