How Olympic Skateboarding Is Scored
For the First Time Ever, Skateboarding Is Headed to the Olympics — Here's How It's Scored
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Park skateboarding differs from the street event mainly in the shape of its arena, as seen on the Tokyo Olympics skateboarding page. Instead of a mostly flat surface with obstacles, the arena is bowl-shaped with smaller hills and ramps inside.
The preliminaries of the park event will also have 20 skaters, sorted into four heats of five skaters each. Each skater has the opportunity to perform three 45-second runs, which are scored on a scale of 0 to 100, with two decimal places, by a panel of five judges. The highest and lowest scores of each run are dropped and the remaining three are averaged. The highest of the three run scores will be the skater's final score.
The top eight skaters overall advance to the finals, where they'll compete the same way in hopes of earning a gold, silver, or bronze medal.
To learn more about all the Olympic hopefuls, visit TeamUSA.org. Watch the Tokyo Olympics this summer on NBC.