Summer Olympics 2020 / Surfing / Qualification

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This article describes how to qualify for the surfing competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics . There are a total of 40 quota places, 20 for each gender. Each nation may have a maximum of two athletes per gender. The Japanese delegation is entitled to one quota place per competition as the host nation.

Distribution of quota places

  • Host nation: Japan as the host nation receives one quota place per gender. Should a Japanese athlete qualify directly via one of the qualifying competitions, the quota place will be awarded to the next best athlete in the World Surfin Games 2020.
  • World Surf League 2019 : The 10 best placed men and the 8 best placed women receive a quota place.
  • ISA World Surfing Games 2019: Best participant per continent, with the exception of America.
  • Pan American Games 2019 : The winner of each gender received a quota place
  • ISA World Surfing Games 2020: The 4 best men and 6 best women get quota places. Should more than the maximum number of athletes from a nation qualify, the ISA World Surfing Games 2020 have priority and all places awarded from 2019 onwards will be awarded to the next best athlete. Each nation is allowed to have a maximum of four athletes (two of each gender) in the Olympic Games. A reallocation of quota places will take place, if necessary, on June 26, 2020.

Overview

nation Men Women Quota places
AustraliaAustralia Australia 2 2 4th
BrazilBrazil Brazil 2 2 4th
Costa RicaCosta Rica Costa Rica 1 1
FranceFrance France 2 1 3
IsraelIsrael Israel 1 1
JapanJapan Japan 2 1 3
MoroccoMorocco Morocco 1 1
New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand 1 1 2
PortugalPortugal Portugal 1 1
PeruPeru Peru 1 1 2
South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 1 1 1
United StatesUnited States United States 2 2 4th
Total: NOK 12 15th 13 28

Competitions

Men

Qualifying competition date place Places Qualified athletes
host September 7, 2013 ArgentinaArgentina Buenos Aires 1 0 - 2)
Pan American Games 2019 July 30th - August 4th 2019 PeruPeru Lima 1 PeruPeru Lucca Mesinas 1)
World Surf League 2019 April 3 - December 20, 2019 AustraliaAustralia Australia Indonesia Brazil South Africa France United States Portugal
IndonesiaIndonesia 
BrazilBrazil 
South AfricaSouth Africa 
FranceFrance 
United StatesUnited States 
PortugalPortugal  		10 AustraliaAustralia Julian Wilson
AustraliaAustralia Owen Wright
BrazilBrazil Italo Ferreira
BrazilBrazil Gabriel Medina
FranceFrance Michel Bourez
FranceFrance Jérémy Florès
JapanJapan Kanoa Igarashi
South AfricaSouth Africa Jordy Smith
United StatesUnited States Kolohe Andino
United StatesUnited States John John Florence
ISA World Surfing Games 2019 September 7-15, 2019 JapanJapan Miyazaki 4th MoroccoMorocco Ramzi Boukhiam 1)
JapanJapan Shun Murakami 1)
PortugalPortugal Frederico Morais 1)
New ZealandNew Zealand Billy Stairmand 1)
ISA World Surfing Games 2020 April - May 2020 still open 5
total 20th 1

Women

Qualifying competition date place Places Qualified athletes
host September 7, 2013 ArgentinaArgentina Buenos Aires 1 0 - 2)
Pan American Games 2019 July 30th - August 4th 2019 PeruPeru Lima 1 PeruPeru Daniella Rosas 1)
World Surf League 2019 April 3 - December 20, 2019 AustraliaAustralia Australia Indonesia Brazil South Africa France United States Portugal
IndonesiaIndonesia 
BrazilBrazil 
South AfricaSouth Africa 
FranceFrance 
United StatesUnited States 
PortugalPortugal  		8th AustraliaAustralia Sally Fitzgibbons
AustraliaAustralia Stephanie Gilmore
BrazilBrazil Silvana Lima
BrazilBrazil Tatiana Weston-Webb
Costa RicaCosta Rica Brisa Hennessy
FranceFrance Johanne Defay
United StatesUnited States Caroline Marks
United StatesUnited States Carissa Moore
ISA World Surfing Games 2019 September 7-15, 2019 JapanJapan Miyazaki 4th South AfricaSouth Africa Bianca Buitendag 1)
JapanJapan Shino Matsuda 1)
IsraelIsrael Anat Lelior 1)
New ZealandNew Zealand Ella Williams 1)
ISA World Surfing Games 2020 April - May 2020 still open 7th
total 20th 13

Remarks

1) This athlete is qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games, unless two other athletes from the same nation can qualify via the ISA World Surfing Games 2020.
2) Since Japan was able to secure a quota place via the World Surfing Games 2019, this quota place was deleted.

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