Sports at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games
There were 33 sports on the program for the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games. Five new sports were added to the program in Tokyo: baseball and softball, karate, sport climbing, skateboarding and surfing, as well as many new events such as 3x3 basketball, triathlon relay, women's canoe slalom, and BMX freestyle. A total of 18 new events and 474 extra athletes appeared on the Tokyo Olympic program. There were 339 gold medals to be won. Aquatics had the most number of events at 49 total, followed by athletics with 48 events, and cycling with 22 events (see number of available medals by sport).
List of Sports
- Aquatics (including swimming, diving and synchronized swimming, water polo)
- Archery
- Badminton
- Baseball and Softball — will be held at the main venue of the Yokohama Stadium
- Basketball (including 3x3 basketball)
- Boxing
- Canoe / Kayak
- Cycling — including Track, Road, Mountain Bike and BMX — Track cycling and mountain bike events will take place 120km away from Tokyo in Izu.
- Equestrian
- Fencing
- Football (soccer)
- Golf
- Gymnastics (Artistic, Rhythmic and Trampolining)
- Handball
- Hockey
- Judo
- Karate — six kumite and two kata categories. To be held at the Nippon Budokan in central Tokyo.
- Modern Pentathlon
- Rowing
- Rugby 7s
- Sailing
- Shooting
- Skateboarding — men and women's street and park skateboarding events
- Sport Climbing — bouldering and lead and speed combined climbing
- Surfing — men's and women's shortboard surfing, to be held about one hour from Tokyo at Shida Shita Point
- Table Tennis
- Taekwondo
- Tennis
- Track & Field
- Triathlon
- Volleyball — indoor and beach volleyball
- Weightlifting
- Wrestling (Greco-Roman and Freestyle)
Related Pages
- List of sports for each Olympiad
- Changes to sports for each Olympiad
- Number of Olympic medals available to be won
- How sports are selected for the Olympics
- About the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games
- Complete list of Olympic host cities
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