Sports at the 2028 LA Olympic Games
A total of 28 sports were listed on the LA 2028 initial sports program announced by the IOC in February 2022: aquatics, archery, athletics, badminton, basketball, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football, golf, gymnastics, handball, hockey, judo, rowing, rugby sevens, sailing, shooting, skateboarding, sport climbing, surfing, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, volleyball and wrestling.
Another five sports were proposed by the LA28 Organizing Committee for inclusion at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 2028, and approved by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in October 2023. They are baseball-softball, cricket, flag football (a limited-contact version of American football), lacrosse, and squash.
Boxing did not feature on the initial sports list but the IOC have promised it will be addedBoxing did not feature on the initial list, but was addded in March 2025, while modern pentathlon and weightlifting were also previously confirmed.
Breakdancing, which made its debut in Paris 2024, has been left off the program for 2028. Other sports which were considered but missed out are kickboxing, karate and motorsport.
If all these sports are included on the final program, there will be 36 sports in total. Compared this list to the 2024 Paris Olympic sports, in which there were 32 sports.
The Los Angeles 2028 Olympics will feature 351 medal events —22 more than at Paris 2024.
Some Changes
- ARCHERY: Compound archery will be at the Olympic Games in the form of a mixed-team event.
- ATHLETICS: will feature a mixed 4x100m, becoming the second mixed-gender event in the sport, joining the 4x400m relay
- GOLF: A mixed-team event has been added for LA28.
- ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS: A mixed-team event has been added for LA28.
- SWIMMING: There will be a total of 41 swimming events in the pool, 20 events for both men and women, and the 4 × 100m medley relay mixed. Six new swimming events have been added, the 50m backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly - for both men and women.
- CLIMBING: Sport climbing also gained two medal opportunities by separating a previously combined event and creating three distinct medal events: speed, boulder and lead.
- FOOTBALL: The men's tournament has been reduced to 12 teams form 16, while there will be 16 women's teams, up form 12, thereby maintaining the overall tournament size consistent with previous Olympic Games.
- WATER POLO: the women's competition will increase the number of competing teams from 10 to 12 for LA28.
- TABLE TENNIS: he inclusion of a mixed team event in table tennis and the replacement of men's and women's team event with men's and women's doubles events.
- BASKETBALL: The basketball 3x3 tournament will expand to include 12 teams per gender, an increase from eight teams at the Paris Olympics.
- BOXING: an additional weight class added to the women’s competition: resulting in seven weight classes for both the women’s and men’s tournaments.
- ROWING: will also include beach sprint (coastal rowing) competitions for the first time. There will be medals in women’s solo, men’s solo and mixed double sculls.
List of Sports for LA 2028 (TBC)
- Aquatics (including swimming, diving, open-water, synchronized swimming, and water polo)
- Archery
- Badminton
- Baseball and Softball
- Basketball
- Boxing
- Canoe / Kayak (Sprint & Slalom)
- Cricket
- Cycling — including Track, Road, Mountain Bike and BMX
- Equestrian
- Fencing
- Flag Football
- Football (soccer)
- Golf
- Gymnastics (Artistic, Rhythmic and Trampolining)
- Handball
- Hockey
- Judo
- Lacrosse
- Modern Pentathlon
- Rowing
- Rugby 7s
- Sailing
- Shooting
- Skateboarding — men and women's street and park skateboarding events
- Sport Climbing — bouldering, lead and speed combined climbing
- Squash
- Surfing — men's and women's shortboard surfing
- 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
- Venues for the 2028 LA Olympic Games
- Changes to sports for each Olympiad
- Number of Olympic medals available to be won
- How sports are selected for the Olympics
- About the LA 2024 Olympic Games
- Complete list of Olympic host cities
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