Surfing at the Summer Olympics
IOC Code	SRF
Governing body	ISA
Events	2 (men: 1; women: 1)
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Medalists

Competitions in the sport ofsurfing, governed by theInternational Surfing Association (ISA), have been held at two editions of theSummer Olympic Games. First selected as one of the discretionary sports at the2020 and2024 games, surfing will be inducted as one of the mandatory sports at the2028 games. Athletes compete in the discipline ofshortboard surfing, which is the sole event in the sport at the Olympics. TheUnited States have won the most gold medals (2), whileBrazil have won the most medals overall (3).

In September 2015, surfing was included in a shortlist along withbaseball,softball,karate,skateboarding, andsport climbing to be considered for inclusion in the2020 Summer Olympics.^[1] In June 2016, the executive board of theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that they would support the proposal to include all of the shortlisted sports in the 2020 Games.^[2] Finally, on August 3, 2016, all five sports (counting baseball and softball together as one sport) were approved for inclusion in the 2020 Olympic program.^[3]

One of the biggest obstacles to surfing being included in the Olympics for many years was alandlocked country hosting the games which would make surfing events difficult to stage, and another one was thatdrowning is one of the big risks in surfing, and the IOC was less likely to take high liabilities in the event of a death.^{[4][better source needed]}

The surfing competitions took place in the following locations:

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2020 Tokyo details	Ítalo Ferreira  Brazil	Kanoa Igarashi  Japan	Owen Wright  Australia
2024 Paris details	Kauli Vaast  France	Jack Robinson  Australia	Gabriel Medina  Brazil

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2020 Tokyo details	Carissa Moore  United States	Bianca Buitendag  South Africa	Amuro Tsuzuki  Japan
2024 Paris details	Caroline Marks  United States	Tatiana Weston-Webb  Brazil	Johanne Defay  France

Sources:^[5]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	2	0	0	2
2	Brazil (BRA)	1	1	1	3
3	France (FRA)	1	0	1	2
4	Australia (AUS)	0	1	1	2
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	1	2
6	South Africa (RSA)	0	1	0	1
Totals (6 entries)		4	4	4	12

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