Slalom Skateboard Racing to debut at 2022 World Skate Games
World Skate has advised that Slalom Skateboard Racing will make its first appearance in the 2022 World Skate Games in Argentina from 24th October to 13th November.
This exciting racing discipline has been added to World Skate’s roster of skateboarding competition events featured in their biennial World Championships.
Slalom racing has been a part of skateboarding since its earliest days in the 1960s and has continued in some form over the decades. Over the past 30 years, the sport has been overseen and cared for by the International Slalom Skateboarding Association (ISSA) – keeping the active regions of racers organised, with standardised rules, sanctioned events, and a World Ranking system to honour the World’s best slalom racers, and to encourage participation in local, national, continental or World-wide events.
Most recently, members of the World Skate Skateboard Technical Commission and the ISSA Board of Directors have come together to form the World Skate Slalom Working Group. The objective is to further the growth of slalom skateboarding as a professional sport within the IOC-recognised governing body. The new Slalom Working Group's primary goals include developing the sport’s global participation and progressively introducing Slalom Skateboarding to Olympic cycle events.
Plans are already in motion for the slalom skateboard racing competition at the 2022 World Skate Games, with three events: giant, hybrid and tight slalom racing.
More information at skateboarding.worldskate.org/
Image top: World Skate Slalom Credit: Jarda Jirman; image above: World Skate Slalom Working Group
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