The World Skateboarding Championship is an annual competition of men's and women's
park skateboarding and
street skateboarding
Street skateboarding is a skateboarding discipline which focuses on flat-ground tricks, grinds, slides and aerials within urban environments, and public spaces. Street skateboarders meet, skate, and hang out in and around urban areas refer ...
, organized by
World Skate
World Skate is the only governing body in the world for all sports performed on skating wheels. The organisation is the successor of the Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports (FIRS) founded on the 21 of April 1924.
Due to the 2022 Russi ...
(WS). Until 2017, the two disciplines were contested in separate tournaments, known as the Vans Park Series World Championship, for park skateboarding, and SLS Super Crown World Championship for street skateboarding.
Due to the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. A ...
, World Skate banned Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials from its competitions, and will not stage any events in Russia or Belarus in 2022.
In 2022, World Skate organised the first
vert
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world championship which was included as part of the
2022 World Skate Games.
Park skateboarding
Editions
Medalists
Men
Women
Street skateboarding
Editions
Medalists
Men
Women
Vert skateboarding
Editions
Medalists
Men
Women
Medal table
See also
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Skateboarding at the Summer Olympics
Skateboarding made its debut appearance at the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. It has also been provisionally approved by the IOC for inclusion at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
World Skate currently sanctions Olympic skateb ...
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X Games
The X Games are an annual extreme sports event organized, produced and broadcast by ESPN. Coverage is also shown on ESPN's sister network, ABC. The inaugural X Games were held during the summer of 1995 in Providence and Newport, Rhode Island, ...
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Street League Skateboarding
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Kimberley Diamond Cup
References
{{Main world championships
Skateboarding competitions
Skateboarding
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