Sports | Tokyo 2020

New sports at Tokyo

Sport climbing takes the challenge of scaling steep ascents to a whole new level

Debut of Karate as an Olympic sport, it will include Kumite and Kata

Return of baseball and softball for the first time since 2008

Skateboarding introduced for the first time in Tokyo Olympics 2020

Surfing is a water sport where an athlete rides a wave standing or any other position on a board

3x3 basketball is a variation of basketball played three a side on one basketball hoop

Archery is the art, sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows

Artistic swimming is a hybrid form of swimming, dance and gymnastics

In Artistic gymnastics, athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses

Athletics is a group of sporting events involving competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking

Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net

Modern pentathlon has 5 events; fencing, freestyle swimming, equestrian show jumping, pistol shooting and cross country running

Sailing refers to the sport of using wind to power sails and propel the boat forward

Shooting, the sport of firing at targets of various kinds with rifles, handguns, pistols

Weightlifting is a sport in which athletes attempt a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates

In volleyball, each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court across a net

Football is an 11 player team game, each team attempts to get the ball in the other team's net to score

Fencing is a sport of swordplay,the object is to score a point by hitting your opponent’s target with your weapon

Rugby is a team game played with an oval ball that may be kicked, carried or passed from hand to hand

In hockey, two teams of eleven players each use hooked sticks to drive a small ball towards the opponent's goal

Olympic cycling has 4 varieties – Track Cycling, Road Cycling, Mountain Bike and BMX.