Swimming has been a sport at every modern Olympics Game. It has been open to women since 1912. Along with track & field athletics and gymnastics, it is one of the most popular spectator sports at the Games. Swimming has the second-highest number of…
Table tennis made its Olympic debut at the Seoul 1988 Games with men’s and women’s singles and doubles. Since Beijing 2008 the competition has consisted of men’s and women’s singles and team events, while the Tokyo 2020 competition will also include a mixed doubles event.
Table tennis competition has been in the Tokyo Olympics Game 2021 since…
Taekwondo at the Olympics Game made its first appearance as a demonstration sport at the 1988 Olympics Game in Seoul, South Korea. The opening ceremony featured a mass demonstration of taekwondo with hundreds of adults and children performing moves in
Tennis was part of the Tokyo Olympics Game 2021 program from the inaugural 1896 Olympics Game, but was dropped after the 1924 Olympics Game due to disputes between the International Lawn Tennis Federation and the International Olympic Committee over how to define amateur players. After two appearances as a demonstration sport in…
Gymnastics events have been contested at every Tokyo Olympics Game 2021 since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Olympics Game in Athens. For 32 years, only men were allowed to compete. Beginning at the 1928 Olympics Game in Amsterdam, women were allowed to compete in…
The men’s triathlon at the 2016 Olympics Game took place at Fort Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro on 18 August. A total of 55 men from 31 nations competed in the race. Alistair Brownlee from Great Britain became the first man to defend his Olympic triathlon title after his previous win at the 2012 Olympics Game. Triathlon had its Olympics Game debut at…
Volleyball has been part of the Olympics Game program for both men and women consistently since 1964.Brazil, United States, and the former Soviet Union, are the only teams to win multiple gold medals at the men’s tournament since its introduction. The remaining five editions of the Men’s Olympic Volleyball Tournament were won each by a different country including Japan, Poland, Netherlands, Russia and…
Water polo has been part of the Olympics Game program since the second games, in 1900. A women’s water polo tournament was introduced for the 2000 Olympics Game. Hungary has been the most successful country in men’s tournament, while the United States is the only team to win multiple times at the women’s tournament since its introduction. Italy is the first and only country to win both the men’s and women’s water polo tournaments…
Weightlifting has been contested at every Tokyo Olympics Game 2021 since the 1920 Olympics Game, as well as twice before then. It debuted at the 1896 Olympics Game, in Athens, Greece, and was also an event at the 1904 Games…
Wrestling had been contested at the Tokyo Olympics Game 2021 since the sport was introduced in the ancient Olympic Games in 708 BC. When the modern Olympic Games resumed in Athens in 1896, wrestling (in the form of Greco-Roman wrestling) became a focus of the Games, with the exception of the 1900 Olympics Game when wrestling did not appear on the program. Freestyle wrestling and weight classes both made their first appearance in 1904. The women’s competition was introduced in 2004…
