Madrid.

Spainwith three participants, and Mexico, Canada and China, with awill be the four countries that will make their debut in the Olympic surfing at the Games of Paris 2024once the qualification phase for the World Games of this sport organized in Arecibo (Puerto Rico) has ended.

This will be the second edition of the Games with surfing on the program, after its debut at Tokyo 2020, on Tsurigasaki beach. This time the tests will take place at Teahupo's, on the island of Tahiti.

Brazil is the only country that has reached the maximum possible representation, three men and three women, although among them will not be the gold medalist in Tokyo, Ítalo Ferreira.

Of the 48 places available (eight more than in 2021), 46 have already been distributed, half for each gender, pending the allocation of two universal quotas. towards the least represented continents.

Spain will debut with Nadia Erostarbe, Janire González and Andy Criere, Mexico I will do it with Alan Cleland, Canada with Sanoa Dempfle-Olin and China with surfer Yang Siqi.

• The list of participants includes Australia (4), Brazil (6), Costa Rica (1), France (4), Germany (2), Indonesia (1), Israel (1) , Italy (1), Japan (4), Morocco (1), New Zealand (2), Peru (3), Portugal (2), South Africa (3) and United States (5).

On the other hand, countries that participated in Tokyo 2020 and will not be present Paris 2024 they will be Argentina, Chile and Ecuador, all from South America.

Among those ranked are the Japanese Kanoa Igarashisilver at Tokyo 2020, and the American Carissa Mooregold medal in the Japanese event.