The inaugural Olympic Qualifier Series concludes with the Budapest leg, scheduled to start at the Ludovika Campus on Thursday. The OQS Budapest 2024 event will be live streamed in Australia
Over 150 Paris 2024 Olympic quotas across four sports - BMX freestyle, breaking, skateboarding and sport climbing - will be finalised after the Budapest OQS and several Australian athletes will be out to stake a claim on some of them.
Breaking will have 20 Olympic berths on offer at the OQS while sport climbing will have 38. A total of 12 Paris 2024 Olympic quotas will be decided in BMX freestyle cycling while points earned at the OQS will have a decisive say on which 88 skateboarders make the final cut for the upcoming Summer Games.
As National Olympic Committees have the exclusive authority for the representation of their respective teams at the Olympic Games, athletes' participation at Paris 2024 depends on their NOC selecting them to represent their delegation.
The Shanghai leg held last month saw some fantastic Australian performances. Teenage prodigy Arisa Trew was the star of the show as the 14-year-old beat Japan’s Tokyo 2020 silver medallist Hiraki Kokona and the reigning Olympic champion Yosozumi Sakura to win the women’s park skateboarding event there.
Currently second on the rankings leaderboard behind Hiraki, Arisa is all but certain to make the cut but will hope to rubber stamp it with another dominant performance in Budapest.
Ruby Trew, unrelated to Arisa, is sixth in the global standings and also poised to clinch a women’s park quota. Each NOC can only obtain three quota places per gender per event.
In men's park skateboarding, reigning Olympic champion Keegan Palmer, who finished second in Shanghai, is poised to earn a title defence while fellow Australians Kieran Woolley and Keefer Wilson are also comfortably placed.
Ash Wilcomes is just outside the cut off but can move in to help Australia secure all three possible quotas on the back of a strong performance in Budapest.
X Games 2023 gold medallist Chloe Covell is fourth in the women’s street standings after her eighth-placed finish in Shanghai. Liv Lovelace and Felicity Turner are also in the hunt for quotas in the division.
Tokyo 2020 gold medal winner Logan Martin, following his second-place finish in Shanghai, is second in the men’s BMX Freestyle. Martin’s fellow BMX Olympian Natalya Diehm needs a solid show in Budapest to break in the top six from ninth.
The Budapest leg will also be the final chance saloon for Australian b-boys and b-girls and sport climbers to obtain Paris 2024 quotas.
Australians at Olympic Qualifier Series Budapest 2024
BMX Freestyle: Australian cyclists at OQS 2024 Shanghai
- Men: Logan Martin, Jaie Toohey, Alec Danelutti
- Women: Natalya Diehm, Sarah Nicki
Breaking: Australian b-boys and b-girls at OQS 2024 Shanghai
- B-girls: Molly (Molly Therese Chapman), Hannah (Hannah Georgina Belet), G-Clef (Geraldina Hnitko)
- B-boys: Benmx(Benji Gabriel Cogdell-Baird), Kid Tek (Gerard Cabellon), Mighty Duck (Ba Duc Hoang)
Skateboarding: Australian skateboarders at OQS 2024 Shanghai
- Men (street): Shane O'Neill, Rome Collyer, Tommy Fynn
- Women (street): Chloe Covell, Liv Lovelace, Haylie Powell, Felicity Turner
- Men (park): Kieran Woolley, Keegan Palmer, Keefer Wilson, Ash Wilcomes, Ethan Copeland, Phoenix Sinnerton
- Women (park): Ruby Trew, Arisa Trew, Poppy Olsen, Charlotte Heath, Aaliyah Wilson, Coco Crafter
Sport climbing: Australian climbers at OQS 2024 Shanghai
- Men (speed): Hayden Barton
- Women (speed): Grace Crowley
- Men (boulder & lead): Dylan Parks
- Women (boulder & lead): Maya Stasiuk
How to watch Olympic Qualifier Series Budapest 2024 live in Australia
Watch the Olympic Qualifier Series 2024 live streaming on the Olympics.com. There will be no live broadcast of the OQS on any TV channel in Australia.
Olympic Qualifier Series Shanghai 2024 schedule
All in Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)
June 20, Thursday
- Skateboarding: Women's park preliminary - 7:40 PM
- Sport climbing: Men's boulder & lead, boulder qualification - 8:00 PM
- Sport climbing: Women's boulder & lead, boulder qualification - 8:00 PM
June 21, Friday
- Skateboarding: Men's street preliminary - 12:35 AM
- BMX Freestyle: Women's freestyle park qualification - 6:00 PM
- Sport climbing: Men's boulder & lead, lead qualification - 6:00 PM
- Sport climbing: Women's boulder & lead, lead qualification - 6:00 AM
- Skateboarding: Men's park preliminary - 7:40 PM
- BMX Freestyle: Men's freestyle park qualification - 10:00 PM
June 22, Saturday
- Skateboarding: Women's street preliminary - 12:35 AM
- Sport climbing: Women's speed qualification - 1:00 AM
- Sport climbing: Men's speed qualification - 1:50 AM
- Skateboarding: Women's park semi-final - 5:30 PM
- Sport climbing: Men's boulder & lead, boulder semi-finals - 6:00 PM
- Sport climbing: Women's boulder & lead, boulder semi-finals - 6:00 PM
- Skateboarding: Men's street semi-final - 7:15 PM
- BMX Freestyle: Women's freestyle park final - 7:30 PM
- Breaking: B-Boys pre-selection - 9:00 PM
- Breaking: B-Girls pre-selection - 9:00 PM
- Sport climbing: Men's boulder & lead, lead semi-final - 10:00 PM
- Sport climbing: Women's boulder & lead, lead semi-final - 10:00 PM
- BMX Freestyle: Men's freestyle park final - 10:00 PM
- Skateboarding - Men's Park - Semi-finals - 11:30 PM
June 23, Sunday
- Breaking: B-Boys pre-qualifiers - 12:45 AM
- Breaking: B-Girls pre-qualifiers - 12:45 AM
- Skateboarding: Women's street semi-final - 1:05 AM
- Sport climbing: Women's speed 1/8 finals - 2:15 AM
- Sport climbing: Men's speed 1/8 finals - 2:30 AM
- Sport climbing: Women's speed quarter-finals - 2:45 AM
- Sport climbing: Men's speed quarter-finals - 2:55 AM
- Sport climbing: Women's speed semi-finals - 3:05 AM
- Sport climbing: Men's speed semi-finals - 3:10 AM
- Sport climbing: Women's speed finals - 3:15 AM
- Sport climbing: Men's speed finals - 3:20 AM
- Breaking: B-Girls round-robin - 5:30 PM
- Sport climbing: Women's boulder & lead, boulder final - 6:00 PM
- Skateboarding: Women's park finals - 6:30 PM
- Skateboarding: Men's street finals - 8:00 PM
- Sport climbing: Women's boulder & lead, lead final - 8:05 PM
- Breaking: B-Boys round-robin - 8:45 PM
- Skateboarding: Men's park finals - 11:00 PM
- Sport climbing: Men's boulder & lead, boulder final - 11:30 PM
June 24, Monday
- Breaking - B-Girls quarter-finals - 12:00 AM
- Breaking: B-boys quarter-finals - 12:30 AM
- Skateboarding: Women's street finals - 1:00 AM
- Breaking: B-girls semi-finals - 1:00 AM
- Breaking: B-boys semi-finals - 1:15 AM
- Sport climbing: Men's boulder & lead, lead final - 1:35 AM
- Breaking: B-Girls finals - 1:45 AM
- Breaking: B-Boys finals - 2:15 AM
