Olympic Qualifier Series 2024 Budapest preview: Full schedule, how to watch live, and top athletes competing
The second stage of the Olympic Qualifier Series (OQS) takes place in Budapest, Hungary, from 20-23 June. Find out what you need to know.
It is last chance saloon for many of the world's top freestyle BMX riders, b-boys and b-girls, skateboarders, and sport climbers as they seek to obtain an Olympic Games Paris 2024 qualification quota spot. The Olympic Qualifier Series (OQS) culminates at OQS Budapest in Hungary from 20-23 June.
Athletes in these four sports have already competed together at the same event in a single urban park at the first stage of OQS, held in Shanghai, People's Republic of China, last month.
The OQS serves as the ultimate qualification stage on the road to Paris 2024 for BMX freestyle, breaking, skateboarding and sport climbing. In total, over 150 quota places for Paris 2024 will be secured by athletes following the series, in accordance with the relevant qualification systems.
You can stream the action live globally on Olympic Channel via Olympics.com and the official Olympics app for mobile devices.
The Paris 2024 quota spots will be confirmed after Budapest based on a points system in each of the four sports, taking into account results from both OQS stages (as well as prior qualifying events in skateboarding). Discover all the global standings.
Discover when you can watch all the action from OQS Budapest.
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. Click here to view the qualification system for each sport.
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Athletes to watch at OQS Budapest 2024
All the stars who competed in Shanghai are expected to be in Budapest too as they aim for more points in the qualifying system.
In BMX Freestyle, Anthony Jeanjean, Logan Martin, and Kieran Reilly lead the men's standings after Shanghai, while there was a Chinese sweep for Sun Sibei, Sun Jiaqi, and Deng Yawen. It means the likes of Charlotte Worthington and Hannah Roberts will need to show up in Budapest to be absolutely sure of obtaining a Paris quota.
B-Boy Jeffro has some work to do to catch up in the breaking standings, having finished fifth in Shanghai. But perhaps more intriguing is the contest in the B-Girls event, with Japan claiming a sweep of the top three in the first stage last month. With each NOC only allowed to name a maximum of two b-boys and two b-girls, one of the Japanese trio of B-Girl Ayumi, B-Girl Ami, and B-Girl Riko will miss out.
Skateboarding is the only of the sports at OQS in which results from OQS are added to points earned at prior qualifying events to determine the quota spots. Notably, after missing OQS Shanghai through injury, Great Britain's Sky Brown is expected to return in Budapest as she seeks to add to her 130,000 ranking points achieved through her Olympic World Skateboarding Ranking. Despite not being in Shanghai, Brown is still ranked 11th in the global standings heading into Budapest.
Reigning men's sport climbing Olympic champion Alberto Ginés López will be in Budapest hoping to build on his second-place finish in the Boulder & Lead competition in China. With no one's quota spot obtained yet, others in action will include the likes of Brooke Raboutou in women's Boulder & Lead, former world record holder Veddriq Leonardo in men's speed, and Polish sisters Natalia and Aleksandra Kalucka in women's speed.
Full schedule of Olympic Qualifier Series (QQS) Budapest 2024
All times local Central European Summer Time / CEST (UTC +2 hours). Start times of events are provisional and subject to change.
Thursday 20 June
- 11:40 - Skateboarding - Women's Park - Prelims
- 12:00 - Sport climbing - Men's Boulder & Lead - Qualification, Boulder
- 12:00 - Sport climbing - Women's Boulder & Lead - Qualification, Boulder
- 16:35 - Skateboarding - Men's Street - Prelims
Friday 21 June
- 10:00 - BMX Freestyle - Women's Freestyle Park - Qualification
- 10:00 - Sport climbing - Men's Boulder & Lead - Qualification, Lead
- 10:00 - Sport climbing - Women's Boulder & Lead - Qualification, Lead
- 11:40 - Skateboarding - Men's Park - Prelims
- 14:00 - BMX Freestyle - Men's Freestyle Park - Qualification
- 16:35 - Skateboarding - Women's Street - Prelims
- 17:00 - Sport climbing - Women's Speed - Qualification
- 17:50 - Sport climbing - Men's Speed - Qualification
Saturday 22 June
- 09:30 - Skateboarding - Women's Park - Semi-final
- 10:00 - Sport climbing - Men's Boulder & Lead - Semi-final, Boulder
- 10:00 - Sport climbing - Women's Boulder & Lead - Semi-final, Boulder
- 11:15 - Skateboarding - Men's Street - Semi-final
- 11:30 - BMX Freestyle - Women's Freestyle Park - Final
- 13:00 - Breaking - B-Boys - Pre-selection
- 13:00 - Breaking - B-Girls - Pre-selection
- 14:00 - Sport climbing - Men's Boulder & Lead - Semi-final, Lead
- 14:00 - Sport climbing - Women's Boulder & Lead - Semi-final, Lead
- 14:00 - BMX Freestyle - Men's Freestyle Park - Final
- 15:30 - Skateboarding - Men's Park - Semi-finals
- 16:45 - Breaking - B-Boys - Pre-Qualifiers
- 16:45 - Breaking - B-Girls - Pre-Qualifiers
- 17:05 - Skateboarding - Women's Street - Semi-final
- 18:15 - Sport climbing - Women's Speed - 1/8 finals
- 18:30 - Sport climbing - Men's Speed - 1/8 finals
- 18:45 - Sport climbing - Women's Speed - Quarter-finals
- 18:55 - Sport climbing - Men's Speed - Quarter-finals
- 19:05 - Sport climbing - Women's Speed - Semi-finals
- 19:10 - Sport climbing - Men's Speed - Semi-finals
- 19:15 - Sport climbing - Women's Speed - Finals
- 19:20 - Sport climbing - Men's Speed - Finals
Sunday 23 June
- 09:30 - Breaking - B-Girls - Round-robin
- 10:00 - Sport climbing - Women's Boulder & Lead - Final, Boulder
- 10:30 - Skateboarding - Women's Park - Finals
- 12:00 - Skateboarding - Men's Street - Finals
- 12:05 - Sport climbing - Women's Boulder & Lead - Final, Lead
- 12:45 - Breaking - B-Boys - Round-robin
- 15:00 - Skateboarding - Men's Park - Finals
- 15:30 - Sport climbing - Men's Boulder & Lead - Final, Boulder
- 16:00 - Breaking - B-Girls - Quarter-finals
- 16:30 - Breaking - B-Boys - Quarter-finals
- 17:00 - Skateboarding - Women's Street - Finals
- 17:00 - Breaking - B-Girls - Semi-finals
- 17:15 - Breaking - B-Boys - Semi-finals
- 17:35 - Sport climbing - Men's Boulder & Lead - Final, Lead
- 17:45 - Breaking - B-Girls - Finals
- 18:15 - Breaking - B-Boys - Finals
How to watch all the Olympic Qualifier Series action from Budapest
The action from Budapest will be streamed live, for free, and without subscription to a worldwide audience on Olympic Channel via Olympics.com and the official Olympics app for Paris 2024.
You can also catch up on the latest news, features, reports and updates from the ground with daily articles on Olympics.com.
