WST Lausanne Street 2023: Full schedule and how to watch live
Find out where you can follow all the action from WST Lausanne Street including how to watch live on the Olympic Channel via Olympics.com and the official Olympics app for mobile devices.
Skateboarding
Street skateboarders looking to make it to the next Olympic Games are hitting up WST Lausanne Street 2023 from 9-16 September for the next stop on the qualification road to Paris 2024.
The event, streaming live on the Olympic Channel via Olympics.com and the official Olympics app, will see Olympic stars including Horigome Yuto, Rayssa Leal and Nyjah Huston, meet in the Beaulieu District to battle it out for the number one prize.
And with the Games approaching, the competition for ranking points - also on offer based on finishing positions - is heating up.
Just like with the previous skateboarding Olympic qualifying events, the competition will begin with a men’s and women’s open qualifier with the top 27 advancing to the quarter-finals. There, the top five skaters, who are pre-seeded owing to their Olympic World Skate Ranking, will join the contest.
The field will then be cut down in a semi-final leaving just eight skaters for the men’s and women’s finals on Saturday 16 September.
The open qualifiers and quarter-finals will use the best score of two 45-second runs while the semi-final and final will use the Olympic street format - 2/5/3.
Here’s what you need to know about the week-long event streaming live on Olympics.com.
WST Lausanne Street 2023: Schedule in full
Schedule subject to updates, all times are in Central European Summer Time (UTC +2).
Saturday 9 September
- 09:00 - 18:55 - Women's and men's practices
Sunday 10 September
- 09:00 - 18:55 - Women's and men's practices
Monday 11 September
- 09:00 - 18:55 - Women's and men's practices
- 19:00 - 20:35 - Women's and men's pre-seeded practices
Tuesday 12 September
- 09:00 - 14:35 - Women's open qualifier
- 15:30 - 17:05 - Women's and men's pre-seeded practices
Wednesday 13 September
- 09:00 - 20:15 - Men's open qualifier
- 20:20 - 21:55 - Women's and men's pre-seeded practices
Thursday 14 September
- 11:00 - 12:35 - Women's quarter-final practices
- 12:50 - 15:45 - Women's quarter-final
- 16:00 - 17:35 - Men's quarter-final practices
- 17:50 - 20:45 - Men's quarter-final
Friday 15 September
- 10:00 - 10:45 - Women's semi-final practices
- 10:50 - 11:35 - Men's semi-final practices
- 11:40 - 12:25 - Women's semi-final practices
- 12:30 - 13:15 - Men's semi-final practices
- 13:55 - 16:40 - Women's semi-final
- 17:25 - 20:10 - Men's semi-final
Saturday 16 September
- 13:30 - 14:30 - Women's final practice
- 14:35 - 15:35 - Men's final practice
- 16:05 - 17:25 - Women's final
- 17:30 - 18:50 - Men's final
- 19:00 - 19:20 - Awards ceremony
WST Lausanne Street 2023: Who are the top five pre-seeded skateboarders?
The top five ranked athletes in the OWSR will skip the Open Qualifier and will be pre-seeded directly into the quarter-final.
Skaters ranked 6th to 30th will be seeded in the Open Qualifier.
Women
- Rayssa Leal (BRA)
- Liz Akama (JPN) - not competing
- Chloe Covell (AUS) - not competing
- Nishiya Momiji (JPN)
- Oda Yumeka (JPN)
Men
- Aurelien Giraud (FRA)
- Gustavo Ribeiro (POR)
- Nyjah Huston (USA)
- Kelvin Hoefler (BRA)
- Shirai Sora (JPN) - not competing
WST Lausanne Street 2023: Skaters to watch
After a blistering return to competition at WST Street Skateboarding Rome, Nyjah Huston will touch down in Switzerland as the man to beat.
Finishing 17 points clear of the rest of the field in Italy, the American was untouchable in the final as he made his first appearance on the Olympic qualifying stage since an ACL injury.
Among those trying to depose Huston will be Olympic champion Horigome Yuto, victorious at the most recent Street League Skateboarding stop in Tokyo, and world champion Aurelien Giraud.
In the women's field, Rome delivered a surprise podium with 14-year-old Liz Akama stunning Australia's Chloe Covell to the number one spot on her final trick of the night.
There will be no revenge for Covell, however, with both her and Akama out of action for Switzerland. Their absence leaves the door open to Olympic gold medallist Nishiya Momiji and world champion Rayssa Leal who will be part of the group looking to reclaim the top spot.
How to watch WST Lausanne Street 2023 live?
Livestream coverage of WST Street Lausanne will be available worldwide on Olympic Channel via Olympics.com and will begin with the semi-finals on Friday 15 September June and include the finals on Saturday 16 September.
You can find all the latest on your favourite skateboarders including news, interviews and updates from Lausanne on Olympics.com and the apps for mobile and connected TV devices.