Bishop PE Department

📌 Just announced: The event programme of the Olympic Games @LA28 will be a powerful platform for female athletes: 🔹 Football: for the first time in Olympic history, more women’s teams (16) than men’s (12) will compete. 🔹 Boxing: an additional women’s weight category ensures full gender parity across events, while maintaining equal numbers of athlete quotas for men and women, as was the case at Paris 2024. 🔹 Water polo: two additional women’s teams will ensure full gender parity in the athlete quota and number of teams. 🔹 Expanded mixed events: archery, athletics (4x100m mixed relay), golf, gymnastics, rowing coastal beach sprint and table tennis will all see the inclusion of a new mixed team event. ➡️ Gender equality was a key consideration when deciding on the athlete quota and the number of events. In the initial sports programme, with 10,500 athletes, the number of female athletes is 5,333 and the number of male athletes 5,167. The additional sports add 322 female athletes and 376 male athletes. In addition, six mixed events were added to the event programme. Out of 351 events, there are 161 women’s events, 165 men’s events and 25 mixed events.