World Skate are once again delighted to announce three new parallel skateboarding initiatives leading on from the recent launch of our 2025-2028 Development Strategy.

As you might well already be aware, we began identifying both skateboarders and coaches who could benefit from support during the last Olympic cycle courtesy of two Olympic Solidarity-backed schemes known as the YAD* and WISH** programmes respectively.

Appplications are now open for the new Olympic cycle- and our mega news is that both are now being rolled into an expanded, over-arching Development Scholarship Programme which will take in not only athletes and coaches but judges also, going forward to LA 2028.

While preference will be given to applicants coming from Universality eligible NOC’s (see list below), consideration will also be given to those applicants coming from countries and continents generally under-represented in the Olympic skateboarding domain.

Every succcessful applicant will receive:

• 3-year period of candidature (June 2025-28)
• Immersive training stays/camps
• Select competition cost off-sets and performance support
• Area specific mentors
• Regular online network collaborations
• Relevant vocational modules/courses

Does that sound like you?

Are you a member of the World Skate community seeking to progress and develop in your chosen role either as competitor, coach or judge? 

If you believe you have the ambition and ability to represent your country at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) and/or the Olympic Games (OG) as either an Athlete, Coach or Judge please complete the following form by Sunday 23rd March.

*Youth Athlete Development

** Women In Sport High-performance pathway

*** The NOCs which are eligible by continent based on this criteria are as follows:  

Africa: Algeria, Angola, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Congo, Chad, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Comoros, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Libya, Liberia, Lesotho, Madagascar, Morocco, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Mauritius, Mauritania, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome and Principe, Sudan, Eswatini, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe

Americas: Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Belize, Bolivia, Cayman, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Saint Lucia, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Palestine, Qatar, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Timor-Leste, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam and Yemen.

Europe: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Georgia, Iceland, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Moldova, North Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Monaco and  San Marino – Please note, we may have some changes to this list.

Oceania: American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.