In one other change introduced by the IOC, the ladies’s soccer occasion will develop to 16 groups for LA 2028, with the boys’s occasion staying at 12.
It will likely be the primary time the ladies’s occasion has had extra nations competing than the boys’s.
A further girls’s weight class in boxing was additionally confirmed, which means there might be gender parity within the occasion.
Water polo will see two further girls’s groups in one other effort to convey gender equality, when it comes to athlete quota and numbers of groups.
There may even be an expanded combined occasions schedule with archery, athletics (4x100m combined relay), golf, gymnastics, rowing coastal seashore dash and desk tennis all seeing combined crew occasions added.
Rowing can have three occasions making their Olympic debut, with the ladies’s solo (CW1x) and males’s solo (CM1x) occasions and the combined double sculls (CX2x) being launched in a coastal seashore dash.
The boulder and lead occasions might be contested as separate medal occasions in sport climbing, whereas the 3×3 basketball occasions will improve from eight groups to 12.
The IOC mentioned “gender equality was a key consideration” when deciding the schedule. Within the preliminary sports activities programme the variety of feminine athletes is 5,333 in comparison with 5,167 male athletes.
The extra sports activities add 322 feminine athletes and 376 male athletes.
Out of 351 occasions, there are 161 girls’s occasions, 165 males’s occasions and 25 combined occasions.
There are an additional 698 athlete locations allotted for the 5 sports activities proposed by the LA28 Organising Committee (baseball/softball, cricket, flag soccer, lacrosse and squash).
