The Olympic skateboarding qualification for Paris 2024 is passing through Rome. The Italian capital will host the stage of the World Skateboarding Tour – the street speciality – from 18 to 25 June.

The Parco del Colle Oppio is all set to welcome the world’s top skateboarders. There are 275 participating athletes (83 women and 192 men) from 57 countries across all five continents poised to compete in the “WST - Street Skateboarding Rome 2023”, which will assign ranking points towards Olympic qualification in Paris 2024.

Italy will be able to count on five athletes (one woman and four men) selected by the Team Street Technical Commissioner Mattia Restante: Asia Lanzi (photo ANSA), Agustin Lautaro Aquila, Giuseppe Cola, Andres Martin Gramaglia Fusconi and Diego Nardini.

Lanzi is the Italian team’s top skateboarder: she is the only Italian skater to have competed in Tokyo 2020 in a skateboarding speciality and reigning Italian title holder.

Just 21 years old, having competed with the Fiamme Gialle, Asia Lanzi already has an enviable CV: Italian champion for the last four years, 14th place at the Tokyo Olympic Games, currently number 44 in the world rankings (a position affected by a long injury), and one of the strongest European athletes.

The young and promising Agustin Lautaro Aquila was born in 2001, from Brescia but of Argentinean origin. He won the Italian Street 2021 and 2022 championships and the first stage of the CIS circuit for the 2023 title in Imola, where he picked up an injury. He is currently 40th in the international ranking, the best of the Azzurri, and made a name for himself in the last edition of the “World Skateboarding Tour Rome Street 2022” by performing outstandingly to reach the quarter-finals.

Giuseppe Cola, Andres Martin Gramaglia Fusconi and Diego Nardini are very young, but taking part in this event, at home on Italian soil, will be a chance to experience competing with the best in the world.

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