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A demonstration sport, or exhibition sport, is a sport which is played to promote it, rather than as part of standard medal competition. This occurs commonly during the Olympic Games, but may also occur at other sporting events. Demonstration sports were officially introduced in the 1924 Summer Olympics, [1] though some scholars consider ...
Aug 1, 2016 · The Joy of Six: Olympic demonstration sports. From pigeon racing korfball to the foreboding overtones of gliding, half a dozen sports that enjoyed brief exposure on the Games’ global stage....
- Paul Connolly
A demonstration sport, or exhibition sport, is a sport which is played to promote it, rather than as part of standard medal competition. This occurs commonly during the Olympic Games, but may also occur at other sporting events.
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A list of sports that have been or are demonstration or exhibition sports at some time in the past in the summer Olympic Games, with links for more details. Includes American Football, Baseball, Badminton, Bowling, Boxing, Canoeing, Cricket, Cycling Polo, Dueling, Equestrian, Fire Fighting, Football, Golf, Gymnastics, Hurling, Judo, Kaatsen, Kite Flying, Korfball, Lacrosse, Lifesaving, Longue Paume, Motor Racing, Motor Cycling, Pigeon Racing, Pesäpallo, Roller Hockey, Sambo, Savate, Synchronized Swimming, Taekwondo, Tennis, Water Motorsports, Water Polo, Water Skiing, Wheelchair Racing and Wushu.
Taekwondo made its first appearance at the Olympics as a demonstration sport at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. The opening ceremony featured a mass demonstration of taekwondo, with hundreds of adults and children performing moves in unison. Taekwondo was again a demonstration sport at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
- 8 (men: 4; women: 4)
- WTF
- TKW
The 1972 Summer Olympics saw the inaugural staging of badminton, as a demonstration sport. Two decades later the sport was officially introduced to the Olympics in 1989, and debuted in competition at the 1992 Games where 4 events were held, with singles and doubles events for both men and women.
The “OSC Reference collection” is published by The Olympic Studies Centre, your centre of reference for Olympic knowledge. It gathers a series of documents providing key historical facts and figures related to different aspects of the Olympic Games, the Olympic Movement and the IOC. This content (the “Content”) is made available to you ...
