The International Olympic Committee has approved the addition of six new mixed events at the LA’28 Games.
Archery, Athletics (4x100m mixed relay), Golf, Gymnastics, Rowing Coastal Beach Sprint and Table Tennis will now have additional medal events at the games.
They will complement rather than replace male and female events in the same sports.
All three Olympic Golf events will be contested at The Riviera Country Club at the LA28 Games.
The Mixed-Team Event will be contested as a 36-hole competition – 18 holes of foursomes (alternate shot) for the first round, followed by 18 holes of four-ball (best ball) for the final round.
There will be a maximum of one team per country, with teams comprised of one male and one female already qualified for the Men’s and Women’s Individual Olympic Golf Competitions.
The Mixed-Team Event will take place after the four-round Men’s Individual Olympic Golf Competition and before the four-round Women’s Individual Olympic Golf Competition.
The addition of the Mixed-Team Event marks the first Olympic Golf team competition since the 1904 Games.
There will be 351 medal events in LA, 22 more than at Paris 2024.
The core athlete quota of 10,500 remains the same, with an extra 698 allocated for the five sports proposed by the LA28 Organising Committee (Baseball/Softball, Cricket, Flag Football, Lacrosse and Squash).
With the inclusion of boxing, approved by the IOC Session in March 2025, the LA28 sports programme comprises 31 sports, with an additional five sports proposed by the Organising Committee and approved by the IOC in 2023.
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