Olympic Qualification System Introduced for Squash at LA28 Olympic Games

Report courtesy of World Squash

The Olympic Qualification System (OQS) for the squash competitors on the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad, to be held July 15-24 2028, has been introduced following approval by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board assembly at its assembly on February 1 in Milan, Italy.

The OQS will consist of 5 doable routes to qualification, topic to circumstances: Continental Games, Host Country Quota, World Rankings, Universality Places and a Final World Qualifying Tournament.

In its Olympic debut in Los Angeles, the squash competitors will see sixteen-athlete attracts for males’s singles and ladies’s singles, staged on the Comcast Squash Center at Universal Studios.

The OQS was developed by World Squash and the Professional Squash Association (PSA) and goals to attain an optimum stability between inclusion of one of the best athletes and illustration of as many National Olympic Committees (NOCs) as doable throughout the sixteen athletes in every competitors. A minimal of two and a most of three NOCs will obtain a quota of two athletes per gender, topic to assembly circumstances, with all others receiving a quota of 1.

Five athletes per gender will qualify by way of their respective Continental Games: The Asian Games (Nagoya, Japan, September 19-04 October 2026); the African Games (Cairo, Egypt, January 20-07 February 2027); the European Games (Istanbul, Turkey, June 2027); the Pan-American Games (Lima, Peru, July 16-01 August 2027); and the Pacific Games (Pirae, Tahiti, July 24-08 August 2027).

As host, the USA, by way of the US Olympic & Paralympic Committee, receives a quota of at the least one athlete per gender, topic to circumstances.

An extra eight athletes per gender will qualify based mostly on their PSA World Ranking and one universality place per gender shall be obtainable to eligible NOCs.

The remaining one quota place per gender shall be determined by way of a twenty-four-athlete ultimate qualification match, to be held June 06-10, 2028.

“We are very conscious of the huge suspense and anticipation amongst athletes, coaches and federations regarding squash’s Olympic Qualification System, which reflects the excitement across the whole squash community for the sport’s Olympic debut,” mentioned Zena Wooldridge, World Squash President.  “For many, the Olympic dream will feel one step closer today, as squash stars around the world can begin plotting a course for a place in sporting history in Los Angeles. On behalf of World Squash and our PSA colleagues, I would like to express my thanks to our IOC colleagues for their support during this process. We are looking forward to putting squash on sport’s greatest stage.”

The full qualification pointers can be found on olympics.com.