ISA Announces Dates for 2023 Surf City El Salvador ISA World Surfing Games

September 21st, 2022

El Salvador Key Stop on Qualification For Paris 2024 Olympics

The 2023 Surf City El Salvador ISA World Surfing Games have been confirmed to take place May 30 to June 7, 2023 in El Sunzal/La Bocana.

The Games will serve as the second event in the Olympic Qualification process, with four (4) slots up for grabs for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games (to be held in Tahiti). In El Salvador, the four top ranked surfers by continent for each gender will qualify 1 place each by name.

The detailed Olympic Qualification system, announced by the ISA and the International Olympic Committee earlier this year, can be found here.

Sally Fitzgibbons from Team Australia, 2021 Gold Medalist. Photo: ISA / Ben Reed

The 2023 Surf City El Salvador ISA World Surfing Games are testimony to the strong and ongoing partnership between the ISA and the Salvadoran government.

President Nayib Bukele and his leadership team are deeply committed to establishing their country as a leading surfing destination.

ISA President Fernando Aguerre said:

“El Salvador continues to solidify itself as an essential part of the pathway to Olympic Surfing.

“We are grateful to President Bukele and Minister Valdez for their understanding of the ISA’s mission, but also for their strong commitment to surfing.

We are happy to continue to expand and strengthen this partnership, and to show the world that El Salvador is a surfing destination worthy of the world’s best events and surfers.

Our surfers and teams from around the world have come to love and appreciate El Salvador’s beauty, warm hospitality and excellent waves.  We look forward to returning next year as part of our paddle for a better world through surfing.”

President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele said:

“Surf is freedom. The world needs freedom, probably more than at any other point in our lifetime. So it will be a great honor to be part of its promotion and celebration once again.

We thank the ISA and its president, Fernando Aguerre, for including us.

El Salvador will always be home for anyone who wishes to spread the culture and values of surfing”



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