Surfing at the Paris 2024 games is set to become the event held furthest away from an Olympic host city, taking place 9,800 miles away in Tahiti. This would eclipse the current record of 9,700 miles set by the equestrian event at the Melbourne 1956 games, which was held in Stockholm.
Olympic events held furthest away from the host city as of March 2020
(in miles)
Characteristic
Distance in miles
Equestrian (Stockholm, Melbourne 1956)
9,700
Surfing (Tahiti, Paris 2024)
9,800
02,0004,0006,0008,00010,00012,000
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NBCUniversal. (March 3, 2020). Olympic events held furthest away from the host city as of March 2020 (in miles) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved March 13, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1327987/olympics-furthest-events/
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