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Betting on the Rio World Skate Park World Championships

The Rio World Skate Park World Championships feature the world’s best professional park skateboarders. All are competing as individuals for the prestigious title, which is considered to be one of the most important completions in the season. This year’s event also has extra importance, as it is the first qualifying event towards the 2024 Summer Olympics being held in Paris. The event is held right after the Rio World Skate Street Championships.

The Skate Park World Champions have only been held 4 times in the past with the first edition being held in 2016 in Malmo, Sweden. In 2017 and 2018 the Skate Park World Championships where held in China. The competition was not held in 2020 or 2021 due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

Brazil has a history of hosting high quality skate championships. In 2019, Brazil was home both the park and street skating world championships. In 2019, Heimana Reynolds the American skater won the men's competition and Japanese skater Misugu Okamoto won the woman's completion. No male or female skater has won gold more than once on the Skate Park edition. However, Pedro Barros has finished in the top three on each of his outings, finishing second in 2016 & 2017, taking gold in 2018 and bronze in 2019.

To Win

To win bets are one of the simplest form of sports betting, and betting on the Rio World Skate Park World Championships 2022 are no exception. In this form of betting, you will be placing a bet on an individual to win the completion. For example, if you placed a bet on Heimana Reynolds to win the 2019 Rio World Skate Park World Championships your bet would have won. If you would have placed a bet on second place Louis Francisco to win your bet would have lost.

To Finish in the Top Three

This is another simple form of betting on the Rio World Skate Park World Championships. In the Rio World Skate Park World Championships competitors are given a gold medal for finishing first, a silver medal for finishing second and a bronze medal for finishing third. This is often referred to as the top three.

In this form of betting, you will be placing a bet on a skater finishing in the top three. This can be a useful type of bet if you think that a skater will perform well, but you do not think they will win. As an example, in 2019 Brazilian skater Pedro Quintas finished third. If you thought Quintas was in good enough form to finish in the top three, but was unlikely to win the competition you may have chosen this bet. In this instance, a bet on Quintas to finish in the top three of the 2019 Rio World Skate Park World Championships would have won. As you would expect, if you place a to finish in the top three bet on a skater who finishes fourth, your bet will not win.

Prop Bets

Prop bets are a wide range of bets that aren't necessarily tied to the outcome of a game. This covers a wide range of sports bets, but doesn't include bets on the outcome of a competition such as who will win or who will finish in the top three.

Prop bets can be split into two distinct categories. Player prop bets relate to betting on an individual’s performance, such as how many tricks they can make during the event. Game props are similar, however you are betting on something happening during the event.

Live Betting

Live betting has become an extremely popular way to bet on sports. Because of its fast nature, betting on the Rio World Skate Park World Championships can be hugely exciting. Odds can change rapidly depending on what is happening during the event, so you will need to move fast if using live betting.

As you can see from the above, there are some exciting ways of betting on the Rio World Skate Park World Championships. Skating has become an increasingly popular sport, partly due to its inclusion in the Olympics from 2016, and there are fantastic opportunities waiting for keen bettors.