LA28 Releases Competition Schedule to Mark Three-Year Countdown to Olympics

The 2028 Olympic Summer Games Opening Ceremony will start at 8 p.m. Eastern time at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and SoFi Stadium in Inglewood with the first medal of the Games to be awarded in triathlon along Venice Beach, as the LA28’s first look at a competition schedule was released Monday to coincide with its three-year countdown.

As earlier announced, athletics will move to the first week of competition while swimming will be held during the second week at SoFi Stadium in a temporary pool. Swimming will close out the LA28 Games on Day 16 with the final competition session before the Closing Ceremony on July 30 at the Memorial Coliseum.

“We couldn’t be more excited to mark this moment at exactly three years out from Los Angeles’ third Olympic Games in 2028,” said LA28 Chief Executive Officer Reynold Hoover. “There is so much to celebrate today between one million program enrollments in LA28’s pre-Games legacy through the PlayLA program, plus the first look at the Olympic competition schedule that has been meticulously developed to ensure the world’s best athletes can compete in LA. We are energized by today’s milestones and remain focused on the work ahead as the Road to 2028 continues.”

Day 15 of competition will see 16 gold and bronze medal team sport matches and the finals for 19 individual sports, including swimming.

“We are now three years away from the LA Memorial Coliseum hosting the opening of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and I’m proud that the first medal will be awarded at the iconic Venice Beach,” said Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. “When the world comes here for these Games, we will highlight every neighborhood as we host a Games for all and work to ensure it leaves a monumental legacy. We are already delivering that legacy as we announce there have been more than one million enrollments in PlayLA. I want to thank LA28 and the International Olympic Committee for making these programs possible and for their continued work to host the greatest Games yet.”

Leading up to the 2028 Games, the competition schedule evolve with more detailed schedule with medal events and gender order will be released later this year. For now, here is the schedule