Racing Athlete Event Quarterfinals Semifinals Final Points Rank Points Rank Result Rank 12 5 Did not advance 22 6 Did not advance Freestyle Athlete Event Seeding Final Score Rank Score Rank 87.
The ceremony begins with a video showing the eight years since Tokyo won its bid, and views of street scenes around the Japanese capital.
This is the first time for surfing to be included in the Games.
The opening ceremony notably in memory of the Israeli delegation members killed by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich Games.
A lot of speculation is swirling over who will light the Olympic cauldron at the end of a ceremony that is expected to last about three and a half hours.
China wins the 10-meter air pistol mixed team gold, while the Russian National Olympic Committee takes silver and Ukraine bronze.
If so, it would be only the second storm to do so on Tohoku's Pacific side in records going back to 1951, Kyodo reports.
Homegrown surfing star Kanoa Igarashi comes up short in his attempt to bring Japan gold in the men's shortboard, settling for silver as Brazil's Italo Ferreira wins it.