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At the age of 13 years and 330 days, she became the youngest Olympic gold medalist for Japan, and the third youngest gold medalist in Olympic history. [9] Nishiya competed at the X Games California 2023 in the women's street event where she scored 86.66 and won a bronze medal. [10] [11]
[6] [9] In 2024, she won bronze at the 2024 World Skateboarding Tour Dubai, competing in the street skating event. [6] She competed at the 2024 Olympic Qualifier Series and placed third at the first event, then first at the second to secure qualification for the 2024 Summer Olympics , being age 14 at the games.
Skateboarding was an event held in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. [1] [2] [3] It was the debut appearance of skateboarding at the Summer Olympics. [4]Skateboarding was one of four new sports added to the Olympic program for 2020; [5] it is also provisionally approved for the 2024 Summer Olympic games. [6]
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Women’s skateboarding gained global prominence in Tokyo during the 2020 Olympics for the remarkably young age of its medalists — even younger than the two men’s gold medallists, who were 22 ...
Bronze medal - World Skateboarding Championship (São Paulo, 2019) Gold medal - X Games Norway (2019) Gold medal - X Games Minneapolis (2019) [9] Women's world champion of street skateboarding (Street League Skateboarding Tournament, Rio, 2018) [10] Silver medal - X Games Minneapolis 2018 [6] Bronze medal - X Games Sydney - (2018)
She represented Japan at the 2018 Asian Games, hosted in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia. Yosozumi claimed one of Japan's three gold medals in the skateboard discipline after topping the rankings of the women's park event. She performed ahead of silver medalist and compatriot Kaya Isa and bronze medalist Zhang Xin of China. [10]
Brazil's 15-year-old skateboarding sensation Rayssa Leal, one of the favorites to win a gold medal in the street event at the Paris Olympics next year, won her first Pan American Games crown on ...