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Nakayama competed in the finals at the Street League Skateboarding Tour - London in 2019. [6] [7] She finished in 6th place. [8] She entered the finals as the number one qualifier. [9] She had similar results three weeks later in Long Beach, California. [10] She entered that contest off of a second place in the street qualifier. [11]
At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won the first ever gold medal in the women's street competition. Winning at the age of 13, she is the youngest person ever to win a gold medal for Japan, and the third youngest after Marjorie Gestring and Klaus Zerta to ever win an event at the Summer Olympics. [2] [3] [4]
The Urban Sport Park, which plays host to skateboarding, BMX, breakdancing and 3x3 basketball at these Olympics, has a different feel to other venues: DJs tell fans to put their hands in the air ...
Stess began skateboarding at two years old. [8] In 2013, at eight years old, she became the first girl ever to win the California Amateur Skateboard League. [9] In 2014, during the King of Groms Championship, she became the first female skater to compete in all three skateboarding finals (street, mini ramp and bowl), and was the first girl to win the mini ramp competition. [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 ...
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]
There is certainly precedent for youngsters achieving in skateboarding. The gold medal winner in the women’s park event at this year’s Asian Games was 15-year-old Hinano Kusaki from Japan.
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)