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In September 2015, skateboarding was included in a shortlist along with baseball, softball, karate, surfing, and sport climbing to be considered for inclusion in the 2020 Summer Olympics; [1] and in June 2016, the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that they would support the proposal to include all of the shortlisted sports in the 2020 Games. [2]
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]
Yuto Horigome (堀米 雄斗, Horigome Yūto, born 7 January 1999) is a Japanese professional skateboarder and two-time Olympic champion. He won the gold medal in the inaugural Olympic men's street event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, becoming the first person to win gold in men's street skateboarding at the Summer Olympics.
Today Two years after the last winter Olympics, Team USA has officially won its first gold medal in the team figure skating event. During the Beijing Olympics in 2022, Team USA — Nathan Chen ...
Arisa Trew (アリサ・トゥルー, born 12 May 2010) is an Australian skateboarder.She won the gold medal for the women's park skateboarding event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris at the age of 14 making her Australia's youngest ever Olympic champion.
Coco Yoshizawa and Liz Akama took gold and silver for Japan in women's street skateboarding at the Paris Olympics on Sunday and Rayssa Leal of Brazil got bronze to win her second medal in the sport.
In the semifinals at the 2024 Olympics, Yoshizawa recorded the top score, with 258.92 points, securing a spot in the finals. [1] In the final, she successfully performed a "big spin flip frontside boardslide" and won the gold medal with a score of 272.75, ahead of Liz Akama and Rayssa Leal .
Skateboarding competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics were held from 28 July to 7 August at Place de la Concorde, returning to the program for the second time since the sport's official debut three years earlier in Tokyo 2020. [1]