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At the age of 11, she watched the Tokyo 2021 Olympics and saw 13-year-old Momiji Nishiya win the gold medal with a move that Yoshizawa had already been able to perform. [5] She did not have a phone at the time and did not use social media, and thus she "wasn't plugged into skateboarding culture [and] she and her family had no idea how good she ...
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]
Katarina Witt from East Germany won the 1988 women's singles gold medal, becoming the second female figure skater in history to win back-to-back Olympic titles. Yuna Kim of South Korea won the women's singles event in 2010 with world record scores in the short program, free skating, and combined total.
Fourteen-year-old Coco Yoshizawa’s late surge helped her beat compatriot Liz Akama, 15, to the gold medal at La Concorde Urban Park, Paris on Sunday. The pair’s scores were head and shoulders ...
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]
In the women's park event in Tokyo, Japan's Kokona Hiraki, then 12, won silver and Britain's Sky Brown, only 13, took the bronze. Skateboarding makes 2nd showing at the Olympics with young stars ...
From 2 to 3 December, at the 2023 Guangdong Youth Skateboarding Championship, she won the gold medal in the skateboarding bowl event. [ 16 ] [ non-primary source needed ] On 16 May 2024, in the women's bowl skateboarding preliminaries of the 2024 Summer Olympics qualification series in Shanghai , Zheng scored 51.73 points, ranking her 20th ...