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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 ...
Cocona Hiraki [4] [5] (開心那, Hiraki Kokona, also Kokona Hiraki, born 26 August 2008) [6] is a Japanese skateboarder.She won a silver medal in the women's park event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, [7] becoming the youngest Japanese athlete on record to participate in the Summer Olympic Games.
Senator Manny Pacquiao with Didal and her Asian Games medal. Didal competed for the Philippines in the women's street skateboarding event. She trained for two months in the United States prior to the event. [13] Didal won the fourth gold for the Philippines at the 2018 Asian Games.
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 ...
It may have been a bronze medal, but it was celebrated in the stands like it was a gold. Brazil’s Rayssa Leal takes dramatic, wildly celebrated bronze in street skateboarding as 14-year-old Coco ...
Arisa Trew may only be 14 years old, but the teenager has already made history at the 2024 Paris Olympics as the youngest Australian to win a medal. And, the skateboarding champ has an unusual ...
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.
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 ...