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  2. Skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. List of skateboarders at the 2020 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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    This list includes skateboarders who have competed or will compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. There are two skateboarding disciplines, park and street, each contested as a men's event and a women's event. [1] [2]

  4. Skateboarding at the Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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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]

  5. Why Japan’s teenage girls are so good at skateboarding - AOL

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    Skewing young. Japan aside, women’s skateboarding across both categories is dominated by teenage athletes. Paris street bronze went to popular 16-year-old Brazilian Rayssa Leal, who in the ...

  6. Why don’t Olympic skateboarders wear helmets?

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    The women's street skateboarding preliminary rounds and finals were on July 28, with Japan's Coco Yoshizawa and Liz Akama taking home the gold and silver medals, and Brazil's Rayssa Leal nabbing ...

  7. Skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's park

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    The 2020 Summer Olympics women's park skateboarding competition occurred on 4 August 2021 at Ariake Urban Sports Park in Tokyo, Japan.. It was originally scheduled to be held in 2020, but on 24 March 2020, the Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

  8. Funa Nakayama - Wikipedia

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    Funa Nakayama (中山 楓奈, Nakayama Fūna; born 17 June 2005) is a Japanese skateboarder from Toyama City. [2] Nakayama won a bronze medal in the women's street competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. [3] In January 2023, she became the first Asian woman to be featured on the cover of Thrasher. [4]

  9. Momiji Nishiya - Wikipedia

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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.