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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 ...
In 2013, at the age of 12, Smith landed a 540 McTwist and became the youngest medalist in X Games history when they won silver in the women's park event at the X Games Barcelona. [5] [3] [6] They finished first in the Girls Combi Pool Classic at the World Cup of Skateboarding in 2015. [6] [7] [8] [9]
Margielyn Arda Didal (born April 19, 1999) is a Filipino professional street skateboarder who rose to fame when she competed in the X Games Minneapolis 2018 [4] and won a gold medal in the 2018 Asian Games.
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 ...
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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. [10] [11]
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 ...
Brown was not the youngest competitor at the Games — Syrian table tennis player Hend Zaza and Japanese skateboarder Cocona Hiraki were younger. [22] [23] Brown won the bronze medal in the women's park skateboarding event at the 2020 Summer Olympics and became Great Britain’s youngest ever medal winner, at the age of 13 years and 28 days. [24]