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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]
[6] [9] In 2024, she won bronze at the 2024 World Skateboarding Tour Dubai, competing in the street skating event. [6] She competed at the 2024 Olympic Qualifier Series and placed third at the first event, then first at the second to secure qualification for the 2024 Summer Olympics , being age 14 at the games.
At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Yosozumi competed in the first-ever Olympic women's park skateboarding event, in which she claimed the gold medal with a best score of 60.09. [11] She narrowly bested compatriot Kokona Hiraki , who took silver with a 59.04 score, and Team GB competitor Sky Brown , who took bronze with a 56.47 score.
Sakura Yosozumi, then 19, and Kokona Hiraki, then 12, topped the 2021 Tokyo women’s park event. Great Britain’s Sky Brown, then 13, collected bronze. Brown is coincidentally half-Japanese.
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 ...
Cui Chenxi (Chinese: 崔宸曦; pinyin: Cuī Chénxī; born 19 December 2009) is a Chinese street skateboarder.Aged 14 years and 223 days, she won the gold medal in the women's street skateboarding event at the 19th Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China, making her the youngest Chinese gold medalist in the Asian Games.
Brazil's 15-year-old skateboarding sensation Rayssa Leal, one of the favorites to win a gold medal in the street event at the Paris Olympics next year, won her first Pan American Games crown on ...
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 ...