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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]
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]
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]
Japan's Yuto Horigone wins gold in the men's street skateboarding to retain his Olympic title.
American Nyjah Huston, the favorite, failed to medal after missing four straight tricks.
For the second consecutive Olympics, Team Japan dominated the street event – and it could do the same in the park category starting August 6. ... Japan aside, women’s skateboarding across both ...
Yuto Horigome (堀米 雄斗, Horigome Yūto, born 7 January 1999) is a Japanese professional skateboarder and two-time Olympic champion. He won the gold medal in the inaugural Olympic men's street event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, becoming the first person to win gold in men's street skateboarding at the Summer Olympics.
TOKYO (Reuters) -Yuto Horigome of Japan claimed the first Olympic gold medal in skateboarding after recovering his composure with high-scoring tricks in the final rounds of an event held in his ...