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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 ...
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.
The only skaters with three consecutive titles are Grafström in men's singles, Sonja Henie for Norway in women's singles, and Irina Rodnina from the Soviet Union in pair skating. American Nathan Chen is the only skater to win two gold medals in the same Olympics. On two occasions, there has been a podium sweep. Russian figure skaters hold the ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...