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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Ito made her X Games debut in Ventura, California in June 2024, and became the first rookie in history to win a gold medal in the women's skateboard street event. [5] In September 2024, she competed at the World Skateboarding Championship. During the open qualifier round she had the second-highest score of 70.85 points. [6]
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 ...
Arisa Trew may only be 14 years old, but the teenager has already made history at the 2024 Paris Olympics as the youngest Australian to win a medal. And, the skateboarding champ has an unusual ...
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.
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 ...