Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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]
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]
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.
After the 2021 Olympics, Yoshizawa started to compete in tournaments. [6] She participated in the Japanese national championships that year and placed fifth. [7] In 2022, she competed in the Japan Open, finishing eighth. [8] She was second at the 2023 Uprising Tokyo tournament and later that year placed fifth at the World Championships.
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 ...
Japan's Yuto Horigone wins gold in the men's street skateboarding to retain his Olympic title.
Momiji Nishiya (西矢 椛, Nishiya Momiji, born 30 August 2007) is a Japanese skateboarder. At the 2020 Summer Olympics , she won the first ever gold medal in the women's street competition . Winning at the age of 13, she is the youngest person ever to win a gold medal for Japan, and the third youngest after Marjorie Gestring and Klaus Zerta ...
Instead, the 25-year-old from Japan landed the best trick of the competition to pass Americans Jagger Eaton and Nyjah Hutson for a repeat title. Japan's Yuto Horigome wins second Olympic gold ...