14-year-old athlete Coco Yoshizawa brought the 2014 Paris Olympic gold medal to Japan in the women’s street skateboarding category.
In the final round of women’s street skateboarding on July 28, another Japanese athlete, Liz Akama, won the silver medal. Meanwhile, the bronze medal belonged to Brazilian athlete Rayssa Leal.
Olympic gold medalist Yoshizawa won 272.75 points. Runner-up Akama (15 years old), earned 265.95 points and Leal finished with 253.37 points, well ahead of fourth-place Cui Chenxi of China.
It is worth noting that Leal won a silver medal at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. The Brazilian athlete is also the oldest of the three medalists in the French capital. Leal is currently 16 years old.
Skateboarding will continue to take place on July 29 with the street skateboarding category for men, which was postponed from July 27 due to heavy rain.
Skateboarding will participate in the Olympics for the first time in Tokyo in 2021. Skateboarding has two categories including street and park.
In the street category, athletes must perform stunts on a street-like track that includes stairs and railings. They were allowed to skate twice, 45 seconds each time, and perform five acrobatics. The final score is the sum of the scores from the best slide and the two best stunts.
In the park category, athletes perform 3 slides, each lasting 45 seconds. Skateboarding includes 88 athletes competing, with 44 men and 44 women.