Japan’s Coco Yoshizawa, 14, wins street skateboard gold at Paris Olympics | Paris Olympics 2024 News


Teenager Coco Yoshizawa took the skateboarding Olympic gold medal on the historic Place de la Concorde in Paris.

Japanese 14-year-old Coco Yoshizawa has gained ladies’s road skateboard gold on the Paris Olympics in an all-teenage last.

Fellow Japanese contender Liz Akama took silver with Brazilian Rayssa Leal amassing bronze at Place de La Concorde on Sunday.

Yoshizawa racked up 272.75 factors from her three finest runs.

Akama, herself solely aged 15, collected 265.95 for second and Leal completed on 253.37, comfortably forward of fourth-placed Cui Chenxi of China.

Leal, who gained silver on the Tokyo Olympics final trip, was the oldest of the three medallists within the French capital at 16.

Three skateboaders on Olympic dias.
Gold medallist Japan’s Coco Yoshizawa (centre), silver medallist Japan’s Liz Akama (left) and bronze medallist Brazil’s Rayssa Leal stand on the rostrum in the course of the victory ceremony for the ladies’s road skateboarding occasion in the course of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games at La Concorde on July 28, 2024 [Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP]

After the deluge that pressured the postponement of the lads’s occasion yesterday, the solar returned Sunday and the momentary enviornment grew to become a moist cauldron.

Skaters can afford to fall and never register a rating as much as 4 occasions of their seven makes an attempt.

Yoshizawa went into her penultimate trick with two massive scores however needing a 3rd to finish her complete. She nonetheless went for a high-risk journey down the handrail, and nailed it.

Though all her rivals had another run, she raised her board above her head in triumph.

The skateboarding resumes on Monday with the lads’s road occasion postponed from Saturday.

With defending Olympic champion Yuto Horigome, Sora Shirai and 14-year-old Ginwoo Onodera, Japan may once more dominate.

Coco Yoshizawa skateboarding at Olympics 2024.
Japan’s Coco Yoshizawa competes within the ladies’s road skateboarding last in the course of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games [Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP]

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