Japanese schoolgirl Misugu Okamoto is refusing to entertain thoughts of Tokyo Olympic gold despite becoming skateboarding’s youngest world champion at the weekend. The 13-year-old captured the ...
PARIS--Japan's Yuto Horigome retained his Olympic title in men's street skateboarding in Paris on Monday, clinching the top of the podium on his final trick in a nerve-searing final. Jagger Eaton ...
Yuto Horigome of Japan won the first ever skateboarding competition at the Olympic Games, taking gold in men’s street on Sunday in the city where he learned to skate as a kid and where his sport ...
Heyn leaned into her ability to skate in switch, which is significantly more difficult and earned her additional points. Japanese Funa Nakayama, the defending Olympic bronze medalist, and Australian ...
Japan's 14-year-old Coco Yoshizawa grabbed gold in the all-teenage women's street skateboard final at the Paris Olympics on Sunday, after nailing a high-risk ride down the hand-rail. Yoshizawa ...
The 22-year-old Horigome ended up being the oldest of the four skateboarding champions — the only one not still in his teens — crowned in Tokyo. Japan's Momiji Nishiya and Brazil's Rayssa Leal, both ...
Watch Japan's Yuto Horigome's "knockout" gold medal-winning runs in the men's street skateboarding final on day three of the Paris 2024 Olympics. Follow the Olympics on BBC Sport. Available to UK ...