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Skateboarding At The 2024 Summer Olympics
Skateboarding competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics were held from 28 July to 7 August at Place de la Concorde, returning to the program for the second time since the sport's official debut three years earlier in 2020 Summer Olympics, Tokyo 2020. With the showcase of youthful talents and the level of competition continually rising, Paris 2024 will witness more skateboarders compete across four medal events (street and park for both men and women) as the roster size gradually expands from 80 in Tokyo to 88. Qualification 88 quota places are available for eligible skateboarders to compete in Paris 2024. NOCs can enter a maximum of six skateboarders (three men and three women) in each of the two disciplines — street and park. Host nation France reserves four spots with one for each event, while the same amount will be set aside for the eligible NOCs under the Universality rules. The remainder of the total quota is attributed to a large number of skateboarders based on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris Organising Committee For The 2024 Olympic And Paralympic Games
The Paris Organising Committee for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games (COJOP2024) () is the organising committee for the 2024 Summer Olympics and the 2024 Summer Paralympics which were held in Paris, France. Tony Estanguet serves as president of the committee. Étienne Thobois serves as director general. The committee was established on 18 January 2018. The committee has an agreement with the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, TOCOG2020 of the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics to share knowledge and expertise. The committee also has an agreement with the Fondazione Milano Cortina 2026, organising committee of the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics to share knowledge and resources as well as joint communication and advocacy. Board of directors The board of directors consists of the following members and it includes representatives of several public bodies and society. * Tony Estanguet, president * Bernard Lapasset, honorary president * Guy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roller Sports At The 2023 Pan American Games
Roller sports competitions at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile were held at the Velodrome (artistic), Skating rink (speed skating) and Urban Sports Esplanade (skateboarding). The artistic competitions started on November 3 and finished on the 4th. Speed skating competitions took place on the 4th and 5 November. Skateboarding made its debut at this edition of the games, with competitions on October 21 and 22. 14 medal events were contested, two in artistic, eight in speed skating and four in skateboarding. A total of 96 qualified to compete at the games. Qualification A total of 96 roller sports athletes will qualify to compete. 18 will qualify in artistic, 44 in speed skating and 34 in skateboarding. The 2021 Junior Pan American Games and the Pan American Championships for each discipline held in 2022 were used to determine the qualifiers. For skateboarding, the 2023 Olympic World Skateboarding Ranking will be used to determine the qualifiers. Medal summary Meda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rayssa Leal
Jhulia Rayssa Mendes Leal (born 4 January 2008) is a Brazilian professional skateboarder who won a silver medal in women's street skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Early life Leal was born in Imperatriz, the second largest city in Maranhão, Brazil, to parents Haraldo Oliveira Leal and Lilian Mendes. She has a younger brother, Arthur. She started skateboarding at the age of six, after getting her first skateboard as a gift from a family friend. Skateboarding career Leal first gained attention at the age of 7, when a video of her skating in a tutu and jumping off tall structures on her skateboard went viral online. Leal's mother filmed the video on September 7, 2015, and sent it to American professional skateboarder Tony Hawk. The next day, Hawk reposted on Twitter and commented: "I don't know anything about it, but it's amazing: a fairytale-style heelflip in Brazil". At that time, she always made a post with the best mane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Akama
is a Japanese skateboarder who won a silver medal in women's street skateboarding at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Career She began skateboarding in second grade with encouragement from her father, who was a surfer. Aside from her Olympic medal, she has also captured three silver medals and two bronze medals at the X Games The X Games are a series of action sports events founded by ESPN Inc. and aired on ESPN networks and ABC. In late 2022, ESPN sold the long-running property to MSP Sports Capital, a private equity firm co-founded by Jahm Najafi and Jeff Mo .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Akama, Liz Living people 2009 births Japanese female skateboarders Sportspeople from Miyagi Prefecture Sportspeople from Sendai 21st-century Japanese sportswomen Skateboarders at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in skateboarding Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Japan Olympic skateboarders for Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coco Yoshizawa
Coco Yoshizawa (; born 22 September 2009) is a Japanese Skateboarding, skateboarder. She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal in the Skateboarding at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's street, women's street event. Biography Yoshizawa was born on 22 September 2009 in Kanagawa, Japan, and grew up in Sagamihara. At the age of seven, she first tried out skateboarding through the influence of her brother. She initially viewed it as "just a hobby" and learned tricks from someone at a local park. At the age of 11, she watched the 2020 Summer Olympics, 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. 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 was," according to ''Self (magazine), Self''. After the 2021 Olympics, Yoshizawa started to compete in tournam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Brown
is a British-Japanese professional skateboarder and surfer who competes for Great Britain. She was the youngest professional skateboarder in the world, and has also won the American TV programme '' Dancing with the Stars: Juniors''. She represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics, where she won a bronze medal in the park skateboarding event, making her the country's youngest-ever medallist. She repeated this feat by winning bronze for a second time in park at the 2024 Summer Olympics. In addition, she won the same event at the 2023 World Skateboarding Championship. Early life Brown was born in Miyazaki, Japan. Her mother, Mieko, is Japanese, and her father, Stuart, is British. She has a younger brother, Ocean Brown. In Japanese, her given name is written in katakana as (Sukai) or in kanji as (Sukai); as is standard for Japanese surnames of foreign origin, her family name is written only in katakana. Her British father lived in the United States for several yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kokona Hiraki
is a Japanese skateboarder. She won a silver medal in the women's park event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, becoming the youngest Japanese athlete on record to participate in the Summer Olympic Games. She won a silver medal again in the women's park event at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Career Hiraki began skateboarding at age 5. At age 9, she placed fourth in the women's park event at the 2nd Japan National Skateboarding Championships in May 2018, and participated in her first international event, the Vans Park Series Asia Continental Championship in August 2018, at which she placed first. Hiraki made her global competition debut at age 10, finishing seventh in the women's event at the 2018 Park World Championship (also called the World Skate Tour (WST) Park World Championship) of the World Skateboarding Championship in Nanjing. Eight months later, she won silver in women's park at the X Games Minneapolis 2019 to become the youngest X Games medalist in history. She earned her fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arisa Trew
Arisa Trew (アリサ・トゥルー, born 12 May 2010) is an Australian skateboarder. She won the gold medal for the women's park skateboarding event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris at the age of 14 making her Australia's youngest ever Olympic champion. She is the first women's skateboarder to land a 720 and a 900 in competition. Early life Trew was born on 12 May 2010 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Her mother, Aiko, is Japanese and her father, Simon, is Welsh. She moved to the Gold Coast where she grew up from the age of two and started skateboarding at the age of seven. Arisa is of no relation to fellow Australian Olympic skateboarder Ruby Trew, however they are good friends and often tell people they are cousins. Career In May 2023, Trew placed 4th at the 2023 Japan X Games for the women's park event. On 23 June 2023, during Tony Hawk's Vert Alert event held in Salt Lake City, Arisa became the first female skateboarder to successfully execute a 720 trick in a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nyjah Huston
Nyjah Imani Huston ( ; born November 30, 1994) is an American professional skateboarder. With numerous sponsorships and competition prize winnings, Huston is one of the highest paid skateboarders in the world. Huston won gold medals at the SLS Super Crown World Championship in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, and 2024, and has won 15 gold medals at the X Games since 2011. Huston won his first Olympic medal, a bronze, in the 2024 Olympic men's street event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Nyjah is widely regarded as one of the greatest skateboarders of all time. He is also widely regarded as the greatest contest street skateboarder of all time. Early life Huston was born in Davis, California. Raised in a strict Rastafarian lifestyle by his father Adeyemi, Huston and his siblings were vegans and were homeschooled by their mother Kelle. Adeyemi was a skateboarder and made his son start skating when Nyjah was only five years old. Huston had stated that his father was ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jagger Eaton
Jagger Geoffrey Eaton (born February 21, 2001) is an American professional skateboarder who competes in street and park competitions. He was the youngest ever X Games competitor at age 11, until his record was broken in 2019. In 2021, Eaton won the first Olympic skateboarding medal, earning a bronze in the men's street competition in Tokyo, Japan. Eaton won Silver in the 2024 Olympic men's street event at 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Early life Eaton and his brother Jett (two years his senior) are the sons of Geoff Eaton, owner of the Kids That Rip (KTR) Skateboard School, a school that trains a number of junior X Games competitors. Both brothers started skateboarding under their father's tutelage at a young age, with Eaton commencing at four years of age. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuto Horigome (skateboarder)
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. He defended his gold medal in the same event at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Early life Horigome along with his two younger brothers were born in Tokyo, Japan, to taxi driver and former street skateboarder Ryota Horigome. Ryota Horigome exposed his son Yuto to skateboarding before he could walk. At the age of seven Horigome was already frequenting Tokyo's Murasaki Sport's Park, better known as "Amazing Square" Skate Park. Horigome spent hours here practicing his tricks and honing his skills. By age 12 he knew his dream was to be a professional skater and continued to train relentlessly, encouraged by his heroes Mike Carroll, Gino Iannucci, Eric Koston, Guy Mariano, Shane O'Neill, and Paul Rodriguez. Skateboarding caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |