The 13-year-olds from Australia won their first Summer X Games gold medals in their respective skateboard events, highlighting a day filled with next-level innovation and emotion at the Ventura Cou… ...

What makes the X Games Skateboard Street competition different than most other women's skateboarding contests is the prize purse, which nets $40,000 for the top spot. It's also, incidentally, the ...

Nearly 20 years ago, Burnside led X Games women athletes on a boycott in protest of the $2,000 she said was being paid to women winners, compared to $50,000 for the men. It worked. Winnings rose.

While women’s skateboarding won’t debut in the Olympics for two more years, it has a long history at the highest level of extreme sports competitions as it first appeared as an X Games event ...

Arisa Trew, a 13-year-old from Australia, took home the gold medal in the women's skateboard vert competition at the X Games on Saturday after she landed a 720. Trew was the only female in the ...

A woman from Encinitas took home the X Games silver medal in Women’s Skateboard Park this past weekend in Minneapolis. Jordyn Barratt is a two-time X Games skateboard medalist.

Teenagers often compete at a high level in skateboarding, a sport that presents some advantages to small, flexible athletes. But Zeuner's accomplishments — youngest female X Games competitor ...

When she was 11 years old, she became the youngest X Games competitor ever. And in 2015, she became the youngest winner at the Vans U.S. Open. Brighton is also the only female winner of California ...

Much like their contemporary counterparts in the predominantly male, high-consequence world of big-wave surfing, women in the competitive street skate scene have to fight for every ounce of ...