Japanese skaters won three of the six medals in Skateboarding’s Olympic premier, with Yuto Horigome, 22, and Momiji Nishiya, 13, both taking gold in the street competition. Beside Nishiya on the ...

America’s Men’s Street skateboarding duo Jagger Eaton and Nyjah Huston had to settle for silver and bronze at the Paris Olympics after being pipped by Japan’s Yuto Horigome for the gold ...

The first Olympic medals would not belong to the past era of street skateboarding. Advertisement She picked up her board and walked to U.S. Coach Mimi Knoop, a contemporary from the old days.

The Olympic gold is the culmination of a long process for Horigome, who has long since established himself as the best street skater in the world. He won gold at three World Skate League events in ...

The Olympic street skateboarding competition consisted of two 45-second runs and five single tricks. Momiji Nishiya showed off her skating moves and style while riding the rails, ramps and ledges ...

Japan’s deep talent pool extends to women’s street. Coco Yoshizawa, Liz Akama and Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist Funa Nakayama rose to the top among a pool of six Japanese women all ranked in the top ...

On the day of the men’s street skateboarding final last week, ... but the Olympic debut of surfing and skateboarding is turning the Tokyo Games into a SoCal showcase. July 17, 2021.

In street, things work a little differently, as five judges give a score out of 10.0 on the runs as well as on a required number of five tricks. They grade each run and trick on the zero-to-10 scale.

Fernandina Beach's Poe Pinson made her 2024 Olympics debut Sunday in women's street skateboarding in Paris for Team USA. Where did she finish?

Men’s street skateboarding will return to the 2024 Olympic Games today (July 27, 2024). The event will start with a preliminary round at 5 a.m. CT on Peacock , which will be followed by the ...

For skateboarding, a sport where the No. 1 rule is that there are no rules, the straight jacket of the Olympic Games, with its dense thickets of tradition and regulation, may not be a natural or ...

Japan's Momiji Nishiya reacts after competing in the women's street preliminary round during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Ariake Sports Park Skateboarding in Tokyo on July 26, 2021.