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 received girls’s avenue skateboard gold on the Paris Olympics in an all-teenage remaining.
Fellow Japanese contender Liz Akama took silver with Brazilian Rayssa Leal accumulating 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 received silver on the Tokyo Olympics final day trip, was the oldest of the three medallists within the French capital at 16.
After the deluge that pressured the postponement of the boys’s occasion the day before today, the solar returned Sunday and the short-term area turned 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.
Despite the fact that all her rivals had yet one more run, she raised her board above her head in triumph.
The skateboarding resumes on Monday with the boys’s avenue occasion postponed from Saturday.
With defending Olympic champion Yuto Horigome, Sora Shirai and 14-year-old Ginwoo Onodera, Japan might once more dominate.
