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Skateboarding At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's Street
The 2020 Summer Olympics women's street skateboarding competition occurred on 26 July 2021 at Ariake Urban Sports Park in Tokyo, Japan. It was originally scheduled to be held in 2020, but on 24 March 2020, the Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Momiji Nishiya of Japan won the gold medal, with Rayssa Leal of Brazil and Funa Nakayama of the Japan winning the silver and bronze medals. Qualification * 3 from the World Championships * 16 from the World Olympic Rankings * 1 host nation place Competition format All 20 skateboarders did two 45-second runs, and then five single tricks rounds. Only the top 4 scores from the seven rounds for each skateboarder counted toward the final score. The top 8 skateboarders from the Semi-Final qualified for the finals, where the scores were reset and follow the same two 45 second round and five single trick round format. Results Semifinals The top 8 skateboarders of 20 advanced to the finals. Final Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariake Urban Sports Park
is an outdoor sports facility located in the Ariake district of Kōtō, Tokyo and built for the 2020 Summer Olympics. The venue covers a total area of 97,000 m². The BMX, freestyle BMX and skateboard facility has a maximum capacity of 6,600, 5,000, and 7,000 spectators respectively. See also *Skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics *Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics References External links Skateboarding spots Sports venues in Tokyo Venues of the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic skateboarding venues Sports venues completed in 2021 2021 establishments in Japan Buildings and structures in Koto, Tokyo {{Tokyo-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Rosa
Pamela may refer to: *''Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded'', a novel written by Samuel Richardson in 1740 *Pamela (name), a given name and, rarely, a surname *Pamela Spence, a Turkish pop-rock singer. Known as her stage name "Pamela" * MSC ''Pamela'', a container ship launched in 2005 * ''Pamela'' (butterfly), a butterfly genus *''Perrhybris pamela'', a butterfly with the common name Pamela *Pamela hat, a straw hat named after Richardson's heroine, worn 1790s–1870s * ''Pamela'' (film), a 1945 French film * Super Typhoon Pamela, a typhoon in 1976 *''Una donna da guardare'', a 1990 Italian erotic movie *'' P.A.M.E.L.A.'', a first-person survival video game Songs *"Pamela Pamela", a song recorded by Wayne Fontana that reached number 11 in the UK Singles Chart in 1967 * "Pamela" (song), a 1988 hit song for the band Toto *"Pamella", a song by Remmy Ongala from the album ''Songs For the Poor Man'' *"Pamela Wan", a song composed by Vhong Navarro in 2004, inspired by the movie Otso-Otso Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skateboarding At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's Street
The 2020 Summer Olympics men's street skateboarding competition occurred on 25 July 2021 at Ariake Urban Sports Park in Tokyo, Japan. It was originally scheduled to be held in 2020, but on 24 March 2020, the Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yuto Horigome (skateboarder), Yuto Horigome of Japan won the gold medal, with Kelvin Hoefler of Brazil and Jagger Eaton of the United States winning the silver and bronze medals. Qualification * 3 from the World Championships * 16 from the World Olympic Rankings * 1 host nation place Competition format All 20 skateboarders did two 45-second runs, and then five single tricks rounds. Only the top 4 scores from the seven rounds for each skateboarder counted toward the final score. The top 8 skateboarders from the Semi-Final qualified for the finals, where the scores were reset and follow the same two 45 second round and five single trick round format. Results Semifinals The top 8 skateboarders of 20 advanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skateboarding At The 2020 Summer Olympics
Skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics was an event held in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. It was the debut appearance of skateboarding at the Summer Olympics. Skateboarding was one of four new sports added to the Olympic program for 2020; it is also provisionally approved for the 2024 Summer Olympic games. The proposal to add skateboarding to the Olympics was approved in August 2016.How skateboarding made it to the Olympics: an institutional perspective Retrieved 19 August 2021. Qualification There were 80 quota spots available for skateboarding. Each event had 20 competitors: three qualified from the World Championships, 16 from the world rankings, and one from the host country of the Olympics, Japan.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alana Smith (skateboarder)
Alana Smith (born October 20, 2000) is an American professional skateboarder from Mesa, Arizona. They are goofy-footed. Skateboarding career In 2013, at the age of 12, Smith landed a 540 McTwist and became the youngest medalist in X Games history when they won silver in the women's park event at the X Games Barcelona. They finished first in the Girls Combi Pool Classic at the World Cup of Skateboarding in 2015. In 2016, Smith and Nora Vasconcellos joined the skate team of the Eugene, Oregon boardshop Tactics, as the brand's female ambassadors. In 2021, Smith competed in the women's street skateboarding event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, finishing in last place out of the 20 competitors at the heat stage. In so doing, Smith became the first ever openly non-binary athlete to compete at the Olympics and had the pronouns "they/them" inscribed on their skateboard. However, a number of sports presenters misgendered Smith during coverage of the event, including BBC Sport comment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Guglia
Annie Guglia (born 15 November 1990) is a Canadian skateboarder and LGBTQ rights activist. She identified herself as a lesbian. She is also regarded as a prominent LGBTQ activist. She made her debut appearance in the Olympics at the age of 30 representing Canada at the 2020 Summer Olympics where skateboarding was also added in Olympics for the very first time. During the 2020 Summer Olympics, she competed in women's street event. She made it to the 2020 Summer Olympics in an unconventional manner despite failing to qualify for the Olympics. She was initially not picked in the Canadian contingent for the 2020 Summer Olympics but was later added as a substitute for an injured athlete in skateboarding event. Early life Annie Guglia was born and raised in Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Brueckler
Julia Brueckler or Julia Brückler (born 28 November 1989) is an Austrian professional street skateboarder. She is regarded as one of the first female skateboarders in Austria. Her partner Cody McEntire is also a professional skateboarder. Career Julia began pursuing her interest in skateboarding at the age of 12 after being inspired by her boys counterparts at the middle school who all played the sport enthusiastically. One of the boys in her middle school gave his board to her and other girls to try and master the sport. She made her X Games debut during the X Games Austin 2015. In September 2018, she won her first European Skateboarding Championships. She finished 7th at the X Games Minneapolis 2018. Brueckler made her Olympic debut at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where skateboarding Skateboarding is an extreme sport, action sport originating in the United States that involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard, as well as a recreational act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Hym
Charlotte Hym (born 30 October 1992) is a French street skateboarder and neuroscientist based in Paris. Early life and education Hym was born in Paris and grew up close to Boulevard Richard-Lenoir. She asked for a skateboard at the age of twelve because she saw so many people skateboarding in her local area. Hym obtained a bachelor's degree in Sport sciences at the Paris Descartes University in 2013, and completed a master's degree in Neuroscience from the same university in 2015. She remained in neuroscience as a doctoral researcher, focusing on cognitive neuroscience at psychology in the laboratory of Marianne Barbu-Roth. She looked at the impact of maternal voices on newborn babies. In 2019, she received a PhD degree in Cognitive neuroscience and Psychology from the Paris Descartes University. Skateboarding career Hym has competed at the World Skateboarding Championships. In 2016 she was approached by Commission Skateboard France to join the France skateboarding tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayley Wilson
Hayley Wilson (born 29 October 2001) is a goofy-footed Australian skateboarder from Mansfield, Victoria, Australia. Skateboarding career Wilson is currently the Australian Skateboarding League's national champion, holding the title for four consecutive years, 2016–2019. Wilson competed in the 2019 Street League Skateboarding Championship - London, placing second with a score of 26.2, finishing above Alexis Sablone, Letícia Bufoni, Rayssa Leal, and other skaters but behind Brazilian Pamela Rosa. In July 2021, Wilson was named as part of Australia's inaugural Olympic skateboarding team to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. In the preliminary round, she tied French skater Charlotte Hym with a total score of 5.34, but was awarded sole possession of sixteenth place via the tie-breaking protocol by virtue of her higher best run score. Hym was placed seventeenth in the final rankings. Full details are in Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics Australia competed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Benítez (skateboarder)
Andrea Claudia Benítez Rivera (born 29 September 1994) is a Spanish professional skateboarder, recognized in that sport at the national level. Biography Benítez started skating when she was less than 10 years old and soon after, she learned her first trick, a shove-it. At the age of 12, she received her first sponsor and at age 14, she was already traveling to compete for the different championships. She participated in different international championships such as the World Skateboarding Championship in 2017, where she finished in seventh place. In 2019, Benítez was in the quarterfinals (with a score of 6.2 and a cut-off mark of 6.6) of the World Skateboarding Championship in the street category, held in São Paulo, Brazil. At the 2019 World Roller Games held in Barcelona, she shared the podium with Mar Barrera. Since it was announced that skateboarding is an Olympic sport for the 2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asia Lanzi
Asia Lanzi (born 9 January 2002) is an Italian skateboarder. She made her debut appearance at the Olympics representing Italy at the 2020 Summer Olympics where skateboarding was also added in Olympics for the very first time. During the 2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ..., she competed in women's street event. References 2002 births Living people Italian skateboarders Italian sportswomen Female skateboarders Olympic skateboarders for Italy Skateboarders at the 2020 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Bologna {{Italy-sport-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariah Duran
Mariah Duran (born December 14, 1996) is a goofy-footed American skateboarder. Skateboarding Duran entered her first skateboarding competition at the age of 13 in her hometown of Albuquerque Albuquerque ( ; ), ; kee, Arawageeki; tow, Vakêêke; zun, Alo:ke:k'ya; apj, Gołgéeki'yé. abbreviated ABQ, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Its nicknames, The Duke City and Burque, both reference its founding in .... In 2016, Duran went Pro for Meow Skateboards, joining then Meow team members Leo Baker, Vanessa Torres, Adrianne Sloboh, and others. In 2018, Duran won her first Gold medal at X Games Minneapolis in the women’s skateboarding street competition. Duran was among the 16 members of the inaugural U.S.A Skateboarding National Team announced in March, 2019. Duran competed to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in the Women's Street division. On June 21, 2021, Duran was announced as part of the inaugural U.S. Olympic skateboarding team b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
