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Skateboarding At The Summer Olympics
Skateboarding made its debut appearance at the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. It has also been provisionally approved by the IOC for inclusion at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. World Skate currently sanctions Olympic skateboarding. Bid for inclusion In September 2015, skateboarding was included in a shortlist along with baseball, softball, karate, surfing, and sport climbing to be considered for inclusion in the 2020 Summer Olympics; and in June 2016, the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ... (IOC) announced that they would support the proposal to include all of the shortlisted sports in the 2020 Games. Finally, on August 3, 2016, all five sports (counting baseball and softball together as one sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 activity, an art form, an entertainment industry Profession, job, and a method of transportation. Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by many skateboarders throughout the years. A 2009 report found that the skateboarding market is worth an estimated $4.8 billion in annual revenue, with 11.08 million active skateboarders in the world. In 2016, it was announced that skateboarding would be represented at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, for both male and female teams. Since the 1970s, skateparks have been constructed specifically for use by skateboarders, freestyle BMXers, aggressive inline skating, aggressive skaters, and more recently, Freestyle scootering, scooters. However, skateboarding has become controversial in areas in which the activity, although illegal, has damaged curbs, stoneworks, steps, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keegan Palmer
Keegan Palmer (born 13 March 2003) is an Australian goofy-footed professional skateboarder specialising in park skating. He turned professional at the age of 14. Palmer has been sponsored by Nike SB, Primitive, Oakley, Independent, Bones Wheels, Bronson Speed Co., Mob, and Boost Mobile. Palmer has been ranked ranked #7 in the World Skate male park rankings. In 2021, Palmer qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in the park skateboarding competition. Early life Palmer was born in San Diego, California, to an American father, Chris, and a South African mother, Cindy, on 12 March 2003. He moved with his family from San Diego to Australia's Gold Coast as a one-year-old. Palmer began skating at two years of age when he joined his father at the local Elanora skate park and competed in the Australian Open skating competition at eight years old. He attended King's Christian College while based on the Gold Coast and was also interested in surfing from an early age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skateboarding At The Summer Olympics
Skateboarding made its debut appearance at the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. It has also been provisionally approved by the IOC for inclusion at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. World Skate currently sanctions Olympic skateboarding. Bid for inclusion In September 2015, skateboarding was included in a shortlist along with baseball, softball, karate, surfing, and sport climbing to be considered for inclusion in the 2020 Summer Olympics; and in June 2016, the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ... (IOC) announced that they would support the proposal to include all of the shortlisted sports in the 2020 Games. Finally, on August 3, 2016, all five sports (counting baseball and softball together as one sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funa Nakayama
Funa Nakayama (中山 楓奈, ''Nakayama Fūna''; born 17 June 2005) is a Japanese skateboarder from Toyama City. Nakayama won a bronze medal in the women's street competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. Skateboarding career Nakayama competed in the 2018 Japan Skateboarding Championships at Murasaki Park Tokyo on May 13, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan. Nakayama competed in the finals at the Street League Skateboarding Tour - London in 2019. She finished in 6th place. She entered the finals as the number one qualifier. She had similar results three weeks later in Long Beach, California. She entered that contest off of a second place in the street qualifier. As of June 2019, she is ranked #8 in the world. She is participating in the Dew Tour The Dew Tour is an extreme sports circuit organized by the Adventure Sports Group, a subsidiary of American Media, LLC. History The tour was announced in late 2004, and made its debut in Louisville, KY in June 2005. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rayssa Leal
Jhulia Rayssa Mendes Leal (born 4 January 2008) is a Brazilian skateboarder who won a silver medal in women’s street skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Skateboarding career Leal was born and lives in Imperatriz, the second largest city in Maranhão, and alternates school studies with training. She started training the sport at the age of six, after getting her first skateboard on her 6th birthday, a gift from a family friend. Leal first gained attention at the age of seven in internet videos of her skating in a tutu and jumping off tall structures on her skateboard. Leal's mother filmed the video on September 7, 2015 and sent it to Tony Hawk (the best known skater in the world). The next day, the American 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, he always made a post with the best maneuver of the day. She was dubbed "A Fadinha do Skate", translated roughly as "The Little ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Momiji Nishiya
is a Japanese skateboarder. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won the first ever gold medal in the women's street competition. Winning it at 13, she is the youngest person ever to win a gold medal for Japan, and third youngest after Marjorie Gestring and Klaus Zerta to ever win an event at the Summer Olympics. Career Nishiya competed at the 2019 Summer X Games in the women's street event where she scored 90.00 and won a silver medal. Nishiya competed at the 2021 Street Skateboarding World Championships where she scored 14.17 and won the silver medal. As of June 2021, Nishiya was ranked fifth in the Olympic World Skateboarding rankings, and qualified for 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 1 .... She competed in the women's street competitio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jagger Eaton
Jagger Jesse Eaton (born February 21, 2001) is an American professional skateboarder who currently 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. 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.''Jagger Eaton, 11, ready to take on MegaRamp at X Games'' by Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelvin Hoefler
Kelvin Hoefler (born 10 February 1994) is a Brazilian professional street skateboarder. He won the silver medal in the inaugural Olympic men's street skateboarding event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Career Hoefler began skateboarding at age eight in his hometown of Guarujá in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. After winning some events in his early teens, he committed to pursuing skateboarding as a career. He made his professional debut in 2011. Hoefler steadily climbed the ranks throughout the 2010s to become one of the leading street skateboarders in the world. He has medaled at every major skateboarding tournament – Olympics, World Skateboarding Championship, and X Games – and has won multiple events in the Street League Skateboarding (SLS) and Dew Tour circuits. His top titles include World Championship gold in 2015, X Games Minneapolis gold in 2017, X Games Norway gold in 2018, and silver at the 2020 Summer Olympics. His sponsors include Powell-Peralta, Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuto Horigome (skateboarder)
is a Japanese professional skateboarder. He won the gold medal in the inaugural Olympic men's street event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, becoming the first person ever to win a gold medal in skateboarding at the Olympics. Personal life Horigome was born in Tokyo, Japan, and has two younger brothers. He began skating at Tokyo's Amazing Square Murasaki Skatepark when he was seven years old. He learned to skate from his father, who is a former Vert skateboarder. At age 14, Horigome began traveling to the United States for skating trips and eventually moved to Los Angeles, California, where he currently resides. He has competed in numerous American skateboarding pro tours, such as the Tampa Am and Dew Tour, as well as participating in filming parts. Professional skateboarding Career Horigome was sponsored by a Japanese board company early on. In 2015, he entered the Wild In The Parks skate contest in Los Angeles, hosted by Volcom and The Berrics, where he finished 2nd. While in Los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Brown
is a British-Japanese professional skateboarder and surfer who competes for Great Britain. She is 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 event, making her the country's youngest ever medallist. Personal life Sky Brown was born in Miyazaki, Japan. She is the older sister of Ocean Brown. Her mother, Mieko, is Japanese and her father, Stuart, is British. In Japanese, her given name is written in kana as (Sukai) or in kanji as (Sukai); as is standard for non-traditional Japanese names, her family name is written only in kana script. Her British father lived in the United States for several years before moving to Japan. Brown lives in Miyazaki, but spends around half the year in the US. Her family are skateboarders, and her preschool had a skate park. She has a skating ramp in her bac ... [...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. Career Hiraki has competed in women's park events at several World Skateboarding Championships, finishing seventh in 2018 and 11th in 2019. She has also competed at X Games, winning silver in 2019 in Boise, Idaho, US. She finished first in 2019 Vans Park Series, Paris. She finished fifth at the 2021 Dew Tour The Dew Tour is an extreme sports circuit organized by the Adventure Sports Group, a subsidiary of American Media, LLC. History The tour was announced in late 2004, and made its debut in Louisville, KY in June 2005. The tour then made stops i ... Des Moines, qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympics. References External links * Kokona Hirakiat The Boardr Living people 2008 births Japanese female skateboarders Olympic skateboarders for Japan Skateboarders at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakura Yosozumi
is a Japanese professional skateboarder. She won gold medals in the inaugural women's park events at the Asian Games, in 2018, and at the Olympic Games, in 2021. Career Yosozumi started skateboarding in 2013 and was influenced by her older brother to take up the sport. In September 2017, it was reported that on weekdays she trained for five hours after attending school. World Cup At the 2016 World Cup Skateboarding which was hosted in Tokyo, she competed in the women's park event where she finished 29th among competitors. She returned in the 2018 edition hosted in Orange, California and competed in the bowl event instead where she placed sixth. Vans Park Series Yosozumi skated at the 2017 Vans Park Series (VPS) Asian Championships in Singapore where she finished third. At the women's division of the VPS Pro Tour in Brazil in June 2018, Yosozumi claimed the top spot by outbesting Yndiara Asp of Brazil and Brighton Zeuner of the United States. At the Huntington Beach, Californi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
