is a Japanese

skateboarder Skateboarding is an 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 job, and a method of transportation. S ...

. She won a silver medal in the women's park event at the

2020 Tokyo 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 ...

, becoming the youngest Japanese athlete on record to participate in the

Summer Olympic Games The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...

Career

Hiraki has competed in women's park events at several

World Skateboarding Championship The World Skateboarding Championship is an annual competition of men's and women's park skateboarding and street skateboarding, organized by World Skate (WS). Until 2017, the two disciplines were contested in separate tournaments, known as the V ...

s, finishing seventh in 2018 and 11th in 2019. She has also competed at

X Games The X Games are an annual extreme sports event organized, produced and broadcast by ESPN. Coverage is also shown on ESPN's sister network, ABC. The inaugural X Games were held during the summer of 1995 in Providence and Newport, Rhode Island, ...

, winning silver in 2019 in

Boise, Idaho Boise (, , ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho and is the county seat of Ada County. On the Boise River in southwestern Idaho, it is east of the Oregon border and north of the Nevada border. The downtown are ...

, 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 Hiraki
at The Boardr Living people 2008 births Japanese female skateboarders Olympic skateboarders for Japan Skateboarders at the 2020 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Hokkaido X Games athletes Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in skateboarding Olympic silver medalists for Japan 21st-century Japanese women {{Skateboarding-bio-stub