The future is now of Youngsters ….
In the inaugural Olympics street skateboarding competition, two of the youngest competitors at the Olympic Games won the gold and silver.
The GOLD medallist, NISHIYA MOMIJI, wrote her name into the history books with a score of 15.26. Her final three runs (4.15, 4.66 and 3.43) were enough to secure top spot on the podium, as she beat Brazil’s Rayssa Leal, also 13,& 16-year-old Nakayama Funa , to secure Gold .
Nishiya, who won a silver medal at the 2021 world championships in Rome, has now secured the ultimate prize in sport after her unique blend of trickery, skill and consistency saw her triumph in a tense final that went all the way down to the final run.
The day belongs to Nishiya, whose name goes down in the record books as the first female skateboarder to strike Gold at an Olympics and the second skateboarder, after men’s winner Horijome Yuto’s heroics yesterday, to win Gold in the Sport for Japan.
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Bhawna Khanna Sports Journalist |
