Coco Yoshizawa dazzled the Paris crowd to win gold in women’s street skateboarding Sunday in the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Japan claimed two medals with Liz Akama earning silver. Rayssa Leal rounded out the podium with the bronze.
Lukas Weese @Weesesports
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Japan’s Coco Yoshizawa wins GOLD in the women’s skateboarding street event.
It is the second straight gold medal for Japan in this event.
Yoshizawa bows to the crowd.
What a performance.#Paris2024 | #skateboarding pic.twitter.com/QfVmqbBWT8
Women’s Street Final Results
Gold: Coco Yoshizawa, Japan (272.75)
Silver: Liz Akama, Japan (265.95)
Bronze: Rayssa Leal, Brazil (253.37)
Yoshizawa led the field during qualifying with a combined score of 258.92. Akama was hot on her heels at 257.99.
Akama set the early pace in the final with a high score of 89.26 on her second run and then a 92.62 with her first trick. But Yoshizawa raised the bar when she nailed a bigspin flip with a boardslide on her fourth attempt. The judges scored it at 96.49, catapulting her into first place.
James Johnson @SportsGrind_Don
My brain can’t even begin to process how Yoshizawa Coco landed that lol.
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14 years old, olympic gold medalist, threw a bigflip front boardslide down 10 stairs, capped it with a hurricane grind.
Coco Yoshizawa.
Needing something special to overtake her compatriot, Akama fell on her final trick attempt to guarantee Yoshizawa the gold. That didn’t stop her from hitting the course one more time to pad her overall tally.
The United States had two representatives in the eight-skater final field, but Paige Heyn (244.29, fifth) and Poe Pinson (241.12, eighth) needed to show a lot of improvement in order to climb into a medal position. They settled for sixth and fifth respectively.
The 2024 Summer Games were unforgiving to the returning medal winners.
Brazil’s Leal, the silver medalist in Tokyo, put up a huge score of 92.88 in the trick portion. It all came down to her final trick after back-to-back stumbles, though, and she at least moved up into third with a score of 88.83.
Funa Nakayama fared much worse. The 2021 bronze medalist placed seventh after failing to land any of her five tricks.
Sunday’s event brings Japan’s medal total to five, including three golds. Leal gave Brazil its third medal of the Summer Games so far.
The men’s street final is slated for Monday and follows the same schedule from the women’s event. The preliminary round starts at 6 a.m. ET with the final to follow at 11 a.m.
The skateboarding discipline closes out with the women’s and men’s park competitions on Aug. 6 and 7, respectively.
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