Teenager Coco Yoshizawa took the skateboarding Olympic gold medal at the historical Place de la Concorde in Paris.
Published On 28 Jul 2024
Japanese 14-year-old Coco Yoshizawa has won females’s street skateboard gold at the Paris Olympics in an all-teenage last.
Fellow Japanese competitor Liz Akama took silver with Brazilian Rayssa Leal gathering bronze at Place de La Concorde on Sunday.
Yoshizawa racked up 272.75 points from her 3 finest runs.
Akama, herself just aged 15, gathered 265.95 for 2nd and Leal completed on 253.37, conveniently ahead of fourth-placed Cui Chenxi of China.
Leal, who won silver at the Tokyo Olympics last time out, was the earliest of the 3 medallists in the French capital at 16.
After the deluge that required the postponement of the guys’s occasion the previous day, the sun returned Sunday and the short-term arena endedupbeing a damp cauldron.
Skaters can manage to fall and not register a rating up to 4 times in their 7 efforts.
Yoshizawa went into her penultimate t