Teenager Coco Yoshizawa took the skateboarding Olympic gold medal on the historic Place de la Concorde in Paris.
Japanese 14-year-old Coco Yoshizawa has gained girls’s avenue skateboard gold on the Paris Olympics in an all-teenage last.
Fellow Japanese contender Liz Akama took silver with Brazilian Rayssa Leal gathering bronze at Place de La Concorde on Sunday.
Yoshizawa racked up 272.75 factors from her three greatest runs.
Akama, herself solely aged 15, collected 265.95 for second and Leal completed on 253.37, comfortably forward of fourth-placed Cui Chenxi of China.
Leal, who gained silver on the Tokyo Olympics final trip, was the oldest of the three medallists within the French capital at 16.
After the deluge that pressured the postponement of the lads’s occasion the day prior to this, the solar returned Sunday and the momentary area grew to become a moist cauldron.
Skaters can afford to fall and never register a rating as much as 4 occasions of their seven makes an attempt.
Yoshizawa went into her penultimate trick with two massive scores however needing a 3rd to finish her complete. She nonetheless went for a high-risk experience down the handrail, and nailed it.
Regardless that all her rivals had yet one more run, she raised her board above her head in triumph.
The skateboarding resumes on Monday with the lads’s avenue occasion postponed from Saturday.
With defending Olympic champion Yuto Horigome, Sora Shirai and 14-year-old Ginwoo Onodera, Japan may once more dominate.