Thirteen-year-old Momiji Nishiya amazed during the Olympic women’s skateboarding street competition. She coasted through a recreation center of rails, ramps and stairs meant to mimic city street parks at the Ariake Urban Sports Park.
At the point when she completed, she became Japan’s most youthful ever gold medal winner and one of the most youthful Olympic champions ever.
Nishiya’s success likewise sealed Japan’s mastery of the street competition. It appeared at these Summer Olympics and coordinators trust it mixes the global sports with youthful energy. Truth be told, half of the women in the eight-skateboarder last were 16 or more younger.
Brazil’s Rayssa Leal, a couple of months more younger than Nishiya took silver and another Japanese skateboarder Funa Nakayama won bronze. Nishiya’s triumph came the day after Japan’s Yuto Horigome took the gold in the men’s street competition.
The game is one of a few new games at the Olympics this year including surfing, three on three b-ball and rock climbing.