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Games get youngest champion

Japan’s Momiji Nishiya became one of the youngest individual Olympic champions in history when she won the inaugural women’s skateboarding gold at the age of 13 years and 330 days yesterday.

Nishiya beat Brazil’s Rayssa Leal, who at 13 years and 203 days could have become the youngest individual Olympic champion, and Japan’s Funa Nakayama, 16.

Nishiya starred in the tricks section to score 15.26 and give the hosts a clean-sweep of the street discipline as skateboarding makes its Olympic debut. Her performance mirrored that of Japan teammate Yuto Horigome, who won the men’s title with a stunning sequence of tricks on Sunday.

“I’m so glad to become the youngest (Japanese gold medalist) at my first Olympics ... tears came to my eyes,” Nishiya said.




 

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