There were doubts and criticisms about whether skateboarding should enter these Olympic Games and in the first bars it has already left one of the youngest podiums in memory. The leading athletes in this new sport are special for their precociousness. In the
street
test
, where hills and curbs of the streets are simulated in a circuit, the Japanese Momiji Nishiya, 13, took the Olympic gold thanks to the score of 15.26. Silver went to Brazilian Rayssa Leal, also 13, who scored 14.64 points. The podium is closed by another Japanese jewel, Nakayama, 16, with 14.49 points. The podium average is 14 years and 190 days. Between the three, they add up to 42 years. Just eight more than fourth-placed American Alexis Sablone, 34.
Nishiya has become the first Olympic champion of a sport that debuted in a Games last Sunday with the victory of another Japanese, Yuto Horigome, in the men's category. In addition, at 13 years and 330 days, she has become the youngest to win an Olympic gold since the Korean Yun-Mi Kim (13 and 83 days) in skating in the women's 3,000m relay event during the Winter Olympics. , Lillehammer 94. In individual event the youngest to obtain a gold was the American Marjorie Gestring (13 and 268) in Berlin 36 in the modality of trampoline jumps.
Skateboarding is one of the sports that have been released for Tokyo.
In this discipline, the profile is populated by very young athletes.
Six of the female finalists were between the ages of 13 and 20.
A striking image, but one that is intended to promote the sport among young people and capture their attention.
The Spanish Andrea Benítez, 26-year-old Andalusian, came in at number 15, far from the medals.
Even so, she has become the first woman to skateboard at the Tokyo Games and was the first to officially roll on the
street
of Ariake Park for a race.
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