Australia’s Arisa Trew scored a 93.18 on her closing run to win gold in girls’s park skateboarding Tuesday on the Paris Olympics.
The 14-year-old Trew was in third place earlier than she executed an outstanding third run, highlighted by a 540 — a trick with 1½ rotations in midair — to vault into first.
Japan’s Cocona Hiraki was in entrance by means of two rounds after scoring a 91.98 on her first run, however she had dropped to 3rd going into her closing likelihood. The 15-year-old responded together with her finest run of the day, a efficiency that had the group oohing with every of her accomplished tips, to submit a 92.63 and earn her second silver medal.
Cocona Hiraki of Japan competes throughout the girls’s skateboarding park closing on the 2024 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Hiraki was simply 12 when she received silver when the game debuted on the Tokyo Olympics.
Hiraki edged Britain’s Sky Brown, who earned a 92.31 on her third run to take bronze for the second Olympic medal for the 16-year-old. She grew to become the nation’s youngest medal winner in Tokyo when she additionally received bronze within the occasion at 13 years, 28 days outdated.
Brazil’s Dora Varella completed fourth at 89.14, and Heili Sirvio of Finland was fifth at 88.89.
American Bryce Wettstein, who blew bubbles as she was launched and strummed a ukulele between runs, was sixth at 88.12.
Tokyo gold medalist Japan’s Sakura Yosozumi, who’s 22, didn’t qualify for the finals after posting a finest rating of 79.70 within the prelims to complete tenth.
“The feelings I had this time were different,” she mentioned. “There were a lot of spectators, and I really wanted to defend my title. I was more nervous than last time, which affected my performance. My body didn’t move as I wanted, and I couldn’t do everything I planned.”
China’s Haohao Zheng completed 18th out of twenty-two skate boarders with a rating of 63.19. At 11 years outdated, Zheng is the youngest athlete within the Paris Games and the youngest athlete ever to compete for China within the Olympics.
She mentioned she wasn’t too nervous getting into the competitors, however that being the youngest competitor on the market was a bit daunting.
“I’m quite scared of colliding with the other skaters because I feel smaller, and I could easily get pushed out,” she mentioned. “I’m just trying my best to survive out there.”
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