Japan’s Yuto Horigome Wins Inconceivable Second Straight Olympic Gold; 2021 SLS Tremendous Crown Winner Jagger Eaton (USA) Grabs Silver; American 6-Time SLS Tremendous Crown Champion Nyjah Huston Earns Bronze
15 Yr Previous Liz Akama (JPN) Continues Outstanding Ascent With Silver; Brazilian Prodigy & 2-Time SLS Tremendous Crown Champion Rayssa Leal Provides To Rising Legacy With Bronze
27 SLS Males’s & Girls Certified; Representing 10 Completely different Nations Globally; 8 SLS Tremendous Crown Winners; 5 Olympic Medalists from Tokyo 2020 Video games
Paris, France – July 29, 2024: The power and high quality of SLS competitors had been highlighted within the 2024 Olympic Road Skating Finals, the place SLS skaters secured 5 medals. Japan’s Yuto Horigome achieved a formidable back-to-back Olympic gold in males’s road skateboarding, scoring a virtually good 97.08 on his fifth and closing trick to surpass Individuals Jagger Eaton and Nyjah Huston. Horigome’s victory was notably memorable, because it got here in entrance of a charged-up Paris crowd, a stark distinction to the empty stands in Tokyo three years in the past. Jagger Eaton, regardless of an excellent exhibiting and ending simply 0.1 factors behind Horigome, secured the silver medal. Nyjah Huston took house the bronze, marking a major enchancment from his seventh-place end in Tokyo.
Within the ladies’s competitors, Liz Akama of Japan continued her outstanding ascent by profitable silver and appears to hold that momentum right into a busy second half of the 2024 SLS calendar, the place she is going to little question be a crowd favourite at SLS Tokyo on November 24. Sixteen-year-old Brazilian Rayssa Leal, who wanted a late run within the preliminary spherical to make it into the finals, additionally made a run late within the final spherical to medal once more after taking silver within the Tokyo Video games. Leal was the youngest Brazilian ever to take part within the Olympics when she received silver at 13 and amassed 6.6 million Instagram followers after that breakout efficiency.
Now, after Paris, all eyes return to the SLS calendar with main occasions developing in Sydney, Australia (October 12-13), Tokyo, Japan (November 23), and the Tremendous Crown World Championship in Sao Paulo (December 14-15). Tickets can be found at streetleague.com. 14 yr previous Girls’s Gold Medal winner Coco Yoshizawa is rumored to be making her SLS debut in Tokyo as effectively.
Since its inception in 2010, Road League Skateboarding (SLS) has remodeled road skateboarding from impartial occasions to a famend world collection. Pioneering a premium qualification system and competitors format, SLS provides a pathway from newbie to skilled, creating thrilling dwell occasions worldwide.