Tokyo 2020, women’s skateboards: gold and silver for two 13-year-olds

One gold and one silver for two 13-year-olds in the first Olympic women’s skateboard competition at the Tokyo 2020 Games. 13-year-old Japanese Momiji Nishiya won the competition, giving the host nation gold after Yuto Horigome won the men’s competition. Brazilian Rayssa Leal, also 13, won silver, her country’s second in skateboarding after Kelvin Hoefler finished second on Sunday in the men’s event. The women’s bronze went to 16-year-old Japanese Funa Nakayama. Particularly striking is the age of the two very young champions. Thirteen-year-old Nishiya has also become the second-youngest Olympian of the modern Games. Nishiya, in fact, was born on August 30, 2007 and is 13 years old and 332 days old. The record was narrowly missed, as the youngest Olympic champion in history is diver Marjorie Gestring with 13 years and 268 days.