14-year-old athlete wins gold medal at Paris 2024 Olympics

In the women's street skateboarding finals on July 28, another Japanese athlete, Liz Akama, won the silver medal. Meanwhile, the bronze medal went to Brazilian athlete Rayssa Leal.

Olympic gold medalist Yoshizawa scored 272.75 points. Runner-up Akama, 15, scored 265.95 points and Leal finished with 253.37 points, well ahead of fourth-placed Cui Chenxi of China.

Notably, Leal won a silver medal at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. The Brazilian athlete is also the oldest of the three medalists in the French capital. Leal is 16 years old.

Skateboarding will resume on July 29 with the men's street skateboarding category, which was postponed from July 27 due to heavy rain.

Skateboarding will make its Olympic debut in Tokyo 2021. Skateboarding has two categories: street and park.

In the street category, athletes must perform stunts on a street-like track that includes stairs and railings. They are given two 45-second runs and perform five stunts. The final score is the sum of the best run and the two best stunts.

In the park category, athletes perform three 45-second slides. Skateboarding includes 88 athletes competing, with 44 men and 44 women.