Skateboarding was added to the Tokyo Games lineup as part of a wider initiative to grow the Olympics' appeal with younger audiences, by way of sports that are particularly popular in the host nation.

PARIS, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Japan and Australia remain the only countries to have won Olympic titles in skateboarding after they backed up their strong showings in Tokyo with more dominance in Paris ...

For the second straight Olympics, Japan led the women's skateboard street field. Teenagers Coco Yoshizawa and Liz Akama won gold and silver respectively.

TOKYO — TOKYO - Sky Brown, a 13-year-old from Great Britain, prevented a Japanese sweep in women's park skateboarding. The self-taught skateboarder claimed the bronze medal in the Olympic event, ...

Japan’s Coco Yoshizawa won a gold medal in women’s street skateboarding on Sunday at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The 14-year-old skater is the second youngest gold medal winner Olympic gold medalist for ...

Japan's Ayumu Hirano, two-time Olympic halfpipe snowboarding silver medalist, competed in the prelims of the men's park skateboarding contest in Tokyo on Thursday, finishing 14th. The 22-year-old ...