13-year-old Japanese girl becomes the first ever Olympic skateboarding champion

At the competition in Tokyo, Nishiya took first place, earning 15.26 points.

"Another 13-year-old athlete, Reissa Leal from Brazil, won the silver medal at the Tokyo Games (14.64 points)", - reports Sportarena.

Bronze was also won by the representative of Japan, Funa Nakayama, who scored 14.49 points at the end of the competition.

In men, the Japanese Yuto Horigome became the Olympic skateboarding champion. Silver - for the Brazilian Calvin Hefler, bronze - for the American Jagger Eaton.

Skateboarding was first included in the Olympic sports category at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Russians at the 2020 Olympics do not take part in the drawing of medals in skateboarding. In addition, they were not nominated for awards in basketball, baseball / softball, golf, surfing, soccer, and field hockey.

The Tokyo Olympics kicked off on July 23rd and will run until August 8th.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, games had to be postponed for a year. The Russian national team, consisting of 335 athletes, competes in 33 sports.

Due to the doping scandal, Russians are prohibited from flying the national flag and using the country's anthem as musical accompaniment if athletes climb the Olympic podium.

In the Olympic Games in Tokyo, the Russian national team acts as a team of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC). The athletes appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) with a request to allow the inclusion of the song " Katyusha " when awarding the winning athletes, but the organizers of the games rejected this request. Instead of the anthem of the Russian Federation and "Katyusha", a fragment from Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1 for piano and orchestra sounds during the awarding ceremony.

For winning the Olympics, athletes from the Russian Federation were promised a prize of 4 million rubles.