Cocona Hiraki

News From X Games 2022 - Women's Park and Men's Street Results

Day four of X Games continued with live coverage at the California Training Facility (CATF). The venue was host to two Skateboard disciplines and three BMX on Saturday...

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SAKURA YOSOZUMI WINS WOMEN'S PARK SKATEBOARDING GOLD FOR JAPAN, TEAMMATE KOKONA HIRAKI TAKES SILVER

Japanese skateboarders clinch a double victory at the podium, whilst Great Britain's Sky Brown takes bronze

YOSOZUMI Sakura won gold in the women's park skateboarding finals cementing Japan as a new powerhouse in the Olympic sport which made its debut at Tokyo 2020.

The 19-year-old skateboarding phenom clinched victory at Ariake Urban Sports Park after her sensational performance in Round 1 where she hit a couple of 540s and carved through the course with superb slides and grinds to score 60.09 and win the first ever gold in women's park for Japan.

Pictured: Women's Park Skateboarding Podium at Tokyo 2020, L-R: Cocona Hiraki with Silver, Sakura Yosozumi with Gold & Sky Brown with Bronze.
Source: olympics.com/tokyo-2020
Image credit: @worldskatesb / @brycekanights

The world’s best park terrain skaters converged for the penultimate stop of the 2019 Vans Park Series Pro Tour at the brand-new Vans-Cosanostra permanent legacy skatepark in Paris-Chelles, skating their hearts out before ranting and raving crowds. The exciting finale to the week’s competition saw USA’s Cory Juneau and Japan’s Kokona Hiraki declared as the Paris-Chelles winners, in addition to the crowning of two new VPS Europa Regional champions, Alesandro Massara (ITA) and Daniela Terol Mendez (ESP) earlier this week. The final stop on tour will be the 2019 VPS World Championships, to be hosted in Salt Lake City, Utah on September 7, where the highest-ranking competitors and invited Select Pros will meet for one last time to crown two new champions in park terrain skateboarding.

Photo credit: Vans Park Series/Anthony Acosta

Day two of X Games Minneapolis 2019 continued at U.S. Bank Stadium today, where the world’s premier action sports athletes competed in six high-energy finals and one elimination, while the EXP Invitational - Apex Legends kicked off with 20 teams of three competing in Electronic Arts’ battle royale-style video game.

Image credit: ESPN/Phil Ellsworth