Women's park at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Ariake Urban Sports Park | ||||||||||||
Dates | 4 August 2021 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 20 from 13 [1] nations | ||||||||||||
Winning score | 60.09 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics | ||
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Qualification Skateboarders | ||
Park | men | women |
Street | men | women |
The 2020 Summer Olympics women's park skateboarding competition occurred on 4 August 2021 at Ariake Urban Sports Park in Tokyo, Japan.
It was originally scheduled to be held in 2020, but on 24 March 2020, the Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2]
Sakura Yosozumi and Kokona Hiraki of Japan won the gold and silver medals, with Sky Brown of Great Britain winning the bronze medal.
In the prelims, the twenty participating skateboarders were sorted into four heats of five skaters each. Each skater did three 45-second runs in their designated heat. The best run score of each skater's three runs built a ranking. The eight top-ranked skaters from the combined ranking of the heats qualified for the final. [3]
The top-eight skateboarders of twenty advanced to the finals. [4]
Rank | Heat | Skateboarder | Nation | Run | Notes | ||
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1 | 2 | 3 | |||||
1 | 4 | Misugu Okamoto | Japan | 58.51 | Q | ||
2 | 3 | Sky Brown | Great Britain | 57.40 | Q | ||
3 | 2 | Kokona Hiraki | Japan | 52.46 | Q | ||
4 | 1 | Sakura Yosozumi | Japan | 45.98 | Q | ||
5 | 4 | Bryce Wettstein | United States | 44.50 | Q | ||
6 | 4 | Poppy Olsen | Australia | 44.03 | Q | ||
7 | 3 | Yndiara Asp | Brazil | 43.23 | Q | ||
8 | 1 | Dora Varella | Brazil | 41.59 | Q | ||
9 | 1 | Lilly Stoephasius | Germany | 38.37 | |||
10 | 4 | Isadora Pacheco | Brazil | 37.08 | |||
11 | 2 | Jordyn Barratt | United States | 35.22 | |||
12 | 2 | Brighton Zeuner | United States | 34.06 | |||
13 | 3 | Madeleine Larcheron | France | 32.34 | |||
14 | 2 | Lizzie Armanto | Finland | 30.01 | |||
15 | 4 | Xin Zhang | China | 28.16 | |||
16 | 3 | Julia Benedetti | Spain | 27.76 | |||
17 | 3 | Amelia Brodka | Poland | 20.17 | |||
18 | 1 | Bombette Martin | Great Britain | 16.21 | |||
19 | 1 | Josefina Tapia Varas | Chile | 9.73 | |||
20 | 2 | Melissa Williams | South Africa | 8.30 | |||
Rank | Skateboarder | Nation | Run | Notes | ||
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1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
Sakura Yosozumi | Japan | 60.09 | ||||
Kokona Hiraki | Japan | 59.04 | ||||
Sky Brown | Great Britain | 56.47 | ||||
4 | Misugu Okamoto | Japan | 53.58 | |||
5 | Poppy Olsen | Australia | 46.04 | |||
6 | Bryce Wettstein | United States | 44.50 | |||
7 | Dora Varella | Brazil | 40.42 | |||
8 | Yndiara Asp | Brazil | 37.34 | |||
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