TOKYO (AP) — Yuto Horigome of Japan won the first ever skateboarding competition at the Olympic Games, taking gold in men’s street on Sunday in the city where he learned to skate as a kid and where ...

Yuto Horigome of Japan has retained his Olympic title in men’s street skateboarding in Paris, clinching the top of the podium on his last trick in a tense final. Team USA’s Jagger Eaton upgraded his ...

In a field consisting entirely of teenagers, World No. 1 and No. 2 Coco Yoshizawa and Liz Akama of Japan were going neck and neck to claim the Olympic title in their debut. Fourteen-year-old Yoshizawa ...

Japan’s home stars will command much of the attention at this event of the Grand Prix series. Yuma Kagiyama, the 2022 Beijing ...

Skateboarding Internet sensation, Madars Apse and Skate Tales recently touched down in Japan to link up with Kento Yoshioka—who is better known as Japanese Super Rat—a true force in the country’s ...

TOKOROZAWA, Japan — Ryusei Ouchi takes a deep breath as he uses his cane to feel out the edge of the 3-meter-high ramp, shuffles to the edge and then drops in. Like all skateboarders, the rush of air, ...

Japan's 14-year old Coco Yoshizawa grabbed gold in the all-teenage women's street skateboard final at the Paris Olympics Sunday, after nailing a high-risk ride down the hand-rail. Yoshizawa went into ...

TOKYO, July 26 (Reuters) - Japanese 13-year-old Momiji Nishiya clinched the Olympic title in the women's street skateboarding competition on Monday, shedding tears of happiness after nailing her final ...

A park competition with lip tricks, grabs and aerial spin ends with gold for Sakura Yosozumi of Japan and more youthful celebrating at the Tokyo Games. By John Branch TOKYO — The formidable team of ...

The son of a taxi driver, the top rival to the American Nyjah Huston knows a gold medal could burnish his sport’s renegade reputation in Japan. By John Branch TOKYO — Past the baseball fields at Ojima ...

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan -- Mone Chiba of Japan held off American standout Isabeau Levito with a near-flawless free skate to win Skate Canada on Saturday night, while Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime ...