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  2. Yuto Horigome on skateboard

  3. Japan's Horigome retains Olympic skateboarding title

    Yuto Horigome a the 2024 Paris OlympicsGetty Images

    Horigome also won gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021

    Japan's Yuto Horigome won gold in the men's street skateboarding to retain his Olympic title.

    The 25-year-old's final score of 281.14 edged out American Jagger Eaton by 0.1 points, with fellow US skateboarder Nyjah Huston taking bronze.

    Tokyo bronze medallist Eaton was leading going into the final round, before a score of 97.08 - the highest of the competition - saw Horigome secure gold.

    His win completes a skateboard street double for Japan after 14-year-old Coco Yoshizawa was victorious in the women's event.

  4. Japan's Yoshizawa wins skateboard street gold in Paris

    Jess Anderson
    ±«Óătv Sport journalist in Paris

    Coco Yoshizawa Olympics Paris Getty Images

    Yoshizawa finished first in the Olympic Qualifier Series in June to book her place in Paris

    Japanese teenager Coco Yoshizawa won skateboard street gold after a dramatic final in Paris.

    The 14-year-old has had a rapid rise through the rankings in the past year and her final score of 272.75 secured victory on her Olympic debut.

    Yoshizawa raised her arms into the air as she nailed her final trick to the delight of a packed crowd inside Place de la Concorde.

    It meant she knocked compatriot Liz Akama off the top spot, with the 15-year-old finishing second while Brazil's Rayssa Leal, silver medalist in Tokyo three years ago, took bronze.

    Great Britain did not qualify for the street event but Sky Brown and Lola Tambling will compete in the women's park event on 6 August before Andy MacDonald goes in the men's event on 7 August.