![]() The event was celebrated as a win for women by many of the 20 competitors. She is a friend of mine and also rival.”Īlexis Sablone of the United States, in prime position for the podium with two tricks remaining, settled for fourth after falls on both attempts. I was not nervous when I am with a competitor like Funa who is from my country and can talk with me. “I get nervous and lonely if there is no one from my country or no one to speak to. “I’m happy that a skater from the same country as me get a medal,” Nishiya said. ![]() The women’s bronze went to Funa Nakayama of Japan. The silver went to Rayssa Leal, also 13 Brazil’s second silver in skateboarding after Kelvin Hoefler finished second on Sunday in the men’s event. It’s anyone’s guess how many young girls tuned in to watch Momiji Nishiya of Japan win the debut Olympic skateboarding event for women, giving the host nation a sweep of golds in the street event after Yuto Horigome won the men’s event.īut around the world, girls trying to convince their parents that they, too, should be allowed to skate can now point to the 13-year-old from Osaka as an Olympic-sized example of skateboarding’s possibilities. Photograph: Lucy Nicholson/ReutersĪfter decades in the shadows of men’s skateboarding, the future for the sport’s daring, trailblazing women suddenly looked brighter than ever at the Tokyo Games on Monday at Ariake Urban Sports Park. ![]() Momiji Nishiya of Japan reacts during Monday’s competition at Ariake Urban Sports Park. On the Olympic podium, three teenage girls 13, 13 and 16 with weighty gold, silver and bronze medals around their young necks, rewards for having landed tricks on their skateboards that most kids their age only get to see on Instagram. Skateboarding: Japan’s Momiji Nishiya, 13, wins Olympic women’s street gold Kiesenhofer, without a professional team since 2017, is her nation's first gold medallist at a summer Olympics since Athens 2004. She then attacked again in the closing stages, thinking she was breaking away for the win.īut Kiesenhofer, clearly struggling as she willed her body not to cramp, continued to power her way around the circuit up ahead, glancing over her shoulder but finding no opposition in sight.Īfter crossing the line, she fell to the ground in tears, stunned in the aftermath of the biggest win of her career as Van Vleuten and Elisa Longo Borghini took silver and bronze behind her. Van Vleuten who had crashed earlier in the race, was reeled back in with around 25km to go, before she and her Dutch team-mates launched another chase with around 10km left, absorbing Plichta and Shapira back into the peloton. Van Vleuten broke away from the peloton on a charge of her own, looking to make amends for the horror crash that ended her road race at Rio 2016 when she had looked set for the title. That group was cut to three - Kiesenhofer, Anna Plichta of Poland and Israel's Omer Shapira - with around 70km remaining, before the Austrian time trial champion went solo on the first approach to the Speedway circuit, where the race would conclude. Kiesenhofer was one of a five-rider group that escaped the rest of the field within moments of the 137km race getting under way. My legs were completely empty," she said. It's unlikely she will have realised the magnitude of her success yet, however, her exhaustion apparent as she collapsed to the tarmac of the Fuji International Speedway circuit, gasping for oxygen as her depleted body realised it could finally stop. The 30-year-old launched a remarkable solo breakaway, sustaining it - her lungs and legs screaming - to finish more than a minute ahead of 2019 world champion Annemiek van Vleuten.Ī Cambridge graduate, Kiesenhofer has written her name in her nation's history books, the first Austrian to win an Olympic road race medal and the first to win an Olympic medal in any cycling discipline in 125 years. In Photo: Vietnamese Delegation Marches At Tokyo Olympics Opening CeremonyĪnna Kiesenhofer wins shock road race gold with GB's Lizzie Deignan 11th Tokyo Olympics Updates: Day 1 Results, Day 2 Key Events & Vietnam Team News Tokyo Olympics 2020 Update: Adam Peaty Wins GB’s First Tokyo 2020 Gold Making the Olympics History
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