With his gold medal finish on Monday at the Paris 2024 men’s skateboard street final, Yuto Horigome stamped his name in the history books. He’s the only skateboarder to have won two Olympic ...

Japan's Yuto Horigome is a back-to-back Olympic gold medalist in men's street skateboarding after scoring a nearly perfect 97.08 on his fifth and final trick Monday to pass Americans Jagger Eaton ...

Three years ago, Yuto Horigome stood atop the podium for the men's skateboard street competition at the Tokyo Games, where the sport was welcomed into the Olympic fold. Only a few weeks later ...

Japanese world champion Yuto Horigome held his nerve to be crowned skateboarding's first Olympic gold medallist after winning a tense street competition in Tokyo on Sunday. The 22-year-old ...

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 his sport ...

Japan's Yuto Horigome left it all on the course to make skateboard street history by successfully defending his Olympic gold medal among an extremely stacked lineup. Americans Nyjah Huston and Jagger ...

Horigome was competing shortly after winning the World Skateboarding Championships in Rome, where Huston finished second. Huston already has 18 X Games and six World Skateboarding Championship medals ...

Watch Japan's Yuto Horigome's "knockout" gold medal-winning runs in the men's street skateboarding final on day three of the Paris 2024 Olympics. Follow the Olympics on BBC Sport. Available to UK ...

highlighted by a flawless execution of Horigome’s signature nollie backside 270 heelflip board. While Kang has yet to make his debut on the World Skateboarding Tour, his Tampa Am victory has set ...

The skateboarding resumes on Monday with the men’s street event postponed from Saturday. With defending Olympic champion Yuto Horigome, Sora Shirai and 14-year-old Ginwoo Onodera, Japan could ...

As part of its youth push, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) added skateboarding (along with ... Tokyo 2020 Olympic medalists Yuto Horigome of Japan (men’s street gold), Jagger Eaton ...