Park, Women

The 7,000 capacity Ariake Urban Sports Park held the women’s park competition as the penultimate skateboarding event of the 2000 Olympic Games. It was notable for providing the youngest average age of any medal podium in the entire history of the Olympic movement.

Each competitor had three 45 second runs, of which only the best score counted. The final was scored by the same format.

The whole event was a triumph for the home nation with three of the first four places going to Japanese competitors and the only exception being the bronze medallist, a Japanese-born boarder representing her father’s home country of Great Britain.

The champion, Sakura Yosozumi, was a veritable veteran of 19 years of age while silver and bronze medallists, Kokona Hiraki and Sky Brown, both became the youngest medallists produced by their countries. Hiraki was just 12 years 343 days and Brown just a month older. Nobody younger had won an Olympic medal since the Berlin Olympics of 1936.