Skateboarding’s Olympic launching will genuinely be one for the ages.
World Skate revealed the 80 qualifiers for the Tokyo Games on Wednesday — 20 each for guys’s and females’s park and street.
The youngest qualifiers are 12 years of ages — Brit Sky Brown, who turns 13 on July 12, and Japanese Kokona Hiraki, who was born 2 days after the Beijing Olympics ended. Brown and Hiraki are ranked Nos. 3 and 6 worldwide, respectively.
They are more youthful than any Olympian considering that Cameroon swimmer Antoinette Guedia at those 2008 Olympics. Either might end up being the youngest Olympic medalist considering that 1936, according to Olympedia.org.
Brown suffered skull fractures in a spring 2020 crash off a vert ramp.
The earliest qualifier is a male called The Danish Destroyer. Rune Glifberg, 46, contended at the really first X Games in 1995 — and took 3rd in the vert occasion won by Tony Hawk in Rhode Island. He was likewise in the really first Tony Hawk Pro Skater video game for the initial PlayStation in 1999.
The 34-year age variety is not near the Olympic record. In 2016 alone, equestrian included an 18-year-old and a 62-year-old.
The U.S. Olympic skateboarding group of 12 is here.
Skateboarding was contributed to the Olympic program for Tokyo under brand-new guidelines that permit hosts to propose sports strictly for their edition of the Games. Skateboarding was included in addition to baseball, softball, karate, sport climbing and browsing.
Skateboarding, sport climbing and browsing were likewise included for the 2024 Paris Games.
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A set of 12-year-olds get approved for Olympic skateboarding. So does a 46-year-old. initially appeared on NBCSports.com