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Sora SHIRAI

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It may not be an Olympic medal. But Shirai Sora will more than happily take it.
Shirai spearheaded a Japanese sweep of the men’s street skateboarding podium with his first career X Games gold medal in Chiba, Japan, on Sunday (22 September).
Shirai overtook Netsuke Kairi on his final run

Japanese men's street skateboarder Shirai Sora

X Games Chiba 2024: Shirai Sora leads Japanese men's street sweep

Nyjah Huston bossed the men’s street skateboarding elimination round to qualify first for the X Games Chiba 2024 final on Saturday (21 September).
The Paris 2024 Olympic bronze medallist hammered out a 89.66 on his second run to lead a pack of eight into Sunday’s final at Makuhari Messe. Huston

Men's street skater Nyjah Huston

X Games Chiba 2024: Nyjah Huston ushers men's street skaters into final

Skateboarding continues to feed the beast with yet another world-class contest this weekend as the X Games returns to Japan for a third consecutive year.
Only a month after the Olympic Games Paris 2024 and with the World Skate Games Italia 2024 also wrapping up this week, X Games Chiba

Paris 2024 Olympic women's street skateboarding gold medallist, Yoshizawa Coco

X Games Chiba 2024: Preview, schedule and how to watch live

Skateboarding will mark its return to the Olympic stage with the men’s street event on Saturday 27 July.
Under the watch of thousands of fans gathered in Paris’ iconic Place de la Concorde, 22 of the best in street skating will serve their best runs and tricks to impress the

Paris 2024 | Olympic Games

Horigome Yuto JPN competes in the Men's Skateboarding Street Prelims at Ludovika Campus. The Olympic Qualifier Series, Budapest, Hungary. Thursday 20 June 2024. Photo: OIS/Kieran Cleeves. Handout image supplied by OIS/IOC

Horigome Yuto JPN competes in the Men's Skateboarding Street Prelims at Ludovika Campus. 

Skateboarding: Men’s street preview

'Too close to call' doesn’t even begin to describe how intense the competition has become for the Japanese street skateboarders.
After a heated four days at the Olympic Qualifier Series in Shanghai two weeks ago, what was already a tight competition for places at Paris 2024 just got tighter in

Japanese 14-year-old Onodera Ginwoo

Olympic Qualifier Series: No easy way out from Budapest to Paris for Japan's skateboarders

At Tokyo 2020 where skateboarding made its Olympic Games debut, Japan won three of the four disciplines in street and park combined, taking full advantage of being at home.
The Japanese onslaught on wheels virtually hasn’t stopped since. At the most recent world championships last year, they swept the men’s

Girls just want to have fun: From left, Japanese street skaters Nishiya Momiji, Nakayama Funa and Oda Yumeka.

Timing is everything: How Japan came to dominate skateboarding like no other 

Japan's Netsuke Kairi held off a late charge by compatriot and world champion Shirai Sora to win the men’s final at skateboarding's WST Dubai Street 2024 event on Sunday (10 March).
"I’m really super happy," the 20-year-old world silver medallist told Olympics.com after. "I was upset when I failed the

TOKYO, JAPAN - MAY 27: Kairi Netsuke competes in the men's semi-finals during the Uprising Tokyo at Ariake Arena on May 27, 2023 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Christopher Jue/Getty Images)

Netsuke Kairi topped the standings in Dubai

WST Dubai Street 2024: "Super happy" Netsuke Kairi wins men's final beating world champion Sora into third place

World champion Shirai Sora cruised his way to the top of the men’s semifinal at skateboarding's WST Dubai Street 2024 event on Sunday (10 March).
After yesterday's semifinal was postponed due to adverse weather conditions, it was decided the two-45-second run - best run counts - format would be used

Skateboarding | Olympic Qualifier | World Tour Street | Dubai

Sora Shirai doing a sugar cane at WST Dubai Street 2024.

WST Dubai Street 2024: Shirai Sora tops semifinal as Horigome Yuto goes out 

Shirai Sora knows he left something behind at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
And he’s ready to claim it - in Paris this summer.
“I like to think I feel strongly about it more than any Japanese,” Shirai said in an exclusive interview with Olympics.com ahead of this week’s World

Shirai Sora of Japan

Japan's Shirai Sora hopes to heal Tokyo 2020 heartache: 'Paris is everything'

Shirai Sora delighted the home crowd by winning the men's final at the WST Street World Championships 2023 in Tokyo on Sunday (17 December) to cap a 1-2-3 for the hosts.
Shirai also gave Japan the male-female sweep with Oda Yumeka winning the women’s crown earlier. It was the first

Skateboarding | Olympic Qualifier | World Tour Street Championship | Tokyo

Shirai Sora led a Japan podium sweep in the men's final at the 2023 Skateboard Street World Championship

WST Street World Championship 2023 Japan: Shirai Sora leads Japanese podium sweep in men's final

Paris 2024

Tokyo 2020

The Men's Street Skateboarding Preliminaries took place at La Concorde 3, Paris, on 29/07/2024. Jagger Eaton (USA), Nyjah Huston (USA), Sora Shirai (JPN), Yuto Hoigome (JPN), Matias Dell Olio (ARG), Kelvin Hoefler (BRA), Cordano Russell (CAN) and Richard Tory (SVK), qualified for the finals.

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