World Skate Games Italia 2024: Nakayama Funa leads 29 into women's quarter-finals on opening day in Rome
The Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist was joined by reigning world champ Oda Yumeka, Nishiya Momiji, and four others from Japan as the curtain was raised on the world championship event.
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Some five weeks from Paris 2024, Japan's Nakayama Funa was back to business as she topped the women's street open qualifier at World Skate Games Italia 2024 on Tuesday (10 September).
Under the heat of the midday sun in Rome, Italy, the Olympic bronze medallist from Tokyo 2020 in 2021 cruised to the quarter-final in first place with a 71.46 effort.
Nakayama was one of seven Japanese skaters to advance. There was a mix of familiar faces, and new, as the Asian nation showed it's not letting loose its grip on the discipline any time soon.
Sugimoto Niko, 15, and Matsumoto Ibuki, 12, qualified inside the top five along with Ito Miyu and Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion Nishiya Momiji who qualified in second and fourth respectively. Reigning world champion Oda Yumeka went through in 12th.
Also into the next round was a party of Paris 2024 Olympians. Brazil's Pamela Rosa, Spaniard Daniela Terol, and South Africa's Boipelo Awuah were among those to finish inside the cut.
Missing from the open qualifier were Paris 2024 Olympic medallists Yoshizawa Coco, Liz Akama, and Rayssa Leal who were able to sit out the action owing to their seeding.
They will enter the contest at the quarter-final stage, which is scheduled to take place on Thursday.
Before then, the men's open qualifier is penned for Wednesday, with 88 skaters set to drop in.
World Skate Games Italia 2024: Women's street open qualifier results
The top 29 from a field of 47 advanced to the quarter-finals.
Best run score of two attempts.
- Nakayama Funa (JPN) - 71.64
- Ito Miyu (JPN) - 70.85
- Sugimoto Niko (JPN) - 65.92
- Nishiya Momiji (JPN) - 64.87
- Matsumoto Ibuki (JPN) - 64.03
- Valentina Kraeul (ESP) - 61.11
- Daniela Terol (ESP) - 60.40
- Pamela Rosa (BRA) - 58.45
- Abbie Burns (ESP) - 58.41
- Onishi Nanami (ESP) - 56.37
- Uemura Aoi (JPN) - 54.33
- Oda Yumeka (JPN) - 49.11
- Liv Broder (SUI) - 47.92
- Jeromine Louvet (FRA) - 43.30
- Valentina Petric (CHI) - 41.69
- Natalia Munoz (ESP) - 40.30
- Esmeralda Butler Cantellops (PUR) - 38.36
- Lucie Schoonheere (FRA) - 37.25
- Laura Zackova (CZE) - 36.84
- Weronika Choromanska (POL) - 35.63
- Boipelo Awuah (RSA) - 33.75
- Gaia Urbinati (ITA) - 32.50
- Maria Lucia De Campos (BRA) - 31.00
- Afrika Criado Oliva (ESP) - 30.14
- Daniela Vitoria (BRA) - 28.11
- Selma Pettersen (NOR) - 26.31
- Erika Arriaga (MEX) - 25.40
- Cerise Michaud (FRA) - 23.22
- Julia Placek (AUT) - 19.79
How to watch Street Skateboarding at World Skate Games Italia 2024
Select action from the World Skate Games Italia 2024 - including street skateboarding - will be available to stream live on Olympic Channel via Olympics.com and the official Olympics app for mobile devices.
- Skateboarding Street semi-finals and finals - 13-14 September
- Skateboard Park semi-finals and finals 21-22 September
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