The primary-ever girls’s Olympic avenue skateboarding winner can be one of many youngest ever to take residence a gold medal. In reality, not one of the three winners on the rostrum have been older than 16.

On Monday, 13-year-old Momiji Nishiya of Japan took residence the gold medal within the new Olympic occasion by touchdown her ultimate three methods to huge scores from the panel of judges. Nishiya edged out silver medalist Rayssa Leal, additionally 13, and her 16-year-old fellow countrywoman, Funa Nakayama, who completed third.

Nakayama led the sphere after the preliminaries, however Nishiya’s stellar ultimate spherical put her on high.

“I welled up in tears as a result of I used to be past blissful,” Nishiya informed Reuters after her win.

In response to the Related Press, Nishiya is the youngest Olympian to ever medal for Japan and Leal is the youngest Olympian to medal for Brazil.

CBS Information studies that Nishiya is just some months older than Marjorie Gestring was when she grew to become the youngest gold medalist in Olympic historical past when she received the 1936 diving competitors. Gestring was 13 years, 268 days when she received gold.

Skateboarding made its debut as an Olympic sport on the Tokyo Video games. Japan additionally claimed gold in males’s avenue skateboarding on Sunday.

There are two extra skateboarding occasions on faucet for the Tokyo Video games — males’s and girls’s park skateboarding.