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Momiji Nishiya (西矢 椛, Nishiya Momiji, born 30 August 2007) is a Japanese skateboarder. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won the first ever gold medal in the women's street competition. Winning at the age of 13, she is the youngest person ever to win a gold medal for Japan, and the third youngest after Marjorie Gestring and Klaus Zerta to ever win an event at the Summer Olympics.[2][3][4]
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MomijiNishiya (西矢 椛, NishiyaMomiji, born 30 August 2007) is a Japanese skateboarder. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won the first ever gold medal in...
noted that she lost to much younger competitors, including 13 year olds MomijiNishiya and Rayssa Leal, and 18 year old Funa Nakayama. "For a long time, there...
Women's 52 kg 25 July Gold Hifumi Abe Judo Men's 66 kg 25 July Gold MomijiNishiya Skateboarding Women's street 26 July Gold Shohei Ono Judo Men's 73...
silver medal with a score of 14.64, below the gold medalist Japanese MomijiNishiya with 15,26. Leal was the youngest athlete to win an Olympic medal since...
Silver Bronze Men Yuto Horigome Japan Nyjah Huston United States Sora Shirai Japan Women Aori Nishimura Japan MomijiNishiya Japan Rayssa Leal Brazil...
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shoots himself inside a kōban in front of Tokyo Station. August 30 – MomijiNishiya, Olympic skateboarder January 5 – Momofuku Ando, inventor of Instant...
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