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Detailed explanation-1: -TOKYO: Japan’s Momiji Nishiya became one of the youngest individual Olympic champions in history when she won the inaugural women’s skateboarding gold at the age of 13 years and 330 days on Monday.

Detailed explanation-2: -Marjorie Gestring is the youngest Summer Olympic gold medalist in history, having received the top prize for springboard diving at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Gestring of the U.S. competed at 13 years, 268 days old.

Detailed explanation-3: -Momiji is already a skateboarding legend in Japan and she’s only turning 15 on August 30. She won her first gold Women’s Skateboard Street Competition in X Games 2022, adding to her gold at the Tokyo Olympics last summer, and a silver medal which she claimed in X Games 2019 in Minneapolis as an 11-year-old.

Detailed explanation-4: -Street skateboarding’s first female Olympic champion and the youngest ever gold medallist at the Games from Japan is taking it all in stride, nearly one year after Tokyo 2020. Nishiya Momiji has found out about the pros and cons of fame.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the inaugural Olympics street skateboarding competition, two of the youngest competitors at the Olympic Games won the gold and silver. The gold medallist, NISHIYA Momiji, wrote her name into the history books with a score of 15.26.