Aori Nishimura

Aori Nishimura is a Japanese regular-footed professional street skateboarder, born in Edogawa, Tokyo, on 31 July 2001. She started skating at seven, in 2008, and made her professional debut in fifth grade in a tournament organised by the All-Japan Skateboarding Association. In 2017 she won the Japan National Skateboarding Championship and became the first athlete from Japan to win gold at the X Games Minneapolis. An ACL injury that October needed reconstructive surgery and about six months of rehabilitation. She took silver at X Games Minneapolis 2018, was crowned world skateboarding champion in Rio de Janeiro in January 2019 ahead of Letícia Bufoni, and represented Japan in the women's street event at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. She married the skateboarder Rinku Konishi on 31 July 2025.