Cocona Hiraki

Cocona Hiraki, also written Kokona Hiraki, is a Japanese skateboarder born on 26 August 2008. She began skating at five, placed fourth in women's park at the 2nd Japan National Skateboarding Championships in May 2018 at age nine, and won her first international event, the Vans Park Series Asia Continental Championship, that August. At age ten she finished seventh at the 2018 Park World Championship in Nanjing, and eight months later her silver at the X Games Minneapolis 2019 made her the youngest X Games medalist in history. She won silver in the women's park event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the youngest Japanese athlete on record to take part in a Summer Games, and silver again at the 2024 Paris Olympics, and she won gold at the WST Park World Championship 2023 in Ostia, Rome.