Funa Nakayama

Funa Nakayama is a Japanese street skateboarder from Toyama City who was born on 17 June 2005. She competed at the 2018 Japan Skateboarding Championships at Murasaki Park Tokyo and then entered the Street League Skateboarding tour, reaching the finals in London in 2019 as the top qualifier and finishing sixth, with a similar result three weeks later in Long Beach, and she was ranked eighth in the world by June 2019. She won a bronze medal in the women's street competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, and in January 2023 she became the first Asian woman featured on the cover of Thrasher magazine.