Miyu Ito

Miyu Ito, also spelled Miyuu, is a Japanese skateboarder born on 15 May 2007 in Kaminoyama, Yamagata, who has won bronze at the World Skateboarding Championship and the Asian Games. She began snowboarding in second grade and was given a skateboard for off-season practice in third grade. She won her first national championship at fifteen in November 2022, beating 2020 Olympic gold medalist Momiji Nishiya, and in September 2023 she took bronze in the street event at the 2022 Asian Games. In June 2024 she made her X Games debut in Ventura, California, and became the first rookie to win gold in the women's skateboard street event; in September 2024 she won bronze at the World Skateboarding Championship, and a month later took silver at the X Games in Chiba. Japan had already filled its three street places, so she did not qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics.