Momiji Nishiya

Momiji Nishiya is a Japanese skateboarder, born on 30 August 2007. At the 2020 Summer Olympics she won the first ever gold medal in the women's street competition at the age of 13 years and 330 days, making her the youngest Olympic gold medalist for Japan and the third youngest gold medalist in Olympic history. Earlier she took silver in street at the 2019 X Games and silver at the 2021 Street Skateboarding World Championships. She failed to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics but won silver at the World Skateboarding Championship in September 2024 and bronze at the X Games California 2023. In February 2026, after graduating from Osaka Gakugei High School, she announced that she would skip university, turn professional and train for the 2028 Summer Olympics.