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Sakura Yosozumi

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Sakura Yosozumi is a Japanese professional skateboarder who was born on 15 March 2002 and competes in park and bowl events. She took up the sport in 2013, encouraged by her older brother, and by 2017 was training five hours on school days. She placed sixth in the bowl event at the 2018 World Cup Skateboarding, won a bronze medal at X Games Minneapolis in 2018 and won the first Vans Park Series Pro Tour women's event in Brazil that June. She won gold in the inaugural women's park event at the 2018 Asian Games, and the following gold in the first Olympic women's park event at the Tokyo Games, which she won in 2021.

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Birth Year
2002 1
Medals or Titles Band
2-4 1
Gold Medals
2 1
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2020 Summer Olympics, Competitions
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Asian Games, Competitions
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X Games, Competitions
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Skateboarding, Sports
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Nationality

Japan

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Sakura Yosozumi (四十住 さくら, Yosozumi Sakura; born 15 March 2002) is a Japanese professional skateboarder.
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1. Sakura Yosozumi (Wikipedia)
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    Sakura Yosozumi (四十住 さくら, Yosozumi Sakura; born 15 March 2002) is a Japanese professional skateboarder.
  • Lead or career, gold medals
    She won gold medals in the inaugural women's park events at the Asian Games, in 2018, and at the Olympic Games, in 2021.
  • Lead or career, honours
    She won gold medals in the inaugural women's park events at the Asian Games, in 2018, and at the Olympic Games, in 2021.
  • Lead, nationality
    Sakura Yosozumi (四十住 さくら, Yosozumi Sakura; born 15 March 2002) is a Japanese professional skateboarder.
  • Plays: Skateboarding, Lead, sport
    Sakura Yosozumi (四十住 さくら, Yosozumi Sakura; born 15 March 2002) is a Japanese professional skateboarder.
  • Competed In: Asian Games, Lead, Asian Games
    She won gold medals in the inaugural women's park events at the Asian Games, in 2018, and at the Olympic Games, in 2021.
  • Competed In: 2020 Summer Olympics, Olympics section
    At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Yosozumi competed in the first-ever Olympic women's park skateboarding event, in which she claimed the gold medal
  • Competed In: X Games, X Games section
    Yosuzumi competed at X Games Minneapolis 2018 in the women's park event.
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