Kokona Hiraki
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Nationality | Japanese | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Kutchan, Hokkaido, Japan | 26 August 2008||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kanji | 開 心那 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hiragana | ひらき ここな | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Skateboarding | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Regular-footed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rank | 6th (June 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Park | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Hot Bowl Skate Park (Sapporo) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kokona Hiraki or Cocona Hiraki[2] (開心那, Hiraki Kokona, born 26 August 2008)[3] is a Japanese skateboarder. She won a silver medal in the women's park event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics,[4] becoming the youngest Japanese athlete on record to participate in the Summer Olympic Games.[5][6]
Career
Hiraki has competed in women's park events at several World Skateboarding Championships, finishing seventh in 2018 and 11th in 2019. She has also competed at X Games, winning silver in 2019 in Boise, Idaho, US.[4]
She finished first in 2019 Vans Park Series, Paris.[7] She finished fifth at the 2021 Dew Tour Des Moines, qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympics.[8]
References
- ^ "Olympic World Skateboarding Rankings – Park, Female". World Skate. 30 June 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
- ^ White, Alex (5 February 2020). "The Top 10 Women & Non-Binary Skaters of 2019". Thrasher Magazine. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ^ "開 心那 (ひらき ここな)|スケートボード|選手プロフィル|東京2020オリンピック・パラリンピック". Jiji.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 2 August 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Athletes: HIRAKI Kokona (Skateboarding)". Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Olympics.com. Archived from the original on 27 July 2021. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
- ^ "Skateboarder Kokona Hiraki to become Japan's youngest Olympian". The Japan Times. 25 May 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "12-yr-old skateboarder Kokona Hiraki set to be youngest Japanese Olympian". Kyodo News. 25 May 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Cory Juneau and Kokona Hiraki Take First Place at VPS Paris". Dew Tour. 12 August 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
- ^ "Skateboarder Kokona Hiraki to become Japan's youngest Olympian". The Japan Times. 25 May 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
External links
- {{Olympedia}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
- Kokona Hiraki at The Boardr
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