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Cocona Hiraki Wins the 2023 X Games Japan Women’s Skateboard Park

Cocona Hiraki Wins the 2023 X Games Japan Women's Skateboard Park
Women’s Skateboard Park: FULL COMPETITION | X Games Japan 2023

Cocona Hiraki earned her first X Games gold for Women’s Skateboard Park at the X Games Chiba, Japan.

She placed second in last year’s X Games Chiba and third in the 2022 Summer X Games. She is also the youngest X Games medalist at age 10 after earning a silver medal in the 2019 X Games Minneapolis Women’s Park.

The 14-year-old Japanese skateboarder was also a silver medalist in the Tokyo Olympics and the youngest summer Olympian from Japan on record.

Ruby Lilley and Yurin Fujii came in second and third place, respectively.

The competition held last Friday was supposed to be an elimination round. However, organizers cancelled Saturday skateboarding events because of the weather.

X Games organizers declared the elimination standings as the final results.

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