The first of four rounds of the Street League, the Jacksonville stage ended this Sunday evening in Florida at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena with the successes of Japan’s Yuto Horigome and Brazil’s Rayssa Leal.
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First Olympic champion in the history of the discipline in July 2021 during the Tokyo Olympics which took place close to where he grew up, Yuto Horigome won ahead of his compatriot Sora Shirai with a total of 28 points. .1 (out of 30). Horigome, 23, who hadn’t skated competitively since the Olympics, struck a chord with a switch 360 kick flip and a nollie backside 180 switch frontside smith.
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Shirai scored 27.8 points. The Portuguese Gustavo Ribeiro completes the podium (27.1 pts). Frenchman Vincent Milou finished 4th with 23.7 pts while megastar Nyjah Huston took 5th place with 18.3 pts.
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Giraud injured and forfeited
Highly anticipated after his fine 2nd place in Rome during the qualifying round for the Paris 2024 Olympics, Frenchman Aurélien Giraud was forced to withdraw from this event in Jacksonville due to a foot injury. The Lyonnais was indeed the victim of a sprain of the metacarpals (all the bones of the foot). He will be absent for several weeks and will therefore be too short to participate in the Dew Tour at the end of the month (July 29-30) and probably also in the second round of the Street League in Seattle (August 13-14).
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Leal victorious for… 0.2 points
The women’s competition was won by Brazilian star Rayssa Leal (14). The latter won with extreme accuracy, 0.2 points against the Japanese Yumeka Oda (15 years old). Leal scored 23.2 points to Oda’s 23. Olympic champion in 2021 in Tokyo, Momiji Nishiya took fourth place.
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