Skateboarding

Inside The Call: Zumiez Finds Strength In Apparel Offsets Softness In Skateboards (SGB UPDATE)

Zumiez Inc. was able to counter declines in skateboard sales and supply chain challenges to deliver a revenue gain in the second quarter of 7.3 percent year over year and 17.6 percent compared with the second quarter of 2019.

13-Year-Old Skateboarder Sky Brown Partners With CLIF Kid To ‘Sponsor,’ Support Kids Going Back To School (Forbes SportsMoney)

As one of the youngest skateboarders to compete in the Tokyo Olympics, Sky Brown, 13, has amassed a worldwide contingent of devoted fans—most of them her peers. And it’s no wonder; the Olympic bronze medalist is known for her bubbly personality, infectious smile and intense drive to be the best women’s park skater in the world.

After The Olympics And A Major Sponsor Change, Team Vans Skateboarder Zion Wright Is Calling His Own Shots (Forbes SportsMoney) At the beginning of 2021, Zion Wright was skating for Nike NKE -2.2% and was ranked 114th in the world in skateboarding mens’s park, which was set to debut in the summer Tokyo Olympics alongside street.

2 teens and girl, 12, sweep board at women's Olympic park skateboarding (AXIOS Sports) TOKYO — Two teenagers and a 12-year-old girl swept the podium for the inaugural women's park skateboarding event on Wednesday, with Japanese 19-year-old Sakura Yosozumi clinching gold.

Momiji Nishiya, 13, wins first-ever Olympic women's skateboarding gold (AXIOS Sports) Japan's Momiji Nishiya, 13, won the inaugural Olympic skateboard competition for women, at the Tokyo Games on Monday.
Of note: She's one of the Olympics' youngest ever gold medalists — just months older than American diver Marjorie Gestring, who at 13 years 267 days set the record for the youngest winner at the 1936 Berlin Games.