Action Sports Athletes Earn Total of 9 Medals
(2 Gold, 3 Silver, 4 Bronze) Across Skateboarding, BMX, and Surf
Competitions in Paris
CORONA,
Calif., Aug. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Way to
bring the heat to Paris! Monster
Energy congratulates its Skateboard, BMX, and Surf athletes on an
outstanding performance. Over the course of the competitions,
Monster Energy athletes claimed a total of nine medals (two gold,
three silver, and four bronze) in action sports competitions.
Leading the charge, 14-year-old Australian Monster Army rider
Arisa Trew claimed gold in
the Women's Skateboard Park event. Also claiming gold,
29-year-old Argentinian Jose
Torres cemented himself as an action sports icon by
winning the Men's BMX Freestyle discipline.
Monster Energy riders earning silver medals consist of
Japan's Cocona Hiraki
(Women's Skateboard Park) and Liz
Akama (Women's Skateboard Street), as well as
USA's Tom
Schaar (Men's Skateboard Park). Four riders brought
home bronze medals: The USA's
Nyjah Huston (Men's
Skateboard Street), Brazil's
Gabriel Medina (Men's
Surfing) and Rayssa
Leal (Women's Skateboard Street), as well as French
team rider Anthony
JeanJean (Men's BMX Freestyle).
"Congratulations to our Monster Energy athletes on rising to the
very top in this major international showcase for action sports. We
are proud of our newly minted gold medalists, first-time medal
winners, as well as repeat medalists who performed at the highest
level in front of millions of fans worldwide," said Mitch Covington, Senior Vice President of Sports
Marketing at Monster Energy.
From July 26 to August 11, the
games attracted the world's best athletes. After celebrating their
debut at the 2020 games in Tokyo,
action sports such as BMX Freestyle, Skateboarding, and Surfing
once again featured prominently in the international showcase
watched by millions of viewers worldwide. Here are competition
highlights as they unfolded in Paris:
Monster Energy riders emerged as a dominant force by claiming
the two top medals in the Women's Skateboard Park event. But
it all came down to final runs in a highly contested international
field: 14-year-old Australian Monster Army rider Arisa Trew found herself in silver
medal position with only one remaining attempt. Rising to the
challenge, the skate prodigy put down a flawless run spiked with
backside 360 melon the box, body varial McTwist the extension,
switch melon into a Cab frontside nosebone and frontside noseblunt
pull-in revert for 93.18 points for the gold.
Trew is having a milestone-heavy 2024 season: Her first medal as
an Olympian follows double gold medals at X Games Ventura,
victories at Tony Hawk's Vert Alert as well as the qualifiers for
Paris, and a series of
first-ever-performed tricks in women's skateboarding such as
900-degree aerial and Switch McTwist in a historic year.
Also showing grace under pressure, previous silver medalist
Cocona Hiraki from Japan
put it all on the line for her last attempt – and took home
precious metal. In Run 3, the 15-year-old from Hokkaido strung together tricks including
kickflip Indy the channel, backside nosegrind the extension,
stylish backside crailslide, and feeble grind the rail for 92.63
points and her second medal as an Olympian in the discipline after
earning her first silver at age 12.
Continuing the wins, Monster Energy riders claimed two medals in
the Men's BMX Freestyle discipline. Argentina's Jose
Torres cemented himself as an action sports icon by
winning the gold with a high-speed run on his first attempt: Tricks
such as 360 double tailwhip transfer and 720 double tailwhip
performed at high altitude earned Torres 94.82 points and the gold.
The win marked Argentina's first
medal in Paris, elevating Torres
to national hero status.
Torres was joined on the podium by 26-year-old French rider
Anthony JeanJean in
bronze medal position. After having difficulty finishing his first
run, JeanJean found his groove on his last attempt cheered on by
the French crowd. Big tricks and difficult spins earned JeanJean a
massive score of 93.76 to claim his spot on the podium.
Two top spots in the heated Women's Skateboard Street
final belonged to Monster Energy athletes. Coming into the
competition fresh off a silver medal at X Games Ventura 2024,
15-year-old Liz
Akama from Miyagi, Japan, showcased her technical bag of tricks
to claim the silver medal. Tricks such as Barley grind revert and
frontside 270 switch front boardslide the rail earned 265.95 points
and second place.
Brazilian team rider Rayssa
Leal, who previously won a silver medal in Tokyo, faced a tough battle in the final.
After only earning a mere 71.66 points on her Run score, the
16-year-old from Imperatriz, Brazil, found herself outside of podium
contention until the final attempt of the contest. When it all
counted, Leal finessed a perfect kickflip frontside boardslide the
rail for a score of 253.37 points and third place. The bronze medal
makes Leal the youngest-ever athlete with two medals from
Brazil.
First-time medalist, USA's
Tom Schaar emerged from the
pressure cooker Men's Skateboard Park final with the silver
medal. The 24-year-old from Malibu,
California, opened his run with a gap-out alley-oop backside
lipslide transfer over the ten-foot channel and put down tailgrab
540, kickflip Indy fakie and a tweaked frontside 360 stalefish over
the box for 92.23 points and second place as the best-performing US
rider in the discipline.
Also earning his first-ever medal, 29-year-old Nyjah Huston from Laguna Beach, California, dropped technical
tricks in the Men's Skateboard Park to earn bronze. In the
Run section, the most decorated street skateboarder of all time put
down a perfect run peppered with standouts such as gap-out kickflip
backside lipslide the rail. In Best Trick, he upped the ante by
landing switch heelflip frontside tailslide and frontside nollie
heelflip noseblunt slide the rail for a total score of 279.38
points and third place.
Concluding the Monster Energy team's medal run, the Men's
Surfing competition across the globe in Tahiti saw 30-year-old
Gabriel Medina earn the
bronze medal for Brazil. The
three-time World Champion not only battled a field of top
competitors, but also had to rise above the elements: Although
Medina was only able to put down one high-scoring run due to
adverse wave conditions, he still emerged victorious from the
bronze-medal matchup, in which he beat Peru's Alonso
Correa.
Again, congratulations on our team of Monster Energy athletes on
claiming nine medals in Paris!
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