Mone Chiba of Japan has won Skate Canada with a near-flawless free skate, holding off American Isabeau Levito.

At 66, Judi Oyama would be considered a senior citizen by Japan’s official standards, but nothing about her life fits that description.

TOKYO (AP) — Yuto Horigome of Japan won the first ever skateboarding competition at the Olympic Games, taking gold in men’s street on Sunday in the city where he learned to skate as a kid and where ...

Yuto Horigome of Japan has retained his Olympic title in men’s street skateboarding in Paris, clinching the top of the podium on his last trick in a tense final. Team USA’s Jagger Eaton upgraded his ...

The 14th annual Exposure Skate contest drew more than 200 female skateboarders from 21 countries to Encinitas Community Park ...

TOKYO, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Skateboarding's debut on the Olympic stage in Tokyo has spurred many skaters to ask one very simple question: will this finally mean more skate parks across Japan? Japan has ...

TOKYO, July 26 (Reuters) - Japanese 13-year-old Momiji Nishiya clinched the Olympic title in the women's street skateboarding competition on Monday, shedding tears of happiness after nailing her final ...

The son of a taxi driver, the top rival to the American Nyjah Huston knows a gold medal could burnish his sport’s renegade reputation in Japan. By John Branch TOKYO — Past the baseball fields at Ojima ...