SYNOPSIS: A day after winning street best trick, the Tokyo Olympic gold medalist scored 95.66 in street to become the first skater to win both disciplines at the same X Games since 2002.
The first Japanese athlete to win a Street League
BY: Keith Halterman, Orbit Skate And Boutique
Yuto Horigome was born in Tokyo, Japan, and has two younger brothers. He began skating at Tokyo's Amazing Square Murasaki Skatepark when he was seven years old. He learned to skate from his father, who is a former Vert skateboarder. Horigome was sponsored by a Japanese board company early on. In 2015, he entered the Wild In The Parks skate contest in Los Angeles, hosted by Volcom and The Berrics, where he finished 2nd. While in Los Angeles, he filmed some skating parts alongside Canadian skateboarder Micky Papa, who was sponsored by Blind Skateboards. Horigome joined the Blind Skateboards team later that year. His name lit up in lights when he became the first Japanese athlete to win a Street League Skateboarding event in May 2018. Demonstrating that it was by no means a fluke, the Tokyo-born skater followed his London title by going on to win a further two events later in the same year.In 2019 things only got better for Horigome. In May of 2019, Horigome joined April Skateboards, owned by pro skater Shane O'Neill, who turned Horigome pro. He then went on to win two Olympic qualifying events and finished runner-up in the World Championships behind three-time defending champion and world number one, America Nyjah Huston. Then at the 2021 World Championships in Rome, just one month ahead of the Games, the Japanese skater notched another win against Huston after he clinched the title ahead of his American rival.
At Tokyo 2020, in 2021, Horigome made history when he became skateboarding's first ever Olympic gold medallist. The hometown hero who grew up near the Ariake Urban Sports Park wowed audiences around the world. In the two runs and five trick rounds, his highest scores for the final point count were 9.03, 9.35, 9.50 and 9.30, adding up to an astonishing 37.18 points.Yuto Horigome won his second gold medal last month at X Games California in the men's skateboard street event. A day after winning street best trick, the Tokyo Olympic gold medalist scored 95.66 in street to become the first skater to win both disciplines at the same X Games since 2002.The wins keep stacking with no signs of slowing. Yuto is a skater to keep an eye for those following the future of skateboarding.
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Yuto Horigome was born in Tokyo, Japan, and has two younger brothers. He began skating at Tokyo's Amazing Square Murasaki Skatepark when he was seven years old. He learned to skate from his father, who is a former Vert skateboarder. Horigome was sponsored by a Japanese board company early on. In 2015, he entered the Wild In The Parks skate contest in Los Angeles, hosted by Volcom and The Berrics, where he finished 2nd. While in Los Angeles, he filmed some skating parts alongside Canadian skateboarder Micky Papa, who was sponsored by Blind Skateboards. Horigome joined the Blind Skateboards team later that year. 
