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Jhulia Rayssa Mendes Leal (born 4 January 2008) is a Brazilian professional skateboarder who won a silver medal in women's street skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Jul 29, 2024 · Now 16, the Brazilian star has become one of skateboarding’s most recognizable faces, a two-time Olympic medalist after earning bronze Sunday at the Paris Olympics. “Women, we fight every day and we are here,” she said.
Jul 28, 2024 · It was as if history itself was staring down Rayssa Leal. The famed Luxor Obelisk, a 3,300-year-old imposing structure that has traversed centuries and witnessed epoch changes, loomed over the street skatepark. Its golden tip glinted in the Parisian sunshine that had finally deigned to greet these ...
Jul 28, 2024 · When Brazilian superstar Rayssa Leal stuck her all-important final trick of the women’s street skateboarding final at the Paris Olympics, a deafening roar went up from the many...
At the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in July 2021, a beaming 13-year-old with a youthful face and braces proudly bites on a silver medal. Rayssa Leal's infectious joy and unbridled enthusiasm shone through after becoming one of the youngest Olympic medallists in history.
Jul 28, 2024 · Japan's Coco Yoshizawa and Liz Akama took gold and silver in women's skateboard street at Paris 2024. Brazil's Rayssa Leal took bronze, for her second Olympic medal.
Jul 30, 2024 · Rayssa Leal is a professional skateboarder who won the silver medal in street skateboarding at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (delayed until 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic), becoming at age 13 one of the youngest medalists in the history of the Games and the youngest Olympic medalist from Brazil.
Apr 18, 2022 · Rayssa Leal competed in the women’s street skateboarding competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in 2021 where she won silver behind Nishiya Momiji of Japan. Also 13, Nishiya pipped her rival to gold by scoring 15.26 ahead of Leal’s 14.64.
At the age of 7, Rayssa Leal landed a heelflip that awestruck Tony Hawk and the skateboarding world. Here's how the Brazilian is conquering the world.
Aug 10, 2021 · In 2019, at age 11, she became the youngest skater to win a women's final on the Street League Skateboarding World Tour when she triumphed in Los Angeles, USA. At the #Tokyo2020 Summer Games...