Brazilian skateboarding phenom Rayssa Leal is getting her first Nike SB Dunk Low collaboration. Leal, who just turned 16 in January, won a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for the first time ...

PARIS — As a child, Rayssa Leal was warned again and again that skateboarding wasn’t for her. “When I was small, many people told me I shouldn’t skate because skate was for boys and for men,” she said ...

31-Year-Old Nyjah Huston from Laguna Beach, California, Claims 3 rd Place in Men's Division Monster Energy’s Rayssa Leal Takes First Place, Nyjah Huston Takes Third Place, and Liz Akama Lands in ...

If you look at the Instagram feed of Olympic skateboarding medalist Rayssa Leal, you might be surprised to see a pair of old shoes with holes in them. They're a part of her story — and a symbol of how ...

It may have been a bronze medal, but it was celebrated in the stands like it was a gold. When Brazilian superstar Rayssa Leal stuck her all-important final trick of the women’s street skateboarding ...

TOKYO -- Three teenage girls -- ages 13, 13 and 16 -- stood on the Olympic podium with weighty gold, silver and bronze medals around their necks, rewards for having landed tricks on their skateboards ...

Rayssa Leal, the young Brazilian skateboarding sensation, reclaimed her world crown at the World Skate Games in Rome on Saturday. In a final dominated by Japanese talent, with seven out of eight ...

17-Year-Old Leal from Imperatriz, Brazil, Earns Dominant Victory in Annual Skateboarding Event 26-Year-Old Felipe Nunes from Curitiba, Brazil, Takes 1 st Place in Adaptive Street Skateboarding 18-Year ...

Six years ago, Rayssa Leal was perfecting her heelflip. Now she's an Olympic medalist. The 13-year-old Brazilian won a silver medal at the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo this week in the street ...

The award was received by the fairy last Wednesday (15), in a ceremony promoted by the Brazilian Skate Confederation (CBSk) in São Paulo. In addition to receiving the skateboarder of the year trophy, ...