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Monster Army Rider Egoitz Bijueska Takes First Place In Men's Skateboard Park at WST World Cup Rome 2025
14-Year-Old from Bilbao, Spain, Takes Victory in Contest Sanctioned by World Skate 15-Year-Old Monster Army Rider Arisa Trew from Palm Beach, Australia, Takes 2nd Place in Women's Skateboard Park Final 16-Year-Old Monster Energy Rider Cocona Hiraki Claims 3rd Place in Down-to-the-Wire Final ROME, June 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Monster Energy congratulates Monster Army team rider Egoitz Bijueska on taking first place in the Men's Skateboard Park discipline at the World Skateboarding Tour (WST) World Cup Rome 2025. In the international competition hosted by the World Skate Association, the 14-year-old from Bilbao, Spain, earned the victory in a highly contested final. In the Women's Skateboard Park event, 15-year-old Monster Army team rider Arisa Trew from Palm Beach, Australia, took second place. Also rising to the podium, 16-year-old Cocona Hiraki from Hokkaido, Japan, clinched a spot in the top three on her last run of the contest. From June 1-15, the WST World Cup Rome features the world's leading athletes in skateboarding competitions across street and park disciplines. Sanctioned by World Skate, the official governing body for skateboarding in the Olympics, the event featured men's and women's skateboard park competitions at the vertical bowl in Ostia, Lido di Roma, this weekend. The season's first skateboarding World Cup will also feature skateboard street competitions with finals on Sunday, June 15. The Men's Skateboard Park final culminated in a major surprise when 14-year-old Monster Army rider Egoitz Bijueska from Spain clinched the victory. Working the park with a perfect run including a backside 540 melon, backside Smith grind over the love seat, backside ollie transfer, alley-oop kickflip Indy, backside 540 stalefish, hip transfer to backside lipslide, blunt slide transfer over the channel, alley-oop body varial kickflip Indy over the hip, backside tailslide shove-it the corner, frontside varial flip Indy fakie, Cab 720 Weddle, and alley-oop backside air the hip, Bijueska earned the day's highest score of 94.50 points for first place. In the Women's Skateboard Park final on Sunday, Arisa Trew entered as a podium favorite after emerging from the weekend's semifinals in third place. The Australian skateboarding phenomenon put down her highest-scoring run on the second attempt: Combining a huge McTwist in the deep end, backside 540 melon, hip transfer to frontside lipslide, kickflip Indy, Weddle air transfer, backside 360 Indy to fakie, frontside Cab 360 stalefish, ollie blunt fakie, and switch McTwist on the final wall earned Trew 92.43 points and second place in the heated final. Trew was joined on the podium by Olympic silver medalist and X Games champion Cocona Hiraki. Hiraki qualified for Sunday's final as the top rider but found herself bumped into fourth place when the final runs of the contest rolled around. Putting everything on the line, Hiraki strung together a perfect run featuring backside nosegrind over the love seat, backside tailslide, backside kickflip the deep end, channel transfer backside lipslide, hip transfer frontside nosegrind to lipslide, lien to tailslide, kickflip Indy the channel, frontside Smith grind to feeble spine transfer, backside crail slide and Indy air over the teardrop for 91.62 points and third place. Stay tuned when WST World Cup Rome returns with street skateboarding finals this coming weekend from June 14-15 at Colle Oppio Skatepark overlooking the Colosseum. Visit for exclusive updates from the 2025 skateboarding season, including photos, videos, and contest results as they happen. Follow Monster Energy on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok. For interview or photo requests, contact Kim Dresser. About Monster EnergyBased in Corona, California, Monster Energy is the leading marketer of energy drinks and alternative beverages. Refusing to acknowledge the traditional, Monster Energy supports the scene and sport. Whether motocross, off-road, NASCAR, MMA, BMX, surf, snowboard, ski, skateboard, or the rock and roll lifestyle, Monster Energy is a brand that believes in authenticity and the core of what its sports, athletes and musicians represent. More than a drink, it's the way of life lived by athletes, bands, believers, and fans. See more about Monster Energy including all of its drinks at CONTACT: Kim Dresser C: (949) 300-5546 E: View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Monster Energy
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08-04-2025
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Skateboarding age minimum set through 2028 Los Angeles Olympics
Skateboarders must be born in 2014 or earlier to be eligible for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics under a new age minimum set by the World Skate federation. Starting this year, an age minimum is being phased in for World Skateboarding Tour events. World Skate, the international governing body for the sport, confirmed that the age rules will also apply to the LA Games. Skateboarders must have been born in 2014 or earlier to compete in tour events in 2025. The age minimum will be raised one year each in 2026, 2027 and 2028 — which means that the birth year minimum of 2014 will remain the same through the LA Games. The World Skate decision was made after 'comprehensive consultations conducted as a part of the debriefing process' after the Paris Games. 'Supported throughout the debriefing with the largest collective consensus was the learning that the accelerating standard and corresponding challenges in Olympic skateboarding has necessitated the introduction of a minimum age limit,' according to World Skate. Skateboarding made its Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games. It was one of the many sports with no age minimum at both the Tokyo and Paris Games. In both Tokyo and Paris, the youngest medalists and gold medalists across all sports were female skateboarders. In Tokyo, Kokona Hiraki took silver in the park event three weeks before her 13th birthday. She became the youngest Olympic medalist since 1936, according to the OlyMADMen. Momiji Nishiya of Japan took gold in women's street in Tokyo, a month before her 14th birthday. She became the youngest Summer Olympic gold medalist since 1960, according to the OlyMADMen. Had the new age rules been in place at those Games, Hiraki would not have been eligible while Nishiya would have made the age cutoff by four months. At the Paris Games, both women's skateboarding gold medalists were 14 years old -- Australian Arisa Trew in park and Japan's Coco Yoshizawa in street. Zheng Haohao of China, who placed 18th out of 22 in the women's park event in Paris five days before turning 12, was the youngest Olympic competitor in any sport since 1992, according to the OlyMADMen. Nick Zaccardi,
