Chloe Covell struck gold for the second successive week as the Australian won the women’s street skateboarding title at X Games Osaka 2025 on Saturday (21 June).
Covell followed up her lifting the WST Street World Cup in Rome last week by capturing her third X Games gold, riding a first run of 90.00 en route to a comfortable victory over Japan’s Ito Miyu (81.00) and Matsumoto Ibuki (77.00).
Paris 2024 Olympic champion Yoshizawa Coco qualified for the final second but was fourth in the end, managing only a 74.00 on the afternoon at Kyocera Dome Osaka.
The 15-year-old Covell topped the podium in Japan for the second straight year after winning the Chiba contest in 2024. It was her sixth X Games medal overall.
“I’m super excited,” she said. “It's my first time in Osaka and the first time X Games is in Osaka as well. I had a really fun time. I'm super happy that I could win.”
The gold medal fell in Covell’s lap with a run to spare after Ito could only produce a 80.66 on her second attempt.
Covell said she was pleased with her kick-flip manual on the 36-foot-long plexiglass roof on the Osaka-themed course that led to her title defence ahead of X Games Salt Lake City next weekend.
“I did all the tricks that I knew I could land and I'm really happy that I landed them all,” Covell said. “I went a bit harder for my second run but I missed out on a bit of time at the end. For the finals I did the same first one because I knew it would get me a high score.
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