Kokona Hiraki

Young Athlete of The Tokyo Olympics
Kokona Hiraki

Kokona Hiraki is a Japanese skateboarder who won a silver medal in the women’s park event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She became the youngest Japanese athlete on record to participate in the Summer Olympic Games. Hiraki has competed in women’s park events at several World Skateboarding Championships, finishing seventh in 2018 and 11th in 2019. She has also competed at X Games, winning silver in 2019 in Boise, Idaho.

Sky Brown

Young Athlete of The Tokyo Olympics
Sky Brown

Sky Brown is a British-Japanese skateboarder who competes for Great Britain. She is the youngest professional skateboarder in the world, and has won the American TV programme Dancing with the Stars: Juniors. At 12-years-old, she was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She won a bronze medal in the women’s park skateboarding.

Momiji Nishiya

Young Athlete of The Tokyo Olympics
Momiji Nishiya

Momiji Nishiya is a Japanese skateboarder. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won the first ever gold medal in the women’s street competition. At 13, she is the youngest person ever to win a gold medal for Japan. As of June 2021, Nishiya was ranked fifth in the Olympic World Skateboarding rankings, and qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics. She competed in the women’s street competition, where she scored 15.26 and won the gold medal. At the age of 13 years and 330 days, she became the youngest Olympic gold medallist for Japan, and the third youngest gold medallist in Olympic history.

Hend Zaza

Young Athlete of The Tokyo Olympics
Hend Zaza

Hend Zaza is a Syrian table tennis player. She qualified to play in the 2020 Summer Olympics through the West Asia Olympic qualifying tournament held in Jordan in 2020. At the age of 12, she was the youngest person to compete in Olympic table tennis, and the fifth-youngest person to compete in the modern Olympics. In order to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games, 12-year-old Zaza beat 42-year-old Lebanese player Mariana Sahakian in the finals of the West Asia Olympic Qualification Tournament in Amman, Jordan. In the table tennis women’s singles she was defeated in the preliminary round on 24 July 2021 by Liu Jia, a Chinese-born Austrian player aged 39 who had previously competed in every Summer Olympics since 2000. The Chinese Olympic Committee invited Zaza to train in China after qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Quan Hongchan

Young Athlete of The Tokyo Olympics
Quan Hongchan

Quan Hongchan is a Chinese diver, national champion, and Olympic champion. She won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the individual 10-meter platform event. At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the 14-year-old was the youngest athlete in the Chinese delegation. she won the gold medal in the individual 10-meter platform event with an overall score of 466.20 points. Of her five dives, three were perfect dives, two of which earned straight scores of 10 from all seven judges.