Coco Yoshizawa

Coco Yoshizawa (; born 22 September 2009) is a Japanese skateboarder. She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal in the women's street event.

Biography Yoshizawa was born on 22 September 2009 in Kanagawa, Japan, and grew up in Sagamihara. At the age of seven, she first tried out skateboarding through the influence of her brother. She did not have a phone at the time and did not use social media, and thus she "wasn't plugged into skateboarding culture [and] she and her family had no idea how good she was," according to Self.

After the 2021 Olympics, Yoshizawa started to compete in tournaments. In 2022, she competed in the Japan Open, finishing eighth. She was second at the 2023 Uprising Tokyo tournament and later that year placed fifth at the World Championships. In 2024, she won bronze at the 2024 World Skateboarding Tour Dubai, competing in the street skating event.

In the semifinals at the 2024 Olympics, Yoshizawa recorded the top score, with 258.92 points, securing a spot in the finals.