Japan's Yuto Horigome won the skateboard street contest at the X Games in Minneapolis on Saturday with less than a year to go before the sport makes its debut at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The 20-year-old Horigome showed off his Olympic form with an 89.00-point gold-medal score in the second of his three runs in the men's street final to claim his first X Games title.
Two nollie 270 rail slides, one nose and one board, were the highlights of his effortless 45-second run.
American superstar Nyjah Huston took silver with 88.00 and Japanese 17-year-old Sora Shirai rounded off the podium with 87.00.
"I'm really happy and pumped to skate at the world's top tournament with skaters that I look up to," Horigome said.
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Earlier in the day, Japan's Rim Nakamura grabbed silver in the men's BMX park contest, another event added to the 2020 Olympic program.
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Horigome won the men's title at the Street League Skateboarding World Tour stop in Los Angeles late last month, his first victory at a 2020 Games qualifying event.
He will look to punch his Olympic ticket as one of the top three skaters at September's park world championships in Brazil.
The X Games is a multi-sport prize event featuring the world's top athletes and does not count towards Olympic qualification.
(Yuto Horigome (L) and Sora Shirai)[Getty/Kyodo]
On Friday, Japanese 13-year-old Misugu Okamoto won the women's skateboard park competition, while her 10-year-old compatriot Cocona Hiraki finished runner-up.
Hiraki made history by becoming the youngest female X Games competitor and youngest X Games medalist to date.