Aori Nishimura
Personal information
Native name西村 碧莉 (Kanji)
にしむら あおり (Kana)
NationalityJapanese
Born (2001-07-31) 31 July 2001 (age 22)
Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan
OccupationSkateboarder
Sport
CountryJapan
SportSkateboarding
PositionRegular-footed
Rank3rd[1]
EventStreet
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals8th (2020)
National finals
  • 1st Japan National Skateboarding Championships 2017: Women's street; Gold
Medal record
Women's street skateboarding
Representing  Japan
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Rio de Janeiro Street
Gold medal – first place 2020 Rome Street
Bronze medal – third place 2019 São Paulo Street
X Games
Gold medal – first place 2019 Minneapolis
Gold medal – first place 2019 Norway
Gold medal – first place 2017 Minneapolis
Silver medal – second place 2018 Minneapolis
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Sydney

Aori Nishimura (西村 碧莉, Nishimura Aori, born 31 July 2001) is a regular-footed Japanese professional street skateboarder.[2] Nishimura represented Japan in the women's street event at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.[3]

Biography

Born in Edogawa, Tokyo in Japan, Aori Nishimura started skating at the age of 7, in 2008.[4]

She made her professional debut when she was in fifth grade in a tournament organized by the All-Japan Skateboarding Association.

Professional skateboarding

In 2017, Nishimura won the Japan National Skateboarding Championship. Furthermore, she was the first athlete from Japan to win gold at the X Games Minneapolis 2017 extreme sports event held in Minneapolis.[5]

In October 2017, three months after her victory, Nishimura suffered an ACL injury in her left knee for which she had to undergo reconstructive ligament surgery and temporarily move away from skateboarding. After six months of rehabilitation, she returned to training in June 2018 and returned to competitions in July 2018.

She was invited to the Dew Tour Long Beach tournament, where she was eighth among the eight participants. On that occasion she expressed her dissatisfaction with the results obtained; however, that same month, she would achieve an evolution and take the silver medal in the X Games Minneapolis 2018, where Mariah Duran took first place.[6]

In January 2019, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she was crowned world skateboarding champion in the World Skateboarding Championship, which was jointly organized by World Skate and Street League Skateboarding (SLS). Nishimura eclipsed hometown favorite, Letícia Bufoni, who won the silver medal.[7]

Nishimura appears as one of the new playable skateboarders in the 2020 game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2.[8]

Awards

Personal life

Aori has two sisters, who are also dedicated to skateboarding: Sana and Kotone.[11]

On 21 November 2020, she confirmed that she and Brazilian professional skateboarder Lucas Rabelo, from the Flip Skateboards Pro Team, had been dating for a year. The couple has been together since November 2019.[12]

References

  1. ^ "Olympic World Skateboarding Rankings – Street, Female". World Skate. 30 June 2021. Archived from the original on 27 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Aori Nishimura's official X Games athlete biography". X Games. Archived from the original on 11 March 2022. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  3. ^ Wagoner, Mackenzie. "Skateboarding Is Now An Olympic Sport – And These Girls Are Its Biggest Stars". British Vogue. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  4. ^ "西村 碧莉（にしむら あおり）さん（スケートボード）". 江戸川区 (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 23 July 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Leticia Bufoni e Kelvin Hoefler ficam com o vice no Mundial de skate street". Folha de S.Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 13 January 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  6. ^ a b "X Games Women's Street Results 2018". Girls Skate Network. 21 July 2018. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  7. ^ "Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word". Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  8. ^ "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 Skaters list: All secret skaters, outfits and every character in Pro Skater listed". Eurogamer.net. 4 September 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  9. ^ "Women's Skateboard Street Results". XGames.com. XGames. Archived from the original on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  10. ^ "Teen skateboarder Aori Nishimura nabs women's title at world tour final stage". The Japan Times Online. 15 January 2019. ISSN 0447-5763. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  11. ^ "'Joy and Sorrow 2' - more female skateboarding madness from Japan!". Sidewalk Skateboarding.
  12. ^ "Aori Nishimura". Instagram. 21 November 2020. Archived from the original on 26 December 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2020. 1 year with my love 💛 Thank you for everything ✨ I love you so much @lucasrabelo 📱👏💛 You are the best boyfriend!!!!

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