{"id":2448795,"date":"2019-09-15T23:18:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T05:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/skateboarder-reynolds-wins-at-park-world-championships\/"},"modified":"2019-09-15T23:18:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T05:18:01","slug":"skateboarder-reynolds-wins-at-park-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/skateboarder-reynolds-wins-at-park-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Skateboarder Reynolds wins at Park World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heimana Reynolds of the U.S. airs of of the Vans Skatepark Sunday in Sao Paulo, Brazil, during the World Skate Park World Championships. Reynolds finished first overall for the men.<\/strong>
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Heimana Reynolds of Hawaii and Misugu Okamoto of Japan were the top male and female finishers at the World Skate Park World Championships Sunday in Sao Paulo, Brazil.<\/p>\n

A qualifying event in the new Olympic discipline, the World Skate Park World Championships define park skateboarding competitors\u2019 seeding heading into the 2020 season. In May, the top 20 male and 20 female athletes will be selected to compete in the Olympics, with no more than three athletes per gender representing each country.<\/p>\n

The World Skate Park World Championships featured 160 skateboarders from 32 nations. In the men\u2019s final, Brazil qualified four athletes, the U.S. qualified three, and Australia qualified one athlete. On the women\u2019s side, Great Britain and Finland were represented as well as the U.S., Brazil, Australia and Japan.<\/p>\n

All eyes were on snowboarder Shaun White, who \u2014 in an attempt to cross over to the park discipline of skateboarding for the 2020 Olympics \u2014 rode an Open qualifier wild card entry into the quarterfinals and semifinals before being knocked out in advance of Sunday\u2019s final. White finished sixth among Americans, 13th overall.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very proud of my performance for my first official event,\u201d White wrote in a statement posted Saturday. \u201cI wanna thank the beautiful people of Sao Paulo for coming out, all of my competitors and World Skate for the opportunity!\u201d<\/p>\n

Eduardo Musa, president of the Brazilian Skate Confederation, said that getting the World Championships to Brazil was an achievement for his country.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very important to give skateboarders an atmosphere with the warmth of the Brazilian fans in the most important park competition in the season,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ayumu Hirano, another snowboarder, who finished silver to White\u2019s gold at the 2018 Olympics, also qualified through to the semifinals, taking 17th overall.<\/p>\n

The skateboarding qualification period will end in May of 2020 with World Skate World Championships events in the park and street disciplines of skateboarding. The top three male and female finishers from those events will receive direct invitations to the Olympics.<\/p>\n

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Heimana Reynolds of the U.S. airs of of the Vans Skatepark Sunday in Sao Paulo, Brazil, during the World Skate Park World Championships. Reynolds finished first overall for the men.Andre Penner | AP | AP Heimana Reynolds of Hawaii and Misugu Okamoto of Japan were the top male and female finishers at the World Skate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 19:56:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}