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The Taiwan delegation sent 12-year-old skateboarder Gu Yongyan to participate in the men's skateboard park finals of the Nagoya Asian Games. He had previously entered the finals with 83.73 points in the preliminaries.
Gu Yongyan. (Provided by the Chinese Olympic Games)
[Special Correspondent Nian Miaoyun/Nagoya Report] Gu Yongyan, the youngest skateboarder in the Taiwanese delegation at only 12 years old, overcame the haze of mistakes in the first three times in the men's skateboarding park finals of the Asian Games in Nagoya today. He showed a strong heart and finished steadily in the last run. He also broke a career-high 87.33 points and staged a great comeback to win the silver medal. Taiwan skateboarding won two medals in a row.
Ku Yongyan is the youngest player in this Taiwanese delegation. Although he made mistakes in the first two runs in the preliminaries yesterday, he performed perfectly in the third run and frequently performed difficult moves. With a career-high 83.73 points, he entered the finals ranked second overall, with the goal of challenging to stand on the podium.
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The skateboarding final will be held today. Players will first perform 3 runs, and the top 5 skaters will advance to the 4th "golden round". The final ranking of the skaters will be based on the highest score in a single trip among 3 or 4 runs.
In today's final, many players made mistakes in the first run. Gu Yongyan accidentally fell down at the end of the first run, but he still scored 70.5 points and was temporarily ranked third after the first run. However, South Korean player Kim Donghyuk stabilized in the second round and scored 72.21 points, pushing Koo Yonghyun to fourth place. Koo Yonghyun also failed to complete the second and third rounds, scoring 27.33 points and 26.30 points respectively. Fortunately, he still ranked fifth and had the opportunity to have the fourth "golden round".
Gu Yongyan seized the last opportunity, completed the slide steadily, and scored 87.33 points, rewriting his career-high 83.73 points set in yesterday's preliminaries. At the same time, he rushed to second place. The audience also cheered for him, and finally ended with a silver medal.
It is worth mentioning that Lin Yifan, another Taiwanese skateboarder, won the silver medal in the women's park style final with 85.15 points earlier. This was Taiwan's first Asian Games skateboarding medal and made history.

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