On the 25th, the Hangzhou Asian Games skateboarding competition continued at the Qiantang Roller Skating Center, with Chinese “born in the 2000s” shining on the field. In the men’s bowl final, 15-year-old Chen Ye made a stunning achievement, surpassing two Japanese strong players and winning the gold medal, which was also the first gold medal won by a Chinese skater in an international competition. After the game, the boy said that he didn’t expect this result.
Stable performance in the final
The skateboard bowl and pool competition that Chen Ye participated in, also known as the park competition, was held on a “bowl shaped” hollowed out prop, with a series of complex curves and curved bowl walls all around, with varying heights and slopes. The referee scores the contestants based on their difficulty coefficient, composition, and personal style of their movements.
Chen Ye advanced to the finals with a record of first place in the group and fourth place in the preliminaries. In front of him, there are also Asian skaters such as the Jakarta Asian Games champion Kensuke Sasakawa. Chen Ye said after the preliminary round that he will continue to work hard in the final and strive for better results.
Gliding, flipping, jumping… In the final, Chen Ye’s performance was described as “the most stable of all”, which is not an exaggeration. In each round of the competition, his movements are completed steadily, the route is also in place, and there are no obvious mistakes. In the first round of the competition, he scored 82.82 points, which is also the highest score of this round. In the second round, he once again set his own score at 84.41 points. Although Japanese player Yoriko Naghara performed well in the third round, scoring a personal high of 84 points and ranking second, Sasakawa took the bronze. The championship ultimately belongs to Chen Ye, who won the first gold medal for the Chinese team in the Skateboarding World Series.
Chen Ye, who won the championship, wore a five-star red flag and skated around the field to greet the audience. At this moment, he is the brightest kid on the field.
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Dad built a bowl and pool farm for me
Chen Ye received high attention for winning the first international championship for the Chinese skateboard team. In the mixed interview area after the game, a corridor over ten meters long, with three floors inside and three floors outside crowded with media. After attending the award ceremony, Chen Ye walked over. Such a battle made this young man, who was unrestrained and free on the skateboard field, suddenly become a bit restrained. When answering the question, Chen Ye kept holding the award bouquet in his right hand, and his left finger kept pinching his pants pocket, rubbing it back and forth.
At the age of 15, Chen Ye is about 1.6 meters tall, and his slightly dark skin is a mark left by his long-term outdoor training. During the interview, when asked what he wanted to say most after winning the championship, the young man expressed his gratitude. After saying that, Chen Ye also bowed forward, with a slightly shy smile appearing on his face. When encountering questions that he didn’t know how to answer, Chen Ye could only scratch his forehead and purr his mouth.
Chen Ye was born in Guangdong. He started skateboarding in 2016 and joined the Guangdong skateboarding team in 2019. A year later, he won a silver medal in the national championship. At the 2021 National Games, he won a silver medal as the youngest player in the history of the bowl pool final. This time in Hangzhou, he became China’s youngest Asian Games gold medalist.
When I started playing skateboarding, I thought it was a very exciting and exciting sport, and I felt very happy after completing every move, “Chen Ye said.
Throughout Chen Ye’s growth, he always had the support of his father Chen Yuqin. In order to give Chen Ye a place to train, Chen Yuqin rented a dedicated area in his hometown to make skateboard bowls and pools for his son’s training. And last year, this bowl and pond site underwent secondary renovation and expansion.
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Due to work reasons, Chen Yuqin was unable to attend the scene to watch his son’s performance this time, but Chen Ye has always been concerned about his father in his heart. Thank you very much, Dad. He teaches me training every day and builds a bowl for me. After all these years of hard work, I am very grateful to him, “Chen Ye said.
Climbing to the highest podium of the Asian Games is a milestone on the path of skateboarding for young Chen Ye. This humble young man said that his personal abilities still need to be further strengthened. When training, one should also try to fly higher, increase speed faster, and constantly overcome psychological obstacles. Go skiing on other fields more to improve their ability to adapt to the field