Nyjah Huston is in Tokyo hoping to add an Olympic title to the four gold medals he won at the World Skateboarding Championship.
Nyjah Huston poses with the US flag on the podium after the Men's Final of the Street World Championships 2021 street skateboarding event on June 6 at Foro Italico in Rome.Since turning professional 16 years ago, Huston has developed into an icon of skateboarding. A four-time gold medalist at the World Skateboarding Championship, Huston has won 12 gold medals at the Summer X Games.
He has a combined six silver and two bronze medals between the World Skateboarding Championship and the Summer X games, winning two silvers in the former and four silvers and two bronze in the latter.and almost 500,000 subscribers on his official YouTube channel.Huston was born in Davis, California, on November 30, 1994, meaning he will be just over four months short of his 27th birthday by the time of the Tokyo 2020.
"I literally started skating handrails when I was seven years old, with no helmet on, so I was just bred into this type of skating where you have to be kind of fearless and just go for it," Huston told GQ in June."And he was the one pushing me to skate this stuff." Huston signed his first contract aged just seven and turned professional aged 11, just three years before his parents separated. By then, the family had moved to Puerto Rico and while his siblings returned to the U.S. with their mother, Huston remained with his father until 2010 when he was reunited with his mother, who had filed for divorce and was granted full custody., Huston admitted turning professional came with the kind of pressure an 11-year-old could not be expected to shoulder.
He won the opening event in Arizona and finished the season as the league champion, pocketing as much as $150,000 per event, as per theThe Californian has since signed lucrative deals with a host of sponsors, including Nike, Doritos, soft drinks brands Mountain Dew and Monster Energy and eyewear maker Prive Revaux.a month before the Tokyo Olympics."I've made money from a young age but it's never taken away from my love of skateboarding. I don't just do this for money.
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