PARIS — Australia’s Keegan Palmer held off American Tom Schaar on the Paris Olympics on Wednesday to shield his identify from the Tokyo Video games and turn into the primary back-to-back gold medallist within the males’s park skateboarding tournament.

Palmer whipped in the course of the concrete bowl in a gap run full of tips to snatch the lead with a ranking of 93.11, which might in the end turn out sufficient as Schaar used to be not able to stick hooked up to his board in his ultimate run.

Brazil’s Augusto Akio edged countryman Pedro Barros to take bronze.

With the identify secured earlier than his ultimate run, Palmer took a victory lap in entrance of the boisterous crowd, which incorporated skateboarding legend Tony Hawk and rapper Snoop Dogg.

Barros and American Tate Carew skated out to satisfy Palmer at the soar field in the course of the bowl and lifted the 21-year-old up on their shoulders in a perfect display of sportsmanship.

3 years in the past, Palmer got here out of nowhere to dominate the inaugural park festival in Tokyo however used to be a favourite entering Wednesday’s ultimate.

He gained the preliminaries previous within the day together with his blistering velocity, large air and whole keep an eye on and didn’t let up within the ultimate at L. a. Concorde.

Palmer’s triumph adopted 14-year-old Australian Arisa Trew successful the ladies’s park tournament on Tuesday.

–Reuters, Particular to Box Stage Media