Coco Yohizawa Stuns For Walk-Off Win in Women’s Street Final | RSEO 2025
Coco Yoshizawa. Photo: Taylor Ballard
Coco Yoshizawa was sitting in 2nd behind Ibuki Matsumoto coming into Run 3 as the last to drop in the 10-woman Rockstar Energy Open 2025 Street Final, digging deep for a bigflip frontside boardslide on the big handrail to punctuate a flawless run for the walk-off win.
Coco Yoshizawa. Photo: Ballard
That last trick was an upgrade over the bigspin front board in her previous runs, and Yoshizawa rallied the crowd for support to fuel her towards the make: Portland skate fans were happy to oblige.
Aoi Fukuda. Photo: Ballard
“I'm super happy I landed that! I never got it in practice and didn't really expect to land it, but I knew I would need it to win, so I'm super happy I got it in my run.”
Lady Meek cheering on Meagan Guy. Photo: Muller
Head judge Jason Rothmeyer said it helped make the final decision easier on his team: “Coco ended her run with the hardest trick we saw all day, which always makes a huge difference.”
Meagan Guy. Photo: Ballard
RSEO 2025 is the third career win in international competition for Yoshizawa: the 2024 Paris Olympics gold medalist also won the final World Skate Olympic qualifier event in Budapest in 2024.
Ibuki Matsumoto. Photo: Durso
Japanese skaters swept the RSEO 2025 Women’s Street podium, with Yoshizawa followed by Ibuki Matsumoto and 12-year-old Mei Ozeki, the youngest woman competing at RSEO 2025.
Niko Sugimoto. Photo: Ballard
Ozeki was the RSEO 2024 VQS winner, and earned an invitation straight to this year’s Final. Her podium run run today is proof of concept for the VQS, designed to help surface new and off-the-radar talent in skateboarding: backside 5-0 on the handrail, backside 50-50 on the gap to Hubba, frontside lipslide on the flat bar, 50-50 kickflip out across the hip ledge, backside 180 set-up, backside lipslide on the handrail, feeble grind across the flat bar, kickflip over the bump to bump and Suski grind on the bump to up ledge.
Another Japanese skater, Aoi Fukuda, took 4th.
Mei Ozeki. Photo: Ballard
American skater Paige Heyn, the newest member of the Rockstar Energy skate team, rounded out the top 5, improving in Run 3 with three switch tricks in her run, finally making the switch front board down the big rail that eluded her in Runs 1 and 2 and also making a switch 50-50 on the flat bar and a switch Ollie up the Euro gap at the end of her run. The switch front board was a contest highlight, but she didn’t have as many tricks as the top 4 skaters ahead of her.
Paige Heyn. Photo: Ballard
The depth of field in Japan was on full display, with two other Japanese skaters taking the next spot: Niko Sugimato—the winner of Friday’s VQS On-Site Qualifier—and, making her U.S. contest debut, Yuri Ashizawa. Americans Secret Lynn and Meagan Guy, and Chilean Valentina Pretriç completed the top 10.
Yuri Ashizawa. Photo: Durso
Women's Street Final Results Rockstar Energy Open 2025
From left to right: Rockstar Snowboarder Iris Pham, Mei Ozeki, Coco Yoshizawa, and Ibuki Matsumoto. Photo: Chris Ortiz
- Coco Yoshizawa (JPN) 92.46
- Ibuki Matsumoto (JPN) 90.66
- Mei Ozeki (JPN) 81.33
- Aoi Fukuda (JPN) 76.63
- Paige Heyn (USA) 75.00
- Niko Sugimoto (JPN) 72.66
- Yuri Ashizawa (JPN) 65.50
- Secret Lynn (USA) 53.66
- Meagan Guy (USA) 48.66
- Valentina Petriç (CHI) 41.50