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12. Oktober 2026reportage

Rain, Nerves and Two 15-Year-Olds: The Park World Championship in Asunción

Mizuho Hasegawa and Egoitz Bijueska won the 2026 Park World Championship in Paraguay after a week of rain delays, slams and a men's semifinal that took two days to finish. How it unfolded, who made the podium, and what it means for LA28.

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Intro

Skateboarding competitions are usually decided by who lands their run. In Asunción, Paraguay, the 2026 Park World Championship was decided by who could keep landing runs through rain, injuries and a schedule that kept falling apart. Japan's Mizuho Hasegawa took the women's title and Spain's Egoitz Bijueska took the men's, and both are only 15 years old.

This report is built from World Skate's own event reports, which were sent as newsletters during the week, and checked against independent coverage of the results. Where a detail comes from only one source, we say so. Photos are not included here because the official event photos are distributed to media under World Skate's own terms, so the graphics below are ours.

The final results

Podium graphic for the 2026 Park World Championship in Asunción: Egoitz Bijueska, Tom Schaar and Gui Khury in the men's final, and Mizuho Hasegawa, Sky Brown and Kokona Hiraki in the women's final

Men's park

PlaceSkaterCountryScore
1Egoitz BijueskaSpain94.50
2Tom SchaarUSA93.07
3Gui KhuryBrazil92.15
4Augusto AkioBrazil91.35

Women's park

PlaceSkaterCountryScore
1Mizuho HasegawaJapan91.00
2Sky BrownGreat Britain89.50
3Kokona HirakiJapan88.50
5Naia LasoSpain78.83

The podium scores come from the wire report by the Spanish news agency EFE, as carried by Infobae and ABC Color, and the same figures appear in Diario Euskadi's report. Laso's fifth place and 78.83 come from Diario Euskadi and Shredder News. The fourth place in the women's final, and places five to eight in the men's final, are not in the sources we could read, so we leave them out rather than guess. World Skate's own finals report, which we read in full, does not publish scores. It does name the gold medallists, describes Schaar taking second place on his third run ahead of Khury, and says Hasegawa and Brown were the two skaters fighting for first. If you need an official scoresheet, World Skate's results pages are the place to check.

Two days of weather

The Park World Championship ran as part of the World Skate Games, which World Skate lists as taking place in Asunción from 3 to 10 October for this event. The park competition was bookended by rain, and both genders had to finish rounds in the morning after the day they started.

Timeline of the rain delays at the Park World Championship: women's quarterfinals roll over to Friday morning, men's semifinals are interrupted on Friday evening and restart Saturday morning, and finals follow on Saturday

World Skate's report describes it as "48 hours of skateboarding action bookended by rain". The women's quarterfinals rolled over into Friday morning. The men's semifinals started on Friday evening in fading light, were stopped by rain with seven runs still to go, and restarted on Saturday morning before the finals.

Women's semifinals: the favourites wobble

The women's semifinals opened with an early sign of how unpredictable the week had been. Japan's Kokona Hiraki, a regular on podiums, started in 15th place and looked relieved just to get a first run in. Spain's Naia Laso landed the Backside 360 over the jumpbox that had beaten her in the quarterfinals.

Heat 2 brought new faces. Chinese Taipei's 14-year-old Yi-Fan "Yvonne" Lin, praised by World Skate for having the best Sugarcane "this side of Chris Miller", opened with a strong first run, and had never before made a World Skateboarding Tour final. California's Minna Stess skated with a composure the Tour had not always seen from her.

Then the heat wobbled. Sky Brown, who had only just qualified out of the quarterfinals that morning, fluffed her opening trick. Finland's Heili Sirvio took a heavy slam. Lillian Erickson, Mizuho Hasegawa and Stess all missed on their next runs, leaving everything open at the halfway point.

It was Sky Brown's second run that put her into finals contention. 2024 World Champion Raicca Ventura then jumped from 13th to 5th, Hasegawa moved up to second, Brown improved again and Ventura answered. In the last run of the day Hasegawa took back top spot. Lin held on in eighth when Sirvio's last run came up short and Erickson slipped out.

Women's final: endurance wins

World Skate framed the final as a test of who could keep fighting after a long week. Lin missed her signature Sugarcane for the first time not just in Paraguay but, according to the report, as far back as she has been on the Tour, and missed a Kickflip Indy on her second run, leaving her with a do-or-die third run in her first ever World Skateboarding Tour final. Japan's Hikari Satake, the other debutante, smashed her opening run.

Hiraki had hurt her hip for the second time in two days during warm-up and bruised her palm while protecting it, which World Skate noted removes a skater's first line of defence in a fall. She still pulled a "heroic" third run and finished with bronze, according to the EFE results.

With places three to eight settled and two runs left, it became a repeat of the shootout in Rome in June between Sky Brown and Mizuho Hasegawa. None of the top five after run three used the golden run's first wall rebate rule to gamble on a big opener. When Brown could not lock in the Rodeo ender she had planned, Hasegawa was champion with a run still in hand.

It was her second world title of these Games: she had already won the Vert World Championship, and World Skate wrote that the park title was not necessarily her best performance but one she dominated from the washout of the previous night. Independent coverage of the vert event gives her winning score as 259.66, ahead of Shuka Kawai of Japan.

Men's semifinals: the 90s become normal

The men's semifinals set a new standard. Italy's Ale Mazzara opened with a run that put the baseline above 87 points, and Brazil's Gui Khury and Augusto Akio answered with two scores above 90. By the end of Heat 1 there was a 93-point benchmark, and Akio's final run for 94 gave him the lead, an all-time top-10 score according to World Skate.

Rain then interfered. When a sprinkle arrived during Mazzara's second run, he stepped off the Alley Oop Backside Ollie to fakie 50-50 on the sub-box that he had made every time before. Issei Sakurai of Japan took advantage and went through in sixth with the third 90+ score of the evening. Florianopolis' Kalani Konig found a late run above 92.

In Heat 2, Tom Martin of France and Luke Kahler stacked opening tricks. Tom Schaar posted the heat's first 90-plus score, then Tate Carew followed with a 95, which World Skate called the third-highest score in World Skateboarding Tour history. Australia's double Olympic gold medallist Keegan Palmer sat on 88.52 and had to hold off Sweden's Hampus Winberg and Martin for eighth place, while Schaar's second run (93.48) pushed the scores up again.

With Egoitz Bijueska already on 94.5 from his first run, Martin came from well off the pace to land a 90 and take eighth, knocking Palmer out, just as the rain returned. After a failed attempt to restart, the organisers decided to finish on Saturday morning with seven runs left. Only Winberg and Bijueska completed their last runs, and neither changed the standings.

World Skate singled out Martin, who sat on the bubble spot overnight before being confirmed in his first World Skateboarding Tour final.

Men's final: brilliance and carnage

The men's final was as hard on the skaters as the semifinals. Tom Martin opened with a Kickflip Indy Transfer over the loveseat and the platform behind it, into a transition you cannot see until you are committed in the air, and was unlucky to fall at the end of what would have been a leaderboard-busting second run. Issei Sakurai, who dominated at the World Skateboarding Tour stop in Rome in June, fell off a basic Backside Air as time expired and could not put together a full run.

Midway through the third round, according to MC Marc Churchill, only three skaters had put in complete runs. Gui Khury was one of them, carrying a nagging shoulder problem into a run with a 540, his trademark 900 and what the report says it suspects was a 720 over the jumpbox, all within 45 seconds.

Tom Schaar took second place with a brave opening line of a Fakie Frontside Ollie in off the sub-box bench at one-push speed, then a Backside 270 to Lipslide across a gap, and a Blunt to Kickflip in on the concrete vert wall that had thrown him on run two. His golden-run attempt at a Backside Flip Indy into a Switch Kickflip on the same feature almost came off.

But the day belonged to Egoitz Bijueska, who led from the start. He used the Switch McTwist he had premiered at the Best Trick contest in vert earlier in the Games as his run-ender in park. World Skate's writer called it the greatest display Churchill had seen on the Tour, and wrote that Bijueska "has no weaknesses in his game whatsoever".

His 94.50 would have beaten the 93.11 that won Keegan Palmer the Olympic gold in Paris in 2024, as Vozpópuli pointed out. Bijueska is, in World Skate's words, a back-to-back World Champion and the World Skateboarding Ranking leader "by a country mile", and 15 years old. Diario Euskadi, from Bijueska's home region, reports that he topped both the quarterfinals (94.33) and the semifinals (94.60) before the final, and that he said any of the eight finalists could have won. Shredder News adds that he plans to go back to California to train for the 2028 Olympics. Those details come from one outlet each.

One thing the sources disagree on

World Skate's week-one wrap-up calls Mizuho Hasegawa a "16-year-old". Wikipedia lists her birth date as 14 October 2010, which would make her 15 on the day of the final, as EFE also states. We use 15 here, but if you quote her age, check the source.

Why it matters

World Skate's wrap-up describes Bijueska as continuing his domination of the World Skateboarding Ranking "in the approach to LA28". The ranking points that these results feed into are not published in the sources we read, so we won't guess at the numbers.

The semifinal scores were remarkable too: World Skate wondered aloud whether the qualification cut-off might land in the 90s for the first time on the Tour, and in the end the eighth qualifier, Tom Martin, got through with a 90. And the Games as a whole had a big week one: 74 world titles had been decided in Asunción by the end of it, with new world champions in park skateboarding, artistic skating, inline hockey, roller freestyle, speed, inline slalom, scootering and inline freestyle, and five world records across sports.

What comes next

World Skate's event page lists the Street Skateboarding World Championship in Asunción for 11 to 18 October 2026, so street is under way as this is written, and we found no published results yet. Skateboard slalom was due to follow inline at the end of week two. Watch it live at worldskate.tv or on the official World Skate YouTube channel.

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