Hasegawa Wins Second World Title at World Skate Games

Mizuho Hasegawa won the women’s park world title at the World Skate Games in Asunción with 91.00 points ahead of Sky Brown’s 89.50, her second world championship at the Games after winning vert a week earlier.

A washout, then command

The decision came before the final run, when Brown could not land the Rodeo ender she needed to overturn the Japanese skater’s control of the contest. Hasegawa had suffered a washout the night before the final and still steered every stage of the event.

The session was shaped by attrition from the start: Yi-Fan Lin missed her signature Sugarcane, finals debutante Hikari Satake landed a strong opener, and Kokona Hiraki — already nursing a hip injury from warm-ups — bruised her palm while protecting it yet delivered a third run described as heroic. After run three the middle of the field was locked, leaving the top two more than nine points clear of the rest.

Decided before the final drop

Brown could not find the timing for the Rodeo ender she had planned as her closing move.

The park gold came seven days after Hasegawa won the vert world title on the front lawn of the presidential palace, where a rapturous crowd watched her restore a lead that had shrunk during the Best Trick rounds. She pushed the margin to 26 points with a Kickflip Frontside Air to Varial before Shuka Kawai fell short on three 720 attempts.

No skater leaves a world championship with two disciplines in the bag by accident.