{"id":55896,"date":"2026-07-09T19:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/55896\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T19:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:22:10","slug":"x-games-league-tokyo-new-york-clubs-tied-for-lead-after-chiba-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/55896\/","title":{"rendered":"X Games League: Tokyo, New York Clubs Tied For Lead After Chiba Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Women's<\/p>\n

X Games Chiba marked the second stop of the inaugural X Games League summer season, following X Games Sacramento in June. The final stop and championship will be held July 24\u201326 at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.<\/p>\n

X Games<\/p>\n

Following the first stop of the season in Sacramento<\/a>, X Games League (XGL) headed to Chiba, Japan, for the second of three events in its inaugural summer season. <\/p>\n

After two days of competition at Makuhari Messe, XC Tokyo and XC New York emerged deadlocked atop the XGL standings<\/a> with 1,770 points apiece. The stage is set for a winner-take-all championship later this month in New Orleans. <\/p>\n

XC S\u00e3o Paulo remains firmly in contention with 1,610 points, while XC Los Angeles sits within striking distance at 1,510, leaving all four clubs mathematically alive in the race for the first X Games League title<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At X Games Chiba, BMX street icon Garrett Reynolds captured a record 18th career gold medal. In women\u2019s BMX park, 16-year-old Miharu Ozawa followed up her Sacramento breakthrough by defeating two-time champion Hannah Roberts for the second consecutive event, helping XC Tokyo maintain its early lead. <\/p>\n

Chloe Covell continued justifying her status as the No. 1 draft pick at the inaugural X Games League draft<\/a> in March with another women\u2019s skateboard street victory for XC New York, while hometown favorite Mizuho Hasegawa thrilled Japanese fans by winning women\u2019s vert. Juni Kang followed up his Sacramento success with another men\u2019s street Best Trick victory featuring multiple never-before-done tricks: a switch heelflip backside tailslide to backside bigspin and a switch 180 crooked grind to nollie heelflip out.<\/p>\n

Marcus Christopher delivered BMX park gold for XC Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Jason Halayko \/ X Games<\/p>\n

Marcus Christopher delivered BMX park gold for XC Los Angeles, and 11-year-old Ema Kawakami became the youngest male gold medalist in X Games history by ending Gui Khury\u2019s four-event reign in men\u2019s vert. Moto X veteran Rob Adelberg rounded out the opening day by claiming another Best Trick title.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, XC New York steadily erased Tokyo\u2019s advantage with podium finishes across multiple disciplines. <\/p>\n

Spain celebrated a landmark moment as 15-year-old Egoitz Bijueska became the country\u2019s first X Games skateboard gold medalist by winning men\u2019s park. Mia Kretzer added another win to her young r\u00e9sum\u00e9, triumphing in women\u2019s vert Best Trick at just 11 years old. <\/p>\n

BMX park Best Trick showcased continued technical progression. Mike Varga landed the first 900 decade in competition, while Marcus Christopher successfully landed the flair triple downside tailwhip he had attempted four times in Sacramento. Logan Martin earned another podium finish to strengthen both his individual and team standings. <\/p>\n

Gui Khury resumed his vert Best Trick dominance with a seventh consecutive victory in the discipline, while Momiji Nishiya rebounded from a disappointing street contest by landing an X Games-first crooked grind nollie heelflip to win women\u2019s street Best Trick and provide a crucial boost for XC New York. <\/p>\n

Sky Brown wins women’s skateboard park at X Games Chiba 2026. <\/p>\n

Yoshio Yoshida \/ X Games<\/p>\n

Sky Brown returned to the top of the women\u2019s park podium for the first time in four years to keep XC S\u00e3o Paulo within reach of the leaders. Ginwoo Onodera closed the weekend by defending his men\u2019s street title, giving XC New York the points necessary to pull even with Tokyo before the championship stop.<\/p>\n

The individual MVP race has become nearly as tight as the team championship. Hasegawa leaves Chiba atop the overall athlete standings after medaling across multiple disciplines, while Logan Martin\u2019s consistency has made him one of the league\u2019s highest point scorers. Reynolds has established himself as the top-ranked single-discipline competitor, and free agents Kang, Kretzer and Bijueska demonstrated that athletes outside the four clubs remain capable of shaking up the competitive landscape.<\/p>\n

With two events in the books, the XGL standings are as follows.<\/p>\n

XGL Standings<\/p>\n

XC Tokyo: 1,770 points<\/p>\n

XC New York: 1,770 points<\/p>\n

XC S\u00e3o Paulo: 1,610 points<\/p>\n

XC Los Angeles: 1,510 points<\/p>\n

Four clubs remain in contention as X Games League now looks to the championship July 24\u201326 at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, where the first summer XGL champions and the season MVP will be decided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"X Games Chiba marked the second stop of the inaugural X Games League summer season, following X Games…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,36887,36886,36890,52,36884,36888,36889,36882,36885,36881,36883],"class_list":["post-55896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tokyo","tag-japan","tag-momiji-nishiya","tag-sky-brown","tag-summer-x-games","tag-tokyo","tag-what-is-x-games-league","tag-x-games-championship","tag-x-games-dates","tag-x-games-league","tag-x-games-league-standings","tag-x-games-league-tokyo","tag-xgl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}