X Games: Auckland teen Jessica Ready claims skateboard street bronze in debut event

Jessica Ready won bronze in her first X Games event. Photo / X Games

Auckland teenager Jessica Ready has claimed an X Games bronze medal in her debut women’s skateboard street event in Salt Lake City.

Competing in the women’s street event, the 15-year-old scored 83.66 on her final run to lift her on to the podium.

Ready only received a last-minute call-up to compete in the event and it took her 22 hours to make it to the venue.

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Australia’s Chloe Covell won her third straight gold with a score of 90.66.

Covell is the daughter of former Cronulla Sharks and one-test Kiwis winger Luke Covell.

Street is a style of skateboarding that takes place on a course that features curbs, stairs, handrails, benches and quarterpipes as obstacles. Competitors get 45 seconds on the course to complete their tricks.

The street discipline has been part of the Olympics since Tokyo 2020.

Ben Francis is an Auckland-based reporter for the New Zealand Herald who covers breaking sports news.