Liz Akama

Liz Akama — born January 8, 2009, in Sendai — is one of those names I keep expecting to hear more about, and honestly it's only a matter of time. She's a teenage skateboarder out of Miyagi Prefecture, which, if you know anything about Tohoku winters, makes the whole story that much more impressive; Sendai is not exactly a skate paradise, yet here she is. The name itself caught me first: her given name is read "Rizu" and rendered as "Liz," which has this effortlessly cool bilingual quality that suits a sport with deep American roots. She was born the same year a lot of her future competitors were probably just learning to walk, and she's already pushing into a competitive scene that Japan has taken seriously since skateboarding hit the Olympics in Tokyo 2021. She already has an Olympic silver from Paris 2024 to show for it, and the fact that she's out there grinding — literally — at this age, from that starting point, tells me the tenacity is real. I'm watching this one.

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Liz Akama (born January 8, 2009) is a Japanese skateboarder from Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. She won the silver medal in women's street at the 2024 Paris Olympics at 15, after taking the Japan national title in 2021.

Name (English)

Liz Akama

Name (Japanese)

赤間凛音

Reading

あかま りず

Born

January 8, 2009 (age 17)

Origin

Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Skateboarder

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Ox

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/liz_akama/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B5%A4%E9%96%93%E5%87%9B%E9%9F%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127358013

Tags

• From Miyagi Prefecture
• Skateboarder

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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