MoonPay X Games Chiba 2026 Kicks Off With a Full Day of Competition Featuring the World’s Best Action Sports Athletes

Day One Events Included Men’s BMX Street, Women’s BMX Park, Women’s Skateboard Street, Women’s Skateboard Vert, Men’s Skateboard Street Best Trick, Men’s BMX Park, Men’s Skateboard Vert and Moto X Best Trick

The MoonPay X Games Chiba 2026 wrapped up its first day of competition in front of an enthusiastic crowd at Makuhari Messe in its return after 2025’s X Games was held in Osaka. Featuring more than 80 action sports athletes representing 16 countries, the event is the second stop of the new MoonPay X Games League (XGL). X Games Club (XC) Tokyo extended its lead after Sacramento in the championship standings and ended Day One in Chiba with 1,450 points. XC New York is in second place with 1,310, followed closely by XC São Paulo with 1,300. XC Los Angeles rounds out the standings with 1,150 points.

Saturday delivered the action as eight BMX, skateboard and Moto X competitions crowned the first winners of the weekend. From defending champions and rising stars to breakthrough first-time medalists, the day featured close finishes, milestone performances, and unforgettable moments at the first MoonPay X Games League event held in Chiba.

Monster Energy Men’s BMX Street

Garrett Reynolds Wins His 18th Gold Medal

In Monster Energy Men’s BMX Street, Garrett Reynolds (XC São Paulo) earned his 18th career gold medal, the most in X Games history and three more than Nyjah Huston and Shaun White. He’s medaled in 23 of the 25 Street comps held at X Games and has won 16, including the first one held at X Games 2008 and the now the most recent one. Reynolds was in a class of his own from the opening run, posting the competition’s two highest scores on his first two runs. His runs combined incredible technical difficulty with a high-risk approach, highlighted by a pegs-to-over 360, a 180 backward grind up the ledge to Cab out, and an inward 180 to backward grind down the ledge. The victory pushed his career total to 26 X Games medals, moving him into sole possession of third place on the all-time X Games medal list. He now has an unprecedented streak of 19 consecutive Street medals — the longest medal streak in a single discipline in X Games history.

Silver marked Jordan Godwin’s (Free Agent) fourth consecutive X Games BMX Street medal and the fifth X Games medal of his career. Godwin’s run stood out for its technical precision and featured the most intricate grind combinations in the field. His final trick – an icepick grind to hard 180 – proved to be the difference-maker for silver. Devon Smillie’s (Free Agent) bronze is his eighth X Games medal. He earned points early by opening with a risky hardway barspin to manual icepick grind crankflip. His final trick was another standout: a double peg to hardway over 180 Cab out. He now owns four silver and four bronze medals in BMX Street. Smillie has the second-most Street medals in X Games history behind Reynolds.

Stake Women’s BMX Park

Miharu Ozawa Repeats Her Win in Sacramento in Chiba

XC Tokyo’s 16-year-old Miharu Ozawa topped Hannah Roberts in Stake Women’s BMX Park. Few expected an X Games rookie to dethrone XC New York’s two-time X Games champ and Olympic silver medalist Roberts in Sacramento, and she repeated the feat in Chiba in her second-career X Games. The youngest rider in the field delivered a walk-off victory in Chiba, entering the final run in second place before overtaking Roberts for gold. Ozawa separated herself by starting her last run with a backflip tailwhip over the box, the best trick of the contest. Last week at XG Sacramento, Ozawa became the youngest BMX medalist — male or female — in X Games history when she struck gold.

Roberts led the competition until the final run, when Ozawa edged past her for the win. Still, she showcased a diverse run that included a backflip barspin, flair, and a 270 no-hander over the hip – a unique trick that set her apart from the rest of the field. She posted three scores in the 90s and was only .33 behind Miharu’s winning score. Roberts was riding with an injured left shoulder suffered during practice in Sacramento and was battling a cold she picked up on the flight to Chiba. Rounding out the podium, Kim Mueller took her third X Games BMX Park bronze and second in less than a week. Mueller opened with an impressive backflip can-can to tailwhip, while her stylish and highly technical 360 can-can tire grab was one of the most distinctive tricks of the competition.

Monster Energy Women’s Skateboard Stree

Chloe Covell Tops the Standings With Her 5th X Games Gold Medal

Chloe Covell (XC New York) captured her fifth X Games gold medal. The #1 overall XGL Draft pick tied Women’s SKB Street legend Leticia Bufoni for most gold in the discipline, on the books since Bufoni’s X Games 2021 win. Chloe had a fall in Run 1 and looked frustrated. In Run 2 she had to stop mid-run due to a follow-cam operator issue and looked even more frustrated, but she was granted a rebate run and put down a solid score, 89.00. She had upgrades in Run 3, improving to 93.33 for a more decisive win, ultimately winning by an 8.33-point margin.

Rounding out the podium were Japanese athletes Coco Yoshizawa (XC Tokyo) and Ibuki Matsumoto (XC São Paulo). Silver is the first medal in the third appearance from Yoshizawa, the 2024 Paris Olympics gold medalist. 14-year-old Matsumoto earned her second bronze medal in the discipline, and fourth total X Games medal. She is a podium favorite in Street Best Trick on Sunday.

MoonPay Women’s Skateboard Vert

Mizuho Hasegawa Wins Gold in Her Home Country

Fifteen-year-old Mizuho Hasegawa (XC Tokyo) followed up on her MoonPay Women’s Skateboard Vert silver medal in Sacramento with a gold in her home country, flipping the results with 11-year-old Mia Kretzer (XC LA), who won silver. Hasegawa opened her run with three different 540s, and her real highlight was the ender, as she’s the only woman throwing fakie-to-fakie 540s in full vert runs. Hasegawa now has four X Games medals in Vert – two gold and two silver – and eight total medals in seven X Games appearances.

Kretzer was unable to defend her gold medal from X Gamnes Sacramento last week, but she still put 80 points up for XC Los Angeles for her second medal in the discipline, her fourth career medal, keeping her just ahead of Ema Kawakami for most medals earned by a pre-teen at X Games. Free agent Juno Matsuoka took bronze to complete the podium. She opened the contest with a full-pull Run 1 score of 85.00 as the first skater in the lineup. It’s Matsuoka’s second bronze in the discipline. She will be in the Women’s Vert Best Trick field on Sunday.

Monster Energy Men’s Skateboard Street Best Trick

Juni Kang Repeats in Chiba After Mining Sacramento Gold

Free Agent Juni Kang won his second career Monster Energy Men’s Skateboard Street Best Trick X Games gold in Chiba after also winning gold in Sacramento, which made him Korea’s first gold medalist in any Summer discipline. Kang was back for more as both of his landed tricks were X Games firsts, and judges deemed them outright NBDs: The switch heelflip backside tailslide to backside bigspin out on the hubba ledge that cemented Juni’s gold in Run 6, and his earlier switch 180 crooked grind to nollie heelflip out in Run 3.

The judges also deemed the nollie backside bigspin heelflip to backside tailslide to backside bigspin out from silver medalist Filipe Mota (XC LA) an NBD. Mota now has four medals (1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze) from five Street Best Trick starts, putting him second for most medals in the discipline, behind Nyjah Huston’s six. Bronze is the second medal in the discipline for XC New York’s Ginwoo Onodera (XC NY) for a switch heelflip frontside noseslide 270 shuv-it back to switch off the hubba. It is his second bronze in two weeks. He also owns four medals in SKB Street (2 gold, 2 bronze) and is the defending XG Sacramento 2026 gold medalist in the discipline headed into Sunday’s contest.

Stake Men’s BMX Park

Marcus Christopher WIns His Second Career X Games Gold

Marcus Christopher (XC Los Angeles) took home gold in Stake BMX Park. This was his second X Games gold and seventh medal overall. His winning run was defined by power, amplitude, and relentless aggression. He soared on every hit, with a triple downside tailwhip and a massive flair tuck no-hander to downwhip standing out as two of the biggest tricks of the competition. Since 2023, Christopher has competed in eight X Games Park contests and reached the podium six times.

Logan Martin (XC New York) continued his remarkable run of consistency, earning Park silver in Chiba. The oldest rider in the field, Martin, 32, has now reached the podium in four of his last five X Games starts. He took medals in three of four events in Sacramento and added another silver in BMX Park in Chiba. As of Saturday night, Martin leads the XGL championship race with 330 points. Rim Nakamura (XC Tokyo) thrilled the home crowd by earning bronze, his fifth X Games BMX Park medal and his third Park podium in Japan. Nakamura came out swinging, opening his run with a huge triple tailwhip over the hip that featured tremendous amplitude and immediately put him in medal contention. While his third run scored the best, he sat in third the entire comp based on his first run score. His résumé now includes gold in Osaka 2025, silver in Chiba 2024, and bronze in Chiba 2026.

MoonPay Men’s Skateboard Vert

Ema Kawakami, the Youngest Male Competitor in Chiba, Wins Gold 

Eleven-year-old Ema Kawakami (Free Agent) is the youngest male competitor at X Games Chiba 2026 and is now the youngest male gold medalist in X Games history, overtaking silver medalist Gui Khury’s (XC São Paulo) record. His MoonPay Men’s Skateboard Vert highlights included back-to-back 720s: A forward-to-fakie “McKenzie” Indy 720 straight into a fakie-to-forward Indy 720. With the win, Kawakami also ended Khury’s four event win streak in X Games Vert.

Khury had a strong first run, stomping a 900 and a body varial 900 to help him claim the top spot after the first round with a 92.66. Moto Shibata (XC Tokyo) blasted a head-high mid-run kickflip McTwist and a switch front foot impossible 540, both contest highlights. It earned him a 91.33 and a temporary lead. The score held for bronze.

Moto X Best Trick

Rob Adelberg Wins His Seventh Moto X Best Trick Gold, and 11th Overall

Rob Adelberg is one of the most consistent riders in X Games Best Trick history, medaling in 13 of his last 14 appearances, including seven gold. He’s the most decorated Australian in X Games history, now boasting 22 total medals (11 gold). The victory gave him sole possession of the most Moto X medals in X Games history, breaking his tie with Nate Adams. Adelberg delivered a cleaner version of the trick that gave him trouble in Sacramento – a frontflip Shaolin seat grab barhop. He significantly improved the landing, and the trick carried a higher degree of risk than Jose Canosa’s silver-medal run because Adelberg’s hands were the only points of contact with the bike while his feet were completely off it.

Jose Canosa made an impressive X Games debut, earning silver in his first appearance. The youngest rider on the roster at age 23 landed two frontflip variations, with his Lazyboy frontflip to no-footer earning his highest score of the competition. Ben Richards continued his impressive run of consistency, earning bronze with a body varial flip to double-grab Hart Attack on both of his runs. It was the same trick he landed for the first time in Sacramento just last week, where it earned him silver. The bronze gives Richards four consecutive X Games Moto X Best Trick medals.

MoonPay X Games Chiba 2026 concludes on Sunday with Men’s Skateboard Park Final, MoonPay Women’s Skateboard Vert Best Trick, Dave Mirra BMX Park Best Trick, MoonPay Men’s Skateboard Vert Best Trick, Monster Energy Women’s SKB Street Best Trick, Women’s Skateboard Park Final, Men’s Skateboard Street and a Moto X demo.

Chiba Day One Competition Results:
  • Monster Energy Men’s BMX Street
    • Gold – Garrett Reynolds (XC SP), Toms River, NJ, USA
    • Silver – Jordan Godwin (Free Agent), Cardiff, Wales
    • Bronze – Devon Smillie (Free Agent) Suwanee, GA, USA
  • Stake Women’s BMX Park
    • Gold – Miharu Ozawa (XC Tokyo), Gifu, Japan
    • Silver – Hannah Roberts (XC NY), Buchanan, MI, USA
    • Bronze – Kim Mueller (Free Agent), Remscheid, Germany
  • Monster Energy Women’s Skateboard Street
    • Gold – Chloe Covell (XC NY), Tweed Heads, AUS
    • Silver – Coco Yoshizawa (XC Tokyo), Sagamihara, Japan
    • Bronze – Ibuki Matsumoto (XC SP), Kumamoto, Japan
  • MoonPay Women’s Skateboard Vert
    • Gold – Mizuho Hasegawa (XC Tokyo), Ibaraki, Japan
    • Silver – Mia Kretzer (XC LA), Baldivis, Australia
    • Bronze – Juno Matsuoka (Free Agent), Osaka, Japan
  • Monster Energy Men’s Skateboard Street Best Trick
    • Gold – Juni Kang (Free Agent), Yangsan, Korea
    • Silver – Filipe Mota (XC LA), Patos de Minas, Brazil
    • Bronze – Ginwoo Onodera (XC NY), Yokohama, Japan
  • Stake Men’s BMX Park
    • Gold – Marcus Christopher (XC LA), Hartville, OH, USA
    • Silver – Logan Martin (XC NY), Gold Coast, Australia 
    • Bronze – Rim Nakamura (XC Tokyo), Kyoto, Japan
  • MoonPay Men’s Skateboard Vert
    • Gold – Ema Kawakami (Free Agent), Kobe, Japan
    • Silver – Gui Khury (XC SP), Curitiba, Brazil
    • Bronze – Moto Shibata (XC Tokyo), Osaka, Japan
  • Moto X Best Trick
    • Gold – Rob Adelberg, Benalla, Australia
    • Silver – Jose Canosa, A Coruña, Spain
    • Bronze – Ben Richards, Wagga Wagga, Australia