Athlete Information

• Name: Ayumi Kawasaki (Ayumi is pronounced "I-U Me")
• Age: 14
• Marital Status: Single
• Height: 5' 1"
• Weight: 103 lbs.
• Gender: Female
• Years in Inline Skating: Since 1993
• Competing Since: 1996
• Representing: Japan
• Home: Higashi - Osaka, Japan
• Born: July 27, 1984 Osaka, Japan
• Occupation: Pro Skater/Student

Accomplishment

• 1999 - Competing at the Summer X Games, San Francisco BIB: 205
• 1998 -

No 2 - Summer '98 X Games - AIL VERT
No 7 ?Summer '98 X Games ?VERT TRIPLES
No 6 - ASA World Championship Las Vegas, NV ?AIL STREET
No 1 - ASA World Championship Las Vegas, NV ?AIL VERT
No 3 - NISS, Venice Beach, CA ?AIL STREET
No 2 - NISS Nationals, Venice Beach, CA ?AIL VERT

• 1997 -

No 3 ?Summer '97 X Games ?AIL VERT
No 2 - ASA, Los Angeles, CA ?AIL VERT
No 2 - ISS, Amsterdam, Ned ?AIL VERT
No 1 - World Championships ?ASA ?Naples, Florida ?AIL VERT
No 2 - X Trials ?Orlando, Florida ?AIL VERT

• 1996 -

No 2 ?Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Ned ?AIL VERT
No 1 ?NISS Championships ?AIL VERT
No 1 ?NISS ?Venice Beach ?AIL VERT

Notable

• Ayumi and Fabiola are still the top two women to look out for at the '99 Summer X Games. Ayumi pulled off an incredible performance at the '97 X Games. The judges felt that her run was technically perfect but that she didn't use the full width of the ramp. She took the bronze medal.
• Ayumi is a junior high school student in Japan, wears a uniform to school and commutes about an hour to get to the skate park where she practices three to four hours a day after school.
• She keeps a low profile at her school. Most of her friends know that she skates but very few people at her school really know how good she is, or that she is world ranked.
• Ayumi mostly skates with guys in Japan because there are so few girls as good as she is. She first got into the sport because she saw a video and thought it looked cool.
• Her small size allows her to go very big in her airs. Where competitor Fabiola is powerful, Ayumi is light and mostly airborne when she skates. Her favorite trick is Mctwist 720.
• Ayumi sprained her ankle in 1998, but says she is fully recovered. Her favorite subject is PE and her favorite hobby is listening to music.

Future Goals

"I want to be the world champion in the world's biggest competition like (the) Olympic Games."