WST World Cup Rome Street was nothing if not full of surprises, with normally ultra-reliable back-to-back World Champion Toa Sasaki only completing one each of three Runs and Best Tricks while Paris Olympic gold medalist Coco Yoshizawa could complete neither; the Men’s finals saw only two scores north of 90 points while Chloe Covell won her finals by the largest margin ever. Let’s see what impact all that upheaval had on the World Skateboarding Ranking leaderboard!

All photos: Kenji Haruta

USA's Paige Heyn switches up the leaderboard to advance 6 places to 12th

Paige’s 4th place at WST Rome is her best result since she came 3rd at WST Lausanne back in 2023- and couldn’t have come at a better time for the US in Women’s Street. With the Olympic Games headed to Los Angeles the summer after next, Paige is currently the only American in the WSR top 20 in Street.

Cometh the hour, cometh the switchstance Wonder-Woman!

Brazil's Gabriela Mazetto continues to impress, moving up two spots to 17th

Although Gabi has had better results on the World Skateboarding Tour (she made finals twice back in 2023), the highest-placed semifinalist looked sharper than ever as her return from a year out in 2025 gathers pace.

As a mother she has more responsibilities and external obligations than most of her competitors, but her gymnastic background keeps her in the mix while others fell by the wayside!

Japan's Ria Tanno puts down an early marker in her WST career

Another Japanese debut which will give their National team coaches selection headaches down the line. As things stand there are already 9 Japanese women inside the top 30, but even with that said a mid-table semifinals result in your first outing on the World Skateboarding Tour begs the question of where do the Japanese coaches keep finding these rippers from?

China's Chenxi Cui moves into 3rd courtesy of her first podium placing

Remarkably, given that this was here 8th-straight finals since the 2023 Tokyo World Championship, this was Chenxi’s first podium placement on the WST to date. Always productive in Best Trick sections, the format switch from 2/5/3 to 3/3/2 (run attempts/trick attempts/ combined score) has forced her to work on her Run game, and this result demonstrates how she has done just that. Looked more relaxed and assured than ever before, which might just make all the difference going forward.

Julian Agliardi flies the flag for USA to claim 23rd position

Making his US team debut as the 2028 Olympic home nation seeks to bolster its chances in front of the world’s cameras in Los Angeles, Julian came a commendable 7th place in his first WST finals. In truth, he was already out of podium contention by the end of the Run phase- but the highest-scoring Best Trick in Men’s Street may retrospectively be seen as a declaration of intent as the Road To LA winds onward.

Juampi Mateos leaps 34 places into 31st

Every stop on the World Skateboarding Tour, you secretly hope that one of what you might think of as the ‘bubbling under’ skateboarders finally gets some luck and in Rome, for Argentina’s Juan Pablo ‘Juampi’ Mateos he finally did. Like compatriot Mauro Iglesias, he is clearly super-talented, but hitherto Juampi had never made it beyond Open Qualification despite three previous attempts in three years. Naturally, we would have liked to have had a shot at the finals but 10th place against the world’s elite is no small thing- especially when you see the big names who littered the roadside up to that point.

Yakov Terrell moves up 15 places to 32nd position

In almost a carbon-copy of the Juampi Mateos story, the teenager from Jerusalem had up until now never progressed beyond quarterfinals stages on the World Skateboarding Tour- and even then, only twice, and of those two times one was just barely. Nothing to do with ability, just the treacherous mercurial nature of making everything gel during showtime.

Well, this time it did for Yakov- and both he and coach Avi Luzia looked well pleased with the outcome.

Jagger Eaton slides to 30th on the World Skateboarding Ranking

All told, Men’s Street quarterfinals saw many established names come up short of their own intended trajectories at WST Rome. However, you suspect that not for all of them will it prove a turning point. 29th place might be Jagger’s lowest WST result to date, but for the supernaturally-talented ATV (he won OQS Shanghai 2024 in Street AND was the 2022 Park World Champion, a-thank you) one gets the feeling that this will be remembered as an eye-of-the-tiger, mega lock-in moment for the Arizonan double Olympic medalist with desire in spades. Watch this space!

‘Firas’ Kirin Petkiree shows a real flash of potential to move into 64th

Quarterfinal finishes are not normally something about which to let the horns blow, but a 28th-place for Thai youngster Firas Kirin was a herald moment. The youngest competitor in his field and a protege of legend Kenny Reed, Kiras has the potential to be a generational talent among a wider Asian skateboarding movement which is beginning to move out of the shadows of Japanese domination. Remember where you heard the name first.