APIA Women Athletes to Follow on Team USA
Snowboarding, Surfing, Gymnastics: Here Are 14 APIA Women Athletes Repping Team USA Right Now
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Sakura Kokumai made headlines when she became the first American to qualify for the Olympics in karate. (The sport makes its Olympic debut in Tokyo this summer.) She competes in kata, a discipline in which athletes perform a series of precise and powerful movements in front of a panel of judges. The Hawaii native is currently ranked sixth in the world after earning gold at the 2019 Pan American Games!