SLS Rio 2026: 0.6 Points in It — the Title Came Down to the Very Last Trick

On Sunday, August 9, SLS rolled its obstacles into the Maracanãzinho for stop number three of the season. On the men’s side, Cordano Russell took the win with 27.5, ahead of Giovanni Vianna (26.9) and Wallace Gabriel (24.5). On the women’s side, Rayssa Leal edged out Momiji Nishiya by 0.2 points. The men’s title got decided on the very last trick of the day — and not the way anyone saw it going.

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The men’s podium: 0.6 points between first and second

Eight finalists, five Brazilians among them, a building fully behind them. And it’s a Canadian who walks away with the trophy. Cordano Russell, 22 years old, 6-foot-3 — a frame street skating almost never produces — closed out his day at 27.5. Giovanni Vianna finished at 26.9. Zero point six. Wallace Gabriel, up out of the wildcard jam, rounded out the podium at 24.5 with a 9 on his final attempt.

• 1. Cordano Russell27.5

  Canada — highest score of the contest (9.3) on his final trick

• 2. Giovanni Vianna26.9

  Brazil — a 9.1 then a 9.2 late in the final, took the lead on the second-to-last trick

• 3. Wallace Gabriel24.5

  Brazil — came through the wildcard jam, held the lead for part of the final

• 4. Abner Pietro22.6

  Brazil — the other wildcard jam qualifier

• 5. Ginwoo Onodera18.2

  Japan — never found his rhythm in the Maracanãzinho

• 6. Lucas Rabelo15.9

  Brazil

• 7. Julian Agliardi14.8

  United States

• 8. Ivan Monteiro7.8

  Brazil — a night to forget, only one trick landed for a big score

On the women’s side: 20.9 to 20.7, decided over the last two attempts

Rayssa Leal fell on her first attempt. Then she stacked a 6.8 and a 7.1 and clawed her way back into it. It was Momiji Nishiya who posted the biggest women’s score of the day — 8.7 — and snatched the lead from her. The Brazilian moved back in front on her last two tries, including a 7.0 on trick six, and closed at 20.9. Nishiya finished at 20.7. Two tenths.

• 1. Rayssa Leal20.9

  Brazil — 2nd win of the season after the Australian stop in February

• 2. Momiji Nishiya20.7

  Japan — 2021 Olympic champion, best women’s score of the contest (8.7)

• 3. Daniela Terol17.7

  Spain — the only European on a podium all weekend

• 4. Gabi Mazetto14.8

  Brazil — the only mom in the world top 20

• 5. Funa Nakayama7.5

  Japan — first to land a trick, never got going again after that

The last trick: Vianna in the lead, then a 9.3, then the fall

Here’s the sequence, in order. Wallace Gabriel stomped his early attempts and held the lead for a while. Then the 9 Club scores started dropping, and Cordano Russell landed the most of them — including a 9.2 midway through the final. Giovanni Vianna, meanwhile, blew his opening tries and found himself needing to make it all back in three attempts. He pulled a 9.1. Then a 9.2 on trick six. He moved into the lead. One trick left in the day.

Russell had one last attempt to take the trophy back. He put down a 9.3 — the highest score of the entire contest, men and women combined. Vianna dropped in after him, the whole Maracanãzinho on its feet, and he fell. End of story. The Brazilian didn’t look for excuses on the mic: “The perfect plan didn’t start well, but I’m really happy I landed the tricks after that. Cordano deserves it. He’s an incredible guy. He skated better than me, that’s for sure, and that’s why he’s leaving with the trophy.”

The Spot Takeover format: 7 tricks, no runs, no safety net

No runs, no lines. In Spot Takeover, every rider gets seven attempts on standalone tricks, one at a time, and the total is what counts. The circuit’s other format, the Arena, keeps the runs. The consequence is brutal and you could see it on Sunday: with no run to cushion the score, a rider who misses three in a row has no way back. Ivan Monteiro finished at 7.8. Funa Nakayama at 7.5. These aren’t bad skaters — it’s the format that shows no mercy.

And that’s exactly what made the end of the final so tense. When everything rides on a single trick, there’s no plan B: you send it or you lose. You could feel it in the stands — the arena was packed, the Maracanãzinho echoes like a drum, and on Vianna’s sixth trick the whole building stood up thinking it was done and dusted. Two minutes later, silence. We’d billed this stop as the big Brazilian date of the summer — it delivered, and not just on paper.

On a less happy note: during warm-up for the women’s final, Japan’s Aoi Uemura went down hard and hit the back of her head on the ground. She left the course in a wheelchair, in tears, and couldn’t compete. Scans showed no bleeding and no fracture.

Rayssa Leal: an injection, a twisted foot, and a title for her dad

The day before, she’d twisted her right foot in practice and limped off the course. She said afterwards that she’d been scared, gone through therapy and taken an injection just to be able to skate on Sunday. That’s no small detail: in a format where you only get seven attempts, you can’t afford to sit half of them out.

“Yesterday I wasn’t skating very well. Today I skated everything I could skate,” she said on the course. Then she dedicated the trophy to her family back home in Imperatriz, and to her father Haroldo — it was Sunday, Father’s Day in Brazil. A detail the crowd savored: Rio is where she skated her very first SLS stop, back in January 2019. She was 11. If you want the full trajectory, we told it in her profile.

What it means for the season: Tempe on August 29, São Paulo in December

We’re at the halfway mark — six stops in total before the Super Crown, going down in São Paulo in December to crown the year’s champions. With two wins in three stops, Rayssa Leal is sitting pretty to lock in her ticket. On the men’s side, Russell banks a big stack of points at the best possible time.

The qualifying math is simple: for the men, SLS will take the top 8 in the Takeover rankings and the top 12 in the Arena rankings — 20 spots. For the women, the Arena top 8 and the Takeover top 4. Every stop counts double for anyone skating only one of the two formats. Next stop: Tempe, Arizona, on August 29, again in Spot Takeover. And still not a single French skater on the start list, which is starting to raise a real question about the French season.

Russell’s 9.3 on the last trick — earned, or overscored next to Vianna’s 9.2? Drop it in the comments ↓

If you want to follow the rest of the tour, we cover every stop in our events coverage on nosk8.com.

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