Nyjah Huston Wins SLS in Chicago

Nyjah Huston is one step closer to his third Nike SB Street League overall championship, as the 19-year-old skateboarding star beat out the competition to win the 2014 SLS opener in Chicago, Ill., on Sunday.

The SLS Nike SB World Tour began with a qualification event in May, where Huston also scored a first place finish. But on Sunday at the UIC Pavilion, Huston battled with the Australian-born Shane O’Neill on a course designed without handrails that was expected to favor other riders.

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– just enough to keep his control section average above his competitors for the win. He took to Twitter to show off his trophy and congratulate the other riders.

While Huston won the $100,000 prize for finishing first in Chicago, the athletes are looking ahead to the next event in Los Angeles on July 27 and then to the conclusion of the Tour in August at the SLS Super Crown event in Newark, New Jersey. The final purse is the largest in skate history: more than $1 million.