Meet Sky Brown, the Olympic medal winner who has become Team GB s youngest at 13 13-year-old Sky Brown has become Team GB’s youngest Olympic medalist after claiming the bronze medal in the women’s skateboarding. Brown came back from two falls in the women’s skateboard park event at the Ariake Urban Arena in Tokyo. But the youngster absolutely nailed her third aattempt to score 56.47 and finish third behind Japanese favourites Sakura Yosozumi and Kokona Hiraki. Aged just 12, Hiraki duly eclipsed Brown to become the youngest Olympic medallist in 85 years. Favourite Misugu Okamoto fell on her final run and missed out on the podium.
By Press Association 2021
Great Britain’s Sky Brown celebrates winning the bronze medal during the Women’s Park Final at Ariake Sports Park on the twelfth day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Japan
Thirteen-year-old Sky Brown has become Great Britain’s youngest Olympic medallist after taking the bronze medal in the women’s skateboard park event at the Ariake Urban Arena in Tokyo.
In a remarkable finish, Brown kick flipped her way into the history books by posting a score of 56.47 in her third and final attempt to come in behind Sakura Yosozumi and her 12-year-old Japanese counterpart Kokona Hiraki.
Maybe you already know Sky Brown, have read or seen one of her interviews, maybe you saw her on Dancing With the Stars: Juniors, or you, or more likely your kid, are one of her million Instagram followers, or the millions more who have seen her viral videos. Maybe you already know what the rest of us are only just discovering, which is what a glorious thing it is to see her skate, a mind-boggling, eye-popping, head-spinning trip, a 45-second whirlwind of handplants, nose grinds, aerials, leaps, twists, spins, and flips. Itâs acrobatics at a hundred miles an hour. Brown is so wildly talented that it was immediately apparent, even to these blind eyes, that she would win a medal.
Meet Sky Brown, the Olympic medal winner who has become Team GB s youngest at 13 13-year-old Sky Brown has become Team GB’s youngest Olympic medalist after claiming the bronze medal in the women’s skateboarding. Brown came back from two falls in the women’s skateboard park event at the Ariake Urban Arena in Tokyo. But the youngster absolutely nailed her third aattempt to score 56.47 and finish third behind Japanese favourites Sakura Yosozumi and Kokona Hiraki. Aged just 12, Hiraki duly eclipsed Brown to become the youngest Olympic medallist in 85 years. Favourite Misugu Okamoto fell on her final run and missed out on the podium.
Team GB’s Hannah Mills has become the most successful female Olympic sailor in history after claiming gold with Eilidh McIntyre in Tokyo, while 13-year-old Sky Brown has become the country’s youngest medallist in the women’s skateboarding.
Mills took gold with McIntyre in the women’s 470 class and Brown claimed the bronze medal in the women’s skateboard park event at the Ariake Urban Arena.
Also, Ben Whittaker won Olympic silver after losing to Cuban Arlen Lopez in the men’s light-heavyweight boxing gold, while Frazer Clarke took bronze in the men’s super-heavyweight division after losing his semi-final against Uzbekistan’s Bakhodir Jalolov.