Arisa Trew was born in 2010. By winning gold in Paris, she just beat a 68-year-old record, set when a 14-year-old won a swimming relay with Dawn Fraser.
Arisa Trew’s bestie summed it up. The run that made the 14-year-old skateboarder Australia’s youngest ever gold medallist was extraordinary. “Everything was pretty much a banger,” said Finnish-Australian skater Heili Sirvio, 13. “It was like, banger, banger, banger.”
“I just couldn’t believe it, when I knew I was the winner of the Olympics and this, like, being my first Olympics – it was just insane,” Trew said. “Like, I thought maybe I could do it and when I did that run I knew I could do it.“When I saw the score I thought, what, that’s crazy. I got told by a few people that I’m Australia’s youngest ever gold medallist, which is pretty insane and really cool because that’s who I’m representing. I’m so excited.
But she was lacklustre in the preliminaries in Paris. She had three runs to try to make the top eight, and crashed in two of them. It was lucky that a few other top skaters also crashed, allowing the score from the one run she landed to get her into sixth spot.The skaters are used to big competitions, but this was of a scale even many adult athletes at these Games have never experienced.
The crowd gasped plenty at the skaters’ theatrics on Wednesday morning AEST, but this was the only time they stamped their feet. She scored a whopping 93.18. The gold was hers. Trew trains at the Gold Coast’s Level Up academy run by Trev Ward, a former top ten professional skater from the 2000s era who trains BMX riders, skateboarders and scooter riders. They study in the morning and skate in the afternoon.
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