PARIS (Reuters) -Arisa Trew won gold in women’s park skateboarding at the Paris Games on Tuesday to become the first Australian woman to win a skateboarding medal at the Olympics.
The 14-year-old saved her best for last, delivering a gutsy and precise performance on her third and final run and was rewarded with a huge score of 93.18 on a sunsoaked day at La Concorde.
Japan’s Cocona Hiraki won silver and Britain’s Sky Brown took bronze. Hiraki also won silver and Brown bronze at the competition at the Tokyo Games three years ago.
A new champion was guaranteed after Tokyo gold medalist Sakura Yosozumi failed to qualify for the final during preliminary rounds, which were held earlier in the day.
(Reporting by Rory Carroll in ParisEditing by Toby Davis)
