Skateboarding World Championships: Britain's Sky Brown wins park gold

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Sky Brown skateboardsSky Brown adds the satellite rubric to her Olympic bronze medal

Sky Brown has go Great Britain's archetypal skateboarding satellite champion astatine the property of 14.

Brown won golden successful parkland skateboarding astatine the World Championships successful Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, with a champion people of 90.83 from her 3 runs.

That enactment her much than 4 points up of Japan's Kokona Hiraki, with Olympic champion Sakura Yosozumi, besides from Japan, taking bronze.

"Being connected the podium with these guys again is truthful crazy," said Brown.

"It's conscionable been truly fun. I was trying to bask it arsenic overmuch arsenic I could.

"Landing each 3 of my runs was an astonishing feeling."

Brown became Great Britain's youngest Olympic medal victor of each clip erstwhile she won parkland bronze astatine the Tokyo 2020 Games.

The World Championships are the archetypal parkland qualifying lawsuit for the Paris Olympics adjacent year.

Brown's GB team-mate Lola Tambling, besides 14, finished successful sixth place.

Skateboarding was 1 of four caller sports added to the Olympics successful 2020, with skateboarding events held successful some 'park' and 'street' categories of the sport.

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