- Arisa Trew is an Olympic Games champion
- Aussie teen, 14, won the skateboarding final
- She is her country’s youngest ever gold medallist
Arisa Trew is an Olympic Games champion after taking gold in the women’s skateboarding in Paris.
Her victory in Paris means she is the youngest gold medallist in Australian Olympic history, shattering Sandra Morgan’s record that has stood for 68 years.
Swimming legend Morgan was 14 years and six months old when she won gold at the 1956 Melbourne Games, while Trew is currently aged 14 years and three months.
‘What a final. What a moment. Talk about an absolute Hollywood finish. There’s our golden girl right there,’ said the commentary team on Nine.
‘Arisa Trew, you absolute champion. I’ll tell you what. Gold looks great on you, mate.’
The 14-year-old had to fight back from a nightmare start, falling on her first run, but responded with an incredible final effort which scored her an unassailable score of 93.18.
‘I’m just so excited,’ Trew told Nine. ‘It’s like just so many emotions at once.
Arisa Trew is an Olympic champion after winning gold in Paris on Tuesday
The skateboarder is now the youngest Olympic medallist in Australia’s history
Trew took the top prize with an impressive run which scored her 93.18
‘I fell on my first run and I was like, oh, it’s like just annoying when you fall on your first run because you always want like the first safety run.
‘But my coach was like, Trev, he was just like, you just got to go all out. And I was like, yep, I just like, who cares? I was just like all or nothing.’
Trew’s triumph takes Australia’s total gold medal haul to 14.
Fellow Australian skateboarder Ruby Trew, no relation to Arisa, failed to make the final.
Arisa Trew is the youngest on Australia’s team in Paris and the nation’s seventh-youngest Olympian in history.
Trew’s sensational final run reaped gold, with the Cairns-born skater moving up from the bronze medal position.
The gold medal for Trew, who started skateboarding seven years ago, follows her winning this year’s Laureus World Sports Award for Action Sportsperson of the Year.
Australia’s youngest Olympian is rower Ian Johnston, who was aged 13 years and 75 days old when he competed in coxed fours at the 1960 Rome Games.
