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Photograph: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Sky Brown won bronze for Team GB in the inaugural skateboard park final at Ariake Urban Sports Park in Tokyo. Photograph: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images PA Media Wed 4 Aug 2021 00.40 EDT Sky Brown has been crowned Great Britain’s youngest Olympic medallist after claiming bronze in the women’s skateboard park event at the Ariake Urban Arena in Tokyo. After falling in her first two runs of the final, the 13-year-old nailed her last attempt with a score of 56.47 to finish behind the Japanese pair Sakura Yosozumi and Kokona Hiraki. Aged just 12, Hiraki duly eclipsed Brown to become the youngest Olympic medallist in 85 years. The favourite, Misugu Okamoto, fell on her final run and missed out on the podium. Alice Dearing makes history but Team GB’s first female black swimmer leaves ‘broken’ Read more Brown’s achievement is all the more remarkable for the fractured skull and broken bones she suffered during an horrific fall in training last year. Brown posted a video clip of the fall on her Instagram account, which has approaching one million followers, along with the message: “I’m excited to come back even stronger and even tougher. My heart wants to go so hard right now.” Brown, who was born in Miyazaki, Japan, to a Japanese mother and British father, competed at the US Open in 2016 at the age of eight and first elected to compete for Great Britain in 2018. She arrived with plenty of profile, having won the US version of Dancing With The Stars: Juniors in 2018, and expressed her ambition to achieve the almost unprecedented feat of competing in two sports – skateboarding and surfing – at the Games, something from which she was subsequently dissuaded. In 2019, Brown finished third at the World Skateboarding Championship, and the following year she effectively secured her Olympic qualification by picking up a bronze medal at the Park World Championships in São Paulo, Brazil. Last month, she warmed up for the Games by winning gold in the prestigious X Games, although neither of her key Olympic challengers, Okamoto and Hiraki, were present. Sky Brown in action on her way to bronze. Photograph: Adam Davy/PA Hiraki was first up of the major contenders in qualifying amid the hottest day of the Games so far, with the temperature tipping 32 degrees with 90% humidity. The 12-year-old’s best score from three runs, 52.46, was comfortably surpassed twice by Brown, with the Briton recording a best of 57.40 before Okamoto, the 15-year-old reigning world champion, laid down her mark with a leading 58.51. Another Japanese skater, Yosozumi, raised the level in the final with a first run of 60.09, which would ultimately prove enough to give her the gold medal, while 12-year-old Hiraki posted an imposing 59.04. Sign up for our Tokyo 2020 briefing with all the news, views and previews for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Brown and Okamoto struggled with a trick known as the kick flip indy, leaving both facing the prospect of having to go clean on their respective final routines to reach the podium. Brown stepped up when it mattered, her third score nudging her to bronze before another fall by Okamoto confirmed the Briton’s historic medal. This article was downloaded by calibre from https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/aug/04/sky-brown-13-becomes-britains- youngest-olympic-medallist-with-skateboard-bronze | Section menu | Main menu | | Next | Section menu | Main menu | Previous | Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo 2020 Olympics: GB sailing gold, world record for Sydney McLaughlin and more – live! 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Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre celebrate winning Team GB’s final sailing gold at Tokyo 2020. Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters Suzanne Wrack at Enoshima Yacht Harbour @SuzyWrack Wed 4 Aug 2021 03.25 EDT Hannah Mills became the most successful female Olympic sailor of all time after the reigning champion and Eilidh McIntrye clinched the final sailing gold of the Tokyo Games in the women’s 470. The greatest race ever part II: Sydney McLaughlin wins 400m hurdles gold in world record time Read more The 33-year-old Mills had said that she and McIntyre, whose father Mike won gold in Seoul in 1988 in the Star class, were “feeling sick with nerves” as the final race approached. They quickly fell in behind race leaders Switzerland and remained second going into the final leg. They dropped down to fifth after rounding the final buoy but had done enough to extend their lead at the top to 16 points. Mills and McIntype secured seven top-three finishes in their 10 races prior to the double point medal race to give themselves a healthy 14-point lead over French duo Camille Lecointre and Aloise Retornaz. Mills, who was a flag-bearer for Team GB during the opening ceremony alongside rower Mohamed Sbihi, won a silver medal in London 2012 and then gold in Rio in 2016 before then partner Saskia Clarke retired from Olympic racing. She and the 27-year-old McIntyre began sailing as a pair in 2017 and won the World Cup Series in Spain’s Santander in their first race together. The gold puts Team GB clear of Australia at the top of the sailing medal table with three golds, one silver and one bronze and is their second most successful sailing medal haul behind Beijing 2008 where they secured four golds, one silver and one bronze.