- Youngster set to become Britain’s youngest summer Olympian
- Brown will be 12 years old at start of Tokyo Games in 2020
She’s already the world’s youngest professional skateboarder, with an Instagram following of 300,000 hanging on her every video, from leaping off buses to 720 spins. Now Sky Brown, a 10-year-old from Japan, is set to become Britain’s youngest ever competitor at a summer Olympics after switching her allegiance to the UK.
If Brown qualifies for the Tokyo 2020 Games, and insiders at Skateboard GB believe it is highly likely, she will be just 12 years and 15 days on the opening day of the skateboarding event. That would eclipse the longstanding British record of Margery Hinton, who was 13 years and 43 days when she competed in the 200m breaststroke back at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.
Written by Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/mar/13/sky-brown-10-year-old-skateboarder-set-to-compete-for-team-gb-at-olympics under the title “Sky Brown: 10-year-old skateboarder set to compete for Team GB at Olympics”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
