Sky Brown clinches skateboarding park bronze a week after dislocating her shoulder

Sky Brown sealed back-to-back Olympic skateboarding park bronze just one week after dislocating her shoulder.

The 16-year-old became Team GB's youngest-ever medallist with bronze at Tokyo 2020 and backed up her performance three years later with a second medal thanks to a score of 92.31.

Australia's Arisa Trew took home the gold with a score of 93.18 whilst Japan's Cocona Hiraki clinched silver with 92.63.

It wasn't an easy road to Paris for Brown, who tore her medial collateral ligament back in April and was forced to clinch her spot at a second Games in a last gasp attempt at the Olympic Qualifying Series in Budapest.

With a spot secured, all seemed to have fallen into place for the skateboarder.

That was until just one week before dropping in at the Place de Concorde in the French capital, it was revealed that she had dislocated her shoulder during training.

But there was no stopping the British skater who shook off her injury and bounced back to qualify for the final in sixth place and take a second Olympic medal at just 16-years-old.

"I feel like this made my story," she said.

"Having really hard times with injuries, missing one spot on events, not some fun times but I’m so happy just to be back on the Olympic stage, having the crowd cheer me on, cheering all of us on and really hyping us up was really cool.

"Getting back on the podium, I mean getting on the podium at all is just sick but I definitely wanted more."

Brown, who was crowned world champion last year, produced three medal winning runs in Paris, with an opening score of 80.57 placing her fourth.

A second run of 91.60 saw her rocket into silver medal position behind Hiraki before Trew laid down an incredible score of 93.18 to wrap up the title.

And with Brown pushing to upgrade her tricks in her final, her top score of 92.63 was enough to take home a second bronze.

Lola Tambling finished 15th in the preliminary round on her Olympic debut.

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