Sky Brown: Team GB Olympic bronze medallist in race to be for fit for Paris 2024 after suffering knee injury
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Published 16/05/2024 at 10:21 GMT
Sky Brown holds the record of being Great Britain's youngest ever medallist at an Olympic Games after winning bronze in the skateboard park event at Tokyo 2020. She is facing a fitness race to compete at this summer's Games in Paris after suffering a knee ligament tear but the 15-year-old has vowed to "come back stronger" in time to chase a gold medal in the French capital.
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Team Great Britain's Sky Brown is confident she will be “back stronger” at the Paris Olympics, despite currently being out of action with a knee injury.
The teenager suffered a medial collateral ligament tear in April, which has seen her ruled out of this weekend’s Olympic Qualifier Series in Shanghai.
At the age of 13, Brown became Team GB's youngest ever Olympic medal winner at Tokyo 2020 when she took bronze in the skateboard park event.
Despite still being just 15 years old, Brown has already amassed vast experience of competing at the highest level and is positive she will be ready to perform on the biggest stage this summer.
“Every injury I’ve had, I’ve come back stronger,” Brown told NBC.
“So this is just my time to really think about what I want to do next. It really puts a fire in my heart - it happens, it is part of life,” she said.
Brown is expected to be fit to return to the second OQS event in Budapest in June.
To qualify for the Olympics, skateboarders need to be inside the world’s top 20 at the end of that competition in Hungary.
Brown currently sits third in the rankings behind Japanese pair Hiraki Cocona and Kusaki Hinano.
The Paris Games begin on Friday, 26 July.
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