Olympic medal-winning skateboarder Sky Brown has been named BBC Younger Sports activities Persona of the Yr 2021.
She had already damaged Margery Hinton’s 93-year report because the youngest athlete to characterize Group GB at a summer time Video games.
Brown edged out England footballer Jude Bellingham and Para-swimmer Ellie Challis to the award.
“I can not consider it, I am so grateful,” she stated.
“I simply wish to make Britain proud as a lot as I can, and I did.
“I wish to encourage the world, particularly little ladies, and train them that skateboarding is for everybody.
“In case you consider in your self you are able to do something.”
Brown, who has by no means had an expert coach and as an alternative learns methods from YouTube movies, additionally gained gold within the girls’s skateboard park occasion on the Summer season X Video games in California in July.
Her 2021 successes got here simply over a yr after she suffered a critical accident in coaching that left her “fortunate to be alive”.
Brown fell from a ramp, fracturing her cranium, breaking her left arm and wrist and struggling lacerations to her coronary heart and lungs.
