Skateboarding royalty Tony Hawk has heaped reward on Australian teen Arisa Trew, who turned the primary girl to land a 900-degree spin in a half-pipe.
“Arisa Trew simply turned the primary feminine to land a 900,” Hawk wrote to his 8.8 million Instagram followers, accompanied by a video of Trew nailing the touchdown.
“Glass ceilings are so 2023. Congrats.”
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The 900 consists of spinning two-and-a-half occasions within the air on a skateboard.
Trew wrote on Hawk’s put up: “Thanks a lot Tony! Your (sic) an inspiration”.
She additionally posted the footage on her Instagram web page, calling it “A dream come true”.
No stranger to setting vert-skating information, Trew was the primary girl to land a 720 — consisting of two full rotations — in competitors aged 13.
She did that at Hawk’s Vert Alert, in Utah, and repeated the trick finally yr’s X-Video games, the place she got here away with Vert skating gold.
It was a transfer that noticed the Aussie named motion sportsperson of the yr on the Laureus World Sports activities Awards.
Vert skating will not be an occasion on the Olympics.
Trew is aiming to make the Australian Olympic workforce for Paris 2024, and did her ambitions no hurt in any respect by successful the park last on the Shanghai Olympic Qualifier collection.
The second leg of the Olympic Qualifier collection is about for Budapest on June 20-23, the place one other robust efficiency will seal Trew’s spot in Paris.
“In Budapest, I’m going to do my finest and land some stable runs and have heaps of enjoyable,” Trew mentioned.
“Hopefully I can get into the ultimate and possibly one other podium there, which might be tremendous cool, however I am actually simply excited to compete there.”
The highest 20 athletes per self-discipline after the Olympic Qualifier Collection, with a most of three athletes per nation, will likely be eligible for choice for the Paris Olympic Video games.
Australia will be capable of take a complete of 12 athletes from inside the high 20 (three per self-discipline, per gender).
Trew is at present sitting in second place within the Ladies’s Park Olympic Rankings.
The skateboarding competitors in Paris will happen on the Place de la Concorde, with the prelims going down on August 6.
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