Sports Personality 2021: Sky Brown named Young Sports Personality of the Year
, making her Great Britain's youngest Olympic medallist of all time at the age of 13 years and 28 days.
She had already broken Margery Hinton's 93-year record as the youngest athlete to represent Team GB at a summer Games."I can't believe it, I'm so thankful," she said."I want to inspire the world, especially little girls, and teach them that skateboarding is for everyone.Brown, who has never had a professional coach and instead learns tricks from YouTube videos, also won gold in the women's skateboard park event at the Summer X Games in California in July.
Her 2021 successes came just over a year after she suffered a serious accident in training that left her "lucky to be alive". Brown fell from a ramp, fracturing her skull, breaking her left arm and wrist and suffering lacerations to her heart and lungs.
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