Skateboarder Chloe Covell is getting ready for the Paris Olympics at an age when most athletes nonetheless solely have the Video games as a distant dream.
The 12-year-old Australian has once more proven she is a star of her sport, profitable silver on the world championships in Sharjah.
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She was the one medallist among the many 5 Australian skate boarders competing on the road world titles.
Final 12 months, at simply 11, Covell gained silver and bronze on the world X-Video games.
Now she has earned rating factors in the direction of qualifying for subsequent 12 months’s Paris Video games.
Covell accomplished her two runs within the eight-competitor ladies’s last to attain 253.5 factors, simply 2.07 behind Brazilian winner and Tokyo Olympics silver medalist Rayssa Leal.
Leal was solely 13 when she made the rostrum two years in the past at skateboarding’s Olympic debut.
The winner, Japan’s Momiji Nishiya, was the third-youngest gold medalist in Summer time Video games historical past at 13 years and 330 days.
Liv Lovelace was the next-best Australian in 10th on the worlds, with Haylie Powell 14th and Flic Turner 20th.
Talking to the Olympic Channel after the finals, Covell mirrored positively on her silver medal.
“I am very excited and really grateful. I get to skate for my nation and it means quite a bit to me,” the Queensland Academy of Sport athlete mentioned.
“I used to be slightly bit scared after I crossed out the primary trick as a result of I knew I wanted to get a minimum of two of my greatest tips and I did that.
“I’m very happy with the criminal nollie flip that I did. I have been working towards that each one week.”
New South Wales teenager Rome Collyer took 20th within the males’s occasion.
