Skateboarder, footballer and para-swimmer on award shortlistWinner will be revealed during
BBC broadcast on SundaySky Brown, the 13-year-old skateboarder who became Great Britain’s youngest Olympic medallist of all time at the Tokyo Games this summer, has been named on the three-strong shortlist for the BBC’s young sports personality of the year award. The other two candidates are the 18-year-old
England footballer Jude Bellingham and the para-swimmer Ellie Challis, 17.
Brown claimed bronze in the women’s park skateboarding final at Tokyo at the age of 13 years and 28 days. The teenager had already broken Margery Hinton’s record, which had stood for 93 years, as the youngest athlete to represent Team GB at a summer Games. 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.