15-year-old hoped to qualify for second sport at Paris 2024Brown is the reigning world champion in park skateboarding
Sky Brown’s Olympic surfing dreams are over after she failed to qualify for Paris 2024 at the ISA World Surfing Games in Puerto Rico. The 15-year-old was hoping to represent Team GB in both surfing and skateboarding at this summer’s Games in the French capital.
But her quest for qualification in the former was extinguished by a third-placed finish in the sixth repechage on Friday, behind 14-year-old Chinese surfer Yang Siqi and Janire Gonzalez-Etxabarri of Spain. She registered scores of 4.53 and 4.33 from her two best attempts for a combined total of 8.86 in the waters off Arecibo.