Arisa Trew

Arisa Trew is an Australian skateboarder, born on 12 May 2010 in Cairns, Queensland, to a Japanese mother, Aiko, and a Welsh father, Simon, and raised on the Gold Coast from the age of two. She started skateboarding at seven. At 14 she won the gold medal in the women's park event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, making her Australia's youngest ever Olympic champion. She was the first woman to land a 720 in competition, at Tony Hawk's Vert Alert in Salt Lake City on 23 June 2023, and the first to land a 900, in a half-pipe on 29 May 2024. She won the women's vert and park golds at the X Games in 2023 and again in 2024, and received the Laureus World Sports Award for Action Sportsperson of the Year in April 2024.