Arisa Trew: The Gold Coast Teen Who Became the World's Best Park Skater
Olympic gold, a 900 in competition, and a World Championship title before turning 17.
Arisa Trew is the most decorated young skateboarder Australia has ever produced. At 14 years old, she became the youngest person to win Olympic gold in skateboarding and the first woman to land a 900 in competition.
Arisa Trew, born 12 May 2010 in Cairns, Queensland, won Olympic gold at the 2024 Paris Games with a score of 93.18, took the World Championship title in Rome in 2023, and became the first woman to land a 900 in competition. She achieved all of it before turning 17.
Who Is Arisa Trew?
She's a Queensland-born park skater who came out of nowhere and then absolutely didn't. Anyone watching the Women's Park circuit from 2022 onwards knew something was coming. The progression was obvious. The technical level was unlike anything in the women's field at the time.
Arisa trains out of Rampfest Indoor Skate Park in Melbourne, which tells you something. She relocated to put herself in the right environment, around the right infrastructure. That kind of commitment at 13 or 14 years old is rare. It pays off. Clearly.
She's backed by Red Bull, which tends to find the right athletes before the rest of the world catches up.
The Rise: From the Gold Coast to the World Stage
Arisa started turning heads on the international Women's Park circuit in 2022. She was 14. The results weren't quite there yet in terms of gold medals, but the skating was already at a level that made judges and competitors pay attention.
2023 was when it became undeniable. She won gold at the World Skate World Championships in Rome, Italy, the biggest event outside the Olympics in skateboarding. Beating the likes of Misugu Okamoto, Sky Brown, and Kokona Hiraki - three of the best park skaters on the planet - to take that title was no accident.
She was 13 years old when she became World Champion.
Paris 2024: The Olympic Gold That Stopped the Country
The 2024 Paris Olympics Women's Park final is one of those runs you watch back and still can't fully process. Arisa put down a 93.18 on her first run. First run. That score held through the entire final and took gold. Cocona Hiraki took silver with 92.63, Sky Brown bronze with 92.31.
At 14 years and roughly two months old, she became the youngest skateboarder to win Olympic gold at the Paris Games. That record lands differently when you realise what the competition looked like. This wasn't a weak field. Brown, Okamoto, Hiraki - the best in the world were all there.
Australia had Poppy Starr Olsen flying the flag in park skating for years before Arisa arrived. The baton has been passed, and then some.
The 900 and the 720: Breaking Barriers No One Expected This Fast
Tony Hawk landed the first 900 in competition at the 1999 X Games. That was 25 years before Arisa Trew became the first woman to do it on 29 May 2024 in a vert skating session.
Let that sit for a second.
The 900 is two and a half rotations in the air. It's the trick that ended Hawk's X Games career on the highest possible note, the one the crowd waited all day for, the one that felt like it might never happen. It happened for Arisa at 16 years old, in the women's field, at the same event.
That's not just a milestone for women's skateboarding. It's a milestone for skateboarding full stop.
What Makes Her Skating Different
Park skateboarding rewards amplitude, technical tricks, and run composition. Arisa does all three at a level that's genuinely unusual. She gets height that most skaters at her age - male or female - don't generate on transition.
Her run composition is smart too. She doesn't just pile tricks in. There's flow between sections, a sense of the bowl as a full course rather than a collection of individual hits. That's the kind of awareness that comes from thousands of hours on a transition, not from natural talent alone.
The 900 is the headline. But it's the consistency across full competitive runs that makes her the best in the world right now.
Her Legacy at 16 Years Old
Arisa turned 16 in May 2026. She already has an Olympic gold medal, a World Championship title, X Games gold, and a landmark trick in her name. The conversation about her legacy is already happening, and she's not even through her late teens yet.
For Australian skateboarding, she sits alongside the best this country has sent to the world. The tradition of Australians punching above their weight in park skating - Poppy Starr Olsen, before her - continues in a bigger way than anyone expected this fast.
The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics will be a home games of sorts for the skate world. Arisa will be just 18. The trajectory from here is genuinely exciting to think about.
The Quick Version
- Arisa Trew was born 12 May 2010 in Cairns, Queensland
- She won Olympic gold at Paris 2024 with a score of 93.18, becoming the youngest Olympic skateboarding gold medallist
- She was World Champion in 2023 after winning gold in Rome, Italy
- She became the first woman to land a 900 in competition on 29 May 2024 in a vert skating session - 25 years after Tony Hawk's landmark first
- She trains at Rampfest in Melbourne and is sponsored by Red Bull
Frequently Asked Questions
How old was Arisa Trew when she won Olympic gold? She was 14 years old. She was born 12 May 2010 and won gold at the Paris 2024 Olympics, making her the youngest person to win Olympic gold in skateboarding at those Games.
Was Arisa Trew the first woman to land a 900? Yes. She landed the 900 on 29 May 2024 in a vert skating session, becoming the first woman to land the trick in competition. Tony Hawk was the first person overall to do it, at the 1999 X Games.
Where is Arisa Trew from? She was born in Cairns and grew up on the Gold Coast, Queensland. She trained at Rampfest Indoor Skate Park in Melbourne as she developed into an elite-level competitor.
What competition did Arisa Trew win in 2023? She won gold at the World Skate World Championships in Women's Park, held in Rome, Italy in 2023. She was 13 at the time.
Who does Arisa Trew skate for? She is sponsored by Red Bull. Her competition focus is Women's Park skateboarding under World Skate and Olympic competition formats.
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