Poppy Starr Olsen
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Nationality | Australian | |||||||||||||
Born | Newcastle, Australia | 1 June 2000|||||||||||||
Occupation | Professional skateboarder | |||||||||||||
Website | poppystarr.com | |||||||||||||
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Country | Australia | |||||||||||||
Sport | Skateboarding | |||||||||||||
Position | Regular-footed | |||||||||||||
Rank | 4th (June 2021)[1] | |||||||||||||
Event(s) | Park, bowl | |||||||||||||
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Regional finals |
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National finals |
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Olympic finals | 2020 Summer Olympics: Women's park – 5th | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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Poppy Starr Olsen (born 1 June 2000) is an Australian regular-footed professional skateboarder.
Skateboarding career[]
Olsen became world champion in the over-14 age group in 2014 and in the over-15 age group in 2015.[2][3] In 2016, she won the professional division of the Vans Combi Classic and became the first female Australian to compete in the Summer X Games.[4]
Olsen qualified for and competed in the X Games Minneapolis 2017, taking out a bronze medal in women's park.[5]
In July 2021, Olsen was named as part of Australia's inaugural Olympic skateboarding team to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[6]
References[]
- ^ "Olympic World Skateboarding Rankings – Park, Female". World Skate. 30 June 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ Patterson, Robbie (11 December 2014). "Poppy Olsen named skateboarding world champ". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Moran, Jonathon (9 December 2015). "Skate star Poppy is on a roll". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Valentine, Renee (13 June 2016). "Poppy standing tall". Newcastle Herald. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "X Games Minneapolis 2017 – Women's Skateboard Park". X Games. 15 July 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Travers, Brianna (2 July 2021). "Olympics 2021: Australia names inaugural skateboarding team". Herald Sun. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
External links[]
- Poppy Starr Olsen at Olympedia
- Poppy Starr Olsen at The Boardr
- Poppy Starr Olsen at the X Games
- The blurred lines of art and skateboarding | Poppy Starr Olsen (2014) (Video) at TEDx Talks on YouTube
- Poppy Starr Olsen wins Women's Skateboard Park bronze at X Games Minneapolis 2017 (Video) at YouTube
Categories:
- 2000 births
- Living people
- Australian skateboarders
- Female skateboarders
- LGBT skateboarders
- X Games athletes
- Olympic skateboarders of Australia
- Skateboarders at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Australian sportspeople stubs
- Skateboarding biography stubs