Nationality: | Australian |
Birth Date: | 1 June 2000 |
Birth Place: | Sydney, Australia |
Occupation: | Professional skateboarder |
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Country: | Australia |
Sport: | Skateboarding |
Position: | Regular-footed |
Rank: | 4th (June 2021)[1] |
Event: | Park, bowl |
Olympics: | 2020 Summer Olympics: Women's park – 5th |
Poppy Starr Olsen (born 1 June 2000) is an Australian regular-footed professional skateboarder.
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] She competed in the Skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's park. She came sixth in the Preliminary Heats and therefore competed in the final. She finished fifth.[7] Full details are in Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics.