By Jake Harfurt For The Daily Mail
Published: 01:45 GMT, 14 March 2019 | Updated: 01:46 GMT, 14 March 2019
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A 10-year-old skateboarder is on track to become Britain’s youngest-ever summer Olympian at next year’s Tokyo Games.
Sky Brown is one of five athletes identified by Skateboard GB to be given special funding in the run-up to the Games.
She is already the youngest professional skateboarder in the world and has 300,000 followers watching her tricks on Instagram.
If Sky qualifies for Tokyo, she will be 12 years and 15 days old when the skateboarding competition begins in Japan.
The four-foot skater is also a professional surfer and made her catwalk debut in Paris last year
Videos of Sky Brown, 10, and her extraordinary skateboarding skills have been viewed more than 50 million times on YouTube
With and English father and Japanese mother Sky could have sought to compete for the host nation but to try to qualify for Team GB
That would beat the record set by swimmer Margery Hinton, who was aged 13 years and 14 days at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam.
Born in Japan to a British father and a Japanese mother, Sky – who became Nike’s youngest sponsorship signing at the age of eight – will need to be ranked in the world’s top 20 to compete in Tokyo.
In 2016, Sky became the youngest-ever competitor in the Vans United States Open Pro series, skating against women twice her height. Since then she has won competitions in Singapore, Sweden and Estonia.
She said: ‘I’m really looking forward to be given the chance to qualify for the Olympic Games.
