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Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Sydney, 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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Olympic finals | 2020 Summer Olympics: Women's park – 5th | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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