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Cheers and hugs from friends, family, and classmates greeted Arisa Trew home to the Gold Coast from the Paris Olympics.
The skating prodigy says she plans to relax before heading back to school and the skate park.
What's next?
Promised a pet duck for her achievements by her parents, Trew says the new addition to the family is on the horizon but not for about a month.
Australia's youngest-ever Olympic gold medallist has been welcomed home to cheers from friends, family, and classmates.
Arisa Trew arrived in the iconic green-and-gold Australian uniform at Gold Coast Airport this afternoon — the last leg of her journey from the Paris Olympics.
The 14-year-old broke a 68-year-old record when she recorded a top-scoring run of 93.18 in the Skate Park Final at Place de la Concorde in central Paris.
Trew eclipsed the milestone by 98 days, toppling Australia's previous youngest medallist, swimmer Sandra Morgan who was 14 years and 184 days old when she won gold in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.
Trew was the youngest athlete on Australia's team in Paris and the nation's seventh-youngest Olympian in history.
Classmates from her school and training facility Level Up Skatepark joined her coach to embrace Trew as she walked through the arrival gates.
The skating prodigy said she planned to take some time to relax before heading back to school and the skate park.
"I'm really happy to be back on the Gold Coast, so I can see all my friends," she said.
Promised a pet duck for her achievements by her parents, Trew said the new addition to the family was on the horizon but not for about a month.
She explained she would love to see the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games take a page from Paris's book.
"I really liked the park in Paris because it was really fun and different and had features from all the qualifying events."
Both men and women's park skating Gold medallists hailed from the Gold Coast.
Keegan Palmer backed up his gold medal in the Tokyo Games with a score of 93.11.
For Trew, the secret to success lay in the same local skate park where both athletes cut their teeth.
"Both Keegan and I skate at Elanora and I think it challenges us to get better at skating and work hard," she said.