Every year in which they are held, the Olympic Games deliver storylines of first-time Olympic athletes becoming champions.

The latest is Australian women's skateboarder Arisa Trew.

In the women's park skateboarding final at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Tuesday, the first-time Olympian made history by becoming the youngest Australian Olympian to win gold, at the age of 14 years, two months and 26 days. It is also the first time an Australian woman skateboarder won gold in the sport at the Olympics, as the sport made its debut at the Tokyo Olympics.

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In her route to win gold, Trew had to overcome some adversity after falling in her first run. Trew scored a 93.18 in her final run to move past Japan's Cocona Hiraki and Great Britain's Sky Brown. Here's what to know about Trew as she made Olympic history on Tuesday:

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Trew made her Olympic Games debut at the 2024 Paris Olympics as a member of Australia's skateboarding team.

As noted by Olympics.com, the 14-year-old Aussie had her breakout moment on the global stage in skateboarding in 2023, when she became the first female athlete to land a 720 trick. She followed up that feat in May by becoming the first woman to land a 900-degree spin — which consists of spinning two-and-a-half times in the air — on the half pipe. Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk was the first skateboarder to land the move.

She also competes in the X Games, where last year she surpassed Shaun White as the youngest skateboarder to win two gold medals at one X Games. Trew, who won gold in skateboarding park and skateboarding vert, was 13 years and 2 months old — three years and two months younger than White was when he achieved the feat.

Per NBCOlympics.com, Trew's final run Tuesday at the Paris Games featured a 360 spin, a McTwist, a Body Varial 540, a Kickflip Indy, a Switch Melon Grab and a Noseblunt. She finished ahead of Hiraki by .55 points for gold, giving Hiraki her second consecutive silver medal in the event at the Olympics.

With a gold medal finish — Australia's 14th of the Paris Games — Trew also became the youngest medalist at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Trew is 14 years, two months and 26 days old. She was born on May 12, 2010.

As noted by Olympics.com, Trew is the seventh-youngest Australian Olympian and the youngest in 40 years to compete at the Olympics, when Dimity Douglas competed at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics in swimming at the age of 14 years, 27 days old.

Australia’s Arisa Trew scored a 93.18 on her final run to win gold in women’s park skateboarding Tuesday at the Paris Olympics.

The 14-year-old Trew was in third place before she executed a superb third run, highlighted by a 540 — a trick with 1½ rotations in midair — to vault into first.

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Japan’s Cocona Hiraki was in front through two rounds after scoring a 91.98 on her first run, but she had dropped to third going into her final chance. The 15-year-old responded with her best run of the day, a performance that had the crowd oohing with each of her completed tricks, to post a 92.63 and earn her second silver medal.

Hiraki was just 12 when she won silver when the sport debuted at the Tokyo Olympics.

Hiraki edged Britain’s Sky Brown, who earned a 92.31 on her third run to take bronze for the second Olympic medal for the 16-year-old. She became the country’s youngest medal winner in Tokyo when she also won bronze in the event at 13 years, 28 days old.

Brazil’s Dora Varella finished fourth at 89.14, and Heili Sirvio of Finland was fifth at 88.89.

American Bryce Wettstein, who blew bubbles as she was introduced and strummed a ukulele between runs, was sixth at 88.12.

Tokyo gold medalist Japan’s Sakura Yosozumi, who is 22, did not qualify for the finals after posting a best score of 79.70 in the prelims to finish 10th.

“The feelings I had this time were different,” she said. “There were a lot of spectators, and I really wanted to defend my title. I was more nervous than last time, which affected my performance. My body didn’t move as I wanted, and I couldn’t do everything I planned.”

China’s Haohao Zheng finished 18th out of 22 skateboarders with a score of 63.19. At 11 years old, Zheng is the youngest athlete in the Paris Games and the youngest athlete ever to compete for China in the Olympics.

She said she wasn’t too nervous entering the competition, but that being the youngest competitor out there was a bit daunting.

“I’m quite scared of colliding with the other skaters because I feel smaller, and I could easily get pushed out,” she said. “I’m just trying my best to survive out there.”

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PARIS — They ranged in age from a chipper 13 to an ancient 23, the finalists in the women’s park skateboarding event, and before the competition began, they danced with the enthusiasm of youth. But once they dropped into the bowl, the smiles ended. When it was all done, 14-year-old Arisa Trew of Australia captured gold, with Japan's Cocona Hiraki winning silver and Great Britain's Sky Brown taking bronze. Team USA's Bryce Wettstein finished sixth of the eighth finalists.

The heat wasn’t quite as scorching as the early days of the Olympics, but the sun beat down from a nearly cloudless sky and kept competitors and coaches tucked up under the umbrellas beside the bowl. The audience, which included skateboarding legend Tony Hawk, lathered up sunscreen and hydrated as much as possible in the late-summer sunshine.

The format for the final grants each rider three 45-second runs to pull off as many tricks as possible in the vast Parc Urbain bowl in Paris’ famed Place de la Concorde. Olympic planners granted women’s park a prime slot — 5:30 p.m. in the afternoon — and the riders responded.

Brazil’s Dora Varella put the first stake in the ground, debuting with an 85.06 in her first heat. The next five riders came off their boards in the course of their routines, and Varella’s mark would stand for six riders, right up until Wettstein threw down a magnificent 88.12 in the penultimate run of the first round. Hiraki came over the top with a spectacular run of her own to end the first round and claim the lead with a score of 91.99.

Varella couldn’t stick a heel flip at the very end of her second run and remained in the bronze medal slot. Trew started what would end up being a gold-medal performance with a complete run that impressed the judges enough to earn a 90.11, enough to move into the silver medal slot. On her second run, Brown reminded everyone in the arena — and especially the judges — why she’s a defending Olympic medalist, with a clean, powerful run that netted a 91.60, the new silver medal position.

Bumped from the gold medal slot all the way off the podium, Wettstein dropped into the bowl but almost immediately slipped off her board to remain in fourth. Hiraki couldn’t improve on her opening round, but she didn’t need to; after two rounds, she remained in first.

To start the third and final round, Varella fell just short of the podium, with an 89.14. Spain's Naia Laso couldn't reach the podium either, earning an 86.28.

Then Trew, already sitting in third place, laid down a spectacular run that brought the loudest cheer of the afternoon, and rightfully so — she earned a 93.18, enough to leap into the gold-medal slot. Brown, looking to move up from her bronze medal slot, unleashed a frenetic, whirling run that earned a 92.31 and moved her up a slot into the silver medal position.

Wettstein wasn't able to improve on her first-run score, and ended up in sixth. Hiraki's final round came in at a 92.63, just good enough to get past Brown for silver.