Olympic Medalist Rayssa Leal Lands Skateboard Trick in Fairy Costume in 2015 Video

Six years ago, Rayssa Leal was perfecting her heelflip.

Now she's an Olympic medalist.

The 13-year-old Brazilian won a silver medal at the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo this week in the street competition. While she was narrowly defeated by another 13-year-old, Japan’s Momiji Nishiya, Leal became the talk of the Olympics after many shared a video of her doing a heelflip in a fairy costume. 

Skating great Tony Hawk originally shared the clip in 2015.

"Six years ago [Hawk] introduced me to the world of skateboarding by sharing my video wearing a fairy costume," Leal wrote in a gallery of photos of herself and Hawk on Saturday, via Karenna Meredith of PopSugar. "Today, he filmed me at the Olympics."