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Silver medal winner Rayssa Leal of Brazil holds her medal after winning the women's street skateboarding finals at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 26, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Silver medal winner Rayssa Leal of Brazil holds her medal after winning the women's street skateboarding finals at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 26, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP Photo/Ben Curtis

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

Tyler Conway
Jul 26, 2021

Six years ago,ย 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,ย Japanโ€™s Momiji Nishiya,ย Leal became the talk of the Olympics after many shared a video of her doing a heelflip in a fairy costume.ย 

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, viaย Karenna Meredith of PopSugar. "Today, he filmed me at the Olympics."

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