Arisa Trew reveals bizarre two-word message from coach that helped create Olympics history

The last thing 14-year-old skateboarder Arisa Trew heard before her historic gold medal at the Paris Olympics are two words she'll likely never forget: "Skibidi sigma." That was the bizarre two-word message Trew's coach Trevor Ward gave the young skater before she won gold in the women's park event to become Australia's youngest ever Olympic gold medallist.

For the vast majority wondering what on earth "skibidi sigma" means, there is no definitive answer. "Skibidi" is a made-up word that is popular with the Gen Z all around the world and "sigma" is a term used by teenagers to describe a cool and successful person, but one that marches to the beat of their own drum - unlike the dominant but fundamentally conforming "alpha".

It may not make a lot of sense to many older generations but those two simple words resonated with Trew as she so impressively went about her business, coming from the bronze medal position to snatch gold. The teenage sensation produced a series of daring tricks highlighted by a 540 - one and a half rotations in midair - to score a whopping 93.18 and pip Japan's Cocona Kiraki (92.63) and Great Britain's Sky Brown (92.31) in the battle for the gold medal.

"It's like a joke that I have with all my friends because it's just, like, sigma is the top," Trew said about her coach's curious words of wisdom. "A lot of kids nowadays say that a lot." The Aussie teen's coach said he was overcome with emotion after his strange words of advice had the desired effect on his young charge. "I'm crying like a little baby," he told AAP. "Man, it's the most amazing thing."

Trew is the youngest athlete on Australia's Olympic team in Paris and the nation's seventh-youngest Olympian of all time. She can also lay claim to being the nation's youngest ever gold medallist at 14 years and 86 days, breaking the record swimmer Sandra Morgan held since the Melbourne Olympics in 1956. Morgan was 14 years and 184 days when she won gold as part of the women's 4x100m freestyle relay team.

"I got told by a few people that I'm Australia's youngest gold medallist, which is, like, pretty insane," Trew said afterwards. "And really cool, because that's who I'm representing and it's just amazing. It's just... super cool that I have won the gold medal because it has been like a dream. I'm just... so excited.

"It was just crazy and so exciting and I just... couldn't believe it when I knew that I was the winner of the Olympics. This being my first Olympics, it's just insane. I wasn't really nervous because... I just needed to think that it's another skate comp. And just to have fun with all my friends and skate my best but, like, all I really wanted to do was land a solid run."

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Arisa Trew saves best run for last to snatch Olympic gold

Trew's victory took Australia's impressive medal tally to 14 gold in Paris and followed a shaky qualifying session when she ranked sixth out of the eight skaters to contest the final. But with the Guns N'Roses' classic 'Sweet Child O' Mine' aptly spurring her on in an epic final run, the 14-year-old saved her best for last to skate into the Olympic record books for Australia.

"When I saw the score, I was, like, what? That's crazy," the Cairns-born teen said. Trew started skateboarding seven years ago and admits she was inspired watching other young skaters at the Tokyo Games three years ago when she was just 11. "I always knew that... I wanted to be here and podium and just win," she said.

"Because after the (Tokyo) Olympics, that really inspired me, like, watching all the girls, and it pushed me to just want to be here. And... I thought: 'Oh, maybe I could do it'. And when I did that run I just... knew that I could do it."

with AAP