Sky Brown wins second skateboarding world title at rain-hit event in Brazil

Sky Brown was leading the competition at the halfway point before officials called a halt due to rain. Photograph: Sebastião Moreira/EPA

Britain’s Sky Brown celebrated International Women’s Day by becoming a skateboarding world champion for the second time at a rain-curtailed park competition in São Paulo.

The two-time Olympic bronze medallist was leading in Brazil after two runs, the halfway point, at which World Skate deemed “adverse weather conditions and recurrent rainfall” to have called time on proceedings.