Lola Tambling
{{Short description|British skateboarder}}
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{{Use British English|date=August 2024}}
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| hometown = Saltash, United Kingdom
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| sport = Skateboarding
| stance = Goofy footed
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Lola Tambling (born 22 February 2008) is a British skateboarder. She is the reigning 2024 British national champion in the women's park discipline, and was previously the 2022 champion.{{Cite web |last=Landi |first=Jeff |title=Skateboard GB X Habito Park National Championships 2022 |url=https://www.skateboarding.worldskate.org/news/1513-skateboard-gb-x-habito-national-championships-2022.html |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=www.skateboarding.worldskate.org}} She competed in the women's park event at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Early life
Tambling is from Saltash in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her parents are Martyn Tambling, a builder, and Stephanie Tambling.{{Cite web |last=Ainsworth |first=Clare |date=2023-02-12 |title=Teenage skateboard star finishes sixth in World Championship |url=https://www.cornwalllive.com/sport/other-sport/teenage-skateboard-star-lola-tambling-8140419 |access-date=2024-07-28 |website=Plymouth Live |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Martyn TAMBLING personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/kWxcW0qaQzif-PzPVCaIVKpcRqI/appointments |access-date=2024-07-28 |website=find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |language=en}} She became interested in skateboarding at the age of seven when her parents opened a skatepark. Seeing her father, a professional BMX rider, do tricks on his bike inspired her to do the same on her skateboard.{{Cite web |title=TwelfthMan |url=https://www.twelfthman.co/twelfthman-stories/lola-tambling |access-date=2024-07-28 |website=www.twelfthman.co}}
Career
Tambling learned new skateboarding tricks from social media.{{Cite web |title=Lola Tambling {{!}} Team GB |url=https://www.teamgb.com/athlete/lola-tambling/GUeETfvEeS1pKT7qKGWcE |access-date=2024-07-28 |website=www.teamgb.com |language=en-gb}} In 2022 she became the British national skateboarding champion.
In 2023, she placed 6th at the Skateboarding World Championships in Sharjah.{{Cite web |title=Skateboarding World Championship - Sharjah Events |url=https://sharjahevents.ae/en/event/skateboarding-world-championship/ |access-date=2024-07-28 |website=sharjahevents.ae}} Her teammate, Tokyo 2020 Olympic medallist Sky Brown, won the event. Their placements in this event qualified them both for the 2024 Olympic Games.
Tambling and Brown were joined on the British Olympic skateboarding team by multiple X Games medallist Andy Macdonald. Both Tambling and Brown were 16 at the Games, while Macdonald was 51.{{Cite web |date=2024-07-25 |title=Who is Andy MacDonald? The skateboarder 'representing the old guys' at Olympics |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/andy-macdonald-age-skateboarding-olympics-sky-brown-b2567453.html |access-date=2024-07-28 |website=The Independent |language=en}} Tambling and Brown were among the youngest members of Team GB at the 2024 Olympics.{{Cite web |title=Paris: Grassroots to Glory - Lola: Teenage Olympic 'hero in a halfpipe' - BBC Sounds |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0j9stsl |access-date=2024-07-28 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Who is representing Team GB at the Paris 2024 Olympics {{!}} Team GB |url=https://www.teamgb.com/article/team-gb-at-paris-2024-the-statistics/7udt7RywPXWZJT83uVDDGn |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=www.teamgb.com |language=en-gb}} Tambling placed 15th overall in the preliminary round with a high score of 73.85 and, due to only the top eight qualifying, did not advance to the finals.{{Cite web |date=6 August 2024 |title=Women's Park Prelims Results |url=https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/results/skateboarding/women-s-park/qual-------- |access-date=9 August 2024 |website=olympics.com}}
On 13 October 2024, Tambling won the British national championship for a second time.
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Category:Skateboarders at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Category:British skateboarders
Category:Year of birth uncertain
Category:Olympic skateboarders for Great Britain