Sky Brown

Sky Brown is a skateboarder with two Olympic bronze medals. Sky started skateboarding at the age of three. Her parents are Stu and Mieko Brown. Sky is the youngest ever summer Olympian of Team GB (the British Olympian team), as well as their youngest ever Olympic medalist.

 Early life 

Sky Brown was born on 7 July 2008 in Miyazaki, Japan. Her mother Mieko is Japanese and her father Stuart is British. In Japanese, her given name is written in katakana as Sukai; as is standard for Japanese surnames of foreign origin, her family name is written only in katakana. Her British father lived in the USA for several years before moving to Japan.

 Career 
 Skateboarding 
Brown does not have a skateboarding coach; instead she learns tricks from YouTube. Sometimes she practices with Shaun White, who won Olympic snowboarding medals.

 Early career 
In 2016, at the age of 8, she took part in the Vans US Open making her the youngest person ever to compete in the event. She fell off her skateboard making her scores go down. In 2017, Sky came second in the Asian Continental Finals and Brown became top 10 in the 2018 Vans Park Series.

 2019: Competing for Team GB 
In February she won the simple session event in Tallinn, Estonia. In March she announced that she would compete for Great Britain, having previously said that she would compete for Japan. She was one of five Britons awarded funding from UK sport that year as they worked to qualify for the skateboarding events at the 2020 Summer Olympics, the first time the sport was included in the games.

 2020: Training injury 
On 28 May 2020, while training in California, she suffered a fall from a halfpipe ramp which left her with several skull fractures and a broken left wrist and hand. She was flown to a hospital and was reported as being unresponsive on arrival. Her father said afterwards that she was "lucky to be alive", while Brown herself said it was her worst fall yet.

 References 

Category:2008 births
Category:Living people
Category:Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Category:Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Category:British children