Richard Taylor (6 July 1981 – 8 August 2004) was a Welsh inline skating and freestyle skiing champion.
[1] Taylor, from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, learned to skate because he wanted to become a stuntman.
He collided with a concrete lamp-post while skating near his home on 3 August 2004 and suffered a skull fracture that caused a coma.
When he failed to regain consciousness, his parents on 8 August 2004 consented to his life support machine being turned off.
His parents Gaynor and the now late John Taylor set up the Richard Taylor Memorial Fund to raise funds to have the Skatepark at the Knap, Barry upgraded and dedicated to his memory.