Sky Brown (スカイ・ブラウン, Sukai Buraun, born 7 July 2008)[2][3] is a British-Japanese professional skateboarder and surfer who competes for Great Britain.
She was the youngest professional skateboarder in the world, and has also won the American TV programme Dancing with the Stars: Juniors.
She represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics, where she won a bronze medal in the park event, making her the country's youngest ever medallist.
[10] In 2016, at the age of 8, Brown took part in the Vans US Open, making her the youngest person ever to compete at the event.
[6] In 2019, Brown placed 3rd in the park event at the 2019 World Skateboarding Championship in São Paulo[10] and became the first female to land a frontside 540 at the X Games.
[21] Brown was not the youngest competitor at the Games — Syrian table tennis player Hend Zaza and Japanese skateboarder Cocona Hiraki were younger.
Brown was not the youngest medallist at the Games, as 12-year-old Cocona Hiraki of Japan won silver in the same event.
[30] She joined a team that consisted of 2022 British Champion Lola Tambling and 22-time Summer X Games medallist Andy Macdonald.
This team was not only notable for their individual records, but also in the skaters' age gap, with both Tambling and Brown being 16 and Macdonald being 51 years old at the time of competing.
[33] On 19 December 2021, Brown won the 2021 BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year award; she was shortlisted again in 2022 and 2024.