Stefan "Lillis" Åkesson is a legendary

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Pro freestyle skateboarder. He is the founder of the International Network for Flatland freestyle Skateboarding and of Reverse Freestyle Skateboards, as well as the co-founder of the World Freestyle Skateboard Association (WFS

Åkesson started to

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in 1978 and won his first Swedish Skateboard Championships in 1983. Won his first European Championships in 1987, the

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in 2000, and the European Championships once again in 2005. In 2011 he won the World Championships again. Lillis enters contests, does demos, shows and clinics all over the world. He was part of the theater group Skokloster Teatersällskap as an lead actor and work part-time as a sales person for Stadiu

and freelance as a web- and

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. He has his own pro signature model from Moonshine Skateboard

Contest highlights

*World Champion 2011,

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*World Champion 2000,

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(tie) *European Champion 2005,

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*European Champion 1987,

*2nd World Championships 2008 *2nd World Championships 2007 *2nd World Championships 2006 *2nd World Championships 2005 *2nd World Championships 2001 *2nd World Championships 2002 *3nd World Championships 2018

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*1st Chit Challenge,

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2001 *1st LA Barrio Games,

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2001 *1st Reverse Freestyle Open 2003 *1st SKF Euro Cup 1990 *1st Swedish Champion 15 times *2nd UK Round Up 2015, England *2nd Spot On,

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2008 *2nd Spot On, Glendale 2009 *2nd Venice Beach Jam & Contest, 2010 *3rd European Championships 2021, Brandenburg, Germany *2nd Grand Prix Trocadero 2008, Paris, France *2nd Spon On Summer Classic 2008, Glendale, USA *2nd Venice Beach Contest & Jam 2010, Venice Beach, USA *3rd All Japan Freestyle Skateboard Contest 2012, Tokyo, Japan *3rd Paderborn World Cup 2009, Paderborn, Germany *4th Stockholm Freestyle 2016, Stockholm Sweden *4th World Round Up 2012, Vancouver, Canada *5th World Round Up 2015, Vancouver, Canada *6th World Round Up 2017, Vancouver, Canada *6th World Round Up 2016, Vancouver, Canada *6th World Round Up 2013, Vancouver, Canada

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2008: Most Dogwalks in 1 minute. Guinness World Record 2006: Longest one wheelie on flat, 39 meters. Update!: Guinness World Record 2007: Longest one wheelie on flat, 68 meters and 54 centimeters.

Early life

Stefan "Lillis" Åkesson was born April 21, 1964, in Falun, Sweden to Britt-Inger and Kjell Åkesson. He was raised in Falun and in 1992 moved to Idealbyn Skokloster. He has a younger brother, Peter, that lives in Thailand and work as a horseback riding instructor. Lillis has two kids and joke "they are older than me now".

Career

Lillis saw a skateboard for the first time in his life 1977 and knew that moment that he wanted to be a skateboarder. It took him however one complete year to convince his parents to buy him a skateboard. Finally, the summer of 1978, Lillis stepped on his very own skateboard. Why skateboarding attracted him he has no idea of, he just knew that it was something he had to do, something that was already a part of his life. These days he talks about the freedom, the creativity, the expression of one's self through skateboarding, integration of body and mind and pure and crazy fun. But back then in the late 1970s, it was simply his destiny. And still is. Lillis is also an aspiring actor and was part of a local theater group, Skokloster Teatersällskap, where he trained under the guidance of Swedish actor and director Willy Tappert. Lillis has had the lead roles as Lars Hård in the play "Lars Hård" by Jan Fridegård and as Mascarille in "The Pretentious Young Ladies" by Molière and Jean in August Strindbergs "Fröken Julie". The debut in front of the cameras was for the pilot of "1251 – Folkungarnas tid", where he is portraying the 1300th century Swedish king Knut den Långe. Summer 2011 Lillis had one on the lead in the independent short movie Svartmunkarnas Krönika – Codex Dei, working with famous Swedish actors Per Ragnar and Kim Anderzon. Unfortunately the film got stuck inte editing room due to financial problems. Lillis is still waiting for his break ... Being a fan of Star Trek, Lillis is happy to have landed the role as the android Commander Andrew in the Norwegian fan based Star Trek/Star Wars crossover movie Gatekeeper. Filming is scheduled somewhere in the future (hopefully not in a galaxy far away). Lillis is also a very creative web and graphic designer. He goes to great lengths to come up with the perfect balance between form, function and simplicity. Which also shines through his skateboarding. Lillis works part time as a sales person at the sports store Stadium in Barkarby, Stockholm.

Hobbies

Lillis enjoy daily practice of Transcendental Meditation and Bikram Yoga, which they sees as a basis for everything else he does. Some other things he does is playing miniature figure games, card games and board games and enters tournaments (such as Heroclix). Even though he does not do as well in these tournaments as in skateboarding contests, he is having fun and enjoying and love seeing how he improve the gaming bit by bit, and claim it is good for the brain. Another rather new hobby is collecting some comics from Marvel and DC.

References

Stefan "Lillis" Åkesson web page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Akesson, Stefan Swedish skateboarders Living people Freestyle skateboarders 1964 births

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