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is a British-Japanese professional
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and surfer who competes for Great Britain. She is 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
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, where she won a bronze medal in the
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event, making her the country's youngest ever medallist.


Personal life

Sky Brown was born in Miyazaki, Japan. She is the older sister of Ocean Brown. Her mother, Mieko, is Japanese and her father, Stuart, is British. In Japanese, her given name is written in
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as (Sukai) or in
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as (Sukai); as is standard for non-traditional Japanese names, her family name is written only in kana script. Her British father lived in the United States for several years before moving to Japan. Brown lives in Miyazaki, but spends around half the year in the US. Her family are skateboarders, and her
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had a skate park. She has a skating ramp in her back garden, as there are no skate parks in her home area of
Takanabe, Miyazaki is a town located in Koyu District, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. On October 1, 2019, the town had an estimated population of 20,185 and a density of 461 persons per km2. The total area is 43.80 km2. Geography Neighbouring municipalitie ...
. Aside from skateboarding, Brown is interested in
surfing Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore. Waves suitabl ...
.


Career

Brown does not have a skateboarding coach; instead she learns tricks from
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. She sometimes practises with
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, who won Olympic
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medals. Brown is sponsored by
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, making her the youngest Nike-sponsored athlete in the world. She has featured in a Nike campaign alongside
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and
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. She is also supported by
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and
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. 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. She fell off her skateboard in a heat. In 2017, she came second in the Asian Continental Finals, and she finished in the top 10 of the 2018 Vans Park Series. In 2018, at the age of 10, Brown became a professional athlete, making her the youngest professional skateboarder in the world. The same year, she won the US TV show '' Dancing with the Stars: Juniors''. In February 2019, she won the Simple Session event in
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, Estonia. In March 2019, Brown announced that she would be competing for Great Britain, having previously said that she would compete for Japan. Brown said that she favoured the "more relaxed approach" of the British Skateboarding Association. That year, Brown also came third at the
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, and became the first female to land a frontside 540 at the
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. She finished fifth at the X Games skateboarding event. Brown came third at the 2020 Park World Skateboarding Championships in Brazil. Brown was one of five Britons attempting to qualify for the skateboarding events at the 2020 Summer Olympics, the first time the sport was included in the Games. On 28 May 2020, while training in California, she suffered a "horrific" fall from a
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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", whilst Brown herself said it was her worst fall yet. Nevertheless, she remained determined to push boundaries and compete for gold at the Tokyo Olympics. In April 2021, Brown said that she was also considering trying to compete in surfing at the delayed 2020 Olympics. In June 2021, Brown was selected to represent Great Britain in skateboarding at the
2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...
. Brown was the youngest British Summer Olympian ever, at the age of 13, beating Margery Hinton who was 13 years and 43 days when she competed in the 200 metre breaststroke event at the
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. Brown was not the youngest competitor at the Games: Syrian
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player
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and Japanese skateboarder Kokona Hiraki are younger. In July 2021, she won the
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women's skateboarding park gold medal. Brown won the bronze medal in the women’s park skateboarding event at the 2020 Summer Olympics and became Great Britain’s youngest ever medal winner, at the age of 13 years and 28 days. She had fallen over in her first two runs at the event, and scored 56.47 in her final attempt. Brown was not the youngest medallist at the Games, as 12-year-old Kokona Hiraki of Japan won silver in the same event. Later in the year, it was announced that some of Brown's skateboards would be displayed at the renovated Young V&A in London.


Awards

On 19 December 2021, Brown won the 2021
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award; she was shortlisted again in
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. In April 2022, she won the Comeback of the Year award for 2021 at the
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.


Filmography


See also

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Great Britain at the Olympics Athletes from the United Kingdom, all but three of its Overseas Territories, and the three Crown Dependencies, can compete in the Olympic Games as part of Team GB. Athletes from Northern Ireland (part of the UK) can also choose to compete as pa ...


References


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