 Brown at the 2024 Summer Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 7 July 2008 Miyazaki, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 2016–present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Kanji | ブラウン 澄海 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kana | ブラウン スカイ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Great Britain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Skateboarding | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Goofy footed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 4th (2024)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Park | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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. She repeated this feat by winning bronze for a second time in park at the 2024 Summer Olympics. In addition, she won the same event at the 2023 World Skateboarding Championship.
- ^ "World Skateboarding Ranking – Women's Park". Archived from the original on 5 August 2024. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- ^ Licata, Alexandra (16 June 2019). "東京オリンピック出場に期待！ 10歳の天才スケートボーダー、スカイ・ブラウンとは" [Expected to participate in the Tokyo Olympics! About 10-year-old genius skateboarder Sky Brown]. Business Insider (in Japanese). Retrieved 22 March 2020.
- ^ Bull, Andy (4 August 2021). "Sky Brown, 13, becomes Britain's youngest Olympic medallist with skateboard bronze". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
At half-past 10 on Wednesday morning, Sky Brown, 13 years and 28 days old, tipped forward on her board and dropped into the scalded concrete bowl of the Olympic skate park.