Sky Brown

Sky Brown is a skateboarder with two Olympic bronze medals. Sky started skateboarding at the age of three. Her parents are Stu and Mieko Brown. Sky is the youngest ever summer Olympian of Team GB (the British Olympian team), as well as their youngest ever Olympic medalist.

Sky Brown
スカイ・ブラウン

Brown at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Born	(2008-07-07) 7 July 2008 Miyazaki, Japan
Years active	2016–present
Japanese name
Kanji	ブラウン 澄海
Kana	ブラウン スカイ
Sport
Country	Great Britain
Sport	Skateboarding
Position	Goofy footed
Rank	4th (2024)
Event(s)	Park
Medal record Women's park skateboarding Representing Great Britain Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Park 2024 Paris Park World Championships 2019 São Paulo Park 2023 Sharjah Park X Games 2021 California Park 2022 California Park 2024 Chiba Park Dew Tour 2021 Des Moines Park 2022 Des Moines Park

Early life

Sky Brown was born on 7 July 2008 in Miyazaki, Japan. Her mother Mieko is Japanese and her father Stuart is British. In Japanese, her given name is written in katakana as Sukai; as is standard for Japanese surnames of foreign origin, her family name is written only in katakana. Her British father lived in the USA for several years before moving to Japan.

Career

Skateboarding

Brown does not have a skateboarding coach; instead she learns tricks from YouTube. Sometimes she practices with Shaun White, who won Olympic snowboarding medals.

Early career

In 2016, at the age of 8, she took part in the Vans US Open making her the youngest person ever to compete in the event. She fell off her skateboard making her scores go down. In 2017, Sky came second in the Asian Continental Finals and Brown became top 10 in the 2018 Vans Park Series.

2019: Competing for Team GB

In February she won the simple session event in Tallinn, Estonia. In March she announced that she would compete for Great Britain, having previously said that she would compete for Japan. She was one of five Britons awarded funding from UK sport that year as they worked to qualify for the skateboarding events at the 2020 Summer Olympics, the first time the sport was included in the games.

2020: Training injury

On 28 May 2020, while training in California, she suffered a fall from a halfpipe 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", while Brown herself said it was her worst fall yet.