26 Facts About Sky Brown

Sky Brown is a British-Japanese professional skateboarder and surfer who competes for Great Britain.

Sky Brown was the youngest professional skateboarder in the world, and has won the American TV programme Dancing with the Stars: Juniors.

Sky Brown 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.

Sky Brown repeated this feat by winning bronze for a second time in park at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Sky Brown's family are skateboarders, and her preschool had a skate park.

Sky Brown has a skating ramp in her back garden, as there are no skate parks in her home area of Takanabe, Miyazaki.

In 2016, at the age of 8, Sky Brown took part in the Vans US Open, making her the youngest person ever to compete at the event.

In 2018, at the age of 10, Sky Brown became a professional athlete, making her the youngest professional skateboarder in the world.

In March 2019, Sky Brown announced that she would compete for Great Britain, having previously said that she would compete for Japan.

Sky Brown said that she favoured the "more relaxed approach" of the British Skateboarding Association.

Sky Brown 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.

In 2019, Sky Brown placed 3rd in the park event at the 2019 World Skateboarding Championship in Sao Paulo and became the first female to land a frontside 540 at the X Games.

Sky Brown finished 5th at the X Games skateboarding event.

Sky Brown was flown to a hospital and was reported as being unresponsive on arrival.

Sky Brown's father said afterwards that she was "lucky to be alive", whilst Brown herself said it was her worst fall yet.

Sky Brown represented Great Britain in skateboarding at the pandemic-delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in August 2021.

Sky 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 1928 Summer Olympics.

Sky 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.

Sky Brown fell in her first two runs at the event and scored 56.47 in her final attempt.

Sky Brown was not the youngest medallist at the Games, as 12-year-old Cocona Hiraki of Japan won silver in the same event.

In 2022, Sky Brown retained her X Games title, and won the Dew Tour event for the second year in a row.

Sky Brown won the park event at the World Skateboarding Championship in 2023, becoming the first British skateboarding world champion.

Sky Brown joined a team that consisted of 2022 British Champion Lola Tambling and 22-time Summer X Games medallist Andy Macdonald.

On 19 December 2021, Sky Brown won the 2021 BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year award; she was shortlisted again in 2022 and 2024.

In 2019, Sky Brown became the youngest-ever Nike-sponsored athlete in the world.

Sky Brown has featured in a Nike campaign alongside Serena Williams and Simone Biles.