Sky Brown

Sky Brown (スカイ・ブラウン, Sukai Buraun; born 7 July 2008) 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 skateboarding 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 and 2025 World Skateboarding Championship.

Brown was born in Miyazaki, Japan. Her mother, Mieko, is Japanese, and her father, Stuart, is British. She has a younger brother, Ocean Brown. In Japanese, her given name is written in katakana as スカイ (Sukai) or in kanji as 澄海 (Sukai); as is standard for Japanese surnames of foreign origin, her family name is written only in katakana.

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 preschool 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. In addition to skateboarding, Brown also surfs.

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

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 the 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 Tallinn, Estonia.

In March 2019, Brown announced that she would compete for Great Britain, having previously said that she would compete for Japan. She said that she favoured the "more relaxed approach" of the British Skateboarding Association. 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.