Sky Brown

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.

Early life Sky 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 (Sukai) or in kanji 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 United States for several years before moving to Japan. Brown lives in Miyazaki, but spends around half the year in the US. She has a skating ramp in her back garden, as there are no skate parks in her home area of Takanabe, Miyazaki.

Skateboarding career Brown does not have a skateboarding coach; instead she learns tricks from YouTube. She sometimes practises with Shaun White, who won Olympic snowboarding medals. She said that she favoured the "more relaxed approach" of the British Skateboarding Association. 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.

2021: X Games gold and Tokyo Olympics bronze In July 2021, she won the X Games women's skateboarding park gold medal.

Brown represented Great Britain in skateboarding at the pandemic-delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in August 2021. 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. Brown was not the youngest competitor at the Games — Syrian table tennis player Hend Zaza and Japanese skateboarder Cocona Hiraki were younger.

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 fell 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 Cocona Hiraki of Japan won silver in the same event.

In late 2021, it was announced that some of Brown's skateboards would be displayed at the renovated Young V&A in London.

2022–2023 In 2022, Brown retained her X Games title, and also won the Dew Tour event for the second year in a row. She won the park event at the World Skateboarding Championship in 2023, becoming the first British skateboarding world champion.

2024: Paris Olympics bronze In June 2024, Brown qualified for the park event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. She joined a team that consisted of 2022 British Champion Lola Tambling and 22-time Summer X Games medallist Andy Macdonald. This team was not only notable for their individual records, but also in the skaters' age gap, with both Tambling and Brown being 16 and Macdonald being 51 years old at the time of competing.

2026: Rome World Cup silver In June 2026, Brown came in second at World Skate Tour World Cup event in Rome losing to Japan's Mizuho Hasegawa after leading the finals until the final "Golden Run" with three runs scoring above a 90.

Surfing career In April 2021, Brown said that she was also considering trying to compete in surfing at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics, though she ultimately only competed in skateboarding.

In March 2024, she competed at the ISA World Surfing Games in Puerto Rico, in hopes of qualifying to compete in surfing at the 2024 Summer Olympics, in addition to skateboarding, but was not successful in doing so after placing 3rd in her repechage heat. She did however finish 17th of the 113 female competitors and was the highest placed British athlete across both genders.

Awards On 19 December 2021, Brown won the 2021 BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year award; she was shortlisted again in 2022 and 2024. In April 2022, she won the Comeback of the Year award for 2021 at the Laureus World Sports Awards.

Sponsorships In 2019, Brown became the youngest-ever Nike-sponsored athlete in the world. She has featured in a Nike campaign alongside Serena Williams and Simone Biles. São Paulo, Brazil Park 2021 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan Park 2023 World Championship Sharjah, UAE Park 2024 Summer Olympics Paris, France Park 2025 World Championship São Paulo, Brazil Park Skateboarding contests

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