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- Sky Brown is the world’s youngest pro skateboarder at 10 years old.
- If she qualifies for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, she will be Great Britain’s youngest-ever summer Olympian.
- Brown is not only a skateboarding prodigy but also a very talented surfer.
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Sky Brown, the world’s youngest pro skateboarder at 10 years old, is set to become Great Britain’s youngest summer Olympian in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
A skateboarding and surfing prodigy, Brown has amassed over five million views on YouTube and 375,000 followers on Instagram.
Despite her age, she has already made history and is defeating other pro skaters that are much older than her.
Here’s a look at Brown’s life and achievements so far.
Sky Brown is a 10-year-old skateboarder from Miyazaki, Japan. She is inspiring many skateboarders and young girls around the world.
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Skateboarding is a male-dominated sport, but over the past few years, females have begun to move into the spotlight.
Being a young girl, Brown has inspired many others with her passion and popularity.
In partnership with Almost Skateboards and Skateistan, a non-profit that empowers youth through skateboarding and education, Brown designed her boards to raise money for the organization.
"I wanna be young and show every girl that you can do it, just go for it — even though you’re little," she told the Daily Mail.
She is Anglo-Japanese. Her mother, Mieko, is from Japan and her father, Stuart, is from England.
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As a dual citizen of England and Japan, Brown could have competed for either country in the Olympics.
She chose to compete on the British team because of a more relaxed approach.
"The British Skateboarding Association, they told me ‘no pressure, just have fun and get out there,’" Brown said in a video interview with BBC Sport after her selection in March. "So that’s why I chose England."
She began skateboarding when she was three years old.
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Brown comes from a family of skateboarders, but her dad was apprehensive when she showed an interest in it.
"I didn’t want her to get on a skateboard," Stuart Brown told Women in the World. "You have a little girl, and you want to wrap her in cotton wool. But it was the one toy she kept going back to."
Her preschool even had a skatepark.
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