Gavin Bottger

Gavin Bottger is an American skateboarder and a member of the USA Skateboarding National Team, born on 5 January 2007 in South Lake Tahoe, California and raised in Oceanside, California. He began skateboarding at five and was named to the national team in December 2022. He broke his wrist in the quarterfinals of the 2022 World Skateboarding Championship in Sharjah, which was postponed until February 2023, and was out for six weeks after surgery. He won gold in the park event at the 2023 World Skateboarding Championship in Rome with a score of 94.03, was ranked third in the Olympic rankings as of June 2024, and represented the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics, finishing tenth in the park preliminary round.