Keegan Palmer

Keegan Palmer is an Australian-American professional skateboarder specialising in park skating, born in San Diego, California, in March 2003 to an American father and a South African mother. His family moved to Australia's Gold Coast when he was one, he began skating at two and entered the Australian Open at eight, and he turned professional at 14, the age at which he returned to San Diego to pursue the sport. He won the Dew Tour Am Bowl Final in 2017 and took third at the 2019 Dew Tour finals. He won the first Olympic men's park gold at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, lifting his score to 95.83 on a third run after taking a victory lap, and repeated at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics. He received the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2022.