Lewis Marnell

Lewis Kristian Marnell was a professional skateboarder from Melbourne, Australia, born on 3 December 1982 and named Slam Magazine's Skater of the Year in 2008. He grew up in both Australia and Sweden, dropped out of high school in Sweden and moved back to Australia to pursue professional skateboarding, finally settling there in 2002; his older brother Jonas was an early influence. He died on 18 January 2013 from complications of type 1 diabetes, which had been diagnosed when he was ten. Numerous tributes followed, and his longtime deck sponsor Almost Skateboards keeps using the hashtag LewisMarnellForever, publishing it with 2006 footage of him skating in Japan.