Lynn Kramer

Lynn Kramer, born in 1968, is an American skateboarder and snowboarder who has been crowned world champion in slalom racing 17 times. She was inducted into the USA Skateboarding Slalom Hall of Fame in 2023 and the Skateboarding Hall of Fame in 2024. She is from San Diego, California, was not permitted to skateboard as a child because her father was an orthopedist, attended the University of California at San Diego and is a mechanical engineer. She started skating in 1985, suffered torn ACLs in 1988 and 1992, and quit from 1992 to 2000 to focus on snowboarding and surfing before returning to slalom skateboarding, where she became one of the sport's most decorated champions.