Melissa Williams (skateboarder)

Melissa Williams is a South African skateboarder, born on 12 June 1985, who competed in the women's park event at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and was the oldest woman participating in skateboarding at the Games. She was born and grew up in Panorama, a suburb of Cape Town, where she started skateboarding at twelve. In her mid twenties she lived in London for three years, skating the bowls, snake runs and parks of England. A person of many interests, she has worked as an interviewer and organizer for Blunt Magazine, played drums in the bands Black Lung and Bilderberg Motel, boxed competitively and been a marketing manager.