Nyjah Huston

Nyjah Imani Huston is an American professional skateboarder, born on 30 November 1994 in Davis, California. Raised in a strict Rastafarian household by his father Adeyemi, a skateboarder who had him on a board at five, he was vegan and homeschooled with his siblings. In 2004 his parents bought an indoor skate park in Woodland, California, and in 2006 the family moved to Puerto Rico. After a first street contest win at the 2005 Tampa Am he joined Element Skateboards, and in 2009 he launched his own deck company, I&I. He has won SLS Super Crown World Championship gold medals in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019 and 2024 and 15 X Games golds since 2011, and took his first Olympic medal, a bronze in men's street, at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. He is widely regarded as the greatest contest street skateboarder of all time.