Richard Tury

Richard Tury is a Slovak professional skateboarder, born on 10 June 1993. He represented Slovakia at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in the men's street category, placing fifth in the final, and was the first skateboarder ever to represent Slovakia at the Olympic Games. He grew up in the Ťahanovce housing estates of Košice, learned to skateboard from the age of six, and picked up the sport because of the video game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2. He placed fifth in men's street at the 2022 World Skateboarding Championship in Sharjah on 5 February 2023.