Stefanie Åkesson

Stefanie Åkesson is a Swedish freestyle skateboarder and the founder of the International Network for Flatland Freestyle Skateboarding and of Reverse Freestyle Skateboards, as well as the co-founder of the World Freestyle Skateboard Association. She started to skateboard in 1978 and won her first Swedish Skateboard Championships in 1983, her first European Championships in 1987 and the World Championships in 2000, in a tie with Kevin Harris, then the European Championships again in 2005 and the World Championships again in 2011. She enters contests, does demos, shows and clinics all over the world, and she was part of a theater group at Skokloster.