Keegan Palmer

Olympic gold would be the apex of any other athlete’s career, but 19-year-old park skateboarder Keegan Palmer is just getting started.

Born in San Diego, California to an American father and South African mother, the young family moved to Australia’s Gold Coast where Keegan discovered skating at the tender age of two. He competed in the skate comp at the Australian Open of Surfing a mere six years later and won a slew of amateur titles. By the age of 14, he moved back to San Diego to pursue a professional skateboarding career – just in time to ramp up for skateboarding’s debut in Tokyo.