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Sky Andrew

Sky Andrew

British table tennis player

Skylet Andrew[1] (born 31 March 1962), often known as Sky Andrew, is an English former Olympian who won three gold medals at the 1989 Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships[2] and was the first Black British sports agent.[3]

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Biography

Andrew was born in Upton Park, London, to a London Transport bus driver father, and a mother who worked in an East End pie factory.[4]

Table tennis

He represented Great Britain at the 1988 Seoul Olympics in the doubles event with Des Douglas[1][5] and won 3 Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship gold medals in 1989 .[2][4] Andrew retired from competitive table tennis after the 1994 European Championships.[6]

Sports agent

While training at Lilleshall Hall in his youth, Andrew met young footballer Sol Campbell, with whom he struck up a friendship.[7]

After retiring from table tennis, Andrew wanted to get into show business, but ended up becoming an agent, representing acting clients including Martine McCutcheon.[7]

In the mid-1990s at Campbell's suggestion, he became the first licensed Black British football agent, engineering Campbell's move from Tottenham Hotspur to Arsenal.[7] Andrew has since represented Jermaine Pennant, David Ginola, Frank Bruno, Jay Bothroyd and Jermain Defoe. His TV and film clients include Nathalie Emmanuel, Sarah-Jane Mee, and Natalie Sawyer.

In September 2016, in a deal with football agency Platinum One Group, Sky Andrew moved his football business across.

Currently he is also a "Soccer Agent" instructor for the online sports-career training school Sports Management Worldwide, founded and run by Dr. Lynn Lashbrook.[8]

Honors

Andrew won a Barclays Bank "Man of Merit Award" in 2002, and was named the BEA Entrepreneur of The Year in 2003.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Skylet Andrew". British Olympic Association. Archived from the original on 3 February 2010. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
  2. [2]
    "CTTC 1989-1991 - Commonwealth Table Tennis Federation". comtab.webs.com. Archived from the original on 28 June 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  3. [3]
    "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
  4. [4]
    "Sky Andrew". skyandrew.com. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
  5. [5]
    "Skylet Andrew". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 30 November 2009. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
  6. [6]
    "Ask Sky Andrew transcript". BBC Sport. 10 January 2002. Archived from the original on 26 October 2008. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
  7. [7]
    Smith, Paul (1 July 2001). "Football: SOL REACHED FOR SKY AND STRUCK GOLD; Former table tennis". Sunday Mirror. Archived from the original on 18 December 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
  8. [8]
    "Sky Andrew | SMWW Mentor | London, United Kingdom". www.sportsmanagementworldwide.com. Retrieved 8 December 2020.


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