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Born | [1] New York City, U.S. | July 29, 1988 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elliot Sloan (born July 29, 1988) is an American professional skateboarder. He is a sixteen-time X Games medalist (7 Gold), [2] most recently winning gold [3] in the Skateboard vert best trick event at the 2023 X Games in Japan.
Sloan was born in New York City and was raised there. [1] [4] He cites Tony Hawk as an influence for him to begin skateboarding. [5]
Besides skateboarding, Sloan is also an active guitarist. He was the lead guitarist and bassist of the melodic death metal project The Stranded, which released 1 album on July 2nd 2012, Survivalism Boulevard. [6] In 2020 he formed the metal act Night Fiends with In Flames drummer Tanner Wayne. [7]