| Sky Andrew | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Skylet Andrew | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  England  United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 31 March 1962 Upton Park, London, England | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) | ||||||||||||||
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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]
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]
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]
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]
Andrew won a Barclays Bank "Man of Merit Award" in 2002, and was named the BEA Entrepreneur of The Year in 2003.
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