Sky Andrew
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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]
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.[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
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External links
- Personal website
- Skylet Andrew Script error: No such module "webarchive". at the British Olympic Association
- Skylet Andrew Management Website
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- 1962 births
- Living people
- Olympic table tennis players for Great Britain
- Table tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Black British sportsmen
- British sports agents
- People from Upton Park, London
- Sportspeople from the London Borough of Newham
- Table tennis players from London
- English male table tennis players