Lola Tambling

Lola Tambling
Born	c. 2008
Nationality	British
Education	home schooled
Occupation	skateboarder
Parent	Martyn Tambling (father)

Lola Tambling (born c. 2008) is a British skateboarder who started at the age of seven. She was the 2022 British champion and she qualified to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Life

Tambling's parent's were Martyn and Stephanie Tambling and they live in the Cornish town of Saltash. She became acquainted to skateboarding when her family opened a skatepark in Cornwall. She was seven and she was inspired. Her father was a professional BMX rider and she thought it cool that her dad did tricks. He was a builder and a director/volunteer of the Junkyard skateboard park in Cornwall. She took to the sport and by the age of nine she was being profiled by the local media. She was visiting other parks and modelling clothing. She remembered then the thrill of falling four feet to gain speed and she was then falling over eight feet. Her parents continued to volunteer at the skateboard park and she spoke of her Olympic ambitions.

She learned new skateboarding tricks from the internet and in 2022 she became the British champion.

In 2023 the street and park Skateboarding World Championships were in Sharjah in the UAE. She went, with her parents, to compete at Aljada skate park. Her fellow British team skateboader and Olympic medalist Sky Brown won the event and to her surprise she was sixth. She and Sky Brown qualified for the Olympics dues to their achievements.

She joined an unusual British skateboarding team of Sky Brown and Andy MacDonald. Sky is a year younger than her but the third member, Andy, is fifty. Sky already had an Olympic medal which she had gained as Britain youngest ever medalist. She and Sky are some of the youngest members of the British team for the 2024 Olympics.