Renton Millar is a professional

Professional

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 vertical

Vert skateboarding

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 skateboarder from Melbourne

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, Australia

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Career

Renton Millar (born 20/06/75) is a professional skateboarder from Melbourne, Australia, sponsored by XEN skateboards, Billabong, Mountain Dew, Globe, Oakley, TSG, Independent, Modus, Musashi and Bones Wheels.

Turning pro at the world Cup event "The Munster Monster Mastership" in 1998 in Munster, Germany, he competed in many World Cup events such as the X Games

X Games

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 (10th place, 2000, Philadelphia), Gravity Games (9th place 2000, 10th place 2002), Vans Triple Crown (USA), Mystic Cup (Czech Republic

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, 2nd place 2002, 2004) and Slam City Jam (Vancouver

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, Canada

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Millar came to prominence in 2001 when his sponsor Globe shoes video, opinion was released, sharing a video part with Ben Pappas (1977–2007), and showcased such innovational technical vert skateboarding tricks as 360 flip crooked grind, nollie flip 5-0 and kick flip nose grind shove it on a vert ramp.

Between 2000 and 2003 Millar rode for Think skateboards, having several pro model skateboards.

Millar made a guest appearance in Australian soap opera

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 Neighbours

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in 2002.

In 2003, Millar was Asian X Games Champion (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) and in 2005 was Asian X Silver medallist (Seoul, Korea). In 2006 He again won Silver at Asian X Games (Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur

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, Malaysia).

In 2008 Millar won the CPH pro, in Copenhagen Denmark, and competed in the AST Dew tour placing 6th in Baltimore, and 6th in Cleveland for an 8th place over end result in the tour.

In 2009 Millar released a pro board on XEN skateboards

In 2009 Millar won the "Oi" Jam in Rio De Janiero, Brazil, as well as the Timtribu World Cup in Rome, Italy, as well as placed 6th at the World Championships of Skateboarding, at The Boston AST Dew Tour, 8th at the Toyota Cup in Salt Lake City, placing 10th overall in the AST Dew Tour. Millar also placed 3rd in the ESPN Asian XGames in Shanghai, 4th in the China Invitational, in Beijing, also won the Chungcheon Korean Xtreme, in Seoul Korea in 2009.

He also has his own short show on FuelTV Australia, called "Bailgun Diary" and has hosted such shows as "Bondi Bowlarama"

Millar currently sits with a number 1 ranking on the World Cup Skateboarding Vert Points race

Trivia

In an interesting aside Renton attended Essendon Grammar and shared the same year level as Curtis Stone - a famous chef, Shannon Bennett of Vue De Mond one of Australias top chefs and Dustin Fletcher who is a champion AFL footballer, playing for Essendon. A year level with 4 men who have climbed to the top of their respective professions.