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| Born | 26 January 2001 Santo André, Brazil | |||||||||||
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| Country | Brazil | |||||||||||
| Sport | Skateboarding | |||||||||||
| Rank | 15th – street [1] | |||||||||||
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Giovanni Vianna (born 26 January 2001) is a Brazilian professional skateboarder. [2] He currently resides in the United States.
He won the Next X Skateboard Street event at the X Games Minneapolis 2018. He is also a member of Primitive Skateboarding company. [3] He turned professional in 2020. [4]
He made his debut appearance in the Olympics representing Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics where skateboarding was also added in Olympics for the very first time. [2] During the 2020 Summer Olympics, he competed in men's street event. [5] [6]
Rune Glifberg, nicknamed "The Danish Destroyer", is a Danish professional skateboarder. He is one of three skaters to have competed at every X Games. He has a total of 12 X Games medals. At 46, he became the oldest skateboarder to ever compete in the Olympic Games and the first male skateboarder to ever compete in a park event in the Olympic Games when he represented Denmark in the men's park event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Zeng Wenhui is a Chinese street skateboarder and two-time Chinese Champion. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she finished sixth in the women's street skateboarding event, the first event of its kind to be included in an Olympic program.
Skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics was an event held in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. It was the debut appearance of skateboarding at the Summer Olympics. Skateboarding was one of four new sports added to the Olympic program for 2020; it is also provisionally approved for the 2024 Summer Olympic games. The proposal to add skateboarding to the Olympics was approved in August 2016.
Shane O'Neill is an Australian professional skateboarder from Melbourne, Victoria. Shane is a member of the SLS "9 Club" meaning he has landed a trick in the Street League competition that judges scored an average of 9 or better. Shane's trick was a switchstance Switch 360 double kickflip. Shane is one of only few skateboarders to win gold in all four major skateboarding contests the X Games, Street League Skateboarding, Tampa Pro and World Skateboarding Championship. His normal stance is Goofy.
South Africa competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Games in the post-apartheid era, and twentieth overall in Summer Olympic history.
Pâmela Leite Rosa is a regular-footed professional Brazilian skateboarder from São José dos Campos.
Jhulia Rayssa Mendes Leal is a Brazilian professional skateboarder who won a silver medal in women's street skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Hayley Wilson is a goofy-footed Australian skateboarder from Mansfield, Victoria, Australia.
Yuto Horigome is a Japanese professional skateboarder and two-time Olympic champion. He won the gold medal in the inaugural Olympic men's street event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, becoming the first person ever to win gold in men's street skateboarding at the Summer Olympics. He defended his gold medal in the same event at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Gustavo Pereira Ribeiro is a Portuguese professional skateboarder. He won the bronze medal at the 2019 World Skateboarding Championship on street skateboarding and won the Street League Skateboarding super crown in 2022. He participated at the 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2024 Summer Olympics.
The 2020 Summer Olympics men's park skateboarding competitions took place on August 5, 2021 at the Ariake Urban Sports Park in Tokyo, Japan.
Keegan Palmer is an Australian and American goofy-footed professional skateboarder specialising in park skating. He turned professional at the age of 14. In 2021 at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, Palmer won the gold medal in the inaugural men's park skateboarding competition.
Kelvin Hoefler is a Brazilian professional street skateboarder. He won the silver medal in the inaugural Olympic men's street skateboarding event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Momiji Nishiya is a Japanese skateboarder. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won the first ever gold medal in the women's street competition. Winning at the age of 13, she is the youngest person ever to win a gold medal for Japan, and the third youngest after Marjorie Gestring and Klaus Zerta to ever win an event at the Summer Olympics.
Kieran Woolley is an Australian skateboarder known for his technical abilities and innovative style. He grew up riding motorcycles, surfing and skating on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia. He first competed in skateboarding at the age of 12 and soon won Junior and later Senior Australian Street, Bowl and Park Championships. Woolley is currently ranked #4 in the World Skate male park rankings for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Luiz Francisco Canettieri Nunes Mariano is a Brazilian skateboarder. He has competed in men's park events at several World Skate Championships, finishing ninth in 2018 and taking silver in 2019. At the 2019 X Games, he was seventh.
Pedro Henrique Quintas is a Brazilian skateboarder. He has competed in men's park events at several World Skate Championships, finishing 16th in 2018 and taking bronze in 2019.
Heimana Reynolds is an American skateboarder. He has competed in men's park events at several World Skate Championships, winning silver in 2018 and gold in 2019. At the 2017, 2018 and 2019 X Games, he finished respectively eighth, eighth and sixth.
Dora Varella is a Brazilian professional skateboarder. She has competed in women's park events at several World Skateboarding Championships, finishing 15th in 2018 and sixth in 2019.
Felipe Gustavo is a Brazilian professional skateboarder who is specialized in street skateboarding.
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