Lizzie Armanto

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Elizabeth Armanto
Skateboarder Lizzie Armanto in action - Denmark 2015.jpg
In Copenhagen, 2015
Personal information
Full nameElizabeth Marika Armanto
Born (1993-01-26) January 26, 1993 (age 28)[1]
Ventura County, California, U.S.[2][3]
Height5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Spouse(s)
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(m. 2020)​
Websitelizziearmanto.com
Sport
CountryFinland
United States
SportSkateboarding
PositionRegular-footed
Rank5th[4]
Event(s)Park
Medal record
Women's park skateboarding
Representing  United States
X Games
Silver medal – second place 2016 Austin
Representing  Finland
Nitro World Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Vista

Elizabeth Marika Armanto (born January 26, 1993) is an American-Finnish professional skateboarder.

Early life and career[]

Armanto was born to a Finnish father and an American mother.[5][6] She holds dual citizenship in the United States and Finland.[7] She is of Filipino descent through her maternal grandfather.[8]

Armanto grew up in Santa Monica, California. She started skating in 2007 with her younger brother and developed a love for skating bowls and vert.

Armanto has won over 30 skateboarding awards. In 2010, 2011 and 2012, she placed first overall in the World Cup of Skateboarding points race. In 2013, Armanto won gold at the first ever Women's Skateboard Park event at X Games in Barcelona, Spain. She won the 2014 Van Doren Invitational in Huntington Beach, California.[9][3]

In 2016, Armanto received the cover of the November issue of Transworld Skateboarding and became the first female to get the cover in magazines over 30 years of print.

In 2017, Armanto appeared on cover of the May Issue of Thrasher.

In 2018, Armanto became the first female skater to successfully ride the "Loop", a 360-degree vertical ramp on which the rider turns completely upside down while maintaining contact between the wheels of the skateboard and the ramp's surface.[10][11]

In January 2019, Armanto revealed that she joined the Finnish skateboarding national team and would represent the country at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[6][7]

Personal life[]

Armanto married Belgian skateboarder, Axel Cruysberghs, on October 16, 2020.

Video game appearances[]

Armanto is a playable character in the video games Tony Hawk's Shred Session, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2.

Sports diplomacy[]

In 2019, Armanto traveled to Denmark, Finland and Estonia as a Sports Envoy for the U.S. State Department's Sports Diplomacy Office.[12]

References[]

  1. ^ "Lizzie Armanto Interview". Girls Skate Network. 29 January 2011.
  2. ^ "Elizabeth Marika Armanto, Born 01/26/1993 in California". California Birth Index.
  3. ^ a b "Lizzie Armanto". lizziearmanto.com.
  4. ^ "Olympic World Skateboarding Rankings – Park, Female". World Skate. 30 June 2021. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Suomi saamassa kovan luokan skeittaajan Tokion olympialaisiin". Sportti.com (in Finnish). 16 January 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  6. ^ a b Valta, Ville-Veikko (16 January 2019). "Suomi sai uuden kultamitalisuosikin olympialaisiin! Lizzie, 25, valitsi isänsä kotimaan - "Hän on maailman paras"". Iltalehti (in Finnish). Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  7. ^ a b Niemeläinen, Jonne (16 January 2019). "Rullalautailumaajoukkue houkutteli lajin huippunimen Suomen riveihin – tavoitteena paikka Tokion olympialaisiin". Yle (in Finnish). Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  8. ^ Maddela, Anthony (29 July 2020). "Lizzie Skates the Light Fantastic". Positively Filipino. Retrieved 10 January 2021. Lizzie's mother, Eva Armanto, was born in the US to a Filipino father.
  9. ^ "International Skateboarding Federation - Lizzie Armanto". internationalskateboardingfederation.com.
  10. ^ Copelin, Nathan (26 November 2019). "How Lizzie Armanto became a protégé of Tony Hawk". i-D. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  11. ^ "Watch a woman complete Tony Hawk's famous skateboarding loop". The Irish News. 27 August 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  12. ^ "Sports and Public Diplomacy Envoys (2005-Present) | Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs". Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 5 October 2020.

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