Pedro Barros

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Pedro Barros
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Barros in 2021
Personal information
Full namePedro Barros
Born (1995-03-15) March 15, 1995 (age 26)
Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Sport
Country Brazil
SportSkateboarding
Medal record
Men's skateboarding
Representing  Brazil
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo Park
World Skateboarding Championship
Gold medal – first place 2018 Nanjing Skateboard Park
Silver medal – second place 2016 Malmö Skateboard Park
Silver medal – second place 2017 Shangai Skateboard Park
Summer X Games
Gold medal – first place 2010 Los Angeles Skateboard Park
Gold medal – first place 2012 Los Angeles Skateboard Park
Gold medal – first place 2013 Foz do Iguaçu Skateboard Park
Gold medal – first place 2013 Barcelona Skateboard Park
Gold medal – first place 2014 Austin Skateboard Park
Gold medal – first place Skateboard Park
Silver medal – second place 2011 Los Angeles Skateboard Park
Silver medal – second place 2013 Munich Skateboard Park
Silver medal – second place 2015 Austin Skateboard Park
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Los Angeles Skateboard Vert Am

Pedro Barros (born March 15, 1995), known as Pedrinho Barros, is a Brazilian skateboarder who is specialized in Bowl and Park Skateboarding.[1] He won the silver medal in the inaugural Olympic men's park skateboarding event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Also in doom metal/dark punk band Melissa.

Career[]

His skateboarding career started in 2008. In 2008, Barros won the X-Games Skateboarding Vert amateur event and in 2009 he ended up in third place in the same event. These two appearances were Pedro's kick-start into a successful X-Games career.[2] Furthermore, he got second at the Red-Bull-Crossover in 2009 where he defeated his big idol Sandro Dias for the first time.[3]

In 2010, Barros won X-Games gold in Park as a rookie after a battle against Andy Macdonald. Pedro was the first rookie to win skateboard gold since Ryan Sheckler won gold in Park in 2003. He also participated in the X-Games Big Air competition in the same year, where he ended up in fourth place. Additionally he won the overall Bowl title of World Cup Skateboarding.[2]

In 2011, Barros landed in second place in the X-Games Park event and a 14th place in X-Games Vert competition.[4] Again he won the overall Bowl title of World Cup Skateboarding.[2] In 2012, he again won gold in the X-Games Park event and won the Vans BOWL-A-RAMA in New York.[4][5] For the third time in a row he won the overall Bowl title of World Cup Skateboarding.[2]

In 2013, he won two X-Games gold medals in Park, one at the X-Games in Foz do Iguaçu and the other one at the X-Games in Barcelona. At the X-Games in Munich 2013 he won the silver medal in Park.[4] For four straight years, he won the overall Bowl title of World Cup Skateboarding.[2] Pedro's winning series continued in 2014, where he got his fifth gold medal in an X-Games Park event in Austin, Los Angeles.[4] In the same year he won the Volcom BOWL-A-RAMA in Getxo, Spain and the BOWL-A-RAMA in Wellington, New Zealand.[5] He landed in third in the Bowl ranking of World Cup Skateboarding.[2] In 2015, he won silver at the X-Games Park event in Austin.[4] Again he landed in third place in the Bowl ranking of World Cup Skateboarding.[2]

In 2016, he won the X-Games Park competition and won his sixth X-Games gold medal in total. Until then, he has never finished worse than silver in an astounding Skateboard Park run that began with rookie gold in 2010.[4] In the same year, he also won the Vans Pool Party in California.[5] He won the Vans Park Series in Florianopois and had two second places at the tour-stops in Melbourne and Malmö, which were also the 2016 World Championships in Park Skateboarding.[6]

In 2017, Barros won the Vans Park Series in Vancouver and São Paulo, got a third place in Sydney and a second place at the tour-stop in Malmö, Sweden.[6]

In 2018, his sponsor Drop Dead Skateboards released a movie called "Silver Era", featuring a video part by Baros. In the same year, he came in fourth place at the X-Games Park event in Minneapolis. He won the Vans Park Series event in Vancouver and got three second places at the tour-stops in Suzhou, São Paulo and Huntington Beach.[6] He also won the Red Bull Bowl Rippers in Marseilles.[5] In the same year Pedro executed a movie project with Red Bull called "Pedro's Bigger Picture", where he skates artistically designed art features that showcase his favorite skate spots around the world."[7]

Until now, Pedro Barros had nine X Games appearances, taking six gold medals and three silver medals. He trails only Dave Mirra in first or second-place finishes to start an X-Games career in a single discipline (Mirra had ten straight in BMX Vert).

References[]

  1. ^ "Pedro Barros". www.redbull.com.br (in Portuguese). Retrieved September 28, 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Pedro Barros Profile". xgames.espn.go.com. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
  3. ^ "Pedro Barros". Red Bull (in German). Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Pedro Barros's official X Games athlete biography". X Games. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  5. ^ a b c d "Pedro Barros". Red Bull. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  6. ^ a b c "2017". Vans Park Series. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  7. ^ Pedro's Bigger Picture, retrieved 2019-05-07

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