Gui Khury

Guilherme 'Gui' Khury (born December 18, 2008, in Curitiba, Brazil) is a Brazilian skateboarder known for being the first person to land a 1080 (three full revolutions) on a vertical ramp.[2]

Gui Khury
Personal information
Full nameGuilherme Khury
Born18 December 2008 (2008-12-18) (age 12)[1]
Curitiba, Brazil
Sport
CountryBrazil
SportSkateboarding

Khury also holds the record for being the youngest person ever to land a 900, which he landed at age 8, as well as for being the youngest person to compete at the X Games at the age of 10 years and 7 months.[3]

In 2020, he was officially awarded two Guinness World Records for being the Youngest X Games Athlete and for the first 1080 on a vertical ramp.[4]

Early life

Khury was born in Curitiba, Brazil in 2009. In 2011, his family moved to Carlsbad, California, when he was two years old.[5] He started training at young age, being encouraged by his father. He started training at the YMCA in Encinitas, California, at the age of four.[4] In 2015, the family moved back to Brazil, where his father built an indoor ramp for him to practice.[5] He completed his first 540 at the age of 7.[6] Three months later, he had landed his first 720 and became the youngest in the world to land it.[7]

Skateboarding highlights

900
Main article: 900 (skateboarding)

In 2017, at the age of 8, Khury became the youngest person in the world to land a 900, a 2½-revolution (900 degrees) aerial spin performed on a skateboard ramp. Tony Hawk popularized this move when he was the first to achieve this feat, in 1999.[8]

X Games

Khury was invited to his first X Games at the 2019 X Games Summer Event in Minneapolis.[9] By participating in the event, he became the youngest ever competitor at an X Games at the age of 10 years and 7 months, breaking the previous record set by Jagger Eaton seven years earlier.[10] At the same time, he became the youngest athlete to land a 900 at an X Games.[3]

1080
Main article: 1080 (skateboarding)

On May 8, 2020, at age 11, Khury became the first person to land a 1080 (three full revolutions) on a vertical ramp, breaking Tony Hawk’s record 900 on a vertical ramp set in 1999.[11] (Tom Schaar landed the first-ever 1080 at the age of 12 in 2012 on a mega ramp, which allows a skater to build up more momentum than on a standard vert ramp.) He achieved it in after 10 attempts.[7] Khury performed the feat “in an indoor skateboard training facility built at his home in Curitiba, Brazil, by Green Box,” a Brazilian company.[5] Khury's father, Ricardo Khury Filho, credited school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic with providing his son extra time and energy to practice the technique.[12] Professional skateboarders Bob Burnquist and Tony Hawk called him to congratulate him on the accomplishment.[13][14]

Guinness World Records
RecordFeatDateLocationReference
Youngest X Games Athlete 10 years, 225 days July 31, 2019 Minneapolis, USA [1]
First skateboard '1080' on a vertical ramp 1080 May 2020 Curitiba, Brazil [15]

References
  1. "Youngest X Games athlete". Guinness World Records. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
  2. George Ramsay (May 11, 2020). "Skateboarder Gui Khury, 11, lands historic 1080-degree turn". CNN.
  3. "X-Games 2019: a child's play". Teller Report. August 3, 2019.
  4. Luisa Sanchez (June 21, 2020). "11-year-old Brazilian skateboarder lands the first ever 1080 on a vertical ramp". Guinness World Records. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
  5. "Skateboarder Gui Khury lands first-ever 1080 on a vert ramp". Surfer Today. May 9, 2020. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
  6. Madilyn Zeegers (June 7, 2020). "Tony Hawk's Greatest Achievement Was Just Outdone by an 11-Year-Old". Showbiz CheatSheet. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
  7. Talya Minsberg (May 21, 2020). "Tony Hawk's 900 Spin Was Amazing. An 11-Year-Old Skateboarder Stuck a 1080". The New York Times. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
  8. "Brazilian 11-year-old Gui Khury becomes first skateboarder to land 1080 on vertical ramp". The Telegraph. May 11, 2020.
  9. "X Games Minneapolis 2019 Invited Athletes". X Games. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
  10. Jack Tarrant (August 1, 2019). "Young skaters challenge old dudes at Minneapolis X Games". Reuters. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
  11. "11-year-old skateboarder lands 1st ever vert ramp 1080". CBC. May 9, 2020. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  12. Andrew Downie (May 10, 2020). "Lockdown spurs 11-year-old Brazilian to shatter skating record". Reuters. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
  13. David Miller (August 19, 2020). "A quick look at professional skateboarding". The Ponca City News. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
  14. George Ramsey (August 14, 2020). "How 11-year-old Gui Khury made skateboarding history with first 1080 on a vertical ramp". CNN. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
  15. "First skateboard '1080' on a vertical ramp". Guinness World Records. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
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