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X Games Foz Do Iguaçu 2013
The X Games Foz de Iguaçu 2013 was an action sporting event which took place from April 18–21, 2013 in Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil. Venues for the event included the Iguaçu National Park and Infraero Park. It was the first Summer X Games held in 2013, before events in Barcelona, Spain (May 9–12); Munich, Germany (June 27–30); and Los Angeles, United States (August 1–4, 2013). Event locations Venue locations for each sport disciplines for X Games Foz de Iguaçu: Iguaçu National Park *BMX Vert * Skateboard Vert Infraero Park *BMX Dirt *BMX Park *BMX Big Air *Moto X Best Whip *Moto X Freestyle *Moto X Speed & Style *Moto X Step Up *Moto X Enduro X *Skateboard Big Air *Skateboard Park *Street League Skateboarding *Rally Cross Results Moto X Skateboarding BMX Rallying Medal table References External linksXGames.com {{DEFAULTSORT:X Games Xviii X Games 2013 in Brazilian sport 2013 in rallying 2013 in multi-sport events Multi-sport events in Brazil X G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extreme Sport
Action sports, adventure sports or extreme sports are activities perceived as involving a high degree of risk. These activities often involve speed, height, a high level of physical exertion and highly specialized gear. Extreme tourism overlaps with extreme sport. The two share the same main attraction, " adrenaline rush" caused by an element of risk, and differ mostly in the degree of engagement and professionalism. Definition The definition of extreme sports is not exact and the origin of the terms is unclear, but it gained popularity in the 1990s when it was picked up by marketing companies to promote the X Games and when the Extreme Sports Channel and Extreme International launched. More recently, the commonly used definition from research is "a competitive (comparison or self-evaluative) activity within which the participant is subjected to natural or unusual physical and mental challenges such as speed, height, depth or natural forces and where fast and accurate cognit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Hansen (motocross)
Josh Hansen (born February 16, 1984) is an American professional motocross racer, currently riding the no. 100. The son of retired motocross champion Donnie Hansen, he is best known for winning the GOLD medal for Best Whip in Moto X at the Summer X Games for 3 consecutive years. Hansen also won back to back gold medals at X Games 14 and X Games 15 in Los Angeles, California in the Supercross event. Hansen currently serves as a brand ambassador for Honda and is sponsored by Fox Racing and Shift. Career Josh Hansen was born and raised in Elbert, Colorado. He currently resides in California. His father, Donnie Hansen, is a former Factory Honda rider with national titles in motocross and Supercross. Hansen received his first motocross bike at five, and began racing competitively at eight. He spent his early years touring the country with his family, winning numerous amateur titles in national competitions as his father conducted a motocross academy. At 17, he went professional. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rune Glifberg
Rune Glifberg (born 7 October 1974), 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. Early life Rune Glifberg was born in Copenhagen and began skating at the age of 11 years after a friend brought a skateboard as a gift, which he had bought in the US. He entered his first pro contest in France in 1990 and turned pro in 1992. Glifberg moved from Denmark to Costa Mesa, California, after he finished secondary school in 1995. Professional skateboarding In the early 1990s, Glifberg turned professional as a vert skater and relocated to the United States. Glifberg signed a contract with Flip Skateboards and, as of J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Barros (skateboarder)
Pedro Barros (born March 15, 1995), known as Pedrinho Barros, is a Brazilian skateboarder who is specialized in Bowl and Park Skateboarding. 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, Pedro is also a entrepreneur, having his own beer company (LayBack) and also his fashion and lifestyle brand called Privê (Privet, in Portuguese). 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. Furthermore, he got second at the Red-Bull-Crossover in 2009 where he defeated his big idol Sandro Dias for the first time. 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 wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandro Dias
Sandro is an Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swiss, Georgian and Croatian given name, often a diminutive of Alessandro or Alexander. It is also a surname. Sandro may refer to: Given name or nickname Sports * Sandro (footballer, born 1973), Brazilian footballer Sandro Chaves de Assis Rosa *Sandro (footballer, born 1974), Brazilian footballer Carlos Alejandro Sierra Fumero * Sandro (footballer, born 1980), Brazilian footballer Sandro Cardoso dos Santos * Sandro (footballer, born 1981), Brazilian footballer Alexsandro Oliveira Duarte *Sandro (footballer, born March 1983), Brazilian footballer Sandro Luiz da Silva * Sandro (footballer, born October 1983), Brazilian footballer Sandro da Silva Mendonça * Sandro (footballer, born 1986), Brazilian footballer Sandro José Ferreira da Silva * Sandro (footballer, born February 1987), Brazilian footballer Sandro Costa da Silva *Sandro (footballer, born March 1987), Brazilian footballer Alessandro Ferreira Leonardo * Sandro (footballer, born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bucky Lasek
Charles Michael "Bucky" Lasek ( ; born December 3, 1972) is an American professional skateboarder and rallycross driver. Career Professional skateboarding Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Lasek started skateboarding at the age of 12, shortly after his bike was stolen. After entering amateur contests, he was quickly noticed by Powell Peralta talent scouts in 1987. Powell sponsored Lasek, and he made his video debut in the fourth Bones Brigade video, ''Public Domain'' (1988). Lasek attained professional status with Powell in 1990, but by this time, skateboarding, and vert skateboarding (Lasek's discipline) in particular, began to lose popularity and his career waned. After vert skateboarding was included as part of the X Games by ESPN in the mid-1990s, Lasek's career was revived. A move from Baltimore to San Diego in the summer of 1998 helped his career further. As of May 2009, Lasek owns a backyard concrete skateboarding bowl named "Lasekland". Professional racing In May 2012, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Brown (skateboarder)
Jake Brown (born 6 September 1974) is an Australian skateboarder who specialises in transition skateboarding. He began competing in 1996 and regularly appears as a contestant in the X Games contest events. Brown has also successfully skateboarded the "MegaRamp" structure, on which he is the first person to ever perform a 720-degree rotation without grabbing his board as of September 2013. During X Games 2007 he separated from his board 14m (45 feet) in the air, suffering multiple injuries in the fall, but walked away from the incident, winning Gold in the same competition in 2009 and successfully defending his title in 2010. Early life Following the divorce of Brown's parents, he resided in Sydney with his mother until he was 12 years old, and then lived with his father, also in Sydney, until he was 16 years old. Brown left his arrangement with his father to relocate to Melbourne so that he could skateboard more frequently. Professional skateboarding During an Australian tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliot Sloan
Elliot Sloan (born 29 July 1988) is an American professional skateboarder from New York City. Early life Elliot Sloan was born on 29 July 1988 in New York City, New York, and was raised there. Career Sloan is a five time X Games medalist, most recently winningoldin the Skateboard Big Air event at the 2019 X Games. Influences Sloan cites Tony Hawk Anthony Frank Hawk (born May 12, 1968), nicknamed Birdman, is an American professional skateboarder, entrepreneur, and the owner of the skateboard company Birdhouse. A pioneer of modern vertical skateboarding, Hawk completed the first documen ... as an influence for him to begin skateboarding. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sloan, Elliot 1988 births Living people American skateboarders X Games athletes Sportspeople from New York City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Burnquist
Robert Dean Silva Burnquist (; born 10 October 1976) is a Brazilian-American professional skateboarder who competed for Brazil throughout his career. In 2010, he became the first skateboarder to land a " fakie 900" (900-degree reverse-natural rotation), making Burnquist the fifth person in history to successfully complete the 900 trick. Early life Burnquist was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to an American father of Swedish descent and a Brazilian mother. He began his skateboarding training in his hometown of São Paulo at 11 years old, and turned professional at 14. He holds dual citizenship in Brazil and the United States. Career upBurnquist skating in 2012, left Burnquist's specialties are switch stance skateboarding, and creating vert tricks. He has a signature trick called the "Wee Willy grind". In 2000, Burnquist won the X Games' best trick contest, with his famous Fakie 5-0 with a fakie kickflip off of the grind bar. Burnquist's biggest success to date came in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarah Gieger
Tarah Gieger (born September 18, 1985) is a Puerto Rican people, Puerto Rican female professional motocross racer.ESPN profile of Tarah GiegerAthlete.com profile of Tarah Gieger with Tarah Gieger Early years Gieger's parents moved to Puerto Rico from Florida, where they established a Surfing, surf shop.etnies sponsor profileof Tarah Gieger [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laia Sanz
Laia Sanz Pla-Giribert (born 11 December 1985), also known as Laia Sanz, is a Spanish sportswoman. She is a fourteen-time Women's Trial World Champion and ten-time Women's Trial European Champion in outdoor motorcycle trials. She has also a member of the Spanish Female Team in the Trial des Nations, helping the team win the event five times (2000, 2002, 2008, 2010, 2011). In 2010, she competed in the Women's Enduro World Championship for the first time. In 2011, she participated for the first time in the Dakar Rally, winning the Female motorcycle category and finishing 39th overall, a position that she managed to repeat a year later. Biography Early years Born in 1985, Sanz learned how to ride a bicycle when she was four years old. The first contact with a motorbike came the same year, when her father used to seat her on the petrol tank of his bike and ride her around. By the time she was five, the passion had grown and, without telling anybody, she began to ride her bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Knight (motorcyclist)
David "Knighter" Knight, (born 31 May 1978), is a three-time world champion enduro rider from the Isle of Man. But holds 5 World Titles altogether. After competing in the Enduro FIM Junior Cup, Knight debuted in the World Enduro Championship riding for Yamaha. He finished runner-up in the 250 cc class to Juha Salminen in 2001 and to Samuli Aro in 2002. In 2003, he moved to the biggest 500 cc class and placed fourth. For the 2004 season, Knight moved to the KTM team and finished second to his teammate Aro in the Enduro 3 class. In 2005, continuing in the E3 class, he took his first world title and also won the International Six Days Enduro outright. In 2006, he posted a "perfect" season, winning all 14 rounds of the E3 WEC season, also winning almost every special test at each event. For 2007, Knight moved to the United States to take on the Grand National Cross Country (GNCC) series against the best in the US. He replaced Salminen, who in turn moved back to the world champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
