Luiz Francisco (born July 24, 2000) is a Brazilian

skateboarder Skateboarding is an action sport originating in the United States that involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard, as well as a recreational activity, an art form, an entertainment industry job, and a method of transportation. S ...

. 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 The X Games are an annual extreme sports event organized, produced and broadcast by ESPN. Coverage is also shown on ESPN's sister network, ABC. The inaugural X Games were held during the summer of 1995 in Providence and Newport, Rhode Island, ...

, he was seventh. At the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

, he ranked first in the semifinals and fourth in the final of the men's park skateboarding event. The event took place at the

Ariake Urban Sports Park is an outdoor sports facility located in the Ariake district of Kōtō, Tokyo and built for the 2020 Summer Olympics. The venue covers a total area of 97,000 m². The BMX, freestyle BMX and skateboard facility has a maximum capacity of 6,600, 5 ...

on August 5, 2021.

References

Brazilian skateboarders Skateboarders at the 2020 Summer Olympics 2000 births Living people Olympic skateboarders of Brazil X Games athletes Sportspeople from São Paulo World Skateboarding Championship medalists People from Lorena, São Paulo {{Skateboarding-bio-stub