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
Born (2008-12-18) December 18, 2008[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]

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 [13]
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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. "First skateboard '1080' on a vertical ramp". Guinness World Records. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
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