Guilherme Khury (born 18 December 2008) is a Brazilian skateboarding. He is the first person to land a 1080 (three full revolutions) on a vertical ramp and the youngest person to win a gold medal at the X-Games.
Khury previously held the record for being the youngest person ever to land a 900, which he landed at age 8 (later broken by Ema Kawakami). He holds the record for being the youngest person to compete at the X Games at the age of 10 years and 7 months.
In 2020, he was officially awarded two Guinness World Records for being the Youngest X Games Athlete and for the first 1080 on a vert ramp,
Early life
Khury was born in Curitiba, Brazil in 2008, along with his twin sister to a family of Lebanese descent (“Khury” is Arabic for “priest”) .
In 2011, his family moved to Carlsbad, California, when he was two years old.
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.
In 2015, the family moved back to Brazil, where his father built an indoor ramp for him to practice.
He completed his first 540 at the age of 7, becoming the youngest to do so.
Three months later, he had landed his first 720 and became the youngest in the world to land it.
In July 2017, he suffered a serious accident, fracturing his skull when he fell from a second-story window, landing on a gas meter.
[ At the age of 9, he became the youngest skater to descend a mega ramp, when he went down Bob Burnquist's 60-foot mega ramp]
Skateboarding highlights
900
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.
X Games
Khury was invited to his first X Games at the 2019 X Games Summer Event in Minneapolis.
1080
On 8 May 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.
X-Games Gold
On 16 July 2021, at the 2021 Summer X-Games, Khury became the youngest athlete to win a gold medal at the X-Games, at age 12, in the Skateboard Best Vert Trick competition, where he landed the first successful 1080 in a competition (after having initially completed the trick 14 months prior in solo training).
Further highlights
In April 2022, at the 2022 Spring X Games in Chiba, Japan, Khury landed another 1080 in the Vert Best Trick contest winning the silver medal, being defeated by Mitchie Brusco, and also won bronze in the Vert Skate competition, becoming the youngest person to ever win a medal in the event at the X Games.
On 22 August 2024, Khury landed the world's first kickflip body varial 900 at his home ramp in Brazil.
Guinness World Records
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| Youngest X Games Athlete | 10 years, 225 days | 31 July 2019 | Minneapolis, USA | |
| First skateboard '1080' on a vertical ramp | 1080 | May 2020 | Curitiba, Brazil | |
| Youngest X Games gold medallist (male) | 12 years, 210 days | 16 July 2021 | Vista, California, USA | |
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