Pedro Barros (born March 15, 1995), known as Pedrinho Barros, is a Brazilian skateboarder who is specialized in Bowl and Park Skateboarding.[1] 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).

Pedro Barros

Barros in 2021
Personal information
Full name	Pedro Barros
Born	(1995-03-15) March 15, 1995 (age 27) Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Sport
Country	Brazil
Sport	Skateboarding
Medal record Men's skateboarding Representing  Brazil Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Park World Skateboarding Championship 2018 Nanjing Skateboard Park 2016 Malmö Skateboard Park 2017 Shangai Skateboard Park Summer X Games 2010 Los Angeles Skateboard Park 2012 Los Angeles Skateboard Park 2013 Foz do Iguaçu Skateboard Park 2013 Barcelona Skateboard Park 2014 Austin Skateboard Park 2016 Austin Skateboard Park 2011 Los Angeles Skateboard Park 2013 Munich Skateboard Park 2015 Austin Skateboard Park 2009 Los Angeles Skateboard Vert Am

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.[2] Furthermore, he got second at the Red-Bull-Crossover in 2009 where he defeated his big idol Sandro Dias for the first time.[3]

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 won gold in Park in 2003. He also participated in the X-Games Big Air competition in the same year, where he ended up in fourth place. Additionally he won the overall Bowl title of World Cup Skateboarding.[2]

In 2011, Barros landed in second place in the X-Games Park event and a 14th place in X-Games Vert competition.[4] Again he won the overall Bowl title of World Cup Skateboarding.[2] In 2012, he again won gold in the X-Games Park event and won the Vans BOWL-A-RAMA in New York.[4][5] For the third time in a row he won the overall Bowl title of World Cup Skateboarding.[2]

In 2013, he won two X-Games gold medals in Park, one at the X-Games in Foz do Iguaçu and the other one at the X-Games in Barcelona. At the X-Games in Munich 2013 he won the silver medal in Park.[4] For four straight years, he won the overall Bowl title of World Cup Skateboarding.[2] Pedro's winning series continued in 2014, where he got his fifth gold medal in an X-Games Park event in Austin, Los Angeles.[4] In the same year he won the Volcom BOWL-A-RAMA in Getxo, Spain and the BOWL-A-RAMA in Wellington, New Zealand.[5] He landed in third in the Bowl ranking of World Cup Skateboarding.[2] In 2015, he won silver at the X-Games Park event in Austin.[4] Again he landed in third place in the Bowl ranking of World Cup Skateboarding.[2]

In 2016, he won the X-Games Park competition and won his sixth X-Games gold medal in total. Until then, he has never finished worse than silver in an astounding Skateboard Park run that began with rookie gold in 2010.[4] In the same year, he also won the Vans Pool Party in California.[5] He won the Vans Park Series in Florianopois and had two second places at the tour-stops in Melbourne and Malmö, which were also the 2016 World Championships in Park Skateboarding.[6]

In 2017, Barros won the Vans Park Series in Vancouver and São Paulo, got a third place in Sydney and a second place at the tour-stop in Malmö, Sweden.[6]

In 2018, his sponsor Drop Dead Skateboards released a movie called "Silver Era", featuring a video part by Baros. In the same year, he came in fourth place at the X-Games Park event in Minneapolis. He won the Vans Park Series event in Vancouver and got three second places at the tour-stops in Suzhou, São Paulo and Huntington Beach.[6] He also won the Red Bull Bowl Rippers in Marseilles.[5] In the same year Pedro executed a movie project with Red Bull called "Pedro's Bigger Picture", where he skates artistically designed art features that showcase his favorite skate spots around the world."[7]

Until now, Pedro Barros had nine X Games appearances, taking six gold medals and three silver medals. He trails only Dave Mirra in first or second-place finishes to start an X-Games career in a single discipline (Mirra had ten straight in BMX Vert).

Business

In the most recent years, Pedro has been working in different areas other than sport, having his own artisan beer company, LayBack, and also his fashion brand Privê, that debut in his 27 year old birthday.

References

External links

• Pedro Barros athlete profile at vans.com
• Verified profile at Instagram
• Verified profile at Facebook
• Pedro Barros "Silver Era" moviepart
• 2018 VPS Rider Interview: Pedro Barros

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