Record breaker Gui Khury: Redefining skateboarding at 15
Approaching X Games' all-time medal record, the Brazilian star is making major waves in the world of skateboarding.
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15-year-old Brazilian phenom Gui Khury has been a force to be reckoned with since he burst onto the professional skateboarding scene in 2019. At just 10 years old, he became the youngest competitor in X Games history and set his course for what would become a meteoric rise.
Fast forward five years and Khury’s momentum is only building. In the past month alone, he claimed his first world title and then two weeks later, followed that up with back-to-back gold medals at the X Games Chiba, breaking the record for the most X Games medals won by a teenager
Not to mention that on top of the medal record clinched in Chiba, Khury became the first skater to ever successfully land a kickflip body varial 900 in competition, when he did it to secure a gold medal in the Vert Best Trick event.
The Vert and Vert Best Trick golds won in Chiba marked the Brazilian’s 10th and 11th career X Games medals, surpassing Kelly Sildaru’s previous record for most medals won by a teenager with 10.
As his meteoric rise continues to gather steam, Gui Khury is not just making waves—he's redefining the sport. At just 15 years old, his name is one to remember, and his story is likely only beginning.
Breaking records since 10 years old
After shattering the record for the youngest athlete to compete at the X Games at 10 years old, Khury has been breaking down major doors nearly every year since.
During his debut, he not only became the youngest X Games competitor ever, but he also stunned the world by landing a 900 in the vert competition - a feat that took legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk over a decade to master.
Khury first landed the trick when he was a mere eight years old.
“Tony [Hawk] would have had an easier time if he’d tried it when he was younger,” Khury said in an interview this year. “It’s way easier when you’re little. It gets harder for me every day now as I’m getting bigger. Puberty is hitting me hard!”
At 11, Khury made history again by becoming the first skater to ever land a 1080 (three full aerial rotations) on a vert ramp. Doing it at home in Brazil, he broke Hawk’s 900 record that had stood since 1999, when the now retired-skater did it at age 31.
One year after landing the 1080, Khury was back to making headlines, becoming the youngest male X Games gold medallist of all time at 12, winning skateboarding's Vert Best Trick at the Summer Games in Southern California.
So before he even aged into being a teenager, Khury had broken two X Games records and was the first person in the world to land the 1080.
Now 15, the Brazilian has amassed a total of 11 X Games medals and is approaching the all-time record of 15 that is held by both Shaun White and Nyjah Huston. He also boasts three Guinness World Records and has landed a trick before anyone else in the entire world — twice.
Long Live Grandma
Khury’s journey to the top of his sport is deeply rooted in family, especially when it comes to his grandmother, Leonore.
Embodying the spirit of the popular Portuguese saying “Viva Vovó e Bisa” - meaning “long live Grandma and Great Grandmother” - the skater attributes much of his success to Leonore, who had a vert ramp built on her properly in Curitiba - the rural town in southern Brazil in which the family lives.
It was quite the selfless gesture from Leonore, especially considering that while she watches her grandson on TV, he admitted to X Games that “she’s too scared to watch me skate in person.”
The ramp - which is more of a full-scale vert and big air training facility than a simple, homemade ramp - sees many Brazilian skaters training there, including Olympic bronze and 2024 park world champion, Augusto Akio, whom Khury regards “like a brother.”
The two spend countless hours training on the ramp and will often wrap up long days by stopping by Leonore’s house where Khury said, “she gives us soup, then we’ll end up chatting with her all night.”
The teenager’s parents, sister and great grandmother also live on the property and have witnessed the rise of the 15-year-old, which among other things, has been largely in part due to GreenBoxSk8 and the unprecedented access he has had to the training facility as he continues to break glass ceilings and push the limits of everything that has been done in his sport before him.