X Games 2021 Day Three News and Results

The third day of X Video games 2021 competitors moved to the CA Coaching Facility for skateboarding and BMX competitions together with Males’s Skateboard Park, Girls’s Skateboard Park, Pacifico Skateboard Vert, Pacifico Skateboard Vert Greatest Trick and Wendy’s BMX Avenue. Along with all competitions being accessible on X Video games YouTube, followers can catch one of the best of X Video games 2021 tomorrow from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET on ABC and a pair of to five p.m. on ESPN2. The occasion is closed to the general public with no spectators in attendance all through the week.

Competitors kicked off with Males’s Skateboard Park, the place X Video games rookie, Liam Tempo, ended up on high. Although Tempo had beforehand earned an X Video games medal as an beginner in Subsequent X Skateboard Park at Minneapolis 2018, this was his first within the Skateboard Park self-discipline. Run two was Tempo’s finest cross, bumping him into the gold medal slot with highlights together with a protracted bottom Smith grind, bottom 540, kickflip Indy, frontside wallride, frontside nosegrind, frontside 180 Ollie over the field leap, and full Cab bottom catastrophe. Fellow rookie and CA|TF common Gavin Bottger took silver whereas Tristan Rennie took bronze, his second within the self-discipline.

In Girls’s Skateboard Park, the youngsters as soon as once more dominated the competitors – the sphere had a mean age of simply 18. 9 days after turning 13, Sky Brown dropped into her first run and dropped a frontside 540 as her final trick. She is the primary lady to land it and the one lady who does that trick in competitors. Nonetheless, it was her third run that was her finest, which included a frontside 360 field leap, frontside alleyoop 270 on the hip and a bottom tailslide by means of the nook. 19-year-old Mami Tezuka launched herself into silver medal place along with her final run, the place she stomped a frontside stalefish over the hole in run 4, which she had by no means landed beforehand. 17-year-old Encinitas native Bryce Wettstein rounded out the rostrum with bronze. All three riders earned their first X Video games medals. Sky Brown will characterize Nice Britain and Bryce Wettstein will characterize the USA within the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. 

Outdoors on the vert ramp, Jimmy Wilkins earned his third straight gold medal in Pacifico Skateboard Vert. This marks solely the third time X Video games has seen a Skateboard Vert threepeat – and one in every of them was competing in the present day alongside Wilkins: Bucky Lasek. Wilkins’ runs included tips like  kickflip melon, alley oop frontside ollie, alley oop tailgrap 540, ollie 540, bottom ollie to catastrophe. Eleven-time X Video games medalist Elliot Sloan nabbed his first-ever podium in Vert with silver and 10-time X Video games medalist Mitchie Brusco added a bronze to his assortment.

The Pacifico Skateboard Vert Greatest Trick contest had a shock entry from Skateboard legend Tony Hawk at 53 years outdated. The final time Hawk competed at X Video games was in 2003, when he received gold in Vert Greatest Trick with a 900. Eighteen years later, 12-year-old Gui Khury made X Video games historical past by besting Hawk’s 900 with the first-ever fakie 1080 mute landed in X Video games competitors. The medal additionally landed him within the historical past books because the youngest gold medalist in X Video games historical past. 

Garrett Reynolds took gold as soon as once more in BMX Avenue, persevering with his dominance together with his fourth consecutive gold and 14th gold general. Reynolds’ tips included a barspin to handbook to tire journey up rail to double barspin off, a change 180 change barspin over the rail to flat and a 180 whip down the steps. German Felix Prangenberg added his second silver and general X Video games medal within the self-discipline, whereas Scottish rider Alex Donnachie took bronze.

Motion wraps up tomorrow from the CA Coaching Facility with Girls’s Skateboard Avenue, Males’s Skateboard Avenue and Skateboard Avenue Greatest Trick. For the total X Video games 2021 competitors schedule and extra info, please go to www.XGames.com. 

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