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Meet The X-Games Medalist Skateboarding Toward the Olympics
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Brighton Zeuner became the youngest person to win gold at the X Games one day after her 13th birthday. Now, just a few years older, Brighton is preparing to compete to qualify for the 2020 Olympics.
Brighton Zeuner has a Vans sneaker on one foot and a cast, supporting a sprained, on the other. Her look is a clear indication of the two things she loves most: fashion and skateboarding.
At just 15 years old, she is excelling at both. At age 12, the competitive skateboarder won the Vans Park Series World Championship and at age 13, she became the youngest athlete in X-Games’ 21-year history to take home gold. Today, she ranks as the third best female skater in the world on The Boardr Global Rankings Report, and she is one of 16 skaters to make it onto the first-ever USA skateboarding team – a coveted spot that places her as a top qualifier for next summer’s 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
The San Diego native’s father and brother both liked to skateboard and taught her how. “My older brother Jack was a skateboarder before me and I think one of the main reasons why I started skateboarding was because of him,” Zeuner says.
Her first set of wheels was a makeshift skateboard her mother built from one of Jack’s old boards. “I got my first skateboard when I got back home from a Girl Scout sleepover,” she says. “I think it was my brother’s old board that [my mom] just put trucks on and wheels and I had a mini ramp from my brother. I just went back and forth and that’s when I just fell in love with it.”
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