Gui Khury celebrates landing the 1080. Photo / via Twitter
Gui Khury celebrates landing the 1080. Photo / via Twitter
Tony Hawk watched on as 12-year-old Gui Khury made history 22 years after the skateboarding god stunned the world with the first 900.
The Brazilian child prodigy on Sunday morning went ballistic on Day 3 of the X Games in California, becoming the youngest person ever to win an XGames gold medal.
Gui Khury created history. Photo: @XGames/ Twitter
There were tears at the top of the half-pipe as Khury embraced Hawk, 52, after stunning the world with the first 1080 seen in competition from a non mega-ramp.
Khury's trick saw him take out the Vert Best Trick contest in an event where Hawk returned to X Games competition for the first time since 2003.
Hawk was the first to land a 900 air, but Khury has now bested that with his trick which included a massive air and three full turns in the air.
22 years after Tony Hawk became the first skateboarder to land a 900 on a vert ramp, 12-year-old Gui Khury became the first to land a 1080 on a vert ramp.
Khury became the youngest gold medalist in X Games history and did it all in front of Hawk himself 🙌
It comes 12 months after Khury first made history by pulling off the same feat in training last year, at the age of 11.
In 2012, Tom Schaar became the first person to land a 1080 from a mega ramp — it was a feat that was thought to be impossible at the time.
The 1080 has long been considered the "Holy Grail" of the skateboarding world — but the sport now has now ventured into a new era on the back of Khury's insane feat.
