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Burnquist Becomes First Three-peat Champion in the Skateboard Big Air at the X Games

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Bob Burnquist has The X (Games) Factor…

The 36-year-old Brazilian skateboarder kicked off the first night of competition at X Games Foz with a thrilling Skateboard Big Air session to become the discipline’s first three-peat champion on Thursday.

Bob Burnquist

Burnquist now has a total of 23 X Games medals, tying him with Shaun White for the second-most in the competition’s history, behind only BMXer Dave Mirra.

“We’ve had these MegaRamp events here and I’ve gotten wins here, but this was unique,” Burnquist said after the victory. “I’m really stoked. And to do it here at home, as the first main X Games, I can’t ask for anything better.”

With one round to go, Burnquist held a slim lead ahead of his competitors thanks to his 20-foot indy 360 with just a few minutes left on the clock.

“I thought I was going to hang up,” said Burnquist, on the trick that thrust him into the second-stage points lead. “But I thought in the middle in my run, ‘If I hang up, I hang up.’ But I landed it. That’s about as scared as I want to be tonight, but I have to go again.”

Sanz Upsets Maria Forsberg in X Games Foz Enduro X Race

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Call Laia Sanz “The Foiler”…

During her Enduro X race at the X Games Foz, the 27-year-old Spanish sportswoman foiled Maria Forsberg‘s bid at a three-peat after zooming past her in one of the first obstacle sections, taking an early 15-second lead and eventually lapping most competitors.

Laia Sanz

Sanz finished with a time of 1:03:76 — 32 seconds ahead of Forsberg. Tarah Gieger, Forberg’s longtime rival, finished in third place with a time of 1:12.49

“I think it helped me that it was really, really slippery, and my trials experience was really important,” Sanz said, in a podium interview. “I didn’t know that it would be like this, so I’m really excited and really happy and I need to say thank you to my family, my friends and everybody that was supporting me here.”

Sanz’s 32-second win qualifies as a major upset, as Forsberg was previously undefeated in X Games Enduro X competition and went nearly undefeated in everything else in 2012.

Sanz is an 11-time Woman’s Trial World Champion and 10-time Woman’s Trials European Champion in the Outdoor Motorcycle Trials.