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Steven Piñeiro

Steven Piñeiro

Puerto Rican goofy-footed skateboarder

Steven Yancy Piñeiro Pagán[lower-alpha 1] (born November 17, 1996) is a Puerto Rican professional skateboarder. He grew up in the Puerto Rican diaspora in Connecticut, New York and Florida (Jacksonville and Orlando) and repatriated to Puerto Rico in 2019. His family is entirely of Puerto Rican descent from the municipality of Toa Baja; his father Steven Piñeiro was born in New York and his mother Elizabeth Pagán was born in Puerto Rico. He is the third child of four siblings. He has competed globally since the age of 12 in skateboarding event. In 2019, he repatriated to his family's hometown Toa Baja, Puerto Rico where he chose to represent Puerto Rico in sporting events moving forward out of a deep love and admiration for his island, its culture and people.

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In 2011, when he was 14-year-old, Piñeiro traveled to Australia to participate in Bowl-A-Rama. The day before the event, he broke his wrist while attempting a 7-foot 540.[1] The incident was shown on Season 6, Episode 10 of Bondi Rescue.[2]

In 2019 while representing Puerto Rico he won the silver medal at the World Beach Games in Doha, Qatar.[3]

He competed in the men's park event at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and came in sixth in the final.[4][5]

Notes

  1. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Piñeiro and the second or maternal family name is Pagán.

References

  1. [1]
    "Steven Piñeiro and a broken wrist at Bondi". isTia.tv. Retrieved December 24, 2021.
  2. [2]
    "Full List of Bondi Rescue Episodes". Ranker. Retrieved December 24, 2021.
  3. [3]
    "ANOC World Beach Games Skateboard Park Results" (PDF). ANOC Olympics. October 15, 2019. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
  4. [4]
    "Skateboarding - PINIERO Steven". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on July 26, 2021. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
  5. [5]
    "Mens Park Final". 2020 Summer Olympics Results - Skateboarding. ESPN. Archived from the original on August 20, 2021. Retrieved August 20, 2021.


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