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Born | Anaheim, California, U.S. | July 17, 1986|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 120 lb (54 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Skateboarding | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Vanessa Torres (born July 17, 1986, in Anaheim, California) is a professional skateboarder. She is sponsored by Meow Skateboards [1] and is the first woman to win X Games gold. [2]
In 2003 the X Games first featured female skateboarding competitions; Torres placed first, winning gold, in the street event (then called Park). [3] Torres won silver in the X Games Street Competition in 2004 and placed in the top ten in 2005–2011 and 2014.[ citation needed] In 2015 at the X Games in Austin and 2016 at the X Games in Oslo, Torres won bronze. She again placed in the top ten in 2016 and 2017. [4]
She is featured in several women's skateboarding videos such as AKA: Girl Skater (2003), Getting Nowhere Faster (2004), and Quit Your Day Job (2014). She also appears in the video game Tony Hawk's Proving Ground, making her the third female as a playable skater to appear in the Tony Hawk's video game series after Elissa Steamer and Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins.
Torres is of Mexican descent from Modesto, California. [5] [2] She dropped out of high school to pursue skateboarding. [2] She splits her personal time living in San Diego and San Francisco, California. [6]
Name of Skatepark | City | State |
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Belvedere | East Los Angeles | California |
Sheldon | Sun Valley | California |
Santa Clarita | Santa Clarita | California |
Sunnyvale | Sunnyvale | California |
Ceres | Ceres | California |
SoMa | San Francisco | California |
Potrero del Sol/La Raza | San Francisco | California |