Highest Skateboard Drop In (world record) – Red Bull

World champion skateboarder Sandro Dias claimed a new world record for the highest skateboard drop in, using the unique shape of the Brazilian State Rio Grande do Sul building as the perfect mega ramp. Dias began with a drop already higher than a standard 23-metre Megaramp – before pushing the sport’s limits with multiple attempts, across increasing heights along a 88.91 meter tall building.

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Catching Up With | Funa Nakayama

As a bronze medallist in the Tokyo Olympic Games, Funa Nakayama became a standard-bearer of Japan’s staggering ascent in competitive skateboarding.

Having won WST Rome outright in 2022- which remains her sole WST victory to date- Funa scored the cover of Thrasher magazine in January 2023 with her trademark frontside crooked grind down the proving-ground Hollywood High handrail. Olympic medallist, World Skateboarding Tour Stop Winner, Thrasher cover star all by the age of 17.

With a confidence-restoring, come-from-behind second place at WST Rome last June sending her up the World Skateboarding Ranking to a comfortable 3rd place, WST caught up with her ahead of the World Skateboarding Tour’s return to her country for WST Kitakyushu Street World Cup this November.

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Full Competition Replay: Men’s Park Qualifier | 2025 Rockstar Energy Open Portland

Watch the full Men’s Park Qualifier competition replay from the 2025 Rockstar Energy Open in Portland, Oregon.

Featuring Trey Wood, Nick Peterson, Kevin Kowalski, Greyson Fletcher, Jake Yanko, Vincent Matheron, Tristan Rennie, Tommy Calvert, CJ Collins, Chris Russell, Danny Leon, Phoenix Sinnerton, Taylor Nye, Tate Carew, Issei Sakurai, Hampus Winberg, Keegan Palmer, Luigi Cini, Cory Juneau, Pedro Barros, Liam Pace, Yuro Nagahara, Gavin Bottger, and Tom Schaar.

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