Fabiola da Silva
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Fabiola da Silva nicknamed Fabby, is a Brazil
ian inline skater who competes on the LG Action Sports World Tour. She has received over fifty medals in the LG Action Sports World Tour events. She has received seven X Games gold medals and one silver, making her the most decorated female athlete in X Games history. In a seven-year stretch, she only lost one X Games event, finishing second in 1999.
She has been so dominant against women skaters that she forced the hand of the sport's administrators in respect of limited gender integration of the professional sport: in 2000, the Aggressive Skaters Association created the so-called "Fabiola Rule", which allowed women to compete in the formerly all-male vert
competition. Since then, she has placed in the top ten several times in events where she competed against men.
In 2005, she became the first woman ever to land the double back flip on a vert ramp.
Fabiola da Silva features in the three-time Webby Award-winning Book of Cool
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She continues to pursue a world championship.
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian inline skater who competes on the LG Action Sports World Tour. She has received over fifty medals in the LG Action Sports World Tour events. She has received seven X Games gold medals and one silver, making her the most decorated female athlete in X Games history. In a seven-year stretch, she only lost one X Games event, finishing second in 1999.
She has been so dominant against women skaters that she forced the hand of the sport's administrators in respect of limited gender integration of the professional sport: in 2000, the Aggressive Skaters Association created the so-called "Fabiola Rule", which allowed women to compete in the formerly all-male vert
Vert (sport)
Vert is a term used in extreme sports to denote a competition held on a Vert ramp which allows the competitors to fly into the air and land back on the ramp. This time in the air allows the competitor to perform moves which would otherwise be extremely difficult...
competition. Since then, she has placed in the top ten several times in events where she competed against men.
In 2005, she became the first woman ever to land the double back flip on a vert ramp.
Fabiola da Silva features in the three-time Webby Award-winning Book of Cool
Book of Cool
Book of Cool is an award-winning global entertainment format created and owned by London, United Kingdom based producers Ocelot Productions. The main purpose is to publicly provide certain captured film footage of the world’s "coolest" exponents of sports and skills in action, as well as divulging...
.
She continues to pursue a world championship.
LG Action Sports World Championships medals
- Park X Games Medals
- 2006 - 4th Place Vert
- 2005 - 4th Place Vert
- 2005 - 4th Place Park Women
- 2004 - 5th Place Vert
- 2004 - 1st Place Park Women
X Games medals
- Park X Games Medals
- 2003 - 1st Place Park Women (Gold)
- 2000 - 1st Place Park Women (Gold)
- Vert X Games Medals
- 2002 - 1st Place Vert Women (Gold)
- 2001 - 1st Place Vert Women (Gold)
- 2000 - 1st Place Vert Women (Gold)
- 1999 - 2nd Place Vert Women (Silver)
- 1998 - 1st Place Vert Women (Gold)
- 1997 - 1st Place Vert Women (Gold)
- 1996 - 1st Place Vert Women (Gold)