The women's skateboard from Brazil has reached the stage of excellence that it has today, known as one of the powerhouses of the sport in the world, much because of Letícia Bufoni. She broke the boundaries of the sport for women, when they still said they could not skate. At the age of nine, seeing the street kids skateboarding where he lived, in the East Zone of São Paulo, he asked for one for his father, Jaime.

At first, he was against it, because that "was not a girl's sport", as he said at the time. With persistence, Letícia managed to convince him otherwise. Two years later, when she won an amateur championship in São Paulo, Letícia found the boost she needed to start a successful career in international skateboarding.

The borders were definitely opened in 2009, when she won her first competition abroad, the Maloof Money Cup, in Orange County (USA). That same year, she was elected “Personality of the Year” by Época Magazine. In 2010, he made his debut at the X Games in Los Angeles (USA), ending with the runner-up. On the other hand, she ended the season as a world champion in skate street with the World Cup of Skateboarding. By the way, in the following three seasons (until 2013), only Letícia Bufoni led the World Cup ranking.

With her talent, the Brazilian has become a frequent figure on the podium of the main competitions in the last decade. In addition to joining the Guinness Book as the skater who won the most medals in X Games - there were 11 in total, between 2010 and 2019 - Letícia also holds another historic mark: the one with the most victories in the World Cup of skateboarding. It became so iconic that in 2015 he became a character in the cult game Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5.

The chance to represent Brazil at the Tokyo Games will mean for Letícia another barrier to be overcome.

“This would be one of the big dreams for my career, even because it was the skateboard debut at the Olympics. It will be something very special ”, he says.
BORN: APRIL 13, 1993 in Sao Paulo, Brazil
STANCE: Goofy
SPONSORS: Plan B, Nike SB, TNT Energy Drink, Oakley, Nixon, GoPro, Bones Wheels, Crail Trucks, B4BC
INSTAGRAM: @leticiabufoni