Pedro Barros

Pedro Barros (born 15 March 1995), known as Pedrinho Barros, is a Brazilian skateboarder who is specialized in Bowl and Park Skateboarding. He won the silver medal in the inaugural Olympic men's park skateboarding event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Pedro is also an entrepreneur, having his own beer company (LayBack) and his fashion and lifestyle brand, Privê (Privet, in Portuguese).

Career His skateboarding career started in 2008. In 2008, Barros won the X Games Skateboarding Vert amateur event; in 2009, he ended up in third place in the same event. These two appearances were Pedro's kick-start into a successful X Games career. Furthermore, he got second at the Red-Bull-Crossover in 2009 where he defeated his big idol Sandro Dias for the first time.

In 2010, Barros won X Games gold in Park as a rookie after a battle against Andy Macdonald. Pedro was the first rookie to win skateboard gold since Ryan Sheckler won gold in Park in 2003. He also participated in the X Games Big Air competition the same year and ended up in fourth place. Additionally he won the overall Bowl title of World Cup Skateboarding. Again he won the overall Bowl title of World Cup Skateboarding. For the third time in a row he won the overall Bowl title of World Cup Skateboarding.

In 2018, Barros won the Vans Park Series in Vancouver and São Paulo, got third place in Sydney and second place at the tour stop in Malmö, Sweden.

Until now, Pedro Barros had nine X Games appearances, taking six gold and three silver medals. He trails only Dave Mirra in first or second-place finishes to start an X Games career in a single discipline (Mirra had ten straight in BMX Vert).

Business In recent years, Pedro has been working in different areas other than sports, having his own artisan beer company, LayBack, and his fashion brand Privê, which debuted on his 27th birthday.