X Games Barcelona starts today!

Skateboard will inaugurate the first competition day with the SLS Select Series, the Park elimination and the Vert final.

Today the first edition of the X Games in Europe starts and has its first stop in Barcelona in what will be four days of authentic show and action-packed emotion. The competition kicks off this morning with three skateboard modalities: the SLS Select Series, the Park elimination, and the Vert final. In the first one, these are the skaters that will try to obtain a place in the SLS Qualifier:

Ryan Decenzo
Manny Santiago
Keelan Dadd
Felipe Gustavo
Greg Lutzka
Youness Amrani
Cory Kennedy
Evan Smith
Jackson Curtin
Madars Apse
Eniz Fazilov
Fran Molina
David Castells
Javier Sarmiento

Shortly after, the Park eliminations will be disputed. This will let us know what skaters will be fighting for medals in the final held on Sunday 19. The participants are:

Pedro Barros
Taylor Bingaman
Curren Caples
Greyson Fletcher
Rune Glifberg
Alain Goikoetxea
David Gonzalez
David Gravette
Omar Hassan
Ben Hatchell
Aaron Homoki
Kevin Kowalski
Bucky Lasek
Andy Macdonald
Brad McClain
Ben Raemers
Tom Remillard
Ivan Rivado
Alex Sorgente
Raven Tershy

In the Skateboard Vert final, which will take place at the Piscina Municipal de Salts, the main candidates stand out for having a very long career and for being four of the best skaters in the world. Thus, Pierre-Luc Gagnon, one of the most technical and who has won 18 medals (8 of them gold), Bucky Lasek, a legend of the X Games and gold in Brazil, and Bob Burnquist and Andy Macdonald, second and third athletes with most medals in the X Games, will fight to repeat medal in Barcelona.

Marcelo Bastos
Mitchie Brusco
Sandro Dias
Pierre-Luc Gagnon
Rony Gomes
Bucky Lasek
Andy Macdonald
Danny Mayer