{"id":2447284,"date":"2019-08-07T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/friscos-mike-minor-earns-bronze-at-x-games-adaptive-skateboard-event\/"},"modified":"2019-08-07T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T04:40:00","slug":"friscos-mike-minor-earns-bronze-at-x-games-adaptive-skateboard-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/friscos-mike-minor-earns-bronze-at-x-games-adaptive-skateboard-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Frisco\u2019s Mike Minor earns bronze at X Games adaptive skateboard event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.5357142857143\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-310944-911\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/XGames-SDN-080519-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/XGames-SDN-080519.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Aaron Belford | Frisco resident Mike Minor smiles after receiving his bronze medal Saturday evening in Minneapolis at the inaugural X Games adaptive skateboard park competition.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Frisco resident Mike Minor smiles after receiving his bronze medal Saturday evening in Minneapolis at the inaugural X Games adaptive skateboard park competition.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Aaron Belford<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/XGames-SDN-080519.jpg\" alt=\"Frisco resident Mike Minor smiles after receiving his bronze medal Saturday evening in Minneapolis at the inaugural X Games adaptive skateboard park competition.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/XGames-SDN-080519-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/XGames-SDN-080519-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Aaron Belford | Frisco resident Mike Minor takes to a rainbow rail en route to a bronze medal at the inaugural X Games skateboard park event Saturday evening in Minneapolis.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Frisco resident Mike Minor takes to a rainbow rail en route to a bronze medal at the inaugural X Games skateboard park event Saturday evening in Minneapolis.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Aaron Belford<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/XGames-SDN-080519-1.jpg\" alt=\"Frisco resident Mike Minor takes to a rainbow rail en route to a bronze medal at the inaugural X Games skateboard park event Saturday evening in Minneapolis.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/friscos-mike-minor-earns-bronze-at-x-games-adaptive-skateboard-event\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/friscos-mike-minor-earns-bronze-at-x-games-adaptive-skateboard-event\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">FRISCO \u2014 Mike Minor now has an X Games medal to pair with his Paralympic medals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The 29-year-old Frisco resident and Pennsylvania native won a bronze medal Saturday night in Minneapolis at the inaugural X Games adaptive park skateboarding event. Minor, an avid skateboarder since he was 5 years old, won his first X Games medal three years after an injury suffered in practice prevented him from taking part in his only other time at the X Games, in 2016, in adaptive snowboarding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Saturday\u2019s gold and silver medals went to Vinicios Sardi and Filipe Nunes, respectively, who both hail from Brazil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Minor found out this winter that he was one of eight adaptive skateboarders invited to X Games. He credits his time of recent training and having fun on the Frisco, Leadville and Breckenridge skateparks as helping him to earn a medal Saturday night, just the second \u2014 and by far largest \u2014 skateboarding competition he\u2019s ever taken part in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cAn X Games medal is on the list of medals I truly wanted,\u201d Minor said. \u201cIt ranks pretty high with the other accomplishments I\u2019ve made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">At last year\u2019s Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics, Minor won gold in banked slalom and silver in snowboardcross. In snowboarding, Minor competes in upper-limb competitions, as he was born missing his right forearm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">On Saturday night in Minneapolis, the first-ever X Games skateboard park competition took pace in a jam-session format, with eight skateboarders taking turns dropping in for 40-second runs for 20 minutes. Along with Minor, other competitors were below-the-knee and below-the-waist amputees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Minor credited his ability to land a gapped backside 50-50 onto the rainbow rail, gapping off of it, in the park\u2019s central volcano island as a big reason why the judges awarded him the bronze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIf you had done something that no one was doing, I think it was going to score really highly,\u201d Minor said. \u201cThe rail was kind of the centerpiece, and I did better in the competition, because nobody else was attempting to do the rail, no other skater.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Looking ahead, Minor is excited to continue his adaptive snowboarding career as well as adaptive skateboarding. He said he thinks the event will return to X Games next summer, and he would like to take part. Though skateboarding will make its debut at next summer\u2019s Tokyo 2020 Games, adaptive skateboarding won\u2019t be on the official sport list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">That said, Minor is hopeful it will take place as a demo event and, if so, would like to skate in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe hope that the adaptive skateboard park comp at X Games will help in the effort to include skateboarding in the Paralympics,\u201d Summit County local, Paralympic snowboard medalist and co-founder of Adaptive Action Sports Amy Purdy said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Copper Mountain-based Adaptive Action Sports partnered with ESPN to put on the competition. In its history, the nonprofit organization has fielded 12 athletes to the U.S. Paralympic Team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:aolivero@summitdaily.com\">aolivero@summitdaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/friscos-mike-minor-earns-bronze-at-x-games-adaptive-skateboard-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frisco resident Mike Minor smiles after receiving his bronze medal Saturday evening in Minneapolis at the inaugural X Games adaptive skateboard park competition.Courtesy Aaron Belford Frisco resident Mike Minor takes to a rainbow rail en route to a bronze medal at the inaugural X Games skateboard park event Saturday evening in Minneapolis.Courtesy Aaron Belford Show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 16:06:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}