{"id":116,"date":"2018-01-21T13:11:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T13:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2018-01-21T13:13:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T13:13:16","slug":"brighton-zeuner-youngest-x-games-gold-medalist-at-13-first-female-skateboarder-ever-sponsored-by-red-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/116\/brighton-zeuner-youngest-x-games-gold-medalist-at-13-first-female-skateboarder-ever-sponsored-by-red-bull\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton Zeuner youngest X-Games gold medalist at 13, first female skateboarder ever sponsored by Red Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brighton Zeuner beat the women she watched doing her favorite sport growing up, one day after her 13th birthday, at the 2017 X-Games in Minneapolis.\u00a0 She became the youngest X-Games medalist and gold medalist in the competition&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>    <picture>\r\n                <img src=\"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brighton-Zeuner-x-games-skateboard-park-champion.jpg\"\r\n             srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brighton-Zeuner-x-games-skateboard-park-champion.jpg 725w, https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brighton-Zeuner-x-games-skateboard-park-champion-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brighton-Zeuner-x-games-skateboard-park-champion-300x298.jpg 300w\"             sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 75vw, 1200px\"\r\n             width=\"725\"\r\n             height=\"720\"\r\n             alt=\"Brighton Zeuner X-Games skateboard park champion\"\r\n             loading=\"lazy\"             decoding=\"async\"\r\n             class=\"size-full wp-image-117 alignnone\" >\r\n    <\/picture>\r\n    <\/p>\n<p>Brighton has a long list of firsts.\u00a0\u00a0At 11 years old, she became the youngest X-Games cometitor ever. And in 2015, she became the youngest winner at the Vans U.S. Open.\u00a0 She&#8217;s also the only female winner of California State Games Athlete of the Year.\u00a0 And Brighton is the first female skateboarder ever sponsored by Red Bull.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere\u2019s stereotypes that only boys can do it, and it\u2019s a manly sport. Honestly, the girls have proven that we can share the sport,\u201d Brighton said.<\/p>\n<p>.She said she loves the sport because of \u201cthe freedom you get, and, I know it sounds cheesy, but escape.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>    <picture>\r\n                <img src=\"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brighton-Zeuner-x-games-skateboard-park-champion2.jpg\"\r\n             srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brighton-Zeuner-x-games-skateboard-park-champion2.jpg 668w, https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brighton-Zeuner-x-games-skateboard-park-champion2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brighton-Zeuner-x-games-skateboard-park-champion2-300x300.jpg 300w\"             sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 75vw, 1200px\"\r\n             width=\"668\"\r\n             height=\"666\"\r\n             alt=\"Brighton Zeuner X-Games skateboard park champion\"\r\n             loading=\"lazy\"             decoding=\"async\"\r\n             class=\"size-full wp-image-118 aligncenter\" >\r\n    <\/picture>\r\n    <\/p>\n<p>(via ABC, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Sports\/13-year-skateboarder-youngest-games-gold-medalist-history\/story?id=52364948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How this 13-year-old skateboarder became the youngest X Games gold medalist in history<\/a>&#8220;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brighton Zeuner beat the women she watched doing her favorite sport growing up, one day after her 13th birthday, at the 2017 X-Games in Minneapolis.\u00a0 She became the youngest X-Games medalist and gold medalist in the competition&#8217;s history. Brighton has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/116\/brighton-zeuner-youngest-x-games-gold-medalist-at-13-first-female-skateboarder-ever-sponsored-by-red-bull\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[108,113,110,109,112,111],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story","tag-brighton-zeune","tag-firsts","tag-red-bull","tag-skateboarding","tag-sponsor","tag-sponsorship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}