Fabiola da Silva
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Fabiola da Silva (born June 18, 1979 in São Paulo), nicknamed Fabby, is a Brazilian rollerblader who competes at the X Games and other international extreme sports competitions. She has received seven gold medals and one silver, making her the most decorated female athlete in X Games history. In a seven-year stretch, she only lost one X Games event, finishing second in 1999. She is the girlfriend of 4 times X-Games skateboarding champ, Sandro Dias.
She has been so dominant against women skaters that she forced the hand of the sport's administrators in respect of limited gender integration of the professional sport: in 2000, the Aggressive Skaters Association created the so-called "Fabiola Rule", which allowed women to compete the formerly all-male vert competition. Since then, she has placed in the top ten several times in events where she competed against men.
Fabiola da Silva features in the triple Webby Award winning book of cool.
[edit] X Games medals
- Park X Games Medals
- 2003 - 1st Place Park Women (Gold)
- 2000 - 1st Place Park Women (Gold)
- Vert X Games Medals
- 2002 - 1st Place Vert Women (Gold)
- 2001 - 1st Place Vert Women (Gold)
- 2000 - 1st Place Vert Women (Gold)
- 1999 - 2nd Place Vert Women (Silver)
- 1998 - 1st Place Vert Women (Gold)
- 1997 - 1st Place Vert Women (Gold)
- 1996 - 1st Place Vert Women (Gold)
[edit] Style
Fabiola is also well known for wearing men's boxer shorts. She usually wears baggy pants that sag, allowing the waistband of her boxers to be visible.
