AnOther catches up with Vans skater and Olympic athlete Lizzie Armanto about her career and the rapid evolution of women’s skateboarding
is the first woman in the world to complete Tony Hawk’s legendary 360 loop. First executed by the legendary American skateboarder over 20 years ago in 1998, Armanto managed to pull off the dangerous stunt in 2018 after nearly five hours of attempts. Moving from success to success, one year later it was revealed that she would
skate at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. As the first time that skateboarding was recognised as an Olympic sport, this was a major milestone, but it was nonetheless a divisive event among the community, with some lauding the decision and others deriding it.“I felt confident about skating in the Olympics,” says Armanto today, “although I remember feeling the pressure of trying to figure out if I was going to skate for the USA or Finland for the Olympics.
This infectious enthusiasm for doing what you love – in her case, skateboarding – is a throughline through Armanto’s career, ever since she first picked up a board at 14 in her local skatepark in Santa Monica, California. “I love the community, the culture, the lifestyle and freedom,” she says. “It’s a universe amongst itself that’s open and available to anyone who wants to try.”Today, Armanto is in Paris courtesy of Vans, whom she is on the skating team for.
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