Steven Piñeiro

{{Short description|Puerto Rican goofy-footed skateboarder}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}

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| full_name = Steven Yancy Piñeiro Pagán

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1996|11|17}}

| birth_place = {{nowrap|New London, Connecticut, U.S.}}

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| height = 5 ft 10 in

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| website = {{URL|www.vidabyyancy.com}}

| country = {{PUR}}

| sport = Skateboarding

| event = Park

| olympics = 6th (2020)

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{{MedalSport|Men's park skateboarding}}

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{{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}}

{{MedalBronze|2023 Santiago|Park}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Beach Games}}

{{MedalSilver|2019 Doha|Park}}

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Steven Yancy Piñeiro Pagán{{family name footnote|Piñeiro|Pagán|lang=Spanish}} (born November 17, 1996) is a Puerto Rican professional skateboarder. He grew up in the Puerto Rican diaspora in Connecticut, New York and Florida (Jacksonville and Orlando) and repatriated to Puerto Rico in 2019. His family is entirely of Puerto Rican descent from the municipality of Toa Baja; his father Steven Piñeiro was born in New York and his mother Elizabeth Pagán was born in Puerto Rico. He is the third child of four siblings. He has competed globally since the age of 12 in skateboarding event. In 2019, he repatriated to his family's hometown Toa Baja, Puerto Rico where he chose to represent Puerto Rico in sporting events moving forward out of a deep love and admiration for his island, its culture and people.

In 2011, when he was 14-year-old, Piñeiro traveled to Australia to participate in Bowl-A-Rama. The day before the event, he broke his wrist while attempting a 7-foot 540.{{cite web |url=http://blog.istia.tv/2011/02/steven-pineiro-and-broken-wrist-at.html |title=Steven Piñeiro and a broken wrist at Bondi |website=isTia.tv |access-date=December 24, 2021}} The incident was shown on Season 6, Episode 10 of Bondi Rescue.{{cite web |url=https://www.ranker.com/list/full-list-of-bondi-rescue-episodes/reference |title=Full List of Bondi Rescue Episodes |website=Ranker |access-date=December 24, 2021}}

In 2019 while representing Puerto Rico he won the silver medal at the World Beach Games in Doha, Qatar.{{cite web |url=https://www.anocolympic.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/awbg-qatar2019-results-skateboarding-park.pdf |title=ANOC World Beach Games Skateboard Park Results |date=October 15, 2019 |website=ANOC Olympics |access-date=August 3, 2021}}

He competed in the men's park event at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and came in sixth in the final.{{cite web |url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/skateboarding/athlete-profile-n1303972-piniero-steven.htm |title=Skateboarding - PINIERO Steven |work=Tokyo 2020 Olympics |publisher=Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games |access-date=July 26, 2021 |archive-date=July 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726225715/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/skateboarding/athlete-profile-n1303972-piniero-steven.htm |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/olympics/summer/2020/results/_/discipline/110/event/964 |title=Mens Park Final |work=2020 Summer Olympics Results - Skateboarding |publisher=ESPN |access-date=August 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820204320/https://www.espn.com/olympics/summer/2020/results/_/discipline/110/event/964 |archive-date=August 20, 2021 |url-status=dead}}