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and Hungary. Expert class level was high with some original tricks by Andras Balogh (HUN), Alex Gurbig (DE) and David Hoffman (DE) who took 3rd, 2nd and 1st place. The crew from Eberswalde all took top ten places: John Kramer, Benny Hill, Rene Bohm and Kevin Brabant were there to represent the flatland capital of the former DDR.

In Master class David Nagy from Hungary took first place with some great combos, Dominik Nekolny not only had solid tricks to take second place but also some awesome tatoos! Denes Katona from Hungary took third place. Peter Sore and Pal Varga were two more riders from Hungary to take top ten places. Milan Haspeklo qualified with a very nice run but let it all slip through his hands in the finals so he took the fifth place back to the Czech Republic. Shane Badman (that's a cool name: you're Bad man!) came over from Australia (yes, there are more flatlanders there than just Simon) to take seventh place and our pocket rocket Dez from Holland took sixth place.

 In Pro class American Boy Wonder Justin Miller destroyed all doubts as to who's the man to beat and took the win. His finals run started off with some touches but superpower signature tricks like his backpacker kickflip killed everyone and everything else. Martti Kuoppa, the Finnish Flatland Magician rode a very solid run to take second place. Martti may be running his own bike company, he still progresses and dropped some crazy shit! Adam Kun took third place, much respect to this Hungarian Flatland Maestro, he is climibing rapidly in my personal "favorite rider list"! FLATtv rider Sebastian "Seppl" Pospischil took fourth place with a super technical run with lots of whiplash variations and combos. Keelan Philips totally lost it and fucked up his run to take the last place in pro. He told me he put too much pressure on himself to equal the succeses he had earlier this year, winning Ninja Spin and placing top three at Circle Cow. We'll see how he will do at Flat Ring in Paris this September, hopefully this nice English lad can get his act together!

Best trick was a very interesting affair. All the pros touched, so in the end the only rider who completed a combo was Markus Reich, and he rides Master Class, but in the end, Matthias Dandois pulled a crazy, crazy combo with his behind-the-back spinning hitchhiker and all so he took that prize home to France!

 It was a good contest. We had perfect weather, two great parties, a good contest. What more can we ask for? Special thanx again to Sabine Ruhrberg for the press pass! Bis nachstes Jahr!

Renato

Pics by BdJ/Jos Wissink

Results Pro flatland:

1 Miller, Justin (USA) KHE, adidas, profile, flatlandfuel
2 Kuoppa, Martti Adidas, Redbull, KGB
3 Kun, Adam (Hun) vans, OG, Fdg
4 Popischil, Sebastian felt, adidas, kunstform, funk, flattv
5 Sommer, Michael (Austria) Felt, Eastpak, Adidas, StereoPanda
6 Dandois, Matthias (Fra) vans, khe, la cremerie
7 Penonzek, Nathan (can) eastpak, carharrt, ares
8 Jumelin, Alex (Fra) adidas, eastpak, khe, stereopanda, insider cars
9 Lukas, Frank (De) DC, Carharrt, Eastpak, New Era, Odyssey
10 Tanaka, Kotaro (Jap)
11 Morizaki, Hiroya (Jap) ares, sul, adidas
12 Phillips, Keelan (Eng) Inertia

Results Masters Flatland:

1 Nagy, David (Hun)
2 Nekolny, Dominik (Cze)
3 Katona, Dènes (Hun)
4 Rommel, Roman (De)
5 Haspeklo, Milan (Cz)
6 Maarsen, Dez "Henk" (Ned)
7 Badman, Shane (Aus)
8 Linszen, David (De)
9 Söre, Peter (Hun)
10 Varga, Pal (Hun)
11 Bracke, Alexis (Bel)
12 Schade, Tobias (De)

Results girls flatland:

1 Bleile, Karin (Swi) Carharrt, Jee Vice, Eastpak, Etnies, 48sbmx
2 Marie Mauret (Fra)

Results Expert Flatland:

1 Hoffman, David (De)
2 Gűrbig, Alexander (De)
3 Balogh, Andras (Hun)
4 Hermel, Robin (De)
5 Krämer, John (De)
6 Sauda, Valerio (It)
7 Grob, Tibor (Hun)
8 Hill, Benny (De)
9 Böhm, René (De)
10 Brabandt, Kevin (De)
11 Gödicke, Thomas (De)
12 Briars, Josh (Eng)