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In 10th we see Berlin local Sprosse who has great style. At only 18 years old he's got a long future ahead of him if he stays focused on BMX.

Sergey Geyer had to use Monkey's bike for his runs as he got a rear wheel problem right before the contest started. He amazingly adapted to the Felt and pulled a lot of his tech shit especially in his second run.

Markus Wilke's 2nd run was a tad better than his first one in my opinion had he's one solid rider with a lot of experience. His runs reminded me of his 2nd place x-games run in San Francisco but wait a minute, that was years ago. Markus might not do the latest tricks but he's got his own style and that was good enough for 8th in Berlin. He pulled a flip too!

If Koji Kraft could take his riding a bit more seriously he would end up top five in each discipline he enters. The current miniramp world champ rode his custom T1 frame (you read that right!) to 7th with one-handed 360-s over the spine, turndown flips over the box and double whip attempts on the big quarter. You know that Koji does crash a lot but he's got a new sponsor these days that helps him out with that (Strelcheck Chiropractic Clinic).

Alessandro Barbero packed up his Fiat and drove up from Italy to whip every ramp on the course. Alessandro is a good contest rider and pulls the tricks he wants to do and that includes double whips over the box, tailwhip tailtaps and 3-whips over the spine. No, he didn't drive up, he flew.

Local Bjorn Mager is back on the bike. His flat spin 720-s were insane. Hopefully you'll get to witness that soon, Bjorn also did fronties and backies with a tailwhip and joked around with frame stand jumps and walking bomb drops on the box and the spine for a respectable 5th place.

Tom Haugen always nails his tricks. His second run was flawless and he's got some hard moves too: double whip the box, tailwhip 180 over the spine, tailwhip tailtaps and 360-x-ups over the box together with a number of nibblers on all the other ramps on the course got him 4th in Berlin. Tom's list of tricks is an indication on how good the riding was at the "Streetlife" festival.

Steve McCann's first run ended quick when he clipped on a roll-in which ended in a scary crash. He was alright though and saved his energy and tricks for the second run. Best run counts so Steve was still in but the pressure was on. His 2nd run was a video editor's dream where he nailed every trick back to back. By doing 720-s, no-handers, flairs, 540-s, truckdrivers to x-ups it was clear that Stevie can handle the pressure. A podium for the Australian Mongoose rider (3rd).

With only half a point difference from McCann, Tobias Wicke and Dave Dillewaard tied for first. After the tie-breaker Dilly took the win over Tobi's frontflip, no-handed backflip, double tailwhip, tech trick run. Dillewaard is simply a very solid rider who is enjoyable to watch. He puts more tricks in his runs than anyone else and uses the complete course. He even grinded down the handrail, did opposite 360 transfers and ice-picked the sub rail. Tricks that not everyone else did. Dave was ready to ride on Sunday but wasn't complaining that the Saturday results were taken as the final score. Party on.

 

BdJ

 

Results Park LG Action Sports World Tour, Berlin, Germany:

 

1 Dave Dillewaard Brisbane, Australia 22,  90.75
2 Tobias Wicke Falkensee, Germany 24, 90.75
3 Steven McCann Melbourne, Australia 23, 90.25
4 Tom Haugen Minneapolis, MN 30,  89.00
5 Bjorn Mager Berlin, Germany 21,  87.50
6 Alessandro Barbero Ceva, Italy 23,  87.25
7 Koji Kraft Addison, IL 23,  85.25
8 Markus Wilke Hamburg, Germany 31, 84.50
9 Sergey Geyer Delmenhorst, Germany 21, 82.50
10 Sven "Sprosse" Lehmann Berlin, Germany 18,  81.50
11 Brendan Jones Monley, Australia 23, 81.25
12 Patrick Steckelmann Brandenburg, Germany 18, 77.25