Monster Energy’s Anthony Jeanjean Claims Overall UCI World Cup Title in Shanghai

Oct 22, 2024

Written by Bart de Jong

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Jeanjean crowned the new UCI World Cup Champion! Monster Energy congratulates team rider Anthony Jeanjean on taking second place at the UCI BMX Freestyle Park World Cup finals in Shanghai. In the season finale at Westbund Dome Art Center, the 26-year-old Olympic athlete from Béziers, France, secured enough points in overall rankings to claim his career-first UCI World Cup title in the BMX Freestyle Park discipline. From October 16-20, 2024, the UCI BMX Freestyle Park World Cup finals in Shanghai crowned overall World Cup Champions in Freestyle and Flatland disciplines. In the Park discipline, the top 72 riders from across the world battled for the top spots in men’s and women’s competitions in the last stop of the World Cup season.

In the BMX Park Final, Monster Energy’s Anthony Jeanjean delivered his highest-scoring run on the first attempt. Anthony attacked the course with more speed than anyone else in the field, doing a unique, high-speed line that included his signature technical tricks such as backflip triple tail whip over the box jump, 720 barspin on the step up, 540 flair the quarter pipe, a huge tail whip quarter to quarter transferover the temple channel, double backflip over the box, massive flair tailwhip the quarterpipe,double downside tailwhip from the hip into the far wedge, and a flair downside whip into the bank garnered Jean Jean a score of 88.90 points and second place.

The second-place finish boosted Jeanjean’s score to first place overall in the UCI BMX Freestyle Park World Cup rankings. With 2900 points in the Elite Men division, Jeanjean secured his career-first UCI World Cup Championship title.

Jeanjean has been riding BMX freestyle since the age of 10. He is a three-time BMX European Champion and has won the French national BMX Championships four times. Jeanjean claimed the bronze medal in BMX Park in the 2024 Paris Games.