FLATLAND in Hungary. By Rob Alton

Mar 18, 2025

Written by Bart de Jong

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As usual, a lot of work went into this one, it was held @sportzonese A big thank you to everyone who helped, from moving gym floors to standing in the buffet all day. A special thank you to @altonandi who without I would not be hosting any contests. We now do 4 events in one year, it’s a lot. Maybe next year I will rethink a little and do something totally different for a change.

Junior B

We had more kids in junior B than ever before, which was great. Junior B is a category we made to give our very beginners a chance to feel what it is like to compete and give them some motivation to train for something and focus on specific tricks which are basically the very basics of BMX flatland for small kids or any total beginner. Top spot went to a new face not from our club Nagy Gábor which was great! We need more kids not just from our club to ride and come to contests.

Junior

Now with our top junior riders from last year and the year before moving up to amateur men, the junior category became open for any one of the kids to make the podium so it was great to see some new faces standing on the top spots. Kiss-Bősze Andor got his first podium and Gold.

Amateur Women

I am very happy to say that we have two new amateur women in this group. The outstanding winner was Eszter Várkonyi who will next year move up into elite category. The other girls with younger and older talents put on a great show and enjoyed their competition. We need more girls and women in Flatland and it’s slowly happening now at a roots level.

Amateur Men

Young guns are ruling this category, Thuránszky Levente took Gold and Kriston Patrik the silver. All new combos tested as we make our journey for FISE at the end of May. We really appreciate the older Amateur men who are making their license and helping us by supporting the events and the younger riders coming up.

OPEN

We made this category for those riders who don’t want to make a license but would like to take part in any of our contests and the group is growing which is nice to see because some of the riders disappeared for a while and now, they’re coming back and supporting the movement of flatland in Hungary, which stopped a long time ago. Nagy David dominated this category with some of his trademark tricks, great to see him back riding, supporting and also helping the next generation.

Elite Women

We had three entries, two from Hungary and one from Czech Republic. It’s always a battle with the two Hungarian girls; it could be either one of them each taking the top spot. Kádár Veronika had a “no touch” run in qualifications and Mondics Anna struggled with some of her new combos. However, in the finals, Anna settled into her new combos and had very few mistakes to give her the clear win. Both girls are also training and preparing for FISE, these contests are perfect for that. Third place went to Theresa from the Czech Republic who also enjoyed a long weekend of riding during our classes and the contest. It’s so motivating to see how much someone can enjoy this sport and she learnt two new tricks this weekend!

Elite Men

We had four elite men competitors, two from Hungary and two from the Czech Republic. It’s fair to say that Martin Drazil dominated this category with his very technical front wheel lines and I had the pleasure of riding with him on the Saturday night and witnessed him doing a back wheel trick! Bordás Ákos was still suffering from illness but grabbed the second place mixing some new and old lines. Kaposvári Martin got third, Martin has some super difficult front wheel brakeless jump switches, when they work it’s an amazing combo but they come with high risk too! Thanks to both Martin Dražil and Adam Pekař for making the trip once again, flatland needs more riders like them bringing energy and support for the future of the sport.