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Area 51 C1 results BMX Freestyle Park Eindhoven, Netherlands 04 December 2023

Women Park:

1 Iveta MICULYČOVÁ 18 CZE  200.00 UCI Ranking points
2 Indy KRÄMER 15 NED.          160.00
3 Julie PLOUSEY 21 FRA.        130.00
4 Daria DIATLOVA 25 ***.       110.00

Men Park:

1 Tom VAN DEN BOGAARD 27 NED  200.00 UCI Ranking points
2 Levi WEIDMANN 23 NED                160.00
3 Paul THÖLEN 25 GER                     130.00
4 Yurii ILLIUSHCHENKO 23 UKR       110.00
5 Kaede OZAWA 16 JPN                     90.00
6 Hans Wilhelm KITTLER 19 GER      70.00

Results Park contest Area 51. C1 BMX Freestyle Park. Eindhoven, Netherlands. 10 April 2023
Men Park:
1 Tom VAN DEN BOGAARD 27 NED     200.00 UCI Ranking points
2 Yurii ILLIUSHCHENKO 23 UKR          160.00
3 Jude JONES 22 GBR                          130.00
4 Dylan HESSEY 20 GBR                       110.00
5 Miller TEMPLE 18 GBR                        90.00
6 Levi WEIDMANN 23 NED                     70.00
7 Tom CLEMENS 18 GER                        50.00
8 Zoltán ÚJVÁRY 23 HUN                       30.00
9 Kenneth TANCRE 28 BEL                     20.00
10 Reef WAY 18 GBR                               10.00
11 Arjan ELLENS 27 NED
12 Timo SCHULZE 25 GER

Women Park:
1 Kim Lea MÜLLER 21 GER                   200.00 UCI Ranking points
2 Lara Marie LESSMANN 23 GER         160.00

The Dutch qualifier of Red Bull UCI Pump Track took place Saturday in the Urban Sportpark in Eindhoven. Aiko Gommers (BEL) and Anaia Istil (FRA) took home the win and earned their spot in the World Final in Chile. The format of the Red Bull UCI Pump Track Qualifier is simple: first all riders were given two runs to set the fastest time. Then the fastest 32 men and four women battled against each other in direct duos, of which the fastest was allowed to advance to the next round.

The women's final was between the Belgian twins Aiko and Robyn Gommers. Aiko got it from her sister. She is the current world champion, and in her rainbow jersey she lived up to expectations.

Has BMX Freestyle changed? No it has not. It has added a chapter because of the Olympic Games but everyone can still 'freestyle' on his BMX bike just the way they want to. For Park riders there is now an Olympic pathway. It has lead to a structure with 200 National Cycling federations involved, a ranking and events all over the world where UCI ranking points can be scored. The structure that is set up has different level of events with National Championships and "C1" contests attributing to the rider's individual UCI ranking. The C1 contest in Eindhoven, Netherlands during the Easter weekend was used by several riders in order to score enough points to be able to enter the upcoming UCI BMX Freestyle World Cup in Montpellier, France. Thing is, with the big interest in participating at these events the 50 ranking points minimum is a first selection process to keep the Men Park event manageable. It is awesome to see the popularity of the Olympic structure which had riders from Czech, GBR, Costa Rica, Canada, France, Germany, Russia, Belgium, Switzerland and of course The Netherlands show up for the C1 comp in Eindhoven for the points chase.

The level was high, especially in the Men Park class. Making a top 7 result in Eindhoven would mean a score of 50 points or more and a 'way-in' for the World Cup in Montpellier. For most it was the first contest since all hell broke loose with the Covid-19 pandemic. It felt so good to be back to normal without having to wear a mask, show a QR code or negative PCR test, respect a 'bubble' or keep a distance of 1,5 metres from th person you talk to. All restrictions were out of the window and the bar

Results UCI C1 Park contest Eindhoven, Netherlands. Monday 18 April 2022.

Women Park:
1) Valeriia Liubimova ---
2) Lara Lessmann GER
3) Kim Lea Müller GER
4) Kenza Chaal FRA
5) Ertel Lara Marie GER
6) Julie Plousey FRA

Men Park:
1) Jeanjean Anthony FRA
2) Gornall Shaun GBR
3) Chipman Jaden CAN
4) Tencio Esquivel Kenneth CRC
5) Weidmann Levi NED
6) Tancre Kenneth BEL
7) Thölen Paul GER

Pump Tracks are all the craze. Instead of leaving it up to the users to figure out what to do with it, Red Bull, in association with Velosolutions, have set up a worldwide qualification system for the World Championships which will be held in Lisbon, Portugal mid October. Litterally tons of qualifying events worldwide have taken place already and on Saturday 18 September it was Holland's turn to find out who would go to the Red Bull UCI Pump Track World's next month. These qualifiers are open for any rider (17+) to enter and with time running out, Eddy Clerté took the Dutch opportunity to try qualify for the big one in Portugal 16-17 October 2021.

It's a big mix with BMX as well as MTB riders setting a time at the beginning of the race. The goal is to set a time fast enough to make it to the top 32. There's a second opportunity to if you could not set a quick enough time in your first run. Once the 32 fastest riders are selected, it's a head-to-head system afterwards where the first place qualifier races the rider who qualified in 32nd, number 2 races number 31, etc. After each phase half of the riders make it to the next round until 2 are left for the final race of the day.

This was the first Pump Track race I've visited and I was wondering how the start of the time trial and the start of the head-to-head phases would go. In fact, there is no starting gate, and the riders all have their chains on the bike. Basically it's a rolling start where you can gain as much speed as you like

The E-Moves festival in Eindhoven, Netherlands once again brought BMX fans together for the second edition of the 040 Invitational Spine Ramp contest. The 040 BMX crew set up a new version of the massive miniramp in the middle of the city for the invited riders to shine. 12 riders made it to the final where Kostya Andreev meant business with back to back tricks including 3-whips to tuck over the spine and flairs to tuck no-hander. James Jones from the UK was ripping and did many variations over the spine to get second place. Belgian Kenneth Tancré rode well to get the last spot on the podium in Eindhoven with third place.

The second annual 040 Invitational BMX Spine Ramp Contest took place in Eindhoven, Netherlands last weekend and here are the results.
FINAL Results 040 Invitational Spine Ramp Contest 2017:
1 Kostya Andreev (RUS)
2 James Jones (GBR)
3 Kenneth Tancré (BEL)
4 Tom van den Bogaard (NED)
5 Zdenda Pesek (Cze)
6 Paul Thoelen (GER)
7 Cam Peake (GBR)
8 Daniel Wedemeijer (NED)
9 Sem Kok (NED)
10 Shaun Gornall (GBR)
11 Jari Roggeveen (NED)
12 Niels van Maren (NED)