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Finally BMX events are regaining traction and this trend continued over the weekend, as Swiss Cycling together with Freestyle Park Ticino hosted the 2021 Swiss Freestyle BMX Championships. The event took place at the Freestyle Park Ticino in Cadenazzo, a FISE standard park built by Hurricane in 2019 which takes no prisoners and boasts a good mix of big jumps, transfers, but also a smaller street-style section. The finals kicked off with the ladies, where we saw the inclusion of WCMX (wheelchair motocross) athlete Lorraine Truong. After a super stylish first run with a good mix of creative rotations, laybacks and lines, she decided to pull out all the stops for her second run and start by dropping in on the big vert ramp, definitely one of the highlights of the event.

Swiss National BMX PARK Championship Cadenazzo, Switzerland

Elite Men:
1 Alexandre SIDERIS SUI 200 UCI points
2 Alessio TONOLI SUI 160
3 Matthias HILBER SUI 130
4 Mike BARANYAI SUI 110

Elite Women:
1 Nikita DUCARROZ SUI 200 UCI points
2 Stephanie ROHR SUI 160 UCI points

BMX Park Elite Results Extreme Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain
Elite Men:
1 Dhers Daniel VEN 200 UCI points
2 Torres Gil Jose ARG 160
3 Zebolds Ernests LAT 130
4 Finlay Ashley GBR 110
5 Reilly Kieran GBR 90
6 Chalifour Maxime CAN 70
7 Újváry Zoltán HUN 50

After two stops in Le Havre and Canet-en-Roussillon, the French Urban Sports tour wrapped its 2021 season in Reims.

WOMEN: With her wide range of tricks and the biggest flow of the Women contest, Nikita Ducarroz take the Gold ahead Jana Muradova (NED) and Julie Plousey (FRA).

MEN: An international start list, a crowd on fire massed in front of the Porte de Mars fully captivated by the level of the last final ensured a lit end of season for the FISE Xperience Reims.

Different styles of riding, as much focused on bangers as on aerial lines, ensured to make the most of

The BMXtreme fest sport & music event took place on 17. - 19. September in the historical Telč (Czech Republic). Part of this event is a Pro and Am BMX miniramp contest (in spine miniramp). In addition to the BMX Miniramp comp, the event had a bike film screening, a pumptrack contest, as well as concerts by well-known bands and DJs.

Winner of Beko best trick is Michael Beran with bikeflip to tailwhip.

Contest PRO Final results:
1) Michael Beran 275 pts.

A bunch of Freestyle riders made it to Eindhoven last weekend as a loose competition was happening on the BigAirBag. It more or less was a free session for entertainment and practically anyone could join the session to see what it's like to jump an airbag set-up. Pim v.d. Bos had built the take-off and Nicky v.d. Veen makes sure the BigAirBag is working. It's good news BMX-ers stay involved in a different shape or form to further develop BMX. The riders were stoked with the soft(er) landing and the Pump Track event had a way of entertainment and participation. When the session was done and dusted it was up to Daniel Wedemeijer, Nick van der Veen and Levi Weidmann to throw down some real tricks on the set-up. The crowd got to see 360-backflips, fronties, turndown flips etc. from Daniel, flipwhips, flips, 3-inverts from Nicky, and 720-s, 360 bar-to bar and flips from Levi.

The session afterwards continued with Sem Kok sending 360 turndowns to the moon, Denz van Laare flipping gaps for the first time and others simply sending it until the airbag was unplugged. Only Dennis Keunen would have sent it at that point but he was not there.

We posted some pics on our Instagram account (@fatbmx) but had some more photos left that we did not want to go to waste. Enjoy.

BdJ

Results Japanese BMX PARK National Championship Park - Okayama - 17 September 2021
Elite Men:
1 NAKAMURA Rimu JPN
2 MIZOGAKI Joji JPN
3 TAKAGI Toshio JPN
4 OWA Haruhiko JPN
5 ISHII Shunya JPN
6 OHNISHI Kanya JPN
7 OKADA Seimei JPN
8 TAKAHASHI Akira JPN
9 KAISE Kotaro JPN
10 FUKAO Kaito JPN

After the first 2021 stop in Le Havre, the French Urban Sports tour will make a stop in Canet-en-Roussillon on September 18th and 19th for BMX and Roller Freestyle Park competitions. Completed with BMX Flatland demonstrations, this free and open to all event (on presentation of a health pass) promises to bring together all generations for a weekend full of Action Sports.

French, Argentina and UK fill the podium for BMX Freestyle Park
From the start of this Sunday, the level of some young riders in the U17 category and the top of the amateurs' ranking could have justified their participation in Pro, and each contest seems to illustrate a new stage in their progression.

The Dutch Park championships took place last Sunday at Skateland in Rotterdam. Although a few riders were missing (Tom van den Bogaard's grandma turned 100 and Niels van Maren struggled with the Covid) the competition was fierce. When everyone rides at their best the vibe is good. The riders are happy with their riding and the crowd is stoked on the best riding they've ever seen the riders do. A win-win situation. 5 classes were on the program for Sunday. With practice, qualification rounds and finals it was a long day before the prizes were given out at the official ceremony in the evening. The most talented riders in each class get to call themselves Dutch champion for a year. In the Elite classes the titles went to Arjan Ellens and Jana Muradova with Thomas in 't Veld (15+), Bruno Colautti (-14) and Indy Kramer (Girls -14) winning the other categories.

What would have been an undisputed star of the day is not there when I arrive to the park Alessandro Barbero, reigning national champion for the last three years will not compete due to an ankle injury sustained in practice. This shuffles the cards and gives to each athlete the opportunity to shake off the awe and give everything to aim for the title.

And what a battle it has been with Gabriele Pala, Emanuel Bettassa and Christian Falvo holding up the KOBRA BMX team flag, Francesco Mongillo returning from a serious ankle injury, Vittorio Galli from Milan, Ramon Francesconi and Lucas Vega from Genova and the local (and promoter of the idea that led to to this Olympic center) Elia Benetton.

In the qualifing (that count only for the starting order of the finals) almost everyone hold back the bangers for the final. Unfortunately Elia cannot keep his runs together after finishing first in the quali with some impressive lines and enormous flip transfer. Down in both his final runs he’ll have to wait a full year for another shot for the title. The scores are very close despite very different styles: Christian Falvo with the highest airs, Gabriele Pala with the technical combos, Emanuel Bettassa with his unique flow and style and Mongillo with an impressive trick variety.