RIDERS LINEUP AT FISE CHENGDU - NOVEMBER 3 TO 5. Not even two weeks left before the FISE World Series’ closing event in China. Located in in the heart of Chengdu, Nan hu Park is going to host the UCI BMX Freestyle Park World Cup Men and Women. Take a first look at some of the big names who will be competing with us in Chengdu:
UCI BMX FREESTYLE PARK WORLD CUP - MEN
DANIEL DHERS Venezuela - age 32
BRANDON LOUPOS Australia - age 24
DANIEL SANDOVAL USA - age 23
LOGAN MARTIN Australia - age 23
KOSTYA ANDREEV Russia - age 24
MIKE VARGA Canada - age 20
ALEX COLEBORN UK - age 25
IREK RIZAEV Russia - age 19
NICK BRUCE USA - age 25
CAM PEAKE UK - age 20
COLTON WALKER USA - age 20
ALESSANDRO BARBERO Italy - age 34
UCI BMX FREESTYLE PARK WORLD CUP - WOMEN
Australia's BMX Freestylers set to contest the inaugural UCI Urban World Championships in China in November, their first stop on their journey towards the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. In June 2017, the IOC announced that BMX Freestyle Park would be added to the Programme of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
BMX Freestyle Park is an exhilarating discipline of cycling which takes place in parks full of ramps with big transitions and large obstacles. Competitors are judged (scored between 0-100pts over two one-minute runs) on tricks performed throughout the course, with points awarded based on difficulty, originality, style and execution.
Australia boasts two of the world's best, both considered to be serious medal contenders in Tokyo 2020. Logan Martin, the 2016 UCI World Cup Series champion who sits fourth in 2017 after winning Stop 1 in the Series, and Brandon Loupos who is second overall in 2017 after taking out Stop 2.
In their first jump towards Tokyo, riders will contest the 2017 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships this November 8-12 in Chengdu, China. The Championships will see the world’s best will battle for the iconic rainbow jersey and the title of UCI World Champion in BMX Freestyle Park.
Some of the Australia riders who will participate in Chengdu 8 - 12 November are:
The Chinese stop of the FWS presented by Honor is coming up fast, and the city of Chengdu is getting ready to host the last stop of the 2017 FISE World Series, from November 3-5. After a high-intensity season, we are going to wrap things up in Nan Hu Park, in the heart of Sichuan’s capital city. Take a look below at the Freestyle Park, on which the UCI BMX Freestyle Park World Cup will take place.
With a start in Montpellier, then stopping in Budapest and Edmonton, the FISE World Series truly had a banging year so far. But we are not done: one last stop still needs to take place, and it will do so in Chengdu, China, from November 3-5. Sealing the deal for the 2017 season, the Chinese stop will unmistakeably push the riders to give their very best, in the hope of claiming a spot on the podium not only for the event but also for the overall FISE World Series rankings. So keep an eye on Nan Hu Park, in Chengdu: you wouldn't want to miss any of the action that will take place there.
Let’s end the season on the highest note for this 20 years of FISE celebration tour ! The fourth and last stopover of the FISE World Series in China and more exactly in the big town of Chengdu ! The 2017 international tour will end from November 3 to 5, 2017!
In line with the new voting system introduced this year to increase the number of members on the UCI Athletes’ Commission, applications are now open to candidates from the BMX Freestyle discipline. Elections for the representatives – one man and one woman for each discipline – will be held during the UCI Urban Cycling World Championships in Chengdu, China, from November 8 to 12. Under the new voting system, not only will the number of athletes on the UCI Athletes’ Commission increase, but there will be men-women parity across all disciplines. All representatives on the Commission will be elected for a term of four years, from the 2017 UCI Congress to the 2021 UCI Congress. To be eligible, candidates must be currently active in the sport or have retired within the last four years before the election date.
Further information, including the eligibility criteria and the application process, can be found here.
Applications for the representatives of BMX Freestyle must be submitted by October 28th. Candidates are requested to send their CV to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
The final list of candidates, as well as more information about the voting procedure (exact venues and timetable) will be published on the UCI website on November 6th, before the UCI Urban Cycling World Championships.
Any athletes participating in the BMX Freestyle competition in Chengdu will be eligible to vote for one
In a fast moving world we can sometimes get lost. With so much happening on the BMX Freestyle side in 2017 with multiple events happening on each weekend, it's nice to enter a quiet month. But 2017 isn't over yet and November has two bigger events happening with the UCI BMX Freestyle Park World Cup Finals taking place in Chengdu, China 3-5 November followed by the first UCI Urban Cycling World Championships in the same city (but different location) on 10-12 November. Daniel Dhers (VEN) and Hannah Roberts (USA) are leading the World Cup at the moment and will do everything within their power to do well and seal the deal in Chengdu on the first weekend of November.
The second edition of the Antwerp City Drops event is taking place from 23-24 September 2017. Good times were had in 2016 at the inaugural event with lots of sunshine, high level dirt riding and plenty of partying. In short, a killer weekend in Belgium. The following riders have confirmed their presence and if you think you've got what it takes and your name is not on this list yet, make sure to enter the Open Qualifier event on Saturday morning and claim a spot. In any case, the Dirt contest is going to be a good one with these guys on the list already. A high air contest will take place on Saturday. A Best Trick contest will be held on Sunday. Other events during the ACD festival are BMX Flatland, a Pump track contest, trials, skateboarding, slackline, partying, graffiti, freerunning.
ACD 2017 Dirt contest:
Joe Baddeley (GBR)
Konrad Szabo (HUN)
Paul Thoelen (GER)
Maxime Charveron (FRA)
Kenneth Tancré (BEL)
Simon Moratz (GER)
The wood, metal, and dirt just landed in William Hawrelak Park and the building is well underway for the third stop of the FISE World Series 2017, in Edmonton, Canada. As soon as the containers arrived from Budapest, the FISE Area builders started the process of putting everything together to recreate once more our famous riding areas. These will be the grounds for some incredible action on September 15-17. To get an idea of what is coming, take a look at the competition schedule below.
Thursday, September 14th
10.30am – 5.30pm Training BMX Freestyle Park
5.30pm – 7.40pm Training BMX Freestyle Park Women
We'll be rolling out nominees all week long leading up to the 2017 NORA Cup this Sunday in Hastings, England. Here are your 2017 Transition Rider of The Year Nominees (in alphabetical order):
Chase Hawk
Dennis Enarson
Kevin Peraza
Larry Edgar
Logan Martin
We'll be rolling out nominees all week long leading up to the 2017 NORA Cup this Sunday in Hastings, England. Here are your 2017 Flatlander of The Year Nominees (in alphabetical order): Alex Jumelin Jean William Prevost John Yull Matthias Dandois Moto Sasaki WHO DO YOU THINK WON? Find out when the NORA Cup 2017 winners are announced this Sunday, 9/10 @ 1PM PST.
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