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RIDER OF THE YEAR
SAM WILLOUGHBY/AUS
Presenter-Nadia Waelti UCI SX Sponsor-Swatch
Others Nominated, were Donny Robinson/USA Ivo Van Der Putten/NED Sarah Walker/NZL

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
EVA AILLOUD/FRA
Presenter-Robert de Wilde Rider Representative
Others Nominated, were Connor Fields/USA Corben Sharrah/USA Joris Daudet/FRA

COACH OF THE YEAR 
BAS DE BEVER/NED
Presenter-Mike King UCI BMX Commission
Others Nominated, were Fabrice Vettoretti/NED Ken Cools/NZL Wade Bootes/AUS 

The ABA BMX Title chases are always a battle to the line and this season is no exception. This years 2009 ABA Grands is sure to be one of the best ever, and we will see all 8 of the ABA National #1 title winners receive a Harman Kardon receiver/ JBL 5.1 home theater system. THIS IS EXCITING STUFF to say the least! The ABA National #1 Title winners have a long history, or let's call it a tradition, of winning only the best for the efforts over the years, and Harmon International - JBL Audio is no exception. As if that's not exciting enough. Harmon International - JBL Audio will also we awarding a full JBL car audio system consisting of a 5 channel amplifier, 4 JBL speakers and a JBL prefab subwoofer to both the boys and girls winners of the ever popular event, the ABA BMX N.A.G 5 Challenge. The ABA BMX N.A.G. 5 Challenge is always a race that brings bragging rights and lots of cool prizes, but this years winners will be taking home some sweet JBL Audio equipment.

Now just when you thought it couldn't get any better, as part of their

Last weekend in a town of Chilliwack, B.C. Canada, the ABA held their Canadian ABA Grandnationals and crowned a new Canadian Pro King and Queen. And we here at Supercross BMX are proud to call the new Canandian ABA #1 Pro and Women Pro our own. For the ABA #1 Canadian Pro Title, Jimmy Brown came from behind, as he was not listed in the hunt for the title when the weekend started and lap by lap seemed to go faster not losing a single lap and taking the win for the weekend both days and ending up with his first Pro Title.

On the Womens Side, Supercross BMX's Kaila Sweeney was the reigning holder of the crown and went in to the Canadian ABA Grands in the lead to repeat her title and cinched the title chase by winning every lap on the Billy Allen built ABA Grands track to take the #1 Womens Pro Title home for the second year in a row.

Americans Donny Robinson (Napa, Calif.) and Arielle Martin (Pleasant Grove, Utah) finished third overall in the 2009 UCI BMX Supercross World Cup series following the fourth and final round in Frejus, France. In the fourth round final Robinson finished second, behind Australia’s Sam Willoughby in the main, to secure third in the overall series. Martin finished third in Saturday’s main behind series winner Latetia le Corguille (FRA) to grab third in the final standings.  

“I was not too happy with the way I was riding and Maris, Sam and Khalen were all incredibly fast” said Robinson. “I did not have second place speed today. So l am happy with my result thanks to some good positioning and smart riding.”

Following Robinson’s second-place finish, the only other American to make the main in Frejus was last year’s winner David Herman (Wheat Ridge, Colo.), finishing sixth. Click here for complete results from the

Laëtitia Le Corguillé from France won the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup in Fréjus in one of this year’s most exciting Elite women finals. With this victory in the ultimate leg of this year’s BMX Supercross World Cup the determined French rider also secured the overall 2009 World Cup win for Elite women. Just as impressive was Sam Willoughby’s victory in France in the Elite men. The 2009 Junior World Champion claimed his second win in a World Cup event this year and with that the talented young Australian from Adelaide was also awarded 2009 overall winner.

Willoughby was not the favourite going in to the quarter finals. He finished only 17th in the time trials on Friday and he had a rough start in the 1/8 finals on Saturday. He barely qualified for the quarter finales with one point to spare. But from that moment on the young Australian was on fire winning all following heats including the main event.

Le Corguillé was only second fastest going in to the women’s finals. 

After a doubtful start in qualifying motos, Australia’s Sam Willoughby scraped through by a mere point to progress on and eventually win the elite men’s BMX Supercross World Cup final round in Frejus (fray jers), France. The 18 year old from Adelaide creates history by becoming the youngest rider ever to win the overall World Cup Series plus the first Australian to claim a series win. “I had a real rough start to the day. The pressure was on but I managed to pull my head back in and refocus on the job at hand. I learnt a lot about myself today!” said Willoughby. 

UCI SUPERCROSS FREJUS, FRANCE. SATURDAY FINALS
Elite Men
1 Sam Willoughby/AUS
2 Donny Robinson/USA
3 Cristian Becerine/ARG
4 Ramiro Marino/ARG
5 Maris Strombergs/LAT
6 David Herman (USA) 

Coming off a great first term Junior Development series, USA Cycling, the national governing body for the sport of cycling in the United States, in conjunction with the American Bicycle Association (ABA), is proud to announce the continued excitement of the USA Cycling BMX Junior Development Series for the 2010 season. The series will consist of USA Cycling branded events at all ABA sanctioned BMX tracks and ABA National Series events in 2010.

The series will qualify riders to participate in USA Cycling high performance training camps at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. There will be four camps per year, and qualified riders will have opportunities to train with Olympic athletes on the Beijing Olympic replica track and the new ABA sanctioned track, which will replicate the 2010 UCI World Championship track. These athletes will also receive instruction in nutrition, strength training and recovery.

This level of training is becoming more and more essential for

With the 2009 coming to an end, the riders from Formula Europe are finishing their last races before enjoying a well-deserved rest and starting preparation for the 2010 BMX Season. Rihards Veide is showing he's ready to move up to the Elite Category next season. In Besnato (Italy), he won the opening Time Trial of the 3rd International BMX Fast Cross against several European Top Elite riders. In Saturday's race he took a solid second behind former World Champ Arturs Matisons and in front of Vice European Elite Champ