It has become a reoccuring event, the Dutch National BMX Park championships. A few editions have taken place at Skateland Rotterdam and a couple at Area 51. On November 30th the Dutch park scene got together in Eindhoven for the 2024 edition. The Park had been upgrades with a spine and a smaller box jump on the street section and transfers between the bigger ramps and the new ramps were possible during the riders' runs. Anyway, a free pick to choose whatever you preferred. Jikke Schraffordt made the right choices and won the U15 women class. BMX Amsterdam also picked up the title in the U15 Men class in the name of Saimi Paulissen. Barspins, ET's, tire grabs, no-handers, X-ups. T-bos, cancans over the spine, alley-oop 270s, and a 360 over the new box jump. Saimi's run was packed and he beat Madhu Furst and his younger brother Oden to it. Scooter rider Jesse Bust decided to borrow Daniel Wedemeijer's bike and had a go at the 15+ class. And guess what, he won! In good Daan Melis fashion he showed no problems taking his scooter tricks and adapting them to the BMX bike. If Jordan Clark can do it... Jesse pulled flairs, flips, did Toboggans, cancans, 270s and 360s after only one hour on the bike. Next to scooter champ he can now add BMX champ to his C.V.
Indy Kramer did not have much competition in Elite Women but even if there would have been more girls, they would have to do well to beat Indy. Multiple Dutch champion at age 16. No-handers, 360 X-ups, T-bogs, transfers, alley-oop 270s, cancans, all on the big ramps in the park. The red/white/blue jersey will be framed at some point. Maybe.
UEC European Flatland Championships results. 16 November 2024
Men
1 DANDOIS Matthias FRANCE 91.00
2 GOMEZ PIERNAVIEJA Jorge SPAIN 88.33
3 BARAN Julien FRANCE 86.66
4 ALT Dustyn GERMANY 86.00
5 RAHAIN Anatole FRANCE 82.66
6 HERNANDEZ DEL POZO Alvaro SPAIN 77.66
7 JUMELIN Alexandre FRANCE 70.66
Results Freestyle series Costa Rica Bac Park 10cio, Costa Rica 22 September 2024
Men Park:
1 Kenneth Fabian TENCIO ESQUIVEL 31 CRC 200.00 UCI Ranking points
2 Dante TABUYO OCHOA 23 MEX 160.00
3 Derek SOLANO LOPEZ 20 CRC 130.00
4 Gamaliet Alexander OSEGUEDA REYES 27 CRC 110.00
5 Anthony Joel DE LEON GORDON 27 PAN 90.00
6 Rob DARDEN 43 USA 70.00
Women's Park Results Qualification. Top 12 to the finals. Cadenazzo, Switzerland. 20 September 2024.
BMX Park Women:
1 MICULYČOVÁ Iveta CZECHIA 3 86.00(1) 87.83(1) 86.91
2 DUCARROZ Nikita SWITZERLAND 3 80.00(5) 85.23(3) 82.61
3 LESSMANN Lara Marie GERMANY 3 81.33(3) 83.40(4) 82.36
4 MÜLLER Kim Lea GERMANY 3 76.66(6) 85.66(2) 81.16
5 PARDOE Sasha GREAT BRITAIN 3 85.83(2) 62.16(6) 73.99
6 RENDALL TODD Elsa GREAT BRITAIN 1 68.33(7) 74.66(5) 71.49
7 FERNANDEZ-MIRANDA AZCOAGA Teresa SPAIN 2 80.33(4) 51.66(10) 65.99
8 KRÄMER Indy NETHERLANDS 2 66.66(9) 62.00(7) 64.33
9 PIPE Holly GREAT BRITAIN 1 68.00(8) 48.33(11) 58.16
10 LIUBIMOVA Valeriia FRANCE 2 53.33(10) 61.33(8) 57.33
11 PEREZ Laury FRANCE 3 50.33(11) 57.00(9) 53.66
12 SEIDLER Lillyana GERMANY 2 40.66(13) 46.00(12) 43.33
13 NEUNER Michelle SWITZERLAND 1 45.16(12) 24.33(16) 34.74
14 PLOUSEY Julie FRANCE 2 39.33(14) 30.00(15) 34.66
Results Spanish National BMX Park Championships - Park Parc del Forum - Barcelona, Spain 13 - 14 September 2024
Men Park:
1 Daniel PEÑAFIEL FERNANDEZ 36 ESP 200.00 UCI Ranking points
2 Jaime FRANCISCO FERNANDEZ 29 ESP 160.00
3 Pol D AZ LORENTE 18 ESP 130.00
4 Saul VILAR MAGDALENO 17 ESP 110.00
5 Bernat RIGAU MONCUSI 20 ESP 90.00
Results Extreme Barcelona, 14 Sep - 15 Sep 2024, Barcelona, Spain
Results Men Park:
1 Kieran Reilly GBR
2 Jude Jones GBR
3 Kenneth Tencio CRC
4 Justin Dowell USA
5 Julio Jonathan Mosquera Camacho ECU
Results Adelaide 500 BMX Freestyle Adelaide, AUS, Australia 23 - 26 November 2023
1 Declan BROOKS 27 GBR 200.00 UCI Ranking points
2 Daniel SANDOVAL 29 USA 160.00
3 Brandon LOUPOS 30 AUS 130.00
4 Alec DANELUTTI 23 AUS 110.00
5 Joji MIZOGAKI 17 JPN 90.00
6 Samuel GIBSON 25 AUS. 70.00
7 Jaie TOOHEY 32 AUS 50.00
8 Samual GRACE 20 AUS 30.00
France and Japan grab Flatland titles in Glasgow. With record numbers on the entry list the BMX Flatland competition at the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships was about to be a good one. A new platform was created for the breakdance-style discipline and riders used any opportunity to spend a minute on it to prepare for the runs that they had in mind. Preparation is key and if there is one event on the calendar this year where the athletes prepared for, it’s the UCI Cycling World Championships. That rainbow jersey has a meaning and riders had to go through several phases of competition to get to the final event on Thursday August 10th.
Last year’s UCI BMX Flatland Women World Champion Aude Cassagne is still on the highest
Is China the future of BMX Freestyle? The last stop of the 2023 UCI BMX Freestyle World Cup took place in Bazhong, China. It was a long travel for most but once arrived at the permanent BMX freestyle facility it was clear that the Chinese are serious about the future. The Women park riders have already made their mark on the UCI World Cup circuit but it was the junior riders that impressed everyone. The warm-up section with foam pit and resi section behind the park was used all day by not only the World Cup riders but especially the Juniors. Their energy is endless. Their tricks are up to par with the higher classes. It’s almost scary to think what’s in store for the future of BMX coming out of China.
The last stop of the 2023 UCI BMX Freestyle Park World Cup would decide who would go home with the title for this year. 28 Women signed up trying to make it to the final. With 6 riders from China making it to the final 12 in Bazhong it only confirms their domination. 43 Men entered the Park comp. The permanent ramp set-up was on the small side for them Men and had different transitions than usual but as always, adapting is key. Bigger names not making it out to the semifinal were a.o. Jose Torres Gil (ARG) and Justin Dowell (USA) who both suffered from a flat tire. In the semi-final a cut was made from 24 to 12 and things got wild there. Every single rider has the ability to make it through to the final round but it’s the riding that is done during the run that counts. Little mistakes, blank airs, pedal slips, it gets down to small details for the judges to decide who gets a high enough score to go to the final.
With two 60-second runs each and the best run counting, that job is never easy. Most riders pulled at least one good run. Missing the cut by just 0.1 points was Costa Rica’s Kenneth Tencio who, in his first 8 seconds already did three awesome tricks. The way he starts his runs with a flair drop-in is amazing and takes risk. He kept going till the very end but came up short to make the final. On the bubble also were Alec Danelutti (AUS) and Declan Brooks (GBR). It shows how high the level is these days. A simple cruise to the final does not exist anymore. A few names in Women Park that missed out on riding the final of the World Cup under the roof were Macarena Perez (Chile), the talented Kim Lea Müller (GER) and Queen Saray Villegas (COL). With the Chinese riders upping the level it is getting harder and hard to cut into the top 12 at each stop.
After a grey day during practice on Thursday the sun had come out for the rest of the weekend. The grandstands were full, the big screen showed the replays, the sound was blasting. In short; let the finals begin! Hannah Roberts (USA) was the UCI World Cup ranking leader coming into the last stop. The Chinese riders weren’t going to give it to her for free so the American had to push her personal limit to perform at her best. Hannah ended up on the podium but in between Sibei Sun (CHN) for third and Ya Wen Deng (CHN) for the win. The power that Ya Wen brought to the FOP was strong. She even improved her first run score of 90.10 with a 93.84 which brought the public to their feet. A UCI World Cup win on home territory is one not to forget. Congrats to team China on the results. Hannah Roberts ended up with the 2023 UCI World Cup overall title. It won’t be easy to repeat that for 2024 but time will tell.
Olympic champ Logan Martin had a pretty comfortable lead coming into the last round and when he qualified for the final in 4 th place, his first goal was reached. His direct competitors (Marcus Christopher USA, Anthony Jeanjean FRA, Kieran Reilly GBR and Rimu Nakamura JPN) in the ranking also made it to the finals so it was going to be a good one. When Daniel Dhers (VEN) set the bar with a flawless run that involved his hardest tricks, the bar was set. Marin Rantes (CRO) topped Dhers and took the lead. But heat two in the final brought some more heavy hitters. Anthony Jeanjean, Kieran Reilly and Logan Martin changed leading positions several times which contributed to the show. With extra flips, rotations, tailwhips and barspins the final heated up. Logan brought the forwards bike flip, Kieran pulled a double flair and Jeanjean double backflipped and ended up in 1-2-3 in that order. The results gave Logan Martin the 2023 UCI BMX Freestyle World Cup Overall followed by Reilly and Jeanjean for third.
The 2023 UCI BMX Freestyle overall titles went to:
Men Park: Logan Martin (AUS)
Women Park: Hannah Roberts (USA)
Men Flatland: Yu Shoji (JPN)
Women Flatland: Aude Cassagne (FRA)
BdJ
Photos by Bart de Jong / @fatbmx
Full results
Men Park:
1 Logan MARTIN 30 AUS 1000.00 UCI Ranking points
2 Kieran REILLY 22 GBR 900.00
3 Anthony JEANJEAN 25 FRA 820.00
4 Marin RANTEŠ 28 CRO 770.00
5 Marcus CHRISTOPHER 21 USA 720.00
6 Nick BRUCE 31 USA 670.00
7 Dylan HESSEY 20 GBR 620.00
8 Daniel DHERS 38 VEN 570.00
9 Gustavo BATISTA DE OLIVEIRA 21 BRA 520.00
10 Brian FOX 28 USA 470.00
11 Rimu NAKAMURA 21 JPN 430.00
12 Daniel SANDOVAL 29 USA 390.00
13 Kenneth Fabian TENCIO ESQUIVEL 30 CRC 350.00
14 Alec DANELUTTI 23 AUS 310.00
15 Declan BROOKS 27 GBR 270.00
16 Jeffrey WHALEY 27 CAN 230.00
17 Jacob THIEM 23 USA 200.00
18 Jude JONES 22 GBR 170.00
19 Bryce TRYON 23 USA 140.00
20 Ernests ZEBOLDS 24 LAT 110.00
21 Maxime CHALIFOUR 24 CAN 90.00
22 Joji MIZOGAKI 17 JPN 70.00
23 Kevin PERAZA GARCIA 29 MEX 50.00
24 Istvan CAILLET 31 FRA 40.00
25 Zoltán ÚJVÁRY 23 HUN 30.00
26 Justin DOWELL 23 USA 29.00
27 Levi WEIDMANN 23 NED 28.00
28 Paul THÖLEN 25 GER 27.00
29 Ryan NYQUIST 44 USA 26.00
30 Tianwang WEI 19 CHN 25.00
31 Jose TORRES GIL 28 ARG 24.00
32 Shuotang LIN 19 CHN 23.00
33 Tomass GRINBERGS 26 LAT 22.00
34 Tom CLEMENS 18 GER 21.00
35 Martynas LAGAUSKAS 27 LTU 20.00
36 Caio DE OLIVEIRA SOUSA 30 BRA 19.00
37 Xiaolong SHA 21 CHN 18.00
38 Kaede OZAWA 16 JPN 17.00
39 Kevin FABREGUE 28 FRA 16.00
40 Zoltán KEMPF 27 HUN 15.00
41 Kim YEONHO 21 KOR 14.00
42 Jui Chun KAO 21 TPE 13.00
Women Park:
1 Yawen DENG 18 CHN 1000.00
2 Hannah ROBERTS 22 USA 900.00
3 Sibei SUN 18 CHN 820.00
4 Natalya DIEHM 26 AUS 770.00
5 Iveta MICULYČOVÁ 18 CZE 720.00
6 Zihui FAN 19 CHN 670.00
7 Nikita DUCARROZ 27 SUI 620.00
8 Huimin ZHOU 18 CHN 570.00
9 Charlotte WORTHINGTON 27 GBR 520.00
10 Jiaqi SUN 19 CHN 470.00
11 Honglin XIA 17 CHN 430.00
12 Sarah NICKI 16 AUS 390.00
13 Macarena PEREZ GRASSET 27 CHI 350.00
14 Kim Lea MÜLLER 21 GER 310.00
15 Queen VILLEGAS SERNA 20 COL 270.00
16 Qian ZHENG 20 CHN 230.00
17 Laury PEREZ 20 FRA 200.00
18 Angie MARINO 33 USA 170.00
19 Sasha PARDOE 17 GBR 140.00
20 Analia Gabriela ZACARIAS 34 ARG 110.00
21 Lara Marie LESSMANN 23 GER 90.00
22 Agustina ROTH 22 ARG 70.00
23 Valeriia LIUBIMOVA 19 FRA 50.00
24 Eduarda BORDIGNON 23 BRA 40.00
25 Nene NAITO 17 JPN 30.00
26 Carolina DE SOUZA BITTENCOURT 23 BRA 29.00
27 Cory COFFEY 41 USA 28.00
28 Sinai OH 15 KOR 27.00
Riders from Slovakia, Germany and Hungary battled at the C1 BMX Park Hungarian Cup Series - Round 3 Debrecen, Hungary on 16 September 2023. The results can be found below. See who scored most UCI ranking points in Hungary this past Saturday.
Men Park:
1 Zoltán ÚJVÁRY 23 HUN 80.6 200.00
2 Zoltán KEMPF 27 HUN 75.5 160.00
3 Péter NÁHLIK 23 HUN 70.3 130.00
4 Gergő ZÖLD 25 HUN 69 110.00
5 Tomáš TOHOL 19 SVK 68.9 90.00
6 Milán JÓZSA 24 HUN 51 70.00
7 Márk VUKMAN 28 HUN 45 50.00
8 Hans Wilhelm KITTLER 19 GER 16.3 30.00
9 Csepel CSERVENÁK 27 HUN 61.83 20.00
10 János BÁBEL 19 HUN 42.33 10.00
11 Richard KOLEJÁK 17 SVK 37
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