2024 had an event or two on the calendar. From the regular C1 events to national championships to continental championships and UCI World Champs, but 2024 also had two Olympic Qualifier Series on the agenda and the Olympic Games. For Park riders it was a busy year. With the events listed on the UCI International calendar riders know they can score ranking points. After 12 months of collecting points left and right the standing looked as follows. We only list the top 20 where hundreds more competed this past year. So making it to this list means the riders didn't do too bad. Points do count towards nation rankings (top 2 riders' scores count for that) which qualifies quota spots for events like the continental championships and world championships. So even if there is no big prize at the end of the season, it still matters to do well. Also it guarantees you (top 72-ish) a participation spot at the UCI World Cups. Anyway, if you're competitive, a look at Tuesday's update of the ranking is interesting. Participating at more events on the UCI International calendar helps move up. Sitting around doing nothing does not. Points fall off the table after 12 months. But anyway, 2024 was the year of Jose Torres and Hannah Roberts. Their Olympic medals sure helped with that.
Men Park
1 TORRES GIL Jose ARG 29, 5770 UCI ranking points
2 JEANJEAN Anthony FRA 26, 5450
3 NAKAMURA Rimu JPN 22, 4920
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) today published on its website the list of TV broadcasters for the 2024 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships, which will be held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, from 17 to 21 December, combining the UCI World Championships of BMX Freestyle (Park and Flatland) and trials. The event will have TV coverage on all five continents, allowing fans in most major cycling markets to watch most of the competition finals. The main channels for each continent scheduled to broadcast the event are (information available as at 13 December):
Africa: SuperSport (including Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya, Sudan and South Africa);
North America: FloSport (USA and Canada);
Results 2024 Japanese National BMX Freestyle Championships - Park. Okayama, Japan 01 - 04 November 2024
Park Men:
1 Rimu NAKAMURA 22 JPN 200.00 UCI Ranking points
2 Kaede OZAWA 17 JPN 160.00
3 Toshio TAKAGI 35 JPN 130.00
4 Shoa MATSUMOTO 15 JPN 110.00
5 Masaki TERABAYASHI 17 JPN 90.00
6 Tatsuki KAMIMURA 17 JPN 70.00
7 Haruhiko OWA 22 JPN 50.00
8 Sky ITO 18 JPN 30.00
9 Jyo KOMOTO 16 JPN 20.00
10 Aqua ITO 16 JPN 10.00
11 Joji MIZOGAKI 18 JPN
12 Shota WATANABE 17 JPN
Results UCI BMX Freestyle World Cup - Park, Shanghai, China 17 - 20 October 2024
Men Park:
1 Rimu NAKAMURA 22 JPN 1000.00
2 Anthony JEANJEAN 26 FRA 900.00
3 Nick BRUCE 32 USA 820.00
4 Reef WAY 19 GBR 770.00
5 Mike VARGA 28 CAN 720.00
6 Maxime CHALIFOUR 25 CAN 670.00
7 Kristóf KRAUSZ 18 HUN 620.00
8 Samual GRACE 21 AUS 570.00
9 Shoa MATSUMOTO 15 JPN 520.00
10 Shaun GORNALL 29 GBR 470.00
11 Levi WEIDMANN 24 NED 430.00
12 Tom CLEMENS 19 GER 390.00
13 Joji MIZOGAKI 18 JPN 350.00
14 Patryk TEUL 29 POL 310.00
Results Slovak National BMX Park Championships - Šurany, Slovakia 05 October 2024
Men Park:
1 Tomáš TOHOL 20 SVK 87.5 200.00 UCI Ranking points
2 Jozef NANIŠTA 21 SVK 63 160.00
3 Pavol PAVLÍK 15 SVK 54.5 130.00
4 Adam MIHAĽOV 20 SVK 54 110.00
5 Michal KOVAČOVIČ 26 SVK 53 90.00
6 Richard KOLEJÁK 18 SVK 46.5 70.00
7 Jakub HUDAK 16 SVK 45 50.00
8 Alex JURIGA 21 SVK 41 30.00
9 Branislav ŽIBRITOVSKÝ 17 SVK 29.25 20.00
10 Kornel KĽOC 17 SVK 22.75 10.00
11 Ondrej SOBOL 17 SVK 20.5
12 Peter GALČÍK 15 SVK 18
13 Martin MACEJKA 23 SVK 14
14 Samuel KAŽIMÍR 17 SVK 12.5
15 Martin SLIVKA 15 SVK 10.5
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ENOSHIMA WAVE FEST. UCI BMX Freestyle Park and Flatland World Cup × Music-live-Food Festival. 2024.2.23-25
Japanese National BMX Freestyle Championships, Park and Flatland. Okayama, Japan. 14 - 17 September 2023
Flatland Men:
1 Yu KATAGIRI 18 JPN 200.00
2 Yu SHOJI 21 JPN 160.00
3 Moto SASAKI 38 JPN 130.00
4 Takumi ISOGAI 21 JPN 110.00
5 Masato ITO 33 JPN 90.00
6 Jigen OMOTEHARA 17 JPN 70.00
7 Ryuga MATSUMURA 21 JPN 50.00
8 Ginsei KAWAUCHI 15 JPN 30.00
9 Fumiya KANNA 31 JPN 20.00
Park results Ghetto Games festival Ventspils, Latvia 21 - 23 July 2023
Men Park:
1 Ernests ZEBOLDS 24 LAT 1 200.00
2 Tomass GRINBERGS 26 LAT 2 160.00
3 Martin HABADA 23 CZE 3 130.00
4 Wiktor SAMOJLIK 15 POL 4 110.00
5 Jan BROŽA 20 CZE 5 90.00
6 Marcin OSKIERA 33 POL 6 70.00
7 Jan CIUCHTA 21 POL 7 50.00
8 František BLIŽŇÁK 15 CZE 8 30.00
Bringing the heat to South Africa! Monster Energy congratulates their BMX riders on a full podium sweep at the Converse Ult.X 2023 BMX competition in Cape Town at V&A’s Battery Park this weekend. French phenom Anthony Jeanjean clenches first place, and teammates Daniel Sandoval (USA), and Mike Varga (Canada) earn second and third place. In the elite action sports contest recognized as the official African BMX championships, the Monster Energy athletes rose to the top three podium spots in an elite field of freestyle BMX riders.
Started in 2008, ULT.X is Africa’s biggest action sports festival, held annually with thousands in attendance. Presented by Monster Energy, the event took place at the iconic V&A Waterfront’s Battery
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