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Backyard Jam - National BMX Freestyle Series Round 1. Junction 4 Action Sports Village, United Kingdom. 09 June 2024

Men Park:
1 Jordan CLARK 25 GBR 94 200.00 UCI Ranking Points
2 Jack WATTZ 27 GBR 92.5 160.00
3 Shaun GORNALL 29 GBR 86.38 130.00
4 Kaine MITCHELL 26 GBR 86.25 110.00
5 Reef WAY 19 GBR 85.25 90.00
6 Jack CLARK 30 GBR 78.73 70.00
7 Miller TEMPLE 19 GBR 76.9 50.00
8 Michael HULLOCK 26 GBR 75.75 30.00
9 Ashley FINLAY 30 GBR 71.63 20.00
10 Ryan HENDERSON 29 IRL 66 10.00
11 Reece DABREO 22 GBR 60.5
12 Morgan THORNLEY 24 GBR 41.75
13 Saul Antonio HERNANDEZ RUIDIAZ 18 COL 67.13
14 Mitch DOOLEY 22 GBR 65.76

The 2024 South African BMX Freestyle Championships took place as part of the Park Lines BMX Tournament over the weekend. The event, sanctioned by Cycling South Africa and UCI, was presented by LW Mag and Dragon Energy in association with Garmin, Balwin Sport and DJI and saw Murray Loubser and Jenna Byrnes crowned the champions in the Pro Men and Women categories respectively. The iconic Gold Reef City Theme Park was the backdrop for the tournament. Taking place at the venue for the first time with an event specific park built in the Town Square. The park offered riders a variety of obstacles and line choices to showcase their skills in their bid to impress the judges.

50 riders competed in the Amateur and Pro divisions as judges took use-of-park, amplitude, execution,

South African National Championships Gold Reef City - Johannesburg, South Africa 02 June 2024

Men Park:
1 Murray LOUBSER 28 RSA 200.00
2 Vincent LEYGONIE 27 RSA 160.00
3 Malcolm PETERS 38 RSA 130.00
4 Doran MATHEWSON 26 RSA 110.00
5 Nkosinathi NKOSI 26 RSA 90.00
6 Dylan LAMB 22 RSA 70.00
7 Francois BODENSTEIN 42 RSA 50.00
8 Morgan O'KENNEDY 30 RSA 30.00
9 Victor SAWKINS 23 RSA 20.00
10 Jd BAIRD 27 RSA 10.00
11 Damion FOURIE 24 RSA
12 Mark PIENAAR 20 RSA

Another successful Pannonian Challenge is behind us, and this year’s edition can boast a large number of registered competitors, especially in the BMX category, which once again showed the luxury of extreme sports.

“We are glad to have once again shown that Osijek is the right place for such sports competitions. Pannonian celebrated its 25th birthday this year, behind us several successful competitions, a large number of competitors, and an audience that shows every year how important support from the stands is. Thank you for being with us this year, but also thank you to all those who have been developing the Pannonian Challenge together with us for 25 years.” – said Jurica Barać, director of the festival.

Cycle Week Flatland results, Zurich, Switzerland. 25 May 2024.

1) Kio Hayakawa (Japan)
2) Matthias Dandois (France)
3) Sietse van Berkel (Netherlands)
4) Dustyn Alt (Germany)
5) Joris Bretagnolles (France)
6) Julien Baran (France)

Pannonian Challenge, Osijek, Croatia. C1 Competition BMX Park. 24-25 May 2024.
Men Park:
1 Caillet Istvan France 84,67
2 Újváry Zoltán Hungary 83,33
3 Chalifour Maxime Canada 82,17
4 Kristof Krausz Hungary 81
5 Remec Jaka Slovenia 78,33
6 Mitchell Kaine United Kingdom 78

Final results Olympic Qualifier Series Shanghai, China.
Men Park:
1 JEANJEAN Anthony FRA 26  93.54
2 MARTIN Logan AUS 30 92.65
3 REILLY Darren David Kieran GBR 22 89.28
4 JONES Oliver Jude GBR 23 88.56
5 RANTES Marin CRO 28 87.84
6 DOWELL Justin USA 24 85.30
7 BRUCE Nick USA 31 84.78
8 BATISTA de OLIVEIRA Gustavo BRA 21 84.48
9 NAKAMURA Rimu JPN 22 84.00
10 DHERS Daniel VEN 39 78.60
11 CHRISTOPHER Marcus USA 21 74.40
12 HESSEY Wayne Dylan GBR 20 42.62

Women Park:
1 SUN Sibei CHN 19 95.86
2 SUN Jiaqi CHN 20 93.68

Eet’s a fact, FISE Montpellier provides ze beegest crowd for a BMX competition. At both Park and Flatland, people were seen finding ze slightest angle trying to catch a glimpse of ze riding on ze Fields Of Play (FOP). Eet’s not only ze crowd zat gets Montpellier each year. Riders from all BMX disciplines unite for a week of hanging out together in ze South of France. Ze festival 'as been around since 1997 and BMX 'as been part of eet since ze first edition. UCI’s Park and Flatland World Cups are integrated since 1996. Over ze course of 5 days, ze festival around ze Lez River attracts 500,000 people, and for ze athletes to perform in front of zem is an amazing feeling.

Ze UCI BMX Freestyle World Cup faced some bad luck with ze wezaire in Enoshima, Japan earlier in ze year, but ze sun decided to stay around all week in France, which provided great circumstances for an exciting competition. Ze cut to 24 riders in Men Park was made on Wednesday. Women Park 'ad a 12-rider final qualification round on Thursday, with both finals scheduled for Saturday. Several of ze higher-ranked Park riders 'ad opted to focus on ze Olympic Qualifier Series in Shanghai, China, but eet left plenty of talent around in Montpellier to provide an excellent show for those who came to watch.

In Women Park, eet was 14 years old Miharu Ozawa who took everyone by surprise in ze Qualification round. Ze Japanese youngster qualified in first place, beating ze rest of ze ladies by 9 points. Ze truckdriver on ze box, backflips, tailwhips, and barspins to X-up were performed way too good for a girl

Flatland results UCI BMX freestyle World Cup Montpellier 2024.

Men Flatland:
1 Yu SHOJI 22 JPN 1000.00 UCI Ranking points
2 Matthias DANDOIS 35 FRA 900.00
3 Yu KATAGIRI 19 JPN 820.00
4 Kio HAYAKAWA 22 JPN 770.00
5 Jorge GOMEZ PIERNAVIEJA 43 ESP 720.00

Park results UCI BMX Freestyle World Cup Montpellier, France.

Men Park:
1 Anthony JEANJEAN 26 FRA 1000.00 UCI Ranking points
2 Baios Brandon LOUPOS 31 AUS 900.00
3 Declan BROOKS 28 GBR 820.00
4 Reef WAY 19 GBR 770.00
5 Bryce TRYON 24 USA 720.00
6 Jose CEDANO CABRERA 27 CHI 670.00
7 Zoltán ÚJVÁRY 24 HUN 620.00
8 Samual GRACE 21 AUS 570.00
9 Ashley FINLAY 30 GBR 520.00
10 Kaede OZAWA 17 JPN 470.00
11 Joji MIZOGAKI 18 JPN 430.00
12 Shaun GORNALL 29 GBR 390.00
13 Juan Camilo CAICEDO HURTADO 22 COL 350.00
14 Jack WATTZ 27 GBR 310.00
15 Maxime CHALIFOUR 25 CAN 270.00
16 Tom CLEMENS 19 GER 230.00