Red Bull Berg Line 2013 – Szymon Godziek Wins Best Trick
After days of fog the sun came out over Winterberg just in time for the Best Trick contest of Red Bull Berg Line. And the best conditions were just good enough for the amazing show of the riders: an enthusiastic audience watched the world's best freeride athletes showcasing a trick fireworks in a class of its own. At the end Polish rider Szymon Godziek grabbed the win with a perfect cashroll.
The judges in the Best Trick contest of Red Bull Berg Linehad their work cut out for them: from Linus Sjoholm (SWE) with his unique late rotated frontflip, Patrick Leitner with a stylish backflip superman or Sam Dueck (CAN) with a clean 360 double tailwhip - all were entitled to take some reasonable hope of victory. Not to be forgotten, Martin Soderstrom from Sweden, who showed a sick 360 triple tailwhip but couldn’t made a clean landing. So it was Szymon Godziek from Poland who impressed the audience and the judges with a flawless cashroll in his first run at the most.
Just days ago, Szymon had started practising this trick in his training sessions: "I didn’t expect to land this jump at the first attempt here. Because it was only the second time ever that I did the cashroll perfectly. But I also knew that if I land the trick clean, I have the best chance of winning. Now of course I'm totally happy that it all went out this way.”
All freeride fans that can’t make it to Winterberg should still mark May 19th in their calendar: the finals with the best 12 riders will be broadcast from 9:45am PST (6.45pm CET) live on Pinkbike.
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The judges in the Best Trick contest of Red Bull Berg Linehad their work cut out for them: from Linus Sjoholm (SWE) with his unique late rotated frontflip, Patrick Leitner with a stylish backflip superman or Sam Dueck (CAN) with a clean 360 double tailwhip - all were entitled to take some reasonable hope of victory. Not to be forgotten, Martin Soderstrom from Sweden, who showed a sick 360 triple tailwhip but couldn’t made a clean landing. So it was Szymon Godziek from Poland who impressed the audience and the judges with a flawless cashroll in his first run at the most.
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 Yannick Granieri going big as always. |
Just days ago, Szymon had started practising this trick in his training sessions: "I didn’t expect to land this jump at the first attempt here. Because it was only the second time ever that I did the cashroll perfectly. But I also knew that if I land the trick clean, I have the best chance of winning. Now of course I'm totally happy that it all went out this way.”
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| Szymon Godziek, winner of today's best trick, doing a backflip on the first jump. |
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| Anthony Messere flying high with a double tailwhip on the last jump. |
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| Only Darren did a superman seatgrab on the first big jump. |
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| Anton Thelander did an unbelievable slowmo flatspin on the first 12m jump. |
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| Most of the riders were big fans of this last part of the course, and spent almost the whole day on it, Martin Soderstrom included. |
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| Yannick Granieri with a big flatspin. |
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| Soderstrom had bad luck during today's best trick - he was really close to landing the 360 triple whip. |
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| Antoine Bizet |
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| Paul Genovese doing a 360 before the last part of the course. |
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| Messere threw some really good runs today. |
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| Anthony Messere and Sam Reynolds on their way up the course |
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| A big tailwhip from Sam Dueck. |
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| Sam Reynolds definitely put some steez in that whip. |
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| Brett Rheeder was flying super high today with really good style. |
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| Darren Berrecloth with his signture 360 off the boner log. |
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| Soderstrom with a no hander from the boner log. |
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| Louis Reboul with his big flatspin in the end of the Berg Line course |
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| During today's contest Tomas Zejda's tailwhip can looked superlowmo. |
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| Yannick Granieri amazed the crowd with his backflip double tailwhip during the best trick. |
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| It's unbelievable how much Patrick Leitner can extend this backflip superman every time in every single run. |
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| Sam Dueck knows how to fly high with his bike - look at this incredible tailwhip can. |
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| Szymon with the winning style. |
All freeride fans that can’t make it to Winterberg should still mark May 19th in their calendar: the finals with the best 12 riders will be broadcast from 9:45am PST (6.45pm CET) live on Pinkbike.
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