Finals Photo Epic - Red Bull District Ride 2017
The most crowd-friendly slopestyle event of the year went down yesterday in the streets of Nuremberg, Germany, with tens of thousands of spectators watching the Red Bull District Ride. The course designed by Martin Söderström had a wide variety of unique features and would also decide the overall FMB World Champion.
With standout runs from riders like Erik Fedko, Diego Caverzasi, Ryan Nyquist, and Anthony Messere, it was Szymon Godziek's "extension man" run that elevated him into 3rd place with 89.66. The young Swede Emil Johansson put down a run full of massive combos and technical wizardry to take 2nd with 91.34. Ultimately, Nicholi Rogatkin dropped in and put down the top run with a world-first in-competition 1440 and a 92.05 score.
With Brett Rheeder being sidelined by an injury during training, Emil Johansson's 2nd place sealed his claim to the title of overall FMB World Champion here at Red Bull District Ride. It's been a hell of a year, and this was a hell of a contest to close out the slopestyle season. New tricks have pushed the boundaries of the sport, and new faces have risen to the occasion. We can't wait to see what next year has in store.
This is where it all starts.
Old clocktower overlooking all the riding insanity.
Sincere wishes of a very rapid recovery to Brett Rheeder. He was killing it in the qualies, but only minutes before finlas, he suffered a serious injury to his right leg, damaging ligaments below knee and in the foot.
Matt Jones unfortunately did not do well in the qualification round despite his best efforts.
Gotta love Logan's attitude. Always smiling, always positive, always riding hard!
Sam Pilgrim, a veteran on the dirt jumping scene missed the finals by only two spots.
Ryan Nyquist in the 10th spot. In such stacked field of riders that's definitely a major achievement.
Jakub Vencl and his signature trick. Seeing it being so clicked never gets old.
Everything was going according to Mehdi's plan until...
... a disaster struck and his inner tube exploded a moment before he was about to drop into the 4th district.
We present you the 15th Canadian astronaut. The number of times this guy sent himself to the moon and back is just crazy!
Classic flip-whip on the box.
Everybody's hearts skipped when Anthony was going wild on the spine.
A new generation is storming the scene. Here comes Erik Fedko.
Full of motivation and big tricks, Erik sends it for the crowd.
Sadly for Reed Boggs and what was supposed to be an epic couple of weeks in Europe at this event and Nine Knights, has been cut short due to the shoulder injury. He's still got a smile on his face and is focused on healing up before the most important event of his career to date - Red Bull Rampage.
With blessing from Albrecht Durer himself...
... and insane set of skills Diego finishes in 4th.
Massive tuck-no-hander in front of an enormous crowd gathered on the streets of Nuremberg.
Diego loves frontflips and barspins. This is what the fusion of them looks like. Madness!
Szymon Godziek likes doing splits whilst in the air.
Technical moves in the tech-district.
Is this a bird? Is this a plane? No! It's the Extensionman!
Triple barspin on the hip from Emil Johansson.
Double flip-whip on the mega booter. Emil takes 2nd place.
Crowd-pleaser aka Nicholi Rogatkin.
Nicholi unleashed his ultimate weapon - the 1440 - in competition, setting the final result in stone.
Champagne shower.
Nicholi is #1
Martin Soderstrom and all of us are extremely proud of the young swede, Emil Johansson.
Welcome your new FMB Champion.
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Rogatkin was just nuts second run, seeing Emil shaking his head after Rogatkin pulled the 1440 off summed up the day. Then coming out and stomping his second run and very nearly pulling it off.
The lift was worth a mention for its own entertainment. Singing, bike mods and at least one rider muttering to himself.
Awesome show put on by all, young and old on an amazing course. Nyquist smmed it up when he said he had never seen anything like it before...