Brandon Semenuk wins the 2011 Claymore Challenge!

Final Results
1. Brandon Semenuk
2. Yannick Granieri
3. Kyle Strait
4. Greg Watts
5. Mitch Chubey
6. Ryan Howard
7. Tomas Zejda
8. Andrew Taylor
9. Cam Zink
10. Geoff Gulevich

After several days of rain the weather cooperated today giving riders just enough time to get two runs in before the skies opened up again. In that few hours riders and course workers hastily prepared the course and managed to get some practice in and the contest done! Brandon Semenuk really wants to win the FMB World Tour this year, after losing out last year due to injury at Crankworx. He his on a winning rampage; this is his second FMB Gold event win of the season, and his third consecutive win of the year. If he continues like this, he'll be challenging Yannick Granieri, Sam Pilgrim, and Martin Soderstrom for the overall series lead fairly soon... With his 2nd place finish here Yannick Granieri has moved into 1st place overall knocking out past leader Sam Pilgrim for the first time. Kyle Strait bobbled on his first run but through down a great second run for third place. Greg Watts had a great first run but was unable to do a second due to injury, his 4th place finish here should move him solidly into the top 10 overall. Mitch Chubey looked like he was having the run of the day on his second run but lost it 3 jumps from the bottom when he didn't land both pedals and ended up 5th, good enough to keep him in the top group on the overall scoreboard and even move himself up into 4th.

For those of you that missed the live webcast you can watch it again on the Claymore website

The Winning Runs

1. Brandon Semenuk -- 360 x-up - tail whip on gopro cannon - x-up in the dish to 270 out - opposite 360 on drop - corked backflip on the hip - truck driver pinkbike double - barspin on the quarter - tuck no hander - motowhip on the hip over the shed - flipwhip on the big jump.

2. Yannick Granieri -- backflip - tailwhip on gopro cannon - x-up in the dish downside table top out - 360 x-up on the drop - tailwhip over the hip - dumped 360 x-up on the pb - truck no hander on quarter - flipwhip - backflip indian air on small jump

3. Kyle Strait -- no foot cancan - tailwhip on gopro cannon - motowhip in the dish 270 out - 360 down the drop - 1 foot table top over the hip - backflip on pinkbike - shoulder buzz quarterpipe - superman - motowhip over shed hip - double tailwhip

Claymore Challenge 2011 - Brandon Semenuk - 1st Place run from DH Productions LLC on Vimeo.

Claymore Challenge 2011 - Yannick Granieri - 2nd Place run from DH Productions LLC on Vimeo.

Claymore Challenge - Kyle Strait 3rd Place run from DH Productions LLC on Vimeo.

GT Best Trick Winner

Kyle Strait with a double whip


Unofficially your FMB Leaderboard now looks like this:

1. Yannick Granieri
2. Sam Pilgrim
3. Brandon Semenuk
4. Mitch Chubey
5. Martin Soderstrom

Cam McCaul injured himself in practice today, no details yet but hopefully it's nothing serious, and Martin Soderstrom injured himself earlier this week in training in California.

Full Results

Result Slope Style With RunScores