Red Bull Formation Returns in 2021
Hannah Bergemann was the first to drop at the first Red Bull Formation session in 2019. Photos by Paris Gore / Red Bull
Women's freeride mountain biking progression session Red Bull Formation will once again be taking place in 2021. Eight top athletes from Canada, New Zealand, the United States, the UK, Argentina and Sweden will head to Southern Utah from May 24th to June 1st.
 | The inaugural 2019 event was a transformative moment for women’s freeriding, marking a tangible shift in the scene. The past 18-months have seen an acceleration of progression in the women’s field, with new talent, an abundance of tricks, and added opportunities to pursue freeriding as a career within mountain biking as a result. After a one-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the 2021 event will welcome 8 of the top athletes back to the camp alongside a selection of industry mentors and peers that will help guide and coach the athletes throughout the week. Together they will work to create top-to-bottom lines that will illustrate their skill, style, and power on the terrain. Red Bull Formation is a women’s big-mountain progression session. The event’s goals include progressing and developing the women’s freeride field, shining a spotlight on the athletes through media and storytelling, and ultimately creating a future path for women in freeride mountain biking. |
To see our coverage from the inaugural 2019 Red Bull Formation, click here.
2021 INVITED ATHLETES
Casey Brown (CAN)
Vaea Verbeeck (CAN)
Vinny Armstrong (NZ)
Jess Blewitt (NZ)
Sam Soriano (USA)
Chelsea Kimball (USA)
Hannah Bergemann (USA)
Vero Sandler (UK)
1st Alternate: Camila Nogueira (ARG)
2nd Alternate: Alma Wiggberg (SWE)
| The first year of Red Bull Formation was a huge step in the progression of women’s freeriding. It proved that there is space for women in that realm, and that people want to see and are inspired by the content. The significance of having Formation for pushing women’s freeriding is that it provides a platform for women to collaborate which accelerates the sport’s progression. |
| Strength in numbers means visibility. |
| It highlighted that everything girls have been dreaming of for ages is possible. |
| It’s a taste of seeing what is possible. There are a lot of talented girls we have no idea about that are chomping at the bit, now they will push themselves, having Red Bull Formation as a target. |
| Formation made me hungry and motivated because there is a space. |
| My broad goals for Formation are to use the event as an opportunity to collaborate with other women to progress the sport, produce more media of women’s freeride mountain biking, and ultimately inspire the next-gen to keep taking it further. |
| I’m so excited and honored to be invited to Formation. Being in the desert with some of the raddest women, many of them I have looked up to for years, building and riding our own lines is something that I’ve looked forward to since I switched to freeride. Formation has become the pinnacle of progressing women’s freeride, finally giving the proper attention that women’s freeride has lacked for so many years. I hope that impact that Formation has will continue to inspire other girls who have aspirations in freeride, progressing the sport further and further. |
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1. You have to take away a spot from a gnarly rider who deserves to be there so a token female rider can compete among the men to make the event can seem "woke progressive". I can guarantee that's the marketing BS NBC will pull.
2. You're playing into the BS idea that women can only prove themselves by competing against men.
3. Rampage needs to strictly limit the number of riders for various reasons. We already went over this "more riders" scenario years ago- it didn't work out well.
Keep it separate. Let the women shred in their own event where they get the well deserved attention and have the sole discretion to create the lines they want to shred without the pressures of competing or interfering with what the men are doing and the lines they're building. Also sponsors don't care about how well you do against a different gender.
#2 is on the money and gets at the heart of the matter.
The recurring woke rant, not so much.
f*ck handouts. @scott-townes: you wrong.
try to put the woke bong down and look at science.
dudes....no woman is going to see your anonymous PB handle and all the wonderful cheering for things even they realise aren't possible, and hunt you down and bone you. just stop.
(before anyone loses their minds, I know Ryan personally...)
Anyhow, this is so awesome to see!
I may be misunderstanding all of this but if I’m wrong please correct me.
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