Crankworx 2009 marks a huge win for Gary Fisher rider Greg Watts, who threw down run after run in front of the crowd and managed to put himself at the top of the podium. A close second went to Brandon Semenuk, followed closely by Martin Soderstrom.
The Top 6 riders were:
1st Place: Greg Watts
2nd Place: Brandon Semenuk
3rd Place: Martin Soderstrom
4th Place: Paul Bass
5th Place: Cam McCaul
6th Place: Mitch Chubey
7th Place: Darren Berrecloth
8th Place: Andreu Lacondeguy
9th Place: Kelly McGarry
10th Place: Yannick Granieri
Videos courtesy of larock.pinkbike.com!
Here's a couple of shots taken by yours truly, hope you guys enjoy them!

Watts with a big no hander

Semenuk with a sick 360 out of the Mavic Bowl

Martin Soderstrom with a clean 360
Also, for 2009 a landmark was made at Crankworx for the first streaker to even run the course. This guy had balls, seriously, but we censored them so you couldn't see them. Mad props to this guy, the crowd went crazy.

Crankworx's first ever streaker
For more photos from Crankworx 2009 click here.
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Also I think the course was more creative and interesting this year too
You guys complaining are just jealous that you can't make an awesome course and trick like greg watts!
Amazingly they did less than last year with similar hits!! not one person did a backflip onto the kokanee step up where last year there were backflip on/frontflip offs of the exact same reused feature.
Maybe I'm asking too much for advancement in the sport but I feel it was an overall letdown to what should have been amazing.
P.S. No one even tried the death gap!!!!
the kokanee fruit bowl was not the "exact same reused feature" from last year... it was tighter this year with less of a flat bottom in between the landing of it and the take-off of it. i hope this will help to change your mind a bit because the contest was super sick
not cuz if the contest wich was pretty good but not amazing either
but cuz of the fact that im on vacation and im on teh west coast rite now and im in seattle rite as crankworx is going on and 2day im going up to vancuver and im not able to even catch teh DH finals >
Plus if I remember, last crankworx, u had so many lines to chose from that entered you into the kokanne kicker. This year there was only one way down to the kokanne kicker, just different lines on the features. Plus I only remember seeing 2 Dirt jumps, and if I remember last year, there were loads!
I found the judging was quite off as well, take Darren berrcloths run, he tricked in every possible place, went higher on the Kona wall than anyone else, did the log ride, that no one else took, for what? 85.50 If I remember rightly, please correct me if I’m wrong! I agree with the judging for Greg watts and Brandon, but the claw should have easily been on the podium.
Crankworx has always been great to watch, but I think il skip it next year.
Well done for the slopestylers, other things can be said about the designers!
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this is a slopestyle competition. tricks are meant to be thrown down.
congrats to greg. about time he took a podium.
lost a bet probably haha
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