Date: from June 24th to 27th, 2004.
Press release: 600 riders from 26 nationalities met in Cologne to live up to the BMXworlds 2004. More than 30.000 spectators witnessed a barrage of new, progressive and ever more complex tricks in the disciplines dirt, flatland,miniramp, street and halfpipe.
In the Pro class Akira Okamura from Japan gradually worked his way up to the top. During his runs, you can hardly speak of tricks on a bike, but more of a long flow ofmovements where he and his bike become one. Second place goes to Travis Collier (CAN) and Justin Miller (USA) became third. In the Expert class Manuel Ortiz (GER) hitthe first place, followed by Tividar Làszló (HU) and Pal Vagra (HU).
Side event: Braun Style Combo; on Friday evening the audience experienced an extraordinary flatland event, the Braun Style combo. Each rider had one chance to show his best performance. When he was touching the ground - he was out! Finally it was Michael Steingraeber who met with success after showing fluid and breathtaking run. Best-Trick Flatland 1.Place Michael Sommer from Vienna/ Austria.
Comme en 2002, l'aire de flat était au fond du bazar et finalement, peu de gens allaient jusque là... dommage, d'autant qu'on fini par se demander si ça intéresse même les organisateurs vu qu'ils ont fait la finale master street en même temps que la finale pro flat. Du coup, il fallait choisir
Akira, world champion
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Pros flat results 1.Akira Okamura 2.Travis Collier 3.Justin Miller 4.Terry Adams 5.Alexandre Jumelin 6.Matti Röse 7.Martti Kuoppa 8.Viki Gomez 9.Matt Wilhelm 10.Nathan Penonzec 11.Ryoji Yamamoto 12.Kotaro Tanaka 13.Ed Nussbaum 14.Michael Steingräber 15.Jesse Puente 16.Takuma Kawamura
Masters flat results: 1.Valter Guerrgiro 2.Söre Peter 3.Bram Verhallen 4.Sarlos Peter 5.Markus Reich 6.René Bick 7.James Smith 8.Alesandro Alexandridis 9.Andreas Lindqvist 10.Sytse Winkel 11.Jussi Laukkanen 12.Holger Rupp 13.Sascha Heidemann 14.Milan Haspeklo 15.Aapo Aira
Experts flat results: 1.Manuel Ortiz 2.Tivadar Làszlò 3.Pal Vagra 4.Robin Hartschel 5.Dez Maarsen 6.Alan Pinto Da Silva 7.Baptiste Louis 8.Thomas Amann 9.Plas Mike 10.Karin Bleile 11.Jens Müller 12.Kriston Csaba 13.Alexis Bracke 14.Benjamin 15.Andros Bologh 16.Balazs Holp
Girl flatland results: 1.Karin Bleile 2.Monika Hinz 3.Irana Sadovnik 4.Cristiana 5.Steffi King 6.Nina Gollmann 7.Kathi Bretsch 8.Marie Meuret
La très spectaculaire Cory Coffrey écrase la concurrence en street (une nana qui fait un back flip sur un module de street, ça court pas les rues lol).
Masters street results: 1.Ricki Tribble (GB) 2.André Sagodi (D) 3.Dinng Spicer (AUS) 4.Mark Theaker 5.Romain Souvais (F) 6.Fecit Kirch (D) 7.Andreas Yiacoymis (GR) 8.Vincent Garreau (F) 9.Arto Heikurinen (FIN) 10.Remi Trouillet (F) 11.Jannis Wajerski (D) 12.Lars Bürster (D) 13.Daniel Kuska (D) 14.Tobias Wehlich (D) 15.Lars Dietrich (D) 16.David Manconi (NZ)
Experts street results: 1.Bastian Groß 2.Rafael Adam 3.Matthias Radke 4.Jirari Mehdi 5.Dimitris Katrauidis 6.Jimmy Tolki 7.Jiri Karlik 8.Bruno Hoffmann 9.Janick Wenger 10.Michael Sieren 11.Kevin Landcrecthe 12.Dennis Kicza 13.Stanislawski Patrick 14.Rene Gottschall 15.Jerzy Katafconski 16.Schmitt Harald 17.Rivet Arnaut
Girl street results: 1.Miss Cory Coffey 2.Cindy Vinr 3.Angela Hunt 4.Annica Jonnson 5.Katharina Weinz
Masters miniramp results: 1.(tie)André Sagodi (D) 1.(tie)Daniel Hunt (AUS) 3.Jan Janecka (CZ) 4.Ryan Elcock (GB) 5.Jocke Olsson (S) 6.Jorge Olveda (MEX) 7.Lars Dietrich (D) 8.(tie)Daniel Tinhof (D) 8.(tie)Arto Heikurinen (FIN) 8.(tie)Dinng Spicer (AUS) 8.(tie)Mikael Malmberg (S) 8.(tie)Ralph Dietrich (D) 13.Lars Bürster (D) 14.Pedro Serrano (E) 15.Karl Pentelow (GB) 16.Kai Kuusisto (FIN) 17.David Brown (AUS) 18.Dominik Oetjen (D) 19.Ricardo Moes 20.Carrez Cedric (F) 21.Jesper Grönlund (FIN) 22.Patrik Baktriangeln (S)
Chris Doyle on the cover of Freedom #59.
Pros miniramp results: 1.Paddy Gross 2.Jay Miron 3.Chris Doyle 4.Kevin Porter 5.Tobias Wicke 6.Luke Fink 7.Clint Millar 8.Taj Mihelich 9.Sergio Layos 10.Brian Kachinsky 11.Damien Croce 12.Joe Rich 12.Mike Escamilla 12.Ruben Alcantara 12.Hannu Cools 12.David Mirra 12.Gary Young 17.Juan Ruiz Carpena 18.Peter Radivo 19.Francisco Jimenez 20.Benno Hankowetz 20.Dave Osato 22.Jonas Malmberg 23.Gareth Wilson 24.Ben Hennon 25.Chris Mahoney
Masters vert results: 1.Jan Valenta (CZ) 2.Daniel Hunt (AUS) 3.Mark Theaker (GB) 4.Mark Schneider (AUS) 4.Ryan Elcock (GB) 6.Craig Peters (AUS) 7.(tie)Roger Dorn (D) 7.(tie)Karl Pentelow (GB) 9.(tie)David Brown (AUS) 9.(tie)Dinng Spicer (AUS)
Pros vert results: 1.Simon Tabron 2.Jay Eggleston 3.Tom Stober 4.Zach Shaw 5.Matt Fairbairn 6.Peter Geys 7.Benni Kopp 8.Shaun Eglington 9.Stefan OBG Geissler 10.Ronnie Surridge 11.Achim Kujawski 12.(tie)Ricky Roich 12.(tie)Ronnie Remo 14.Ben Wallace 15.Luke Fink 16.Aze Etzold 17.Lance McDermott 18.Steve Swope 19.Anthony Pill 20.Chris Mahoney
Highest-Air Halfpipe:
1.Jay Eggleston USA 10'1/2
2.Simon Tabron GB 10''
3.Benjamin Kopf D 9''
4.Matt Fairbairn AUS 8'1/2
4.Peter Geys B 8'1/2
MacNeil had a bunch of guys in the contest. Bibi, Dave Freimuth, John Heaton, and Gary Young. Axel Jurgens and Benny Korthaus were also there but Axel had just rolled his ankle in Budapest the week before and Benny was still getting over his broken foot. So they just chilled.
Going into the contest I wanted to ride vert more than anything else but for some reason I never ended up riding it at all. Mini was crazy. I rode that ramp a few years ago and could tell that the spine was very jumpable but my back didn't let me really go for it. This year I got to experience it. It was very jumpable. I got 2nd place.
Street was amazing. It was a pretty good contest for MacNeil. Gary 1st, Johnny 2nd me 3rd. Gary and Johnny were amazing to watch. Gary is so good at finding lines through impossible looking stuff and has the confidence to get them done without even warming them up. I love to watch him in action. Johnny has been in a little bit of a slump lately as far as contests go, so it was cool seeing him absolutely kill it. With his 4th in Cardiff and 2nd here I&Mac226;d say the slump is over. I had been eying up a huge 540 gap all weekend and finally let it fly on my last turn. On the first one I crashed pretty hard but no damage, second and third try I put a foot down, forth I ate shit in a big way. There was no fifth try and let's just say that I'm going to sit the first few days out in Roskilde.
Here's a big surprise. Gary got third in dirt. I bet there aren't too many people who knew he could do that. Since it was so hard to see I can't really tell you what he did but it must have been good since first and second went to Chris Doyle and Cory Bohan. Bibi rode well too. He got sixth.