“I did what I wanted to do,” said Mirra, who now sits in fifth place in the Tour’s BMX Park standings with 176 points. “Heading into Orlando, I’m able to creep back into the points race. Every Tour stop is a building block. You have got to come out strong from the start and finish even stronger. [Second place finisher Scotty] Cranmer is the future of this sport. He is an amazing athlete and he gave me a run for my money.”
Scotty Cranmer, 18, of Jackson, N.J. edged 26-year-old Los Gatos, Calif. native Ryan Nyquist for the second place spot with a score of 90.50. Nyquist’s first run earned him an 89.75, which he was not able to improve upon after getting a flat tire in his second run.
In the overall BMX Park standings, Cranmer sits in second with 254 points while Nyquist is in third with 226 points. In first place is Australia’s Ryan Guettler sits in first place with 312 points. Guettler took fifth in today’s BMX Park finals.
In Skateboard Park finals, Ryan Sheckler, 15, of San Clemente, Calif. won his third Dew Action Sports Tour competition after placing second at the Vans® Invitational last month. Sheckler won today’s competition with a score of 90.92. Sheckler’s final trick in the second jam session was a frontside flip off the bank to flat, making him the only athlete to land that trick. With his win, Sheckler clinched the Dew Action Sports Tour Skateboard Park title, as he is more than 100 points ahead of the competition.
“I was excited to win because now I get a new truck,” said Sheckler. “I’m skating amazing and in my prime right now. It’s so fun, I’m so lucky. It’s just crazy to be able to do this.”
Tony Trujillo, 22, of Santa Rosa, Calif. finished in second place. This was his first Dew Action Sports Tour competition. Chad Fernandez, 28, of Los Angeles, Calif. finished in third place. He currently sits in second in the Skateboard Park points standings with 264 points.
Attached are results from today’s finals at HP Pavilion.
The Dew Action Sports Tour’s Toyota Challenge ended today after four days of competition at San Jose’s HP Pavilion. Competition kicked off on September 8 when Jamie Bestwick, 34, of Nottingham, GBR, wowed the crowd at BMX Vert Finals with a run full of intricate tricks. Bestwick’s best run, his first of the evening, was filled with a difficult mix of tricks, including an Alley-oop 540 to earn a score of 94.50. He also finished first at the Vans® Invitational last month and at the Right Guard Open in June. Bestwick currently sits in 1st place in the points standings with 300 total points.
Finishing in second in BMX Vert finals was Kevin Robinson, of East Providence, RI, with a score of 91.25. Robinson finished first at the Panasonic Open, sixth at the Right Guard Open, and second at the Vans® Invitational. He currently trails Bestwick by five points in the Dew Action Sports Tour BMX Vert points standings.
Simon Tabron, of Liverpool, GBR, rounded out the top three in BMX Vert with a score of 89.75. Tabron finished third at the Panasonic Open and fourth at the Right Guard Open. He missed the Vans® Invitational due to injury. He is in sixth place after four events in the overall BMX Vert points standings.
Ryan Guettler, 22, of Brisbane, AUS earned his third consecutive victory in the BMX Dirt competition on September 9 after being knocked unconscious during a practice run. He was released by paramedics and bested the field with a final score of 93.63, an average of his best two of three runs. His final run was highlighted by a one-handed front flip.
Fellow Australian Luke Parslow placed second with an average score of 92.75 in BMX Dirt. Parslow, who has consistently improved at each stop of the Dew Action Sports Tour, now sits in eighth place in the BMX Dirt standings. Ryan Nyquist finished third with an average score of 91.50. In his third run, Nyquist executed a double barspin backflip. Nyquist was in 14th place in the BMX Dirt standings coming into the Toyota Challenge and now stands in sixth place.
Robert De Wilde, 28, of the Netherlands took top honors in the Toyota Challenge’s specialty competition, the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup Finals, on September 9. BMX Supercross will make its debut as a Olympic medal sport in Beijing in 2008. De Wilde, also known as the “Flying Dutchman,” captured the title with a final time of 30.091 seconds. Luke Madill, 25, of Australia finished second with 31.928 while Montgomery, Tex. native Kyle Bennett, 25, came in third with a time of 32.717. A total of 48 riders competed.
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