The 2025 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, didn’t just raise the bar — it catapulted it into orbit. Both the Men’s and Women’s BMX Park finals went full throttle, turning the desert heat into a pressure cooker of next-level progression.
Men’s Park: Every Trick Counts
Right from the start, it was clear that this wasn’t going to be your average final. Nikita Fominov was the first to drop and immediately set the tone — a quad truckdriver, 360 double tailwhip to barspin over the box, and a 180 over the 3.5-meter spine before finishing with a backflip windshield wiper. That run alone could have bagged a podium twelve months ago. In Riyadh? It was good for 11th with an 86.20. Let that sink in.
Frenchman Benjamin Daldy followed and went absolutely nuclear: a no-handed double backflip, double flairs, a front bike flip over that monster spine, and an opposite 360 backflip and 720 tailwhip. Unreal. And yet — dead last in the 12-man final. The message was clear: go big or get buried.
As the dust settled, the UCI judges had a near impossible task. Anthony Jeanjean, qualifying in ninth, threw down a textbook second run packed with precision and control. Opposite tricks, unique lines, and that buttery double flair on the quarter pipe and not the "resi landing one"— it all came together for a 94.44. That score became the target.
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