The third stop of the 2013 Trans Jam BMX Contest Series was held in Raleigh, North Carolina this weekend. On Saturday, the contest debuted their first dirt competition, featuring 29 competitors at Lake Crabtree County Park dirt jumps. Then, on Sunday, the series produced a park, flatland, and street contest inside the JS Dorton Arena at the highly attended Got To Be NC Festival. Trans Jam: Stop 3 saw 109 competitors, featured vendors, the
Monster Energy’s Vince Byron has taken the silver medal in a closely fought final in BMX Big Air at X Games Barcelona 2013. It’s the second medal of the weekend for the Australian, who earned the bronze on Friday night in BMX Vert. BMX Big Air, the last event of X Games Barcelona 2013, sees the top eight riders hitting the big air ramp’s massive gap and 27-foot quarter pipe. Each rider gets four runs with the top single runs determining the podium finishers. The competition was thick tonight, with all the riders throwing down and earning solid scores to prove it—by the end of the night, the top six riders were all within four points of each other. After slamming on his first run, success came for Byron on his second run. After a crazy 360 double downside tailwhip over the gap, Byron pulled a no handed 540 on the quarter pipe—he was the only rider to pull a big 540 this evening. His score, a 90.00, proved enough for the silver.
"Two medals in one weekend—I’m stoked,” said Byron immediately
Zack Warden pulls it together in Big Air and wins gold in Barcelona. 92 points, a 2 point lead over Australian Vince Byron and Colton Satterfield. Here are the full Big Air BMX results:
1 Zack Warden
2 Vince Byron
3 Colton Satterfield
4 Chad Kagy
5 Steve McCann
6 Morgan Wade
7 Andy Buckworth
8 Sebastian Keep
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