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Next stop, World Cup at the Olympic track in London

All the best,

BMX Copenhagen

18,000 fans created a fantastic atmosphere
A total of 18,000 fans gathered in Copenhagen to cheer their favorite riders through the races where 2,200 athletes competed. The world renowned track in Copenhagen and bright summer days offered the perfect venue for five days of hardcore competition and happy ambience.

The winners
After three beautiful days with challenge and elite time trial competitions at UCI BMX World Championships in Copenhagen, adrenaline and action filled the track when the absolute BMX elite competed for the prestigious World Championships titles.
Joris Daudet from France and Mariana Pajon from Columbia both had a great run and took the titles.

Exclusive stories from all over the world
Our Tweetamigo-team has been working hard all week to get various perspectives from the event – all from riders worst crashes, Tattoos, fans and many more. See all their Tweets, pictures and videos here.

Hope you all had a great time in Copenhagen and enjoyed UCI BMX World Championships 2011.

All the best,
BMX Copenhagen

18,000 fans created a fantastic atmosphere
A total of 18,000 fans gathered in Copenhagen to cheer their favorite riders through the races where 2,200 athletes competed. The world renowned track in Copenhagen and bright summer days offered the perfect venue for five days of hardcore competition and happy ambience.

Strongest field ever
This year’s World Championships presented the strongest field ever seen at a Championship with 132 riders including Olympic champions, reigning World Champions, European champions and World Cup champions. The competition was as tough as the field and Copenhagen presented a five day long show off from the world’s best riders.

Brand new Time trial Championship
With the all new Time Trial Super Finals World Championship discipline this year’s championships brought extra excitement to the already action packed competition. The additional discipline gave room for both surprises from the Norwegian rider André Fossa Aguiluz and a double gold for the Australian juniors.

Actually, Danish sport is known for its many volunteers, and in fact 2011 is European Year of Volunteers.

We love our volunteers: they are an invaluable resource. That is why we have chosen – here on the last day of the championships – to make “I’m a volunteer” a theme for our tweetamigos.

Here are some of them – THANK YOU so much all of you for your efforts:

Remember to visit our ‘behind the scenes YouTube channel‘.

… and just to give you an idea – Lars means business:

… so does the French fans.

Winner, elite men: Joris Daudet, France
Joris Daudet from France completed a perfect season with today’s World Championship title in a close and exciting race in the mens’ final where he beat both the defending world champion and reigning Olympic champion Maris Strombergs from Latvia, and New Zealander Marc Willers.

“I’ve had a really good season and my only tactics for today was to get a good start,” Daudet stated after the race. Daudet promised at the same time to do his absolute best in London next year.

Earlier this year Daudet won the European championship after being best in 12 out of 12 races in the series. In the second corner oo the track in the final, Daudet made a good move on Willers and went on the inside of the leading Willers and held the lead all the way to the finish line in one of the most thrilling World Championship races this year.

Winner, elite female: Mariana Pajon, Columbia
In the womens’ elite final Sarah Walker from New Zealand and Mariana Pajon from Columbia were favorites after the heats of the day. Another top favorite, the British London Olympics hope Shanaze Reade, missed her gate in the semifinals and therefore didn’t make it to the finals.

Mariana Pajon won all her heats of the day on the way to the finals, where the little Columbian flew down the start ramp and took the lead on the first straight. Although Sarah Walker pushed from behind the fast Columbian increased her lead and won her first world championship in the elite in great style – it was her 14th title overall as Pajon has won a long number of titles in the Challenge classes since she was 9 years old. “This year it was my time, it’s just great”, Pajon said after her win.

Junior championships
Today’s winner among the junior women was Melinda McLeod from Australia, who also won the time trials yesterday. McLeod’s double world championship was ensured even after she was hit by a moped just before the time trial yesterday. “I focused on doing my best in the competition, and I’m proud I was able to leave the accident behind”, McLeod stated after her double World Championship victory.

Alfredo Campo from Ecuador won gold in the junior men’s competition after winning all his heats of the day – a big step on his way to getting into great results in the men’s elite next year.

Danish best on home ground

And, well – here’s an example: tattoos are something that BMX sport has embraced. Everyone seems to have … several. That was why we made tattooing a theme.

Our two female tweetamigos, @laurakjeldbjerg and @anecaecilie, were especially pleased when Marc Villers agreed to tell the story of his tattoos. Check out our tattoo Flickr set … it’s super cool!

Brian Carrillo is especially proud of his Monsters Energy tattoo:

Maik Baier, Germany, and his tattoos:

Josh Mayers and his tattoos:

Barry Nobles, USA, is a real tattoo-fan:

One of the main focal points for the production of content is our Tweetamigos: dedicated volunteers who report via smartphones.

They are here for you, to give some great insights that you wouldn’t normally get. Visit our mashup and you’ll get the idea.

From left:

@mxmajatarp
@louisebligaard
@wisnewski
@bmxmarie
@OcThom
@anecaecilie
@laurakjeldbjerg
@OcNille,

Nice eh?