BMX Freestyle Park: a spectacular and creative discipline
BMX Freestyle Park is a spectacular urban cycling discipline in which athletes perform on a purpose-built course featuring ramps, transitions and a variety of obstacles.
Understanding BMX Freestyle Park :
- 60-second runs, with each athlete performing a unique sequence of tricks.
- Scoring based on the difficulty, execution, flow and amplitude of each run.
- An Olympic discipline since the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
BMX Freestyle Park is one of the two disciplines that make up BMX Freestyle, alongside BMX Freestyle Flatland.
Competition Format
During a one-minute run, athletes perform a series of aerial tricks that showcase creativity, technical skill and control. Each run is judged on its difficulty, execution, style and originality.
In Cluses, a legacy venue from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
The Esserts venue in Cluses will host the BMX Freestyle Park and BMX Freestyle Flatland competitions during the 2027 UCI Cycling World Championships Haute-Savoie Mont-Blanc.
Originally built for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the urban park modules from Place de la Concorde will be relocated to Cluses, creating a lasting Olympic legacy for an event that will bring together the world's largest cycling gathering.
