Gold for Genon at FISE Montpellier

2016 May

Getting huge through the big hitting slopestyle course at FISE in Montpellier, France, even extreme winds couldn’t stop Canyon Factory Freeride Team rider, Thomas Genon, from riding his way to the win. Watch his final run
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2hEJmb1iQA[/youtube]

In the qualifying rounds, the Belgian delivered a great performance to secure a spot and he stepped up his game in the final once again. The competition was fierce and riders like Szymon Godziek and BMX legend Ryan Nyquist, some of the world’s best, were putting down some big tricks. For the jury however, the final result was clear. Combining his classic clean style with tricks like 360 backflips, trucks and monster 360 tabletops, “La Frite”, had the judges convinced two times over.

Axel Jürgens, Pro Slopestyle Judge had a lot of praise for Genon’s performance: “Thomas only pulled out a fraction of the tricks that he is known for, but the execution, the amplitude and the precision were nearly flawless, especially given the strength of the wind. A totally deserved win.”

Genon isn’t the only Canyon rider that can call this weekend a major success. Tomas Lemoine, who went to the line with a brand new tattoo, made it into the final on a 3rd place performance in the prelims and ultimately performed well to take 4th place overall. After the event, the legendary Ryan Nyquist, who recently switched from BMX to Freeride, gave major respect to the young guns on the German bikes and rightly so, they’ve earned it.

Related contents

  • Anti Days of Thunder

    Return of the most unconventional and most fun orientated freeride competition in mountain biking, the one and only ANTI Days of Thunder is back for 2009 – from June 29th to July 4th.

    2009 Jun

  • Vienna Air King 2009

    The fourth edition of the annual Vienna Air King mountain bike competition makes Vienna the centre of Europe’s dirt jump scene.

    2009 Feb

  • Fise.tv

    Reinforce arms and legs with some physical exercise, warm up the pedals, get comfortable on the saddle, set the stomach in modality hamburgers and fried chips, put your helmet and protections on, get ready for one of the hottest bmx and slopestyle european contest of the year.

    2009 May

  • High Noon

    The best bmxers, some of the best mtb riders and the new generations friendly challenging, the youngest electrified as hanging to the electric threads. A very terrific movie to watch again for ages

    2009 Jun

  • Fise 2008 – final report

    They’ve been 2 hard days & nights, and we’ve been working like dogs. The show was unique, the audience was constantly exultant, the sun burnt like hell, the dust ate hair and shoes, droven kms were a burden on our shoulders

    2008 May

  • 26 Trix

    The Bikepark Leogang will host two international mountain bike competitions from September 19th to 21st. The 26TRIX dirt jump contest will unite 50 riders from 15 countries to battle for a prize money fund of 8.000 euros.

    2008 Aug

  • No pass, no dance floor

    Everything let it seem a beautiful and sunny spring day, we were attending to a competition where famous riders from all over the world challenged each others with impossibile tricks

    2008 May

  • ANTI Days of Thunder report

    The second edition of the probably most unconventional and most fun orientated mountain bike freeride competition called ANTI Days of Thunder created just amazing photo and video coverage.

    2009 Jul