Английская Википедия:Brandon Semenuk

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Brandon Semenuk is a Canadian freeride mountain biker and rally racer from Whistler, British Columbia. Semenuk is a three-time Freeride Mountain Bike World Tour Gold Medalist. He is a five-time Red Bull Joyride winner, X-Games Real MTB Gold Medalist (2021), and X-Games Silver medalist (2013) in the Mountain Bike Slopestyle event. He won the Red Bull Rampage in 2008, 2016, 2019 and 2021 - the first person to win Rampage four-times. He is known to be "always emulated, never imitated" and is known as one of the best slopestyle/freeride mountain bikers in history. Semenuk won the 2022 and 2023 American Rally Association National championship.[1]

Early life and early career

Semenuk grew up in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, [2] where he started out in cross-country cycling, competing in the BC Cup for the first time at the age of 9. He also competed in Four-Cross early in his career. At the age of 15, while riding his local jumps, Semenuk's talent was spotted by Andrew Shandro. Shortly thereafter, Shandro offered Semenuk a professional contract with Trek[3]

Career

He won silver in Slopestyle at the X-Games Munich in 2013. He won the Red Bull Joyride in 2011,[4] and also in 2013,[5] 2014,[6] 2015[7][2] and 2017,[8] and is a four-time Redbull Rampage winner, being the only athlete to accomplish this feat. For the 2015 mountain bike movie unReal, he was filmed in a one shot segment that went viral on the internet.[9][10] Semenuk has also been interested in rally driving since a young age, and as of April 2020, was welcomed to the Subaru Motorsports rally team alongside Travis Pastrana. [11] He earned his first professional rally win on 5 October 2020, at the Missouri Show-Me Rally.[12] On 15 October 2022 he became the 2022 American Rally Association presented by Dirtfish National Champion. [13]

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