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Cameron "Cam" Zink (born March 8, 1986) is an American professional freeride mountain bike rider and X Games athlete.

Personal life

Zink is from Carson City, Nevada. He started mountain biking at age 9 and when he was 16 won the junior national championship in dual slalom. He was signed by the Santa Cruz Syndicate team when he was 17.[1] Until he was 20, he continued to race while also competing in Slopestyle.[2]

Career

In 2009 Zink founded Sensus, a company that manufactures bike grips.[1][2]

In 2010 he won Red Bull Rampage and was awarded best trick for an almost 40-foot 360 drop, and also won the FMB World Tour season title.[3][4] In 2013 he won best trick for a 78-foot backflip,[5] after having been forbidden by a doctor to ride.[1] In 2013 he finished 4th Overall in Munich X-Games Slopestyle event. In 2014 he placed 2nd in Red Bull Rampage and won best trick with the biggest 360 in history of the event.[6]

On August 21, 2014, Mammoth Mountain at World of X-Games, he set the world record for the farthest backflip on a bicycle with a 100-foot, 3 inch flip.[7][8] In 2006 and 2010 he won Crankworx Slopestyle (now Joyride) in Whistler, British Columbia.[1][2][9]

In April 2021, X-Games would bring back mountain biking this time to a REAL series format. Zink's video submission would be enough to win his first X-Games medal. [10]

In 2023, he won Red Bull Rampage for a second time.

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