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Red Bull Rampage is the gnarliest event that marks the climax of every mountain biking contest season. If you don't know what it’s about, here’s a guide to the 2024 event.
What is Red Bull Rampage? Well, it's a freeride mountain bike event held in Virgin, Utah, where the best mountain bike athletes in the world try to make it down frightening mountainsides and ridges in one piece. At the same time, they must impress a judging panel by doing seemingly unimaginable tricks and carving a line down the mountain. It's the most spectacular event to participate in as a mountain biker – and if you're lucky, to watch on site as a spectator.
The 2024 edition of Rampage will be the 18th time that this iconic mountain bike event has run. For the first time in the event’s history, Red Bull Rampage will see the world’s top men’s and women’s freeride athletes descend upon the rugged terrain of Virgin in Southwest Utah, as part of an expanded two-day event this October.
On Thursday, October 10, the world’s top female freeride mountain bike athletes will compete for the first time, looking to secure their name in the history books. The top male freeriders will return to the stage on Saturday, October 12, taking on some of the most challenging terrain in the world to compete for the top podium spot, bragging rights, and the coveted Red Bull Rampage trophy.
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What is Red Bull Rampage?
Ever wondered what Red Bull Rampage is? Here's everything you need to know about the ultimate freeride event.
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Where and when can I watch Red Bull Rampage?
- Women’s Broadcast: Thursday, October 10 at 9:00pm ET/6pm PT simulcast on ESPN+, Red Bull TV, and Red Bull Bike’s YouTube channel.
- Men’s Broadcast: Saturday, October 12 at 12:00pm ET/9am PT on ESPN+ in the U.S. and on Red Bull TV in all other countries.
- Highlight Shows: Two one-hour highlight shows will also air back-to-back Sunday, October 27 on ESPN2 with the women’s competition taking place at 5:00pm ET/2:00pm PT and the men’s competition taking place at 6:00pm ET/3:00pm PT.
Red Bull Rampage is available to stream live at local participating venues thanks to our partners Atmosphere TV on Saturday, October 12. See the list of venues below:
- Woodward Park City, UT
- Pedal Pushers Cyclery Golden, CO
- Handlebar Brewery Grand Junction, CO
- YT Mills Bentonville, AR
- YT Mills San Clemente, CA
Red Bull Rampage is available live anywhere that has Atmosphere TV, the leading streaming television service for businesses. Ask your local bar or restaurant if they have Atmosphere TV and request to watch the Red Bull Rampage live event.
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Why should I watch?
Red Bull Rampage is a competition that goes beyond sporting borders. It's the ultimate action sports competition, where a rider’s skill, mental fortitude and physical capacity on a mountain bike is tested. The event shows us what can be done on two wheels and inspires us all to think bigger and push the limits of bike riding.
To get an idea of what Red Bull Rampage is all about, watch the highlights from the 20th anniversary event from 2021 below:
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Highlights of the MTB action
Watch the best of the action from the event that's the biggest test of guts, skill and creativity in MTB.
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Where is Rampage held?
For the 2024 event, the men will compete at the 2018/19 site in Virgin, Utah, which previously hosted two memorable Red Bull Rampage competitions. It is the steepest and tallest of all the previous venues, adding 150 feet of vertical to the start. The lines are much more fall line, precipitously dropping from the summit to the base. For the inaugural women’s event, the women will compete at a new site looker’s left of the 2018/19 venue, working with a fresh canvas to build their lines. Their venue is the first new competition site introduced since 2018.
Rampage in a nutshell. Riding a trick off a cliff into a vertical chute
© Peter Morning/Red Bull Content Pool
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What is the location of Red Bull Rampage 2024?
This year marks the 18th edition in the event’s history. The men will compete at the 2018/2019 site in Virgin, Utah, the biggest and steepest of all the past venues, and the women will be adjacent to the men’s in a new course. Learn more about what makes this zone unique.
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Brandon Semenuk’s winning run
Watch Brandon Semenuk’s winning performance at Red Bull Rampage 2019.
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Here are the rules of competition
The rules are pretty simple – ride down a mountain to the bottom of it, in one piece, in as spectacular a way as possible. The mountain doesn't have a natural route down, so athletes have to transverse it and jump across sections to find a way down. The athletes have to determine a line down the mountain that best suits their style. You may see athletes perform tricks on their lines or simply show off technical riding skill on their way down.
Taking things easy at Rampage is simply not an option
© Christian Pondella/Red Bull Content Pool
There's no timing in Red Bull Rampage and it isn't a race against the clock. On finals day, riders get two race runs to ride their lines down to the bottom of the mountain. They're judged on those lines by a panel of judges and receive a score at the end of it. The athlete with the highest scored run wins the event. If there's a tie, the rider with the highest score of the two runs added together wins.
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Judging at Red Bull Rampage
Chris Lawrence explains the criteria the judges will use when judging riders at Red Bull Rampage
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What’s involved in finding a line down a Rampage mountain?
Turning the Utah desert into a stadium for the biggest freeride mountain biking competition is a herculean effort. The grueling work is not done by a professional event team with an army of power equipment. Shaping the red dirt of Utah is carried out by the rider’s themselves and their team of diggers, armed with water, hand tools, and sandbags. They have eight days to construct the lips, landings and lines to carry them from the top of the mountain to the safety of the finish corral over 600-feet below.
Scoping out a riding line on the mountain is the first job of an athlete
© Christian Pondella/Red Bull Content Pool
Sometimes riders agree to follow a similar line to share dig resources
© Long Nguyen/Red Bull Content Pool
Heavy lifting is part of the job
© Bartek Woliński/Red Bull Content Pool
Working on steep mountainside is a given
© Christian Pondella/Red Bull Content Pool
Showing this construction process is a staple of the Red Bull Rampage broadcast. Why do they choose that specific line? What inspires their dig teams to stand in the heat of the desert sun and swing a pickaxe for hours on end to build a competition line for their athlete? But one aspect of the Red Bull Rampage build story that has never been able to be quantified is the physical toll it takes on the riders before they drop into the competition.
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Constructing lines in Utah
Szymon Godziek, Thomas Genon, Jaxson Riddle and more get busy constructing the perfect lines in Virgin, Utah.
New for this year, this will be possible with the help of the Samsung Ring and its Energy Score feature. The Energy Score is the daily measurement of a person’s physical and mental readiness based on various health metrics including their sleep, activity, and heart rate. The Galaxy Ring collects insights right on your finger and personalizes the score from 1-100 via the Samsung Health app on the Samsung Galaxy phone. At Red Bull Rampage, riders Casey Brown and Kurt Sorge will be wearing the Galaxy Ring to measure and track their daily Energy Score, providing invaluable insights to the athletes to ensure they get enough recovery time and see what areas of their routine need improvement to make adjustments in between each digging and riding day.
Both athletes also recognize the importance of sleep when recovering and will take advantage of Galaxy Ring’s personalized tips for improved sleep — such as meditation before bed. The broadcast team will track Brown and Sorge’s Energy Score daily during the 10-day event and will highlight the toll of the competition by sharing the data with viewers at home. Samsung’s Galaxy S24 Ultra will serve as the official action smartphone camera, capturing heart-pumping shots throughout the thrilling events.
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Who's crazy enough to compete?
Red Bull Rampage attracts athletes from all over the mountain bike spectrum. Freeriders, downhillers and slopestylers all want to be part of the toughest mountain bike event of the year. A roster of riders usually form the starting list of a Red Bull Rampage event. Rampage is an invite-only event.
Athletes who finished in the top 10 of the previous year's event are pre-qualified and get automatic invites. The rest of the roster are wildcards, who are chosen by a committee of former Rampage competitors, pro athletes, judges, and industry expert. The 2024 event features a rider list of 18 athletes.
This is the 2024 list of athletes
2024 Red Bull Rampage Invited Women Athletes
- Camila Nogueira (ARG)
- Casey Brown (CAN)
- Robin Goomes (NZL)
- Vaea Verbeeck (CAN)
- Vero Sandler (UK)
- Vinny Armstrong (NZL)
- Georgia Astle (CAN)
- Chelsea Kimball (USA)
2024 Red Bull Rampage Women Alternate
- Micayla Gatto (CAN)
2024 Red Bull Rampage Men's Top 8 (Pre-qualified in 2023)
- Carson Storch (USA)
- Cam Zink (USA)
- Tom Van Steenbergen (CAN)
- Ethan Nell (USA)
- Brendan Fairclough (UK)
- Talus Turk (USA)
- Kyle Strait (USA)
- Bienvenido Aguado Alba (SPN)
2024 Red Bull Rampage Men's Wildcards - Top 10
- Brandon Semenuk (CAN)
- Szymon Godziek (POL)
- Thomas Genon (BEL)
- Adolf Silva (SPA)
- Clemens Kaudela (AUT)
- Kurt Sorge (CAN)
- Luke Whitlock (USA)
- Reed Boggs (USA)
- Tom Isted (UK)
- Tyler McCaul (USA)
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Previous winners of Red Bull Rampage:
Notable on the roll call of winners are three legendary mountain bike athletes in Brandon Semenuk, Kurt Sorge and Kyle Strait. Semenuk stands alone as a four-time winner. Sorge is a three-time winner while Kyle Strait has won it twice.
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Who?
2001
Wade Simmons
2002
Tyler Klassen
2003
Cedric Gracia
2004
Kyle Strait
2008
Brandon Semenuk
2010
Cam Zink
2012
Kurt Sorge
2013
Kyle Strait
2014
Andreu Lacondeguy
2015
Kurt Sorge
2016
Brandon Semenuk
2017
Kurt Sorge
2018
Brett Rheeder
2019
Brandon Semenuk
2021
Brandon Semenuk
2022
Brett Rheeder
2023
Cam Zink
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