Taddy Blazusiak Wins Brazil X Games Enduro X

Current GEICO EnduroCross Star Overcomes Adversity To Win First Global X Games Enduro X
[caption id="attachment_25465" align="alignright"
width="200"] Taddy Blazusiak won the first ever Global
X Games Enduro X event.[/caption]
Taddy
Blazusiak, the current GEICO AMA EnduroCross champion had to
overcome a poor qualifying heat race and an extremely slippery
track to win the first ever Global X Games Enduro X event, which
was held in Foz Do Iquacu, Brazil. Cody Webb,
runner up in the 2012 GEICO EnduroCross Championship showed that he
is capable of challenging Blazusiak and leading when he washed out
the front end to give up the lead. In fact, Webb and Blazusiak
exchanged the lead several times in the first few laps. Webb
recovered to finish second ahead of the UK's David Knight,
the multi time World Enduro and GNCC Champion, making it three
nationalities on the podium.
"I don't know how it looks on TV but I have never ridden something
as hard as this track," Blazusiak said after the finals. "It's so
slick ... I'm super stoked on first place. I gave it all I had and
I'm so pumped."
Colton
Haaker, another American and winner of the 2012 Las Vegas
opening round finished in fourth position riding a new Rockstar
Energy, Lucas Oil backed Honda. Monster Energy
Kawasaki's Taylor
Robert rounded out the top five.
In the Women's completion, it was another podium with three
Nationalities represented as Spain's Laia Sainz topped American
Maria
Forsberg and Puerto Rico's Tara Geiger. Sainz is a multi-time
Women's World Enduro champion and looked very comfortable in her
first ever X Games Enduro X event. Sainz took the lead from
Forsberg on the first lap and rode a clean race to take the gold
medal. Forsberg had to battle back from a first lap delay to earn
the silver medal while Geiger, the former Women's X Games Women's
Moto X champion rode a consistent race for the bronze.
The top EnduroCross riders will now head to Las Vegas for the
opening round of the 2013 GEICO AMA EnduroCross series will kick
off on Friday, May 3rd during the Monster Energy AMA Supercross
finals weekend in Las Vegas. You can get tickets at the Orleans
Arena Box office:
http://www.orleansarena.com/event-calendar/geico-endurocross-summer-2013
For more information, please visit www.EnduroCross.com.
Source:
EnduroCross
2013 Brazil X-Games Enduro X Overview
2013 Brazil X-Games Enduro X Image Gallery (Click for full size images)
2013 X Games Enduro X, Brazil, Men's Final
Results
- Taddy Blazusiak
- Cody Webb
- David Knight
- Colton Haaker
- Taylor Robert
- Mike Brown
- Cory Graffunder
- Kyle Redmond
- Alfredo Gomez
- Max Gerston
- Geoff Aaron
- Bobby Prochnau
- Bryan Roper
- Ricky Dietrich
- Gary Sutherlin
2013 X Games Enduro X, Brazil, Women's Final Results
- Laia Sanz
- Tarah Gieger
- Rachel Gutish
- Kacy Martinez
- Chantelle Bykerk
- Jolene Van Vugt
- Maria Forsberg
- Marcella Gonclaves
- Mariana Balbi
- Stefany Serrao
2013 X Games Enduro X Schedule
Location | Date | Arena / Additional Information | |
---|---|---|---|
Brazil X-Games | Foz do Iquacu Brazil | April 18, 2013 | Foz do Iquacu |
Spain X-Games | Barcelona, Spain | May 18, 2013 | Barcelona Olympic Stadium |
Germany X-Games | Munich, Germany | June 30, 2013 | Olympiastadion |
USA X-Games | Los Angeles, USA | August 4, 2013 | Staples Center |
2013 GEICO AMA EnduroCross, Fueled by Monster Energy Schedule
Location | Date | Arena / Additional Information | |
---|---|---|---|
Round 1 | Las Vegas, NV | May 3, 2013 | Orleans Arena (Friday during Supercross weekend) |
Round 2 | Sacramento, CA | June 8, 2013 | Sleep Train Arena |
Round 3 | Ontario, CA | September 21, 2013 | Citizens Business Bank Arena |
Round 4 | Denver, CO | October 12, 2013 | National Western Complex |
Round 5 | Everett, WA | October 26, 2013 | Comcast Arena |
Round 6 | Boise, ID | November 9, 2013 | Idaho Center |
Round 7 | Las Vegas, NV | November 23, 2013 | Orleans Arena |
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