Taddy Blazusiak Wins Brazil X Games Enduro X

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April 22, 2013
2013 Brazil X-Games Enduro X Track

Current GEICO EnduroCross Star Overcomes Adversity To Win First Global X Games Enduro X


[caption id="attachment_25465" align="alignright" width="200"]Taddy Blazusiak 2013 Brazil X-Games Enduro X - 1st Place 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.

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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

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2013 X Games Enduro X, Brazil, Men's Final Results


  1. Taddy Blazusiak
  2. Cody Webb
  3. David Knight
  4. Colton Haaker
  5. Taylor Robert
  6. Mike Brown
  7. Cory Graffunder
  8. Kyle Redmond
  9. Alfredo Gomez
  10. Max Gerston
  11. Geoff Aaron
  12. Bobby Prochnau
  13. Bryan Roper
  14. Ricky Dietrich
  15. Gary Sutherlin



2013 X Games Enduro X, Brazil, Women's Final Results

  1. Laia Sanz
  2. Tarah Gieger
  3. Rachel Gutish
  4. Kacy Martinez
  5. Chantelle Bykerk
  6. Jolene Van Vugt
  7. Maria Forsberg
  8. Marcella Gonclaves
  9. Mariana Balbi
  10. 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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