Crankworx Cairns 2023
The Crankworx World Tour made its second stop this weekend in Cairns, Australia. Cradled between the Great Barrier Reef and a World Heritage tropical rainforest, Cairns has become synonymous with steep terrain, great racing and rowdy crowds. Take a look at what the weekend had in store.
18/05 - Speed and Style
Speed and Style requires riders to complete the course as fast as possible, with as much style as possible. The winner is the fastest down the track, but additional points are accumulated with every trick. Riders hit the track in twos in knock-out racing.
Results
Pro Men:
1st. Garret Mechem
2nd. Bas Van Steenbergen
3rd. Mike Ross
4th. Jackson Frew
Pro Women:
1st. Harriet Burbidge-Smith
2nd. Caroline Buchanan
3rd. Jenna Hastings
4th. Lucie Van Der Schalk
19/05 - Dual Slalom
Flux Trails designed this Dual Slalom course to maximise speed, with a start ramp taller than that in Rotorua, huge corners and fast features. For both the men and the women’s races, Aussies dominated, with Harriet Burbidge-Smith taking her second win of the weekend alongside Yeti’s Ryan Gilchrist. Festival favourite Tuhoto-Ariki Pene took third in the men’s final.
Results
Pro Men
1st. Ryan Gilchrist
2nd. Bas Van Steenbergen
3rd. Tuhoto-Ariki Pene
4th. Jackson Frew
Pro Women
1st. Harriet Burbidge-Smith
2nd. Martha Gill
3rd. Caroline Buchanan
4th. Jenna Hastings
20/05 - Pump Track
Results
Pro Men
1st. Jayce Cunning
2nd. Ryan Gilchrist
3rd. Wade Turner
4th. Daniel Butterworth
Pro Women
1st. Caroline Buchanan
2nd. Jenna Hastings
3rd. Sacha Mills
4th. Cassie Voysey
20/05 - Slopestyle
Sunday’s Slopestyle saw Emil Johansson match Brandon Semenuk’s record of 11 Crankworx Slopestyle wins in a faultless display of massive tricks, delivered for the first time both clockwise and anti-clockwise. Poland’s Dawid Godziek took second, with a 1080 degree no handed twister, and Timothe Bringer blazed into third wearing a kit of burning $100 bills.
Pro Men
1st. Emil Johansson
2nd. Dawid Godziek
3rd. Timothe Bringer
4th. Nicholi Rogatkin
21/05 - Downhill
New Zealander’s confirmed their capabilities on the downhill in an afternoon of tight racing that saw Tuhoto-Ariki Pene and Sam Blenkinsop finish third and fourth in the men’s. Jenna Hastings finished first in the women’s, followed closely by Queenstown’s Louise Ferguson.
Pro Men
1st. Mick Hannah
2nd. Jackson Frew
3rd. Tuhoto-Ariki Pene
4th. Samuel Blenkinsop
Pro Women
1st. Jenna Hastings
2nd. Louise Ferguson
3rd. Ellie Smith
4th. Connor Mielke
