Brett Rheeder

Brett Rheeder
Personal information
Nationality  Canada
Born February 16, 1993
Mount Albert, Ontario Canada
Sport
Sport Freeride/Slopestyle Mountain Bike
Event(s) X Games, Crankworx, Red Bull Rampage, Red Bull Joyride

Brett Rheeder (born February 16, 1993) is a professional freeride mountain bike rider from Mount Albert, Ontario. Rheeder is a 2013 Munich X-Games Slopestyle Gold Medalist.[1] In 2016 he won the Red Bull Joyride for the first and only time in his career.[2]

Career

In 2013 he won the first Gold Medal in Slopestyle at the X-Games in Munich,[3] and in 2013 and 2014 he won the Vienna Air King.[4] In 2014 he won the Bearclaw Invitational.[5] In 2015 he won the Munich Mash,[6] and won the first two events in the Crankworx World Tour in Rotorua, New Zealand and Les Deux Alpes, France.[7][8][9]

With Brandon Semenuk and Tom Van Steenbergen, Rheeder is in Trek C3 Project, which came first in the Freeride Mountain Bike Factory Team Rankings in 2015.[10]

Personal

Rheeder is from Mount Albert, Ontario. He originally played hockey, then switched first to cross-country cycling and then to slopestyle.[9]

Sponsors

Rheeder's bike Sponsor is Trek and with Team Trek. His other main sponsors are with Fox Racing and Cliff bar.

References

  1. ↑ L'Heureux, David (June 30, 2013). "Brett Rheeder wins Mountain Bike Slopestyle". X Games. ESPN.
  2. ↑ "Watch: The Brett Rheeder Story part three: what comes next?". cyclingmagazine.ca.
  3. ↑ L'Heureux, David (June 30, 2013). "Brett Rheeder wins Mountain Bike Slopestyle". X Games. ESPN.
  4. ↑ Desai, Rajiv (April 7, 2014). "Two in two for Rheeder at Vienna Air King". Redbull.com.
  5. ↑ Meyer, Ryan (August 24, 2014). "Top MTB Riders Raise Bar at Bearclaw Slopestyle". Redbull.com.
  6. ↑ "Brett Rheeder wins FMB Diamond Series second round". EuroNews. June 28, 2015.
  7. ↑ Hamilton-Irvine, Gary (March 30, 2015). "Crankworx: Brett Rheeder tames slope to win in style". Rotorua Daily Post.
  8. ↑ McKnight, James (July 11, 2015). "Crankworx Les Deux Alpes 2015: Slopestyle Results". Dirt.
  9. 1 2 McNair, Brian (August 5, 2015). "Mount Albert's Brett Rheeder looking for triple crown". Yorkregion.com.
  10. ↑ FMB World Tour (November 18, 2015). "Trek C3 Project: FMB Factory Team Champions 2015". Pinkbike.com (Press release).


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