With the 2014 IDF race season over, 5 world champions have been crowned winners.
2014 IDF World Champions
International Downhill Federation
With the 2014 IDF race season over, 5 world champions have been crowned winners.
With an IDF membership that is spread far and wide the normal voting methods of most organizations simply won't cut it..
Kyle Wester from Denver, Colorado wins Open against the powerful South African finalists Deçio Lourenço, Jason Brown and Simon Sturrock.
The South African Gravity Racing Association pulled off the 2nd and 3rd day of freeride, qualifications and a Top 15 shoot out at Hot Heels WC.
Canadian Kevin Reimer dominated in Belo Horizonte, Brazil by taking two wins in a row at the Mega Space World Cup event.
After a number of attempts the now IDF World Series points leader finally took the win that has eluded him in Tarma, Peru.
Sebastian Hertler (Germany) showed the world he means business by taking top spot in the final run of qualifying at Tarma in the Open Skateboard in a time of 3:04.152 to scrape past Kevin Reimer (Canada) 3:04.387 while Malaysian Abdil Mahdzan set the overall track record in a time of 2:59.723 in the Street Luge over David Dean (USA) 3:01.547.
In true Peruvian style this ones a few days late, I must admit this is my fault as at the completion of the race I took off to the high Andes, training for the Tarma World Cup event starving myself of oxygen so I can run 14hr sessions on the IDF timing table.
Byron Essert showed his qualifying form was no fluke by taking out his maiden World Cup win in spectacular fashion over Canadian Kevin Reimer in a tight final.
In controversial circumstances the Festival de la bajada event was moved to a new location just outside of Bogota for the beginning of the South American leg of the IDF World Tour.