The Red Bull Rampage 2025 competitors are onsite in Southwest Utah, starting the final countdown to the events.
The first days onsite saw athletes scouting their potential lines. All 12 female athletes and 18 male athletes checked in for registration, marking the start of the competition.
Due to adverse weather, both events have been pushed back a day.
On Friday, October 17th the top 12 female riders will compete followed by the top 18 male athletes on Sunday, October 19th. Both broadcasts begin at 5.30pm UK and will be streamed right to this very page without the ads you may otherwise encounter on YouTube et al (scroll to the end of this article when it’s time)..
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2025 Red Bull Rampage Women’s Roster
Pre-Qualified Athletes
Robin Goomes (NZL)
Georgia Astle (CAN)
Casey Brown (CAN)
Vaea Verbeeck (CAN)
Wild Card Athletes
Camila Nogueira (ARG)
Chelsea Kimball (USA)
CJ Selig (USA)
Hannah Bergemann (USA)
Harriet Burbidge-Smith (AUS)
Janelle Soukup (USA)
Kirsten Van Horne (CAN)
Vinny Armstrong (NZL)
2025 Red Bull Rampage Men’s Roster
Pre-Qualified Athletes
Szymon Godziek (POL)
Tom Van Steenbergen (CAN)
Thomas Genon (BEL)
Carson Storch (USA)
Adolf Silva (SPA)
Wildcard Athletes
Aiden Parish (USA)
Bienve Aguado Alba (SPA)
Cam Zink (USA)
Dylan Stark (USA)
Emil Johansson (SWE)
Finley Kirschenmann (USA)
Hayden Zablotny (CAN)
Jaxson Riddle (USA)
Luke Whitlock (USA)
Reed Boggs (USA)
Talus Turk (USA)
Tom Isted (GBR)
Tomas Lemoine (FRA)
Watch the Women’s Broadcast here:
Stream begins Friday, October 17th at 5:30pm UK
Watch the Men’s Broadcast here:
Stream begins Sunday, October 19th at 5.30pm UK
The video of Silva should be watched. Uncomfortabke viewing, but RedBull Rampage is a giant advert and dont want a bad look.
Personally I dont want to bother with anything RedBull pumps out anymore for a fizzy drinks company who dont give a shit about thier zero hour employees.
“Dy’in aint much of a living, boy"
The riders would do this event whether sponsored by RedBull or Toys’R’Us…. They want to ride this stuff and a couple of riders commented how they’ve been riding this terrain since they were small.
yikes, 10 years ago (after the rogatkin crash)
It feels increasingly irrelevant as it reaches its quarter century next year.It was an event that was created when ‘hucking’ was the cool thing to do and in the early days it genuinely felt like the riders were just out riding the hills and chosing their own lines … in a truly extreme manner.Whilst the extreme is definitely still a factor and the skill levels (and straight out madness) remain super high, to me it’s a style of riding that’s had its day in an event that’s over sanitised*. The trails are so prepared that it’s lost the feeling of spontaneous lines so is now just the top end of a slopestyle event … and who really cares about that these days?
I get that the danger is part of the spectacle but if you are regularly helicoptering competitors to hospital then maybe its gone too far. Maybe its two run format? It just encourages absolutely batshit moves in the second run. Apparently Silva hadn’t even attempted a double back flip in training?Not sure how you would make an event which is essentially “ride the most stupid line you can down a mountain, while flipping upside down" safer without destroying the spectacle.
I’m also not remotely qualified to comment. The little jump at the finish line would probably do me in.
It’s hard to argue though that the riding was absolutely next level… It was just utterly bonkers the chutes, the speeds, the jumps/drops and then to throw in the tricks too… Who wants it… Yeah, heck it’s a hell of a watch.
I’d prefer people not to get hurt of course, but the nature of the beast is that riders will push the next level, then the next, the next and finally it goes pop.
But the OOOOOHHHHs ARGGGHHHHs and WOAHs from the sofa last night shows just how epic a thing it is to watch.
The scoring system, well that’s a complete mystery.
It’s an extreme sport and all the riders know the risks. They’d be out there doing this stuff regardless of it being a sponsored event.
I do hope all the injured riders make a full recovery.
I stopped paying attention to the scoring years ago. The People’s Choice is usually a better indication.
Tomas Lemoine was the winner for me.
100%
Watched it last night and the two crashes were horrendous to watch. What I’m now struggling to grasp is that the commentators do have the habit of saying that a persons line is “high consequence”. It’s said quite a bit during the broadcast so does that mean it is a risk worth taking. Should they be getting excited about the significant risk element, when something as common as a mechanical/puncture could lead to those consequences?? As in, if they get this wrong, or get blown off line by wind, then it’s a bad situation. The two crashes are somewhat different in that the backflip crash was on a relatively innocuous feature. It’s the fact he attempted the double that led to disaster. Emil’s line was exposed, and he bounced off line. Catch nets could have reduced that risk. But would installing them reduce the “consequences” jeopardy and water down the event?
Worryingly, the updates on both of them are not forthcoming. I hope they both come out of this unscathed.
Just to add, I don’t think it’s sufficient to say that the riders would be doing this stuff regardless. They may have been, but that’s entirely their call. Surely RedBull have a duty of care to minimise the risk to participants in their promoted event?
I could use an air rifle unsafely at home, but I’d expected risk to be managed at an event using an air rifle..for example.
And you know this how???
They may be familiar with the terrain but add in random judging and an unfathomable point scoring/prize money temptation is a whole different scenario and could easily lead to riders going outside their comfort zone.
Look their Instagram feeds and YouTube channels.
Many of these riders even build their own compounds to push their own limits and the limits of the sport.
Sponsorship and prize money obviously help, but I guarantee if you ask any Rampage rider if they’d be doing it without the financial incentives they’d say yes.
No-one is taking these risks specifically for a fizzy drinks company.
Progression can be painful sometimes. I’d be amazed if there wasn’t some sort of recalibration of Rampage after yesterdays crashes, and there seem to have been a high number of injuries in practice leading up to the event, but there’s no denying that the women’s event saw a huge progression and the men are so tight at the top that something special is needed to win.Last year, Van Steenbergen threw out the wildest front flip and got away with it. This year, Silva tried to one up and failed. Had he landed the double, would the voices then rant that he shouldn’t have taken the risk?Big wave surfing is probably at a similar level where competitors are one wobble away from a catastrophic moment, but keep pushing the boundaries anyway. The crashes are a hard watch but all part of extreme sport, that’s what makes it extreme.Maybe RB should delay the broadcast by 5 minutes to allow cut aways if something goes badly wrong, but I agree that the riders want to be part of the moment.Oh, and sod the judges. Make it a jam format that the riders vote for each other. Maybe put it on the Fest series.
I’m not into freeride really – I watch rampage every year but much prefer a race
In the last year or so I can remember stand alone freeride videos from Brage and Gee which seemed to have much higher risk and honestly, gave a worse/less incredible final run. Getting everyone together on one hillside with a defined timeline may have its own downsides but I personally prefer the contest format even if the judging set up is ridiculous, which I wouldn’t mind so much if there wasn’t $100k + a ford raptor on the line for the “winner"
The commentary was also woeful. I get there are some dead spots between riders even without a medical hold, but even when riders are mid run or on the instant replay it was at least 50% non sensical shouting over each other, and 40% awkward pauses. I hope nobody who’s ever said a bad word about Rik claims to like this.
Also – some new lingo, “money" it seems is good, but not to be confused with “cash roll" which is a trick. “greased" seems to mean doing something smoothly, or possibly replaces the classic “steeze". Still completely in the dark about “six seven".
Emil Johansson posted on his Instagram story reel saying he was in the hospital, felt OK and would update again when he knew more, had a pic he’d obviously taken himself while hanging below the helicopter that lifted him off the hill
Isn’t that sort of the point though, they ride this stuff normally but does it get a mention or exposure and “likes”. When you have a big media brand like RedBull behind it, with all the media support, does it then become all about (rider) exposure and profile? Pushing it to grab the limelight? If it wasn’t RedBull and a much lower profile event on the same hill with no media or prize money, would they do it and be happy to push the envelope of risk?
The freeride/freestyle aspect of mountain biking is what interests me the most. I’ve watched every Rampage event and countless interviews with the riders involved. The risk/reward is a huge part of why they do it and everyone knows the risks, so yes I fully believe they would be happy to push the envelope regardless. Of course they want to show off their skills too but people have been doing crazy stuff long before social media a big showcase events. I also snowboard and used to bmx and skateboard and it’s the same for the athletes at the extreme end of those sports. The sponsorship and prize money is just a happy consequence of what they do. It’s a means to get the free equipment and expenses do what they’d want to do anyway. Some people are just built differently and want to push the limits of what’s possible in their chosen activity. Their mindset is completely different to you or I.
I do think the likes of RedBull should take care of any medical expenses if anyone gets injured at one of their events though. Maybe they do?
well that’s a pointless question as they don’t just do these things for no reason, they’re pro-athletes or aspiring pros, so they’re doing it for making money, it’s their job. Whilst they enjoy it and would do it, they still do it to make a living. So with no prize money or event they may not push the same limits, however they would still ride the same stuff day in day out.
It would be good to know how this works. There is lots of speculation around but no facts. Perhaps a mtb journalist could investigate
That’s contrary to what you said above, that they’d ride it even without gain and regardless of who sponsored it. So they do it for money, so the motivation is to push it. I don’t believe that double backflip would have attempted had there not been cameras filming, media exposure and prize money at stake. If he was just dossing around on the hill with a couple of mates.
Isn’t that sort of the point though, they ride this stuff normally but does it get a mention or exposure and “likes”. When you have a big media brand like RedBull behind it, with all the media support, does it then become all about (rider) exposure and profile? Pushing it to grab the limelight? If it wasn’t RedBull and a much lower profile event on the same hill with no media or prize money, would they do it and be happy to much the envelope of risk?