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)..
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
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?
Well no, that wasn’t exactly it, but i don’t see how we’re going to find a middle ground here, so i’ll bow out.
I think the whole thing is a recipe for disaster. one event per year, limited chances to make a living leads to riders taking insane risks they probably wouldn’t do usually. Feels like the organisers are taking advantage of people trying to eek out living a dream.
They don’t practice this all the time. Don’t know if there would be enough support for several rounds across a few venues to help take the pressure off. Could look at the snowboard/ski big mountain comps for inspiration
I also find Cam Maccaul increasingly annoying and the whole watching experience is something like NFL. Boring.
That screaming WOOOOOHOOOOOO woman on the live feed was worse than the crashes. Regarding the crashes, the riders are wired differently, total fruitcakes but know what they are doing at the same time.
Just caught up. Had to stop watching after Silva’s crash, but only cos my partner was getting bored waiting and listening to concerned Americans.
Still think the event was amazing, one of the best Rampage’s I’ve watched. Some phenomenal lines and spins of stuff no-one else in their right mind would ever even ride off. Loved it.
Naysayers, and wrap em in cotton wool declarers should just go watch something else.
I thought that too, but apparently it was a drone!
Did you mean to quote and respond to me a second time?
I already replied…
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/postid/13647568/
I don’t think it would be possible to get the equipment up the hill. I’m sure you know, no paths are actually natural and they were probably a lot smoother than they are today when they were first made.
totally agree with the women’s runs I feel the same about the World Cup dh. It’s possible to make out the riding technique rather than see the racers passing in a blur of speed.
I feel that part of the issue for people is that red bull make more money out of rampage and take none of the physical risks.
fortunately I was away from the telly during Adolf’s second run, I would not have wanted to see the accident.
No, I’ve got an iPhone mini and bad eyes! Apologies.
Re Red Bull covering medical expenses – I saw a Matt Jones vid recently where he said that they support their own riders really well with this and cover all medical expenses (I guess there’s an element of ‘he would say that wouldn’t he’), but it’s probably different if you’re not a red bull sponsored rider, but in a red bull event? I imagine that would be down to individual sponsorship arrangements…
Fair enough. It would be interesting to know how far that extends. What if they have a life changing injury? Sure covering the medical cost of surgery but what about home adaptations, long term support etc.
It does feel to me that the riders take huge risks for the sponsors profits
you think uci or whoop would cover costs if say Matt walker put himself in a wheelchair at a WCDH? No chance
Of course not. The difference is one is a race and one is a glorified marketing stunt. But I’m not going down that road again as it’s well traveled
Proper enjoyed watching this year. Tom isted rode amazing . Emils 1st run was stunning
Hope he’s ok.
Emil’s crash wasn’t great either. Mad props to the guy who legged it over to catch him, which it seems like he did. He was able to grab Emil and stop him from slipping further.
There is a thing called Insurance so it wouldn’t be funding the costs, just the (likely extremely expensive) premium. For a one off event like this, I’d be surprised if there wasn’t some sort of policy either taken by RedBull, or offered to the riders, or the riders organise this themselves.
To go into something like this with no financial provision plan if things go wrong seems bonkers. But we’ve all seen the use of GoFund me etc when people do take risks with insurance, or lack of it, so maybe they just don’t have it or the risk is too great to even get cover.