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Baltic Games 2016 - BMX park finals, Colton Walker in action
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Colton Walker rules in his debut at Cropp Baltic Games

Aug 172016

The biggest edition of Cropp Baltic Games went down last weekend in Gdańsk, Poland. After a couple of years of break, all the action sport fans who went up to the Polish coast on August 12-14th, could also watch BMX and MTB dirt contests, apart from the usual rivalry on skateboarding and BMX parks. Monster Energy’s Colton Walker took advantage of it perfectly, not only winning the BMX park contest with the maximum score, but also taking second in the dirt competition!

Baltic Games 2016 - BMX park finals, Colton Walker in action
The young American couldn’t really think of a better debut at CBG. Performing a super smooth run full of bangers, Walker got a score every actions sports athlete can dream about – 100/100 pts!
Baltic Games 2016 - BMX Colton Walker profile picture
  

- I’m super stoked, first year here at Cropp Baltic Games. I did my run, I did what I wanted to do. I had a plan in my head and it worked out. The park was awesome, the set up was perfect. Everything felt really, really good. Transfers and everything you could do, all different tricks, everything a park should have for a contest. I’m super happy to be and ride here, it’s sick and I can’t wait to get back next year - said Colton Walker.

Baltic Games 2016 - BMX dirt finals, Colton Walker in action
If this wasn’t enough for one day, Walker had also tried his luck in the dirt contest earlier that day, despite being more of a park rider. And he almost won it too, losing to Poland’s top dirt rider Dawid Godziek by only less than three points.
Baltic Games 2016 - BMX Colton Walker & Jeremy Malott profile picture
Walker came all the way over the pond with his Monster Army team mate – Jeremy Mallot, who also shined in the BMX contest, disputably missing the podium by just one point. Same as Colton, Jeremy was totally impressed by the local fans, though:

The crowd in Poland in probably one the best crowds I’ve ever been around. Everyone was crazy going nuts just for every trick and every rider, pumping us up cause ultimately we can’t do our jump unless there’s a crowd gets behind us to make it happen.

Baltic Games 2016 - MTB dirt finals, Oszkar Nagy in action
On the proper dirt course consisting of a step down based on cargo containers and two impressive jumps, Monster Energy’s Oszkar Nagy did his best in the MTB contest but unluckily failing to finish his first run, the Hungarian took it safe in the second attempt, which eventually placed him in the six place.
Baltic Games 2016 - Skate semifinals action
Cropp Baltic Games is never only about BMX or skateboarding bangers. Same as in the previous years, each day of competition was followed by gigs and mad parties in a concert tent located within the venue area. In a daytime, however, between next breathless park and dirt sessions, all the fans could chill out and get inked or hair styled in the Monster Energy zone hosting a tattoo studio and barber shop.
Baltic Games 2016 - crowd at BMX park finals
Check out below podium winners of all CBG contests and get ready for another three rad days in Gdańsk next summer. We don’t know yet what the CBG organisers will come up this time, but we can already bet the event will be nothing but bigger and better.
Baltic Games 2016 - crowd at BMX park after finals
  

BMX final results - top 3:

1. Colton Walker - 100 pts

2. Irek Rizaev - 97.66

3. Marin Rantes - 96.16

 

BMX dirt final results:

1. Dawid Godziek - 86.66

2. Colton Walker - 84

3. Irek Rizaev – 82

 

MTB dirt final results:

1. Paweł Stachak - 96

2. Marcin Rot - 85

3. Kuba Sidzina – 83.33

 

Skate final results:

1. Maxim Kruglov - 92.5

2. Justin Sommer - 85.5

3. Douwe Macare - 84.5

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