The 2025 edition of Red Bull Rampage took place in Virgin, Utah over the weekend, bringing riders from around the world to compete on freeride mountain biking’s biggest stage. There was no shortage of mind-blowing riding by some of the most talented big mountain and slopestyle riders in the game throwing down on the unique, beautiful, and treacherous terrain in the Southern Utah desert. Here’s what happened.
Women’s Rampage
On Friday, October 17th, the women’s Red Bull Rampage event went off for the second time in its history. On a separate venue adjacent to the men’s, the women’s competitors spent the week leading up to the event shaping lines and pushing their personal limits in practice. Unfortunately, pushing those limits in practice resulted in several injuries, whittling the field down to a total of seven from the original twelve.
Regardless, finals day was nothing short of spectacular, with all of the competitors completing two impressive top to bottom runs and pushing the level of women’s freeride to new heights. The riding was incredible with massive drops, gaps, tricks, and high consequence lines across the board. It was a bit of a nail biter, as Robin Goomes took first place with a score of 89.50, just 0.17 points ahead of 2nd place. After missing last year’s event due to injury, Hannah Bergemann made her Rampage debut and secured 2nd place with a score of 89.33, along with the McGazza Spirit Award. With a score of 87.66, Georgia Astle rounded out the podium in 3rd.
Check out the top three runs from the women’s Red Bull Rampage if you want to have your mind blown and see the level these ladies are riding at.
Men’s Rampage
The 2025 edition of the men’s Red Bull Rampage was the 19th running of the event, and it brought no shortage of wild and skillful riding and edge-of-your-seat drama. This year’s field of competitors included a mix of first timers and returning veterans, all showing up to push their personal llmits with the hopes of a landing a spot on the Rampage podium. After a week+ of digging, opening up features, and connecting top to bottom runs, the finals went down on Sunday, October 19th.
The men’s event had a total of 17 of the best riders in freeride and slopestyle mountain biking dropping into some of the most intense terrain imaginable. The level of riding was incredibly high with riders dropping into intense chutes, airing over massive gaps, and hitting enormous drops while throwing flips and spins with incredible precision. In the end, Rampage newcomer Hayden Zablotny wowed the judges the most with a second run score of 96.00, securing 1st place in his rookie appearance.
Rampage veteran Thomas Genon blew minds with his incredibly high-consequence drop-in, followed by a series of jumps, drops, and tricks that looked like something from a video game, earning him a score of 94.35. Tom Van Steenbergen rode to 3rd place with a score of 94.00 with his signature caveman drop-in and a massive corked 720 on one of the lower jumps. The rest of the field was no less impressive, with outrageous performances across the board.
Unfortunately, viewers also witnessed a sobering reminder of the level of risk and very high consequences of participating in an event like Red Bull Rampage. These riders are fierce competitors who live to push their personal limits, of course, but that occasionally results in truly spectacular and potentially life-threatening crashes. Anyone who was watching the live stream can tell you that Adolf Silva’s second run crash was truly gut-wrenching. Silva went down hard after under rotating a double backflip off of a large step down drop. He was airlifted to a nearby hospital where it was reported that he was conscious and talking to family. Further updates on his condition have not been provided, but we wish him all the best after such a horrific crash.
Not long after Silva’s incident, Swedish phenomenon Emil Johansson had his own mishap at the very top of the venue. Johansson failed to execute an extremely high-consequence tailwhip drop-in and fell in a no-fall zone. He slid down a steep, ledgy face and fortunately was able to self-arrest before tumbling off a much larger, sheer cliff below. He suffered a dislocated hip in the process and needed to be airlifted from the spot to receive medical attention. In a recent update on social media, he said he is “thankful to be alive in one piece & doing ok considering the circumstances.”
Did you miss the action from this year’s Red Bull Rampage? Never fear, you can watch replays of both the men’s and women’s events on the RedBull website.
