Cameron Zink Explained

Cameron Zink
Birth Date:1986 3, df=yes
Birth Place:Aptos, California, U.S.
Discipline:Freestyle Mountain Bikes
Role:Freestyle
Ridertype:Slopestyle, Freeride

Cameron "Cam" Zink (born March 8, 1986) is an American professional freeride mountain bike rider and X Games athlete.

Personal life

Zink is from Carson City, Nevada. He started mountain biking at age 9 and when he was 16 won the junior national championship in dual slalom. He was signed by the Santa Cruz Syndicate team when he was 17.[1] Until he was 20, he continued to race while also competing in Slopestyle.[2]

Career

In 2009 Zink founded Sensus, a company that manufactures bike grips.[1] [2]

In 2010 he won Red Bull Rampage and was awarded best trick for an almost 40-foot 360 drop, and also won the FMB World Tour season title.[3] [4] In 2013 he won best trick for a 78-foot backflip,[5] after having been forbidden by a doctor to ride.[1] In 2013 he finished 4th Overall in Munich X-Games Slopestyle event. In 2014 he placed 2nd in Red Bull Rampage and won best trick with the biggest 360 in history of the event.[6]

On August 21, 2014, Mammoth Mountain at World of X-Games, he set the world record for the farthest backflip on a bicycle with a 100-foot, 3 inch flip.[7] [8] In 2006 and 2010 he won Crankworx Slopestyle (now Joyride) in Whistler, British Columbia.[1] [2] [9]

In 2020, Cam founded Milepost 35 Mountain Bike Camp at Mt. Hood, Oregon with, We Are Camp, LLC, the parent Company of High Cascade Snowboard Camp, and Windells Ski Camp.[10] Zink's 501c3 nonprofit, "Sensus Rad Trails" designs and builds the camp's private bike park while each summer campers can ride and learn from him during his Signature Session with Sensus.[11]

In April 2021, X-Games would bring back mountain biking this time to a REAL series format. Zink's video submission would be enough to win his first X-Games medal. [12]

In 2023, he won Red Bull Rampage for a second time.

Notes and References

  1. News: Ian . Collins . So Close to Hell . Interview . Dirt . February 2014 .
  2. News: Joe . Parkin . Where Are They Now? Cam Zink: The freeride legend talks about responsibility and 100-foot flips . Bike . August 21, 2014 .
  3. News: Tyler . Maine . Red Bull Rampage - Cam Zink wins it! . pinkbike . October 3, 2010 .
  4. News: Billy . Cam Zink Wins Red Bull Rampage . Dirt . October 4, 2010 .
  5. News: 78ft backflip on mountain bike by Cam Zink at Red Bull Rampage . Video . . October 15, 2013 . Red Bull .
  6. Web site: Mike . Berard . Cam Zink's 2nd Place Run at Red Bull Rampage 2014 . Red Bull . September 29, 2014 .
  7. Web site: David . Strege . Cam Zink lands world-record mountain bike backflip . GrindTV.com . August 21, 2014 . January 15, 2016 .
  8. News: Cam Zink sets world record mountain bike backflip . https://web.archive.org/web/20150521034937/http://xgames.espn.go.com/xgames/video/11391368/cam-zink-sets-world-record-mountain-bike-backflip . dead . 21 May 2015 . X Games . . Video . January 18, 2016 .
  9. News: Lou . Mazzante . Zink Lands Safely on Crankworx Podium . Bicycling . August 18, 2010 .
  10. Web site: M35 History. Milepost 35 . July 16, 2024 .
  11. Web site: Dates & Prices. Milepost 35 . July 16, 2024 .
  12. Web site: Monster Energy's Cam Zink Takes X Games Bronze in 'Real Mountain Bike' Video Competition.