The Red Bull Pump Track World Championship is a global series with 25 races on all continents, open to all. Amateurs, local heroes, Olympic BMX riders, mountain bike world champions, national champions and rising talents will compete against each other in a knockout system. The Championship is a first: for the first time, BMX and mountain bike athletes will ride on the same platform.

The new Swiss Bike Park Oberried is to become a center where responsibility, courage, strength and sport come together. There could be no better way to celebrate this than with a world championship as the grand opening event. And indeed, the initiators of the Swiss Bike Park have managed to bring the Red Bull Pump Track World Championship finals to Switzerland. The world's best mountain bikers and BMXers will be meeting in Bern-Köniz-Oberried from October 17-19, 2019 to compete on the brand new Velosolutions pump track. Around 200 athletes and coaches as well as 5,000 spectators are expected.

Swiss riders at the top of the world

Christa von Niederhäusern and David Graf from Switzerland are the two current world champions. At the first edition of the Red Bull Pump Track World Championship Finals in 2018, the two BMX pros were invincible and prevailed against strong international competition. This means that whoever wants to become world champion this year will have to beat the Swiss in their home country.

A fast-growing sport

Pumptrack racing is a very young sport that is also experiencing a major upswing in Switzerland. New facilities are being built all over the country; the Graubünden-based company Velosolutions has already built seven new facilities this year alone and ten more are planned, including the Swiss Bike Park. The great popularity is easy to explain: Children and young people enjoy playing on the wave track, recreational mountain bikers find an ideal practice area and professionals an ideal training ground. A pump track therefore connects very different user groups, which is why the Red Bull Pump Track World Championship is accessible to everyone, whether professional or amateur, mountain biker or BMX rider.

A good foundation

Thomas Binggeli, initiator of the Swiss Bike Park, is convinced that the Red Bull Pump Track World Championship Final will lay the perfect foundation for the new facility: "When the world's best in this young sport show what is possible on the course, it is the best advertisement for our business with courses and training for all ages and abilities."

The mayor of Köniz, Annemarie Berlinger, is also delighted with the award: "It's great that we can show the world the new Swiss Bike Park. It underlines the fact that bikes play an important role in our municipality and in Switzerland as a whole."

Last Chance Qualifier

On Friday, October 18, athletes from all over the world will have another chance to secure one of the last tickets for the final on Saturday, October 19. Registration for the Last Chance Qualifier is now open on the website.