JEFF LENOSKY
Age: 40
Hometown: Sparta, NJ
Discipline: Mountain Bike Freeride
Years in the Sport: 15
Piece of Gear you can't live without: Teva Links, Giant STP and
Beats Headphones
Favorite place to practice: His backyard (the Links) or some
random college campus.
Favorite post-workout meal: Mexican
Favorite pizza topping: Meatball
Proudest achievement: Any time another rider tells me I've inspired
them.
Worst sports-related injury: Broken tibia and fibula February
2010.
Favorite down-time activity: Hanging with my family or
friends.
Biggest pet peeve: Long lines at the airport, lazy
people.
TOP RESULTS AND TITLES:
2011 Rays Mtb Park Odd Couple Video Contest 3rd
2010 Crankworx Trials Comp 1st
2010 Rays Mtb Park Odd Couple Video Contest 3rd
2009 Sea Otter Classic Dual Stunt 3rd Place
2009 Rays Mtb Park Odd Couple Video Contest 2nd
2009 Crankworx Trials Comp 2nd Place
Three time US Mountain Bike Trials Champion
Bunny hop World Record Holder 45.5 inches
JEFF LENOSKY'S TMG SCORE SHEET:
2nd Place - 2011 Freeride Dual
16th Place - 2010 Freeride Dual
5th Place - 2009 Freeride Dual
3rd Place - 2008 Freeride Dual
1st Place - 2007 Freeride Dual
1st Place - 2006 Freeride Dual
2nd Place - 2005 Freeride Dual
KATIE COMPTON
Competition: Road Bike Hill Climb and Mountain Biking
Hometown: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Compton is an accomplished cyclocross racer and previous winner of
road bike and mountain bike competitions at TMG. She has held the
Cyclocross National Championship title since 2004 and became the
first American woman to stand on the podium at the Cyclocross World
Championships in Belgium in 2007.
The 2007-2008 season was her most successful as she swept most
national races and won her first World Cup race in the Netherlands.
She ousted the race favorite by almost a minute.
You didn't know... Compton took part in Paralympic tandem bike
events with blind partner Karissa Whitsell. Compton piloted and
pedaled the tandem as the "captain" and Whitsell rides in the rear
as "stoker." They were dominant in the 2004 Paralympic Games,
winning medals in every event they entered, and setting a world
record in the 3-kilometer pursuit event.
KATIE COMPTON'S TMG SCORE SHEET:
1st Place - 2010 Road Bike Time Trial
1st Place - 2009 Road Bike Time Trial
1st Place - 2008 Road Bike Time Trial
2nd Place - 2007 Road Bike Time Trial
2nd Place - 2010 X-Country Mountain Bike
1st Place - 2009 X-Country Mountain Bike
1st Place - 2008 X-Country Mountain Bike
KURT SORGE
Age: 23
Sport: Mountain Biking
Favorite place to practice: Kamloops, BC
Where are you from? Nelson, BC
Where do you live now? Nelson, BC
How many years have you been in the sport? 7
Kurt started riding when he was really young, just back
and forth from elementary school and wound up riding around
after school till dark jumping off things and wheeling around. Then
when he into junior high he started getting a bit more
serious about it and in high school entered a contest called the
UFC (Ultimate Freeride Challenge). Sorge ended up winning that
contest and has not really looked back since.
KURT SORGE'S TMG SCORE SHEET:
5th Place - 2011 Slopestyle
5th Place - 2011 Freeride Dual
CAM MCCAUL
Age: 25,
Sport: Freeride Mountain Bike
Favorite place to practice: Highland mountain bike park in
New Hampshire
Where are you from? Aptos, CA
Where do you live now? Santa Cruz, CA
Cam fell in love with mountain bikes because you can take them
anywhere you want and emulate so many different sports.
CAM MCCAUL'S TMG SCORE SHEET:
19th Place - 2009 Freeride Dual
2nd Place - 2006 Freeride Big Air
3rd Place - 2006 Freeride Dual
2nd Place - 2009 Slopestyle
ADAM HAUCK
Competition: Slopestyle and Freeride Bike
Hometown: Bloomfield, New Jersey
Hauck, a pro rider with Gravity Team and winner of the
slopestyle
and freeride events at previous TMGs, has got some serious tricks
up his sleeve.
Despite being young (not even 20 years old), Hauck has been
recognized worldwide for his technical tricks, including winning
Best Trick at Nissan Quashai Urban Challenge in Madrid, Spain.
You didn't know... After winning in Vail, Hauck got top honors
at
the Red Bull Bike Night in Trieste, Italy a few weeks later. He won
the Best Trick
competition after completing a clean "720" on a challenging
course.
ADAM HUECK'S TMG SCORE SHEET:
12th Place - 2010 Slopestyle
1st Place - 2008 Slopestyle
4th Place - 2010 Freeride Dual
1st Place - 2009 Freeride Dual
1st Place - 2008 Freeride Dual
JEREMY HORGAN-KOBELSKI
Event: Mountain Bike Cross Country
Hometown: Boulder, CO
Age: 33
Over the course of 17 full seasons of racing, JHK has raced in over
30 countries, won 14 National Championships, stood on multiple
World Cup and international podiums, and become an American
Olympian. 2009 and 2010 saw JHK earn his 5th National Cross Country
Championship, back-to-back Marathon National Championships as well
as his 100th National Series podium appearance. He ended 2010 with
123 U.S. National Podiums and won the inaugural ProXC Tour along
the way in 2009. In 2010 he made his debut at the 100-mile distance
winning the Bailey Hundo and breaking Lance Armstrong's record time
en route to second place at the Leadville 100. 2011 will mark JHK's
19th full season of racing. He will contest races around the world
and spend over 200 days on the road. Already America's most
successful domestic racer of the modern era, in 2011 JHK will look
to continue to cement his place among the all-time stars of
American Mountain Bike racing.
JHK won the XC Mountain Bike Race at the Teva Mountain Games in
2009 and 2010 against stacked pro fields and in 2011, he'll be
looking for a three-peat.
JEREMY HORGAN-KOBELSKI'S TMG SCORE SHEET:
1st Place - 2011 X-Country Mountain Bike
1st Place - 2010 X-Country Mountain Bike
1st Place - 2009 X-Country Mountain Bike
MIKE MONTGOMERY
San Diego's Mike Montgomery is at the forefront of
freestyle mountain biking progression. Mike's slope style runs
leave spectators either fist-pumping or slack-jawed and speechless,
and his jumps push the limits of the sport. He is a rider's rider,
a guy that other competitors cheer-on because he's legit, has
absolutely no fear and he's a solid dude on and off the bike.
Mike won the Pinkbike Best Trick Throwdown at Ranchstyle in May
2011, followed that up with a win in the MTB Slopestyle event at
the 2011 Teva Mountain Games, and clinched another Best Trick title
at the Jump Ship Dirt Jump Invitational in Canada. He casually made
his way into the top 20 in the FMB World Tour Rankings earlier this
year. With tricks like the body varial, backflip barhop and
cliffhanger backflip, look for Mike to bust out bigger and more
technical tricks in the near future.
MIKE'S TMG TICKLIST:
1st Place - 2011 Slopestyle
9th Place - 2010 Slopestyle
SAM PILGRIM
Date of birth: June 4th, 1990
Nationality: English
Residence: Colchester, England
Sam´s been riding 6-7 years and three of those years as a pro. The
first comp he won was at the age of 14, the filthy 48 (UK) and
since then he progressed more and more to the level of riding he´s
at now. He recently placed in the top 3 for the 2012 Winter Teva
Mountain Games Best Trick Bike comp. 2012 Summer Teva Mountain
Games will be his first appearance!
PAUL BASAGOITIA
Paul Basagoitia burst onto the competitive scene in 2004
with no sponsor and a borrowed bike. Nobody knew who he was… yet.
Brushing skeptics aside, he upstaged the field at Whistler
Crankworx and nabbed first place. In the years following,
Paul-"Bass" to friends and fans-has risen to become one of the top
freestyle riders on the pro circuit, known for putting down
cutting-edge runs on dirt, urban and steep terrains.
After picking up a sponsorship from Kona bikes, Bass came back
in 2005 to take first place in Crankworx again, solidifying his
presence on the pro tour. "Taking Crankworx back-to-back was
definitely a high point in my career so far," Bass says. "It showed
everyone that I wasn't just a fluke, that I was here to win." That
same year, he took first at the Gathering and second at the Red
Bull District Ride (a crushing one-point loss in the final). In
2006, Bass dominated the District Ride in Europe, taking first
overall.
Since then, Bass has continued to hold the podium in style. A
first-place overall finish at the 2007 Nissan Qashqai Tour gave way
to another spot on the podium at Crankworx Colorado that year. His
approach to the slopestyle riding is a mix of huge, singular airs
and bold, technical maneuvers. And often Bass will hit what no one
else will. At the 2008 Red Bull Rampage, he was the only rider to
launch off the massive kicker jutting out into the canyon where the
competition was held-just two weeks after recovering from a broken
collarbone.
Paul recently performed the first double back flip on natural
ground in the world.
PAUL'S TMG TICKLIST:
2nd Place - 2011 Slopestyle
2nd Place - 2010 Slopestyle
1st Place - 2009 Slopestyle