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ABA BMX Goes "BIG" in Las Vegas!

The American Bicycle Association hosted its 3rd largest National event of its 30 year history in Las Vegas, NV at the South Point Hotel and Casino this past weekend July 13-15. Las Vegas, NV proved to be a must attend event with over 5000 participants and 16,000 spectators over the three day event, which represented riders from 38 states and 9 different countries. Friday’s event was a record setting pre race event with almost 1000 participants and 157 motos, Saturday was the third largest ABA National event ever held with 378 motos and 2438 participants, and then Sundays event was 351 motos with over 2300 participants.

With BMX entering the World Stage at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, the Las Vegas National drew international riders from around the world. Riders from New Zealand, Costa Rica, Mexico, South Africa, Chile, Canada, Japan, Argentina, and the entire Australian Olympic BMX team were all in attendance. The vast attendance by US and International riders earned the event the front page spot on Sunday’s Las Vegas Review journal.

Executives from Disney were on hand to witness the event first hand and inform everyone about the Disney Cup Fall Nationals that will be hosted at the Disney Wide World of Sports October 25-28 2007. Executives from Bawls Energy Drink were also in attendance. The Rush HD Network was their filming “Motivated” a 1 hour documentary on Bubba Harris, ABA’s National #1 Pro for the third year in a row.

The South Point Casino was an excellent host for this event, with the Hotel being directly connected to the arena it allowed participants and family members the opportunity to see a movie, play games in the arcade or go swimming or bowling in between races. The South Point Casino played a major role in exposing the sport to the general public as well, with a video playing on the billboard in front of the casino and Event posters through out the Hotel drew in spectators that otherwise would have never been exposed to the sport.

The ABA would like to thank all the participants, families, teams, sponsors, and BMX industry for helping make the Las Vegas event such a huge success!

Now here's a quick look at the ABA BMX PRO wins after Las Vegas Nationals –

AA PRO
Danny "Easy Money" Caluag – Intense/Socko – 7
Randy Stumpfhauser -GT Bicycles -5
Cristian Becerine – Free Agent – 2
Kyle Bennett – Free Agent - 2
Mike Brabant – Unbound/Intense - 1
Mike Day – GT Bicycles - 1
Javier Colombo -- SE Bikes/No Wimps - 1
Jarrett Kolich – Avent/Bombshell – 1
Donny Robinson – Formula/Monster/HP - 1

Woman’s PRO
Alise "The Beast" Post – Formula/Monster – 9
Krystal Hime – Supercross/O’neal - 5
Kayle Gaddis -- Bizarro - 2
Terra Nichols - Intense/Phantom/On-Trac -2
Arielle Martin – Action Sports Depot - 1

PRO CRUISER
Danny "Easy Money" Caluag – Intense/Socko – 9
Kenth Fallen – Supercross BMX – 3
Tyler Brown - Avent/Bombshell - 3
Paul Lange – Felt Bicycles – 3
Jeff Upshaw -- Kuwahara - 2

VET PRO
Jason Carnes – Redline bikes – 7
John Whipperman – Redman/ Yamaha Waverunner - 6
Todd Parry – Socko Energy drink -3
Chad Street – Intense/ Phantom/On-Trac – 2
Greg Romero – Sun Bru - 2

2007 Pro Standing through Las Vegas Nationals
AA PRO
1 DANNY CALUAG 2485
2 RANDY STUMPFHAUSER 2280
3 BUBBA HARRIS 1730
4 CRISTIAN BECERINE 1287
5 DONNY ROBINSON 1264
6 KYLE BENNETT 1132
7 STEVEN CISAR 1071
8 MIKE BRABANT 1069
9 JAVIER COLOMBO 1056
10 DEREK BETCHER 1001

WOMEN PRO
1 ALISE POST 2458
2 TERRA NICHOLS 1797
3 AFTON SCHRIMPF 1557
4 STEPHANIE BARRAGAN 1438
5 KRYSTAL HIME 1405
6 ERIKA SHORT 1127
7 KIMBERLY HAYASHI 718
8 TONI RUDE 657
9 CASSIE BUSHNELL 590
10 JODI ENGLAND 570

PRO CRUISER
1 DANNY CALUAG 2438
2 PAUL LANGE 2009
3 KENTH FALLEN 1875
4 TYLER BROWN 1354
5 JASON CARNES 1217
6 JEFF UPSHAW 1113
7 BILLY ANDERSON 1093
8 THOMAS FERNANDEZ 922
9 ERIC RUPE 907
10 NATE BERKHEIMER 660

VET PRO
1 JASON CARNES 2425
2 TODD PARRY 2239
3 CHAD STREET 2208
4 JOHN WHIPPERMAN 2016
5 JASON SILVA 1539
6 ERIC RUPE 1098
7 GREG ROMERO 1032
8 MIKE GUL 989
9 DREW DOWNEY 918
10 CHRIS HAM 730

A PRO
1 JASON MORRIS 929
2 JOEY BRADFORD 911
3 MIKE WEATHERFORD 870
4 ALAN HUDSON 835
5 WARREN MCDOW 791
6 PHIL DELIZIA 753
7 BILLY ANDERSON 735
8 JOE SOWERS 713
9 JOSH SMITH 645
10 JUSTIN MCLINTOCK 626

 

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