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Team / POWERSPORTS: DIRT / ROBBIE MADDISON

ROBBIE MADDISON

Home base
Kiama, Australia
Date of Birth
7/14/1981

 

Robbie Maddison rocketed into 2008 with a bang—jumping his motorcycle 322 feet, 7.5 inches to break the world record at the Rio All-Suite Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas. He followed it up later that year with strong finishes on the AST Dew Tour and Red Bull X-Fighters series. He ended 2008 back in Vegas, jumping his bike onto the top of the 96-foot-high Arc de Triomphe at Paris Las Vegas and then freefell off of it, at Red Bull: New Year. No Limits., again on ESPN. For 2009, he's planning on breaking a few more barriers.
"I think my biggest accomplishments are all ahead of me," Robbie, a.k.a. Maddo, says. "I have another big jump planned for 2009 and getting really close to the top spots in FMX this year." With a solid second overall on the Dew Tour and third overall in the Red Bull X-Fighters series, Robbie has developed a hunger for first and he's gunning to take the Dew Tour, X Games and the Red Bull X-Fighters in 2009. "I don't really have any small goals," he says. "The three contests are really different; each tests riders in different ways. So my biggest accomplishment will be when I can say I've won all three. I just want to ride the best I can and close the gap between me and first place in every contest I compete in."
Robbie likes to joke that he was born on a bike and came into the world doing a no-hander onto the delivery table. It's not far from the truth. He started riding at age four and racing at six, and became Australia's national amateur champion at 16. "I had to make a tough decision about whether to turn pro and try to make a go of it on the professional racing circuit," he says. "In the end I took an apprenticeship as an electrician instead. Then one day in 2002, I'm looking in a magazine and I see pictures of a few of my old heroes doing this new sport of FMX, just crazy stuff. I got out on my bike and started messing around with some old tricks and trying some new ones, and I was hooked." Robbie won the King of Australia contest the next year, and he's been pro ever since.

Robbie Maddison rocketed into 2008 with a bang—jumping his motorcycle 322 feet, 7.5 inches to break the world record at the Rio All-Suite Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas. He followed it up later that year with strong finishes on the AST Dew Tour and Red Bull X-Fighters series. He ended 2008 back in Vegas, jumping his bike onto the top of the 96-foot-high Arc de Triomphe at Paris Las Vegas and then freefell off of it, at Red Bull: New Year. No Limits., again on ESPN. For 2009, he's planning on breaking a few more barriers.
"I think my biggest accomplishments are all ahead of me," Robbie, a.k.a. Maddo, says. "I have another big jump planned for 2009 and getting really close to the top spots in FMX this year." With a solid second overall on the Dew Tour and third overall in the Red Bull X-Fighters series, Robbie has developed a hunger for first and he's gunning to take the Dew Tour, X Games and the Red Bull X-Fighters in 2009. "I don't really have any small goals," he says. "The three contests are really different; each tests riders in different ways. So my biggest accomplishment will be when I can say I've won all three. I just want to ride the best I can and close the gap between me and first place in every contest I compete in."
Robbie likes to joke that he was born on a bike and came into the world doing a no-hander onto the delivery table. It's not far from the truth. He started riding at age four and racing at six, and became Australia's national amateur champion at 16. "I had to make a tough decision about whether to turn pro and try to make a go of it on the professional racing circuit," he says. "In the end I took an apprenticeship as an electrician instead. Then one day in 2002, I'm looking in a magazine and I see pictures of a few of my old heroes doing this new sport of FMX, just crazy stuff. I got out on my bike and started messing around with some old tricks and trying some new ones, and I was hooked." Robbie won the King of Australia contest the next year, and he's been pro ever since.

 

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

2009 Red Bull X-Fighters Madrid best trick 1st

Red Bull X-Fighters Madrid FMX 3rd

Red Bull X-Fighters Calgary 1st

Arc de Triomphe Jump Up: 96 feet

Arc de Triomphe Jump Down: 40 feet

London Tower Bridge Backflip

Co-hosted MTV awards March

2008 Crusty Demons Night of World Records Long Jump: 350.98 feet

Red Bull X Fighters, Mexico City 5th

Red Bull X Fighters, Rio de Janeiro 3rd

2007 Motorcycle World Record Long Jump: 322.64 feet

Red Bull X Fighters, Mexico City 3rd

2006 Moto X Freestyle at X-Games 12, USA 6th

2005 FMX International, Spain 1st

Red Bull Riders Peer Poll 1st

Racelines Rider of the year award 1st

King of the Coast 1st

Melbourne Moto Expo 1st

Pamplona FMX 3rd

Valencia Nokia N-Gage FMX 1st

Red Bull X-Fighters Madrid 6th

Gran Canarias Freestyle 8th

Crusty Demons World Record (125cc) Long Jump: 221 feet

Crusty Demons World Record (250cc) Longest Trick: 246 feet

Osaka Japan X-Air 3rd

2004 King of the Coast 1st

Planet-X Summer Games 1st

Valencia Burn 2nd

2003 King of the Coast 1st

 

 

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