BMX Freestyle World Cup 2026: Jeanjean Takes on Birmingham
Summary
A brand new ramp, somewhere in Alabama. No BMX Freestyle World Cup has ever set wheels here: the territory is untouched, the map remains to be drawn. From August 6 to 9, Birmingham becomes the new frontier that world champion Anthony Jeanjean wants to conquer.
Heading to Birmingham: the BMX Freestyle World Cup plants its ramps in Alabama.
The stage in brief
- Dates: August 6 to 9, 2026
- Location: Birmingham, Alabama (USA) — a first
- Format: Park & Flatland, Elite men & women
- Title holder: Anthony Jeanjean, 2025 world champion
- ️ Round: 2nd of 4 stages, after Montpellier in May
Birmingham: the new frontier of BMX Freestyle
Birmingham had never seen this before. For the first time, this city of about 200,000 inhabitants hosts a BMX Freestyle World Cup round. A blank slate. A terrain with no history or local record to beat.
That’s the whole point. No rider has any reference on these American ramps: no one starts with an advantage. The frontier is virgin, and everyone will have to tame it in a few runs. At Project X Paris, we love these new grounds that reshuffle the cards.
From Montpellier to Alabama: the season’s red thread
The 2026 season is played over four rounds. It opened in Montpellier from May 13 to 17, in the heated setting of FISE. Then the convoy heads to Birmingham in August, before Shanghai in October and Sakai, Japan, at the end of November.
Birmingham is therefore the second checkpoint of the year — and the first on American soil. Every run counts double in the minds of the favorites: this is where the hierarchy is drawn before the big Asian leap. The overall ranking builds run after run, city after city.
Park, Flatland: what’s the difference?
Two disciplines, two worlds. Park is the spectacular BMX of the Games: ramps, walls, and platforms linked at full speed, with giant jumps and aerial tricks defying gravity.
Flatland, on the other hand, is played on the ground, flat, without any ramp. The rider chains combinations of balancing tricks, often on one wheel — a precision clockwork where every support counts. On Sunday, August 9, the four finals Park and Flatland, men and women, crown their champions.
Did you know?
In 2025, Anthony Jeanjean achieved an unprecedented double: Park world champion title in Riyadh AND overall World Cup ranking the same year. No one before him had ever managed this combination in BMX Freestyle Park.
Jeanjean vs. the world armada: the coming duel
The Frenchman arrives in Alabama with a target on his back. World champion and 2025 overall winner, Anthony Jeanjean comes as the man to beat. His signature: a double backflip that went viral on social media.
Opposite him, the armada is dense. The Japanese Rimu Nakamura with his explosive style, Americans Marcus Christopher — world vice-champion — and Justin Dowell, not to mention Australian Logan Martin, Tokyo Olympic champion. Among women, young Japanese Miharu Ozawa, crowned 2025 overall winner at only 16, will face American Hannah Roberts, six-time world champion.
Want to see how high the level can go? Block the weekend of August 9.
Vibe check: the world BMX Freestyle level, summed up in a best trick by Ryan Williams at FISE.
The moment to watch again before Birmingham
To take the temperature before Alabama, nothing better than the Montpellier men’s Park final, broadcast in full on the official FISE channel: watch the FISE Montpellier 2026 final again. The dress rehearsal before the American conquest.
HEADING TO BIRMINGHAM
The American frontier is still untouched by any French triumph. On August 9, Jeanjean sets out to plant his flag on a map that no one has drawn yet. The conquest is just beginning.
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