The world’s most progressive freeriders descend on Mt. Dewar in Tāhuna Queenstown, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Natural Selection Bike 2026 brings together 27 of the most creative and fearless riders in mountain biking, blending Big Mountain Freeride, Slopestyle, and Downhill into one unmissable event. Defending champion Szymon Godziek, runner-up Carson Storch, Brett Rheeder, Reed Boggs, Nicholi Rogatkin, and a stacked field of men and women
all drop into a refined and expanded Mt. Dewar course, built to push the limits of what’s possible on a bike.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
8:11 Course preview line 1
Men’s Run 1
10:29 Cam Zink 🇺🇸
13:05 Paul Couderc 🇫🇷
18:36 Tomas Genon 🇧🇪
20:36 Kaidan Ingersoll 🇺🇸
23:25 Billy Meaclem 🇳🇿
25:38 Tomas Lemoine 🇫🇷
30:45 Ondra Slez 🇨🇿
33:24 Hayden Zablotny 🇨🇦
37:02 Nicholi Rogatkin 🇺🇸
41:13 Johny Salido 🇲🇽
49:10 Reed Boggs 🇺🇸
51:33 Finley Kirschenmann 🇺🇸
54:22 Louis Reboul 🇫🇷
56:50 Carson Storch 🇺🇸
59:23 Szymon Godziek 🇵🇱
Women’s Run 1
1:09:22 Vinny Armstrong 🇳🇿
1:11:35 Robin Goomes 🇳🇿
1:14:14 Vaea Verbeeck 🇨🇦
1:19:00 Natasha Bradley 🇬🇧
1:22:11 Chelsea Kimball 🇺🇸
1:24:41 Janelle Soukup 🇺🇸
1:28:09 Kirsten Van Horne🇨🇦
1:30:32 Hannah Bergemann 🇺🇸
Women’s Run 2
1:42:06 Chelsea Kimball 🇺🇸
1:44:15 Vaea Verbeeck 🇨🇦
1:46:43 Vinny Armstrong 🇳🇿
1:49:33 Natasha Bradley 🇬🇧
1:52:09 Janelle Soukup 🇺🇸
1:54:45 Kirsten Van Horne🇨🇦
1:57:38 Hannah Bergemann 🇺🇸
2:00:18 Robin Goomes 🇳🇿
2:07:07 Course preview line 2
Men’s Run 2
2:08:51 Carson Storch 🇺🇸
2:12:10 Tomas Genon 🇧🇪
2:14:43 Billy Meaclem 🇳🇿
2:18:33 Reed Boggs 🇺🇸
2:21:03 Hayden Zablotny 🇨🇦
2:29:24 Louis Reboul 🇫🇷
2:32:39 Ondra Slez 🇨🇿
2:35:57 Johny Salido 🇲🇽
2:39:15 Paul Couderc 🇫🇷
2:42:13 Nicholi Rogatkin 🇺🇸
2:45:44 Tomas Lemoine 🇫🇷
2:48:43 Kaidan Ingersoll 🇺🇸
2:53:27 Finley Kirschenmann 🇺🇸
2:56:55 Szymon Godziek 🇵🇱
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31 Comments
What a sick event❤
What a class act Kaiden is for correcting best trick and giving it to the egregiously under appreciated twister. I don’t think it was 1st place run but it was super solid T2B with the biggest bangers of the event.
fn sick
Who did you vote for Cameron Zink????????????????????????????????
🤜🤛🤝⭐⭐⭐👍👍👍
Best riding I’ve seen in years hands down. Respect to the bros and ladies ripping!❤️🔥🤘🚀 Kaiden #1
Best Free Ride comp, thank you!
hope you add a secondary lip to the last jump for the second day line for next year 👍
TommyG style is something else ❤❤❤
Ondra mě posadil na zadek, mezi tuto smetánku patří. Klobouk dolů.
Finley just casually rocking the US and THEM sweater ! Love ❤️ it.
Beautiful riding, a beautiful course and beautiful scenery! Thank you for all that made this event possible! Such courageous riding guys! Wow!
Riders and riding: unbelievably good. Barely any crashes, just top-level stuff. And the drone footage is absolutely amazing, you can tell the operators know exactly what they're doing. Really appreciate the production quality there.
But the fact that we aren't watching this actually live, but as a "live replay"? Seriously, I'd love to meet the person who pitched that as a great idea and the whole team that went "yeeeee, good idea."
Cmon guys. You have amazing riders, an amazing course, and incredible views, and because of this decision the stream is sitting at barely 5-6k viewers during the "LIVE" replay. It’s not out of nowhere that esports streams get way more views than this. It's just a bad sell.
If I was a sponsor (GMC, POC, etc.) I would absolutely be requesting a report on sponsorship effectiveness right now, because this is just bad. Simple as that.
Awesome comp but way too low score for Rogatkin on his first run….or am I crazy?
Letsgoooo Ondra Slez !!!!!
What?? Rogatkin with a peak visor on his helmet? 😮
Fantastic event. Love the judging rules!
Great event and footage, but soo weird they don't have this live. Such a weird vibe with no spectators there. And then to have a watch along but put so much pointless talking just to try flesh it out even more.
It's also clear they don't care for us Kiwis or NZ at all. Don't let us come and spectate, then when they finally release it, it drops at 6am NZ time. Wtf!? Just using us for the backdrop and that's it. Be better Redbull
Ondra mega zabil!!!
Thanks for having me! Such a sick event! Loved the Broadcast 🙌🙌
Godziek's first run, his last trick wasn't a make. Sorry. But unlike snowboarding, where it can be a grey line between calling it stomped or not, biking there is a clear line. Missing a pedal with your foot hitting the ground is NOT a make. It should have been deducted as much as Zink's bail. These judges aren't from the culture it seems. Do they even ride?
Soooo good to see crashes not completely destroy run scores. That's always annoyed me about judging in Rampage or slopestyle.
Let's go! such a rad event
Kaidan has the cleanest style in the game
One thing I love about this sport is if you were to ask me who my favorite rider is, I would just respond with "all of 'em".
It has to be nerve-racking with all those tombstones on the side of the mountain🫣😜
Red Bull, I salute you. Thank you for making such good mtb content for free ❤
That was a disgusting score they gave to Nichoil Ragakin I will not watch any more of this
I'm so confused… How did Nicholi score 40? If we get underscored for doing the best run, how is that motivation for future riders? I'm so confused.
Go Zink! This course is incredible! Awesome filming. Thank you!
The chatgpt voice over at the beginning is horrendous
Is it just me or did they not mention that several spins were opposite? I'm wondering if they can't see properly somehow..