Red Bull Art of Motion is a parkour and freerunning competition, established in 2007 and created by Red Bull. It is an international competition with qualifiers being held in various regional competitions around the world throughout the year. Winners from the regional competitions each year earn their ticket to get to the finals, held towards the end of the year.
The inaugural competition was held in Vienna, Austria, and has since been held in various other countries, including England, Kuwait,[1]United States,[2][3]Sweden,[4] Greece (Santorini), and most recently in Matera, Italy. Judging of the event is based on several criteria including creativity, flow, execution, and difficulty.
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Rules. 18 athletes are divided into 3 groups of 6. After the first run from each group 2 of the best athletes in the final, and automatically get the next AOM.
Judges
Name
Criteria
Anan Anwar
Creativity
Gabriel Nunez
Difficulty
Kie Willis
Execution
Sergio Cora
Flow
Patrick Morawetz
Head Judge
Online qualification (Men)
Name
Zelimkhan Dzhabrailov
Pavel Petkuns
Alexander Schauer
Online qualification (Women)
Name
Luci Romberg
Pamela Forster
Aleksandra Shevchenko
On-site qualification
Name
Pedro Leon Gomez
Kamil Tobiasz
Alexandros Bilionis
Jesse Peveril
First Run
Group 1
Rank
Athlete
Points
1
Jesse Peveril
471
2
Alexander Schauer
445
3
Cory DeMeyers
439
4
Stanislavs Lazdans
438
5
Daniel Mircea
396
6
Pamela Forster
373
Group 2
Rank
Athlete
Points
1
Dimitris Kyrsanidis
486
2
Alexander Baiturin
480
3
Luci Romberg
466
4
Pedro Leon Gomez
464
5
Zelimkhan Dzhabrailov
452
6
Joel Eggimann
449
Group 3
Rank
Athlete
Points
1
Yoann Leroux
460
2
Pavel Petkuns
454
3
Jesse La Flair
453
4
Kamil Tobiasz
434
5
Alexandros Bilionis
429
6
Aleksandra Shevchenko
391
Green color indicates athletes who have reached the final, and automatically come to the AOM 2015
Online qualification (4 men & 3 women). From 3 to 9 August 2015 announced the winners of each day in the online qualification.
Date
Name
Man/Woman
3 August
Pedro Leon Gomez
Man
4 August
Luci Romberg
Woman
5 August
Didi Alaoui
Man
6 August
Pamela Forster
Woman
7 August
Dante Grazioli
Man
8 August
Lynn Jung
Woman
9 August
Alfred Scott
Man
Lynn Jung doesn't take part in competition.
16 August 2015 determine the winner of the Audience Award in the online selection which will be paid for flights and accommodation for qualifying for the location 1 October 2015 in Santorini - Cory DeMeyers
On-site qualification
Name
Erik Mukhametshin
Jason Paul
Acraf Dibani
Johan Stahle
Dominic Di Tommaso
Bob Reese
First Run
Group 1
Rank
Athlete
Points
1
Yoann Leroux
435
2
Alfred Scott
417
3
Erik Mukhametshin
415
4
Pedro Leon Gomez
400
5
Alexander Baiturin
386
6
Bob Reese
351
Group 2
Rank
Athlete
Points
1
Alexander Schauer
472
2
Pavel Petkuns
414
3
Luci Romberg
396
4
Achraf Dibani
358
5
Dante Grazioli
355
6
Johan Stahle
309
Group 3
Rank
Athlete
Points
1
Dimitris Kyrsanidis
445
2
Jesse Peveril
429
3
Didi Alaoui
425
4
Dominic Di Tommaso
424
5
Jason Paul
414
6
Pamela Forster
343
Green color indicates athletes who have reached the final, and automatically come to the AOM 2016
Online qualification (4 men & 3 women). From 12 to 18 July 2017 announced the winners of each day in the online qualification.
Date
Name
Man/Woman
12 July
Dimitris Kyrsanidis
Man
13 July
Sydney Olson
Woman
14 July
Jeff Garrido
Man
15 July
Aleksandra Shevchenko
Woman
16 July
Stanislavs Lazdans
Man
17 July
Pamela Forster
Woman
18 July
Valtteri Luoma-aho
Man
With 19954 votes Andre Luiz Freitas wins a trip to Santorini! He will get a chance to prove himself at the Red Bull Art of Motion On-site Qualifier 2017
Stanislavs Lazdans had injury and will not participate in AoM 2017. His place will take part Krystian Kowalewski
Top 20 On-site athletes :
Green color indicates athletes who won On-site qualification and will participate in main event of AoM 2017
Name
Charles Luong
Aaron Vivar
Edward Scott
Alexander Schauer
Pedro Leon Gomez
Yesay Ayala
Corbin Reinhardt
Bob Reese
Dominic Di Tommaso
Didi Alaoui
Matthias Mayer
Kirya Kolesnikov
Onni Pouhtari
Pavel Petkuns
Waldemar Muller
Kamil Tobiasz
Gabriel Mircea
Sato Kenichi
Alexander Titarenko
Benjamin Cave
Krystian Kowalewski had injury and will not participate in AoM 2017. His place will take part Dominic Di Tommaso
Sydney Olson won't be able to compete. Last minute replacement is Kamil Tobiasz who placed 7th in the Onsite Qualifier.
First Run
Group 1
Rank
Athlete
Points
1
Pedro Salgado
397
2
Valtteri Luoma-aho
389
3
Alexander Schauer
384
4
Alfred Scott
377
5
Charles Luong
347
6
Pamela Forster
303
Group 2
Rank
Athlete
Points
1
Nathan Weston
400
2
Dimitris Kyrsanidis
391
3
Bart van der Linden
342
4
Edward Scott
334
5
Kamil Tobiasz
323
6
Dominic Di Tommaso
312
Group 3
Rank
Athlete
Points
1
Calen Chan
381
2
Alexander Titarenko
380
3
Joey Adrian
373
4
Jeff Garrido
364
5
Didi Alaoui
350
6
Aleksandra Shevchenko
342
Green color indicates athletes who have reached the final.
12 men and 6 women will compete on AoM 2019 in Matera.
Participants will include the winners of the 2017 Red Bull Art of Motion and other international competitions (Air Wipp Challenge, NAPC and Lion City), an Italian wildcard alongside winners of the online and onsite qualifications.
Nathan Weston (2nd runner-up) qualifies for AoM 2019 via Asian Parkour Championship as Montree Bowdok (Winner) & Yurai Miyazaki (1st runner-up) have pre-qualified through online qualification.
Online qualification (4 men & 4 women):
Name
Men
Didi Alaoui
Evgeny Aroyan
Montree Bowdok
Yurai Miyazaki
Women
Sydney Olson
Aleksandra Shevchenko
Lilou Ruel
Silke Sollfrank
On-site qualification (3 men & 2 women)
Name
Men
Stefan Dollinger
Joshua Malone
Dimitris Kyrsanidis
Women
Hazal Nehir
Camila Stefaniu
Alexander Titarenko & Stefan Dollinger not involved due to injuries. Their places have been taken by Dominic Di Tommaso & Charles Luong
First Run
D - Difficulty
E - Execution
F - Flow
C - Creativity
OI - Overall Impression
Group 1
Rank
Athlete
Points
D
E
F
C
OI
1
Krystian Kowalewski
410
77
92
85
74
82
2
Nathan Weston
388
74
87
74
67
86
3
Joshua Malone
370
85
68
70
70
77
4
Silke Sollfrank
313
55
78
63
60
57
5
Camila Stefaniu
288
57
81
58
38
54
6
Fausto Vicari
286
60
48
65
50
63
Group 2
Rank
Athlete
Points
D
E
F
C
OI
1
Edward Scott
429
90
89
86
74
90
2
Dimitris Kyrsanidis
413
88
82
83
72
88
3
Evgeny Aroyan
405
74
91
81
76
83
4
Montree Bowdok
368
80
70
79
65
74
5
Lilou Ruel
277
70
48
54
53
52
6
Hazal Nehir
237
48
45
61
35
48
Group 3
Rank
Athlete
Points
D
E
F
C
OI
1
Charles Luong
411
91
92
80
62
86
2
Didi Alaoui
400
95
51
82
84
88
3
Yurai Miyazaki
383
88
65
78
73
79
4
Sydney Olson
353
71
76
73
67
66
5
Dominic Di Tommaso
352
68
74
75
60
75
6
Aleksandra Shevchenko
320
57
71
69
62
61
Green color indicates athletes who have reached the final.
Red Bull Art of Motion is back in 2021! The best tracers will gather again in Greece to participate in the main international freerunning competition . The competition will take place in a new unexpected location - in the heart of Piraeus, in the port of Microlimano, where participants will have to show their skills on board two huge sailing yachts.
Judges:
Name
Criteria
Jason Paul
Creativity
Luis Alkmim
Overall Impression
Sydney Olson
Difficulty
Sergio Cora
Flow
Kie Willis
Execution
Patrick Morawetz
Head Judge
Participants:
TOP-3 of AoM 2019
Name
Didi Alaoui
Edward Scott
Dimitris Kyrsanidis
Dimitris Kyrsanidis is injured. His place takes Joshua Malone.
The new three-day contest format (June 9-12).
Qualifiers and finals are no more. For the first time, participants will face a multi-part competition with three different challenges that’ll put all of their skills to the test during a collaborative three-day event.
Red Bull Art of Motion 2022 will consist of three challenges and the top five athletes in each challenge will receive points towards their total score. The athlete with the highest points total at the end of the three challenges will be crowned champion.
Red Bull Art of Motion 2022 challenges are: Exploration Challenge, Spot Challenge and Live Challenge.
Exploration Challenge.
Astypalea is an island covered with amazing freerunning spots waiting to be discovered. So, to kick things off all athletes will get one day to uncover the location best suited to their skillset and film a clip that impresses the judges the most. Whoever makes the most of this dream location by the end of the day will take home the points for the exploration challenge.
Here's how it works: athletes will have one day to submit three clips, but only the best clip will be judged, and all content will be shot, edited and submitted by the athletes themselves, working with each other to capture their best clips.. The top five will receive points towards the overall total and athletes will also select one of their videos each to enter for the People's Choice Award that you can vote for at redbullartofmotion.com.
Spot Challenge.
The clue's in the name for day two's challenge. All the finalists will converge on the biggest track this competition has ever had and be tasked with filming their very best action clip.
Athletes will all throw down at a predetermined location and will have just three hours to produce a 45-60 second action clip in collaboration with a videographer. The judges will then determine the top five athletes from the spot challenge based on the standard judging criteria of Creativity, Difficulty, Execution, Flow and Overall, for the creative value of the video itself.
Live Challenge.
After a well-earned rest day, the final day's challenge is a "combo-style" competition, where all finalists will throw down short but powerful combos or massive single moves with a maximum time limit of 10 seconds. They'll compete in heats of four and each athlete will get three attempts to achieve the best possible score. Scoring will be on a scale of 0.00 - 10.00 and the average of the scores will be the total score of the run.
In the case of a tie for the overall event, the live challenge scores will be used as a tie breaker.
This format will enable judges and fans alike to see athletes perform more difficult tricks than in past events and fans will also get the chance to see the struggle of the athletes sticking their hardest moves as it's all going to be going out live on the @redbullfreerunning TikTok.
How can an athlete win?
All three challenges are weighted equally and only the top five athletes in each challenge will receive points from the judges. Points will be awarded as follows in each challenge:
Rank
Points
1
7
2
5
3
3
4
2
5
1
At the end of the three days of competition, the points will be added up and the athlete with the highest score will be crowned the Red Bull Art of Motion 2022 champion. A Best Female award is also up for grabs.
Judges:
Name
Criteria
Jason Paul
Creativity
Luis Alkmim
Overall Impression
Luci Romberg
Difficulty
Alexander Schauer
Flow
Kie Willis
Execution
Patrick Morawetz
Head Judge
Participants:
TOP-3 of AoM 2021
Name
Krystian Kowalewski
Edward Scott
Evgeny Aroyan
Best Female of AoM 2021
Name
Noa Diorgina
Invited Athletes
Name
Dominic Di Tommaso
Travis Verkaik
Bob Reese
Didi Alaoui
Ryuya Kuwasaki
Lilou Ruel
Elis Torhall
Stefan Dollinger
Sydney Olson
Greek Wildcard
Name
Dimitris Kyrsanidis
Online Qualification
Name
Aiden Rudolph
Miranda Tibbling
Aiden Rudolph and Didi Alaoui are injured. They have replaced by Shea Rudolph and Ella Bucio.
Dominic Di Tommaso[6]
Jason Paul[7]
Pavel Petkuns[8]
Stefan Dollinger [9]
Alexander Titarenko[10]
Krystian Kowalewski[11]
Hazal Nehir[12]
Lilou Ruel [13]
Noa Diorgina [14]
Ryan Doyle
Victor Lopez
Marcus Gustafsson
Delyan Dimitrov
Erik Mukhametshin
Yokohama, Japan
São Paulo, Brazil
Santorini, Greece
Gaetan Bouillet
Paulo Tavares
Jesse Peveril
Matera, Italy
Didi Alaoui
Lynn Jung
Failaka Island, Kuwait
Anan Anwar
Sergio Cora
United States (USA)
Luis Alkmim
Valtteri Luoma-aho
Singapore
Yasin Hemati qualified but could not attend.
Ella Bucio.