Kevin Peraza

Kevin Peraza is an American BMX freestyle competitor. He has represented Mexico and the United States internationally.[1]

Kevin Peraza
Personal information
Born (1994-09-02) September 2, 1994
Tucson, Arizona
Sport
Country Mexico  United States
SportFreestyle BMX, BMX Dirt
Rank2 X-games medals / Numerous FISE (Red Bull events, Vans Pro Cup....) medals / 2 × Simple Session champion
Medal record
Summer X Games
Representing  United States
X Games Austin 2016 BMX Dirt
X Games Minneapolis 2019 BMX Park

His father is an ex-BMX racing rider. His three brothers, Victor, David and Eddie, are also BMX riders.[2]

Career

Peraza won multiple medals at the FISE. In 2013, he won two third place medals at Park and Spine. In 2014, he won a third place medal in Park, and in 2015 he won a second place medal in Park.[3]

He is also a dirt rider. In 2014, he won the Red Bull Dirt Conquers competition. In 2015, he won second place at the Mongoose Jam 2015 Dirt Competition.

Peraza has competed in four X Games, winning gold medals at the X Games Austin 2016 in the BMX Dirt event[4] and X Games Minneapolis 2017 in BMX Park. He secured three top ten finishes in BMX Park and two in BMX Dirt.[5]

He won in 2013 and 2016 in the BMX Park Simple Sessions.[6][7]

He won third place at the Play BMX Contest in 2013.[8]


In 2017, he won third place at the X-Knights.[9] He won medals at Ultimate X as well: scoring third place in 2016 and 2019.

Later in his career, he turned to BMX street riding. He won several medals in Vans Pro Cup: third place in 2017, fourth place in 2018, and a Best Trick award in 2019.

In 2019, he won multiple leaderboard events in the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup and qualified for the Olympics. For example, he won the C1 in Cary. [10]

References
  1. "UCI World Ranking". UCI.
  2. Meronek, Rob. "The Boardr Skateboarding Events Search". TheBoardr. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
  3. "kevin peraza fise - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  4. "X Games 2016 results".
  5. "Kevin Peraza's official X Games athlete biography". X Games.
  6. "PERAZA TOPS PODIUM: SIMPLE SESSION '16 ROUND UP". www.monsterenergy.com.
  7. "Kevin Peraza remporte la Simple Session 2013". www.redbull.com. Retrieved 2019-08-22.
  8. Play BMX Contest, retrieved 2019-11-09
  9. X-KNIGHTS 2017 - FINAL BMX -ESTADIO NACIONAL COSTA RICA (Una gran producción de RPM), retrieved 2019-10-13
  10. "Kevin Peraza on Instagram: "Good week of riding in Cary, North Carolina with everyone. Hyped to win me a C1 a long with my good friends @tryonbmx and @brandonlouposyo…"". Instagram. Retrieved 2019-10-18.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.