The American Bicycle Association hosted the inaugural Disney Cup event Lake Buena Vista, FLA. at Disney's Wild World of Sports Complex this past weekend October 26-28. The Disney Cup event proved to be a must attend event with over 3000 participants and 8,000 spectators over the three day event, which represented riders from 45 states and 11 different countries. Friday’s event was a record setting race event for ABA BMX in Florida with over 1,000 participants and 173 motos, Saturday was another record setting day in ABA BMX history with it being largest ABA National event ever held in Florida with 184 motos and well over 1,136 participants, and then Sundays event was 172 motos with over 1,000 participant respectively.
With BMX racing entering the World Stage at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, the ABA BMX Fall Nationals and Disney Cup event drew international riders from around the world. Riders from New Zealand, Costa Rica, Mexico, South Africa, Chile, Canada, Japan, Argentina, and the South America. The vast attendance by US and International riders earned the event the lots of local media coverage around the Orlando and area. Disney is working with several of their media partners at this time about the event as well, but the impact of that is yet to be determined.
Executives from Disney were on hand to witness the event first hand and were pleased to say the least. Disney representatives were very excited and said the event exceeded their expectations. www.go211.com was on hand to bring all the "LIVE" action to the fans via web-casting the great event all around the world.
The Disney's Wild World of Sports Complex and the Pop Century Hotel was just the place to host this event, with the event being located just around the corner from the Magic Kingdom it allowed participants and family members the opportunity to see everything Disney World has to offer. The Pop Century Hotel also played a major role in exposing the sport to the general public as well, with big signs out on the road ways flashing ABA BMX Fall Nationals and event posters through out the Hotel drew in spectators that otherwise would have never been exposed to the sport.
The ABA would like to thank all the participants, families, teams, sponsors, and BMX industry for helping make the ABA BMX Fall Nationals and Disney Cup event such a huge success!
Now here's a look at the ABA BMX Disney Cup Champions for the weekend.
2007 Inaugural Disney Cup Winners:
5 & Under Boys-DAVID FREEMAN ..... 6 Boys-BRANDON BRAZIL ..... 7 Boys-CHANCE GLISSMEYER ..... 8 Boys-DODGE MUNSON ...... 9 Boys-JUSTIN RICHMOND
10 Boys-RILEY BIERBACH ..... 11 Boys-JEAN PAUL QUINTERO ..... 12 Boys-LAIN VAN OGLE ..... 13 Boys-RUSTY NESVIG ..... 14 Boys-JARED GARCIA ..... 15 Boys-CONNOR FIELDS
16 Boys-DENZEL STEIN ..... 17 - 18 Boys-NIC LONG ...... 19 - 27 Boys-JOSHUA MEYERS ...... 28 - 35 Boys-BENEDITO RODRIQUES JUNIOR ...... 36 & Over Boys-SHAWN DIPRETE
10 & Under Girls Cruiser-KELSEY VAN OGLE ..... 11 - 13 Girls Cruiser-LAUREN WHISLER ..... 14 - 16 Girls Cruiser-DOMINIQUE DANIELS ...... 17 - 20 Girls Cruiser-ERIN MOORE
21 - 25 Girls Cruiser-LISA CHULO ..... 26 - 30 Girls Cruiser-ANNE EIRING ..... 31 - 35 Girls Cruiser-LATAUNA NORTON ...... 36 - 40 Girls Cruiser-PATRICIA GONZALES
41 - 45 Girls Cruiser-DANETTE STRINGFELLOW ..... 46 & Over Girls Cruiser-PEGGY MILLER
9 & Under Cruiser-CHRISTOPHER BLEVINS ..... 10 Cruiser-RILEY BIERBACH ..... 11 Cruiser-DAKOTA SENGER ..... 12 Cruiser-CAMERON LOWERY ..... 13 Cruiser-JORDAN MIRANDA
14 Cruiser-BRADY MCPHERSON ..... 15 Cruiser-KALVIN DAVIS ...... 16 Cruiser-BLAKE CARNEY ...... 17 - 20 Cruiser-JOSHUA MEYERS ..... 21 - 25 Cruiser-NICHOLAS VALENCIA
26 - 30 Cruiser-GEREMY JONES ..... 31 - 35 Cruiser-JAYSON LINDSAY ..... 36 - 40 Cruiser-RON LUCAS ..... 41 - 45 Cruiser-LARRY MIYAMOTO ..... 46 - 50 Cruiser-DAVID MACLASKEY
51 - 55 Cruiser-JOHNNY BROWN ..... 56 & Over Cruiser-JIM HORNBECK
5 & Under Girls-CHLOE MERCED ..... 6 Girls-ASHLYNN STRANDBERG ..... 7 Girls-JORDAN WRIGHT ...... 8 Girls-CHELSEA LEDBETTER ...... 9 Girls-KYLIE ULERY..... 10 Girls-BAILEE ENLOW
11 Girls-KRISTEN LONG ...... 12 Girls-SHAYONA GLYNN ...... 13 Girls-DANI GEORGE ..... 14 Girls-DOMINIQUE DANIELS ..... 15 Girls-KRISTIN HOKIT ..... 16 Girls-SHELBI LONG
17 - 27 Girls-DARCI WILLIAMS ..... 28 & Over Girls-PEGGY MILLER
2007 Inaugural Disney Cup TEAM Winners: Factory Team - Intense/Phantom On-Trac ..... Bike Shop Team - Intense Racing ..... Trophy Team - BMX Rush
