Red Bull Art of Motion is a parkour and freerunning competition, established in 2007 and created by

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. 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

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, Greece (

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), and most recently in

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. Judging of the event is based on several criteria including creativity, flow, execution, and difficulty.

List of winners

Best Female

Video Competition 2011

Failaka Island, Kuwait

Best Trick Table

Men Women

Medal table (Countries)

*Men *Women

Medal table (Athletes)

Santorini Series (2011-2017)

2011

*First Run *Final Run Gaetan Bouillet & Paulo Tavares - The athletes did not participate on the AOM 2012 *Green color indicates and prizers athletes who automatically come to the AOM 2012

2012

*Rules. In the first run involved 21 athletes, where, after judicial decisions go into the final eight athletes who automatically get to the next AOM Online qualification (Men) Online qualification (Women) Prizers AOM 2012 in Lavertezzo, Switzerland. On-site qualification First Run *Green color indicates athletes who have reached the final, and automatically come to the AOM 2013 Final Run Jason Paul, Luci Romberg & Ryan Doyle - The athletes did not participate on the AOM 2013

2013

*Rules: 18 athletes compete, 8 go to the finals and those 8 automatically get to go to the next year's AOM. * Judges Online qualification (Men) Online qualification (Women) On-site qualification * Notes ** Jesse La Flair won an instant qualification to the AOM through making third place in the Air Wipp challenge that year First Run *Green color indicates athletes who have reached the final, and automatically come to the AOM 2014 Final Run

2014

* Rules. 18 athletes are divided into 3 groups of 6. After the first run from each group 2 of the best

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in the final, and automatically get the next AOM. * Judges Online qualification (Men) Online qualification (Women) On-site qualification First Run *Group 1 *Group 2 *Group 3 *Green color indicates athletes who have reached the final, and automatically come to the AOM 2015 Final Run

2015

* Judges Online qualification (4 men & 3 women). From 3 to 9 August 2015 announced the winners of each day in the online qualification. 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

- Cory DeMeyers On-site qualification First Run *Group 1 *Group 2 *Group 3 *Green color indicates athletes who have reached the final, and automatically come to the AOM 2016 Final Run

2016

Judges Online qualification (Men) Online qualification (Women) *By voting on the website of Red bull gets a chance to qualify on-site - Mehdi Moussaid (over 7000 votes) On-site qualification Alexander Schauer had injury and will not participate in AoM 2016. His place will take part Cory DeMeyers First Run *Group 1 *Group 2 *Group 3 *Green color indicates athletes who have reached the final, and automatically come to the AOM 2017 Final Run

2017

Judges: Online qualification (4 men & 3 women). From 12 to 18 July 2017 announced the winners of each day in the online qualification. *With 19954 votes Andre Luiz Freitas wins a trip to

! 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

who won On-site qualification and will participate in main event of AoM 2017 * 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 *Group 2 *Group 3 *Green color indicates athletes who have reached the final. Final Run

Matera 2019

12 men and 6 women will compete on AoM 2019 in

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. 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. Judges: Participants (Golden Ticket): * 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): On-site qualification (3 men & 2 women) * Alexander Titarenko & Stefan Dollinger not involved due to injuries. Their places have taken Dominic Di Tommaso & Charles Luong First Run * D - Difficulty E - Execution F - Flow C - Creativity OI - Overall Impression *Group 1 *Group 2 *Group 3 *Green color indicates athletes who have reached the final. Final Run

Pireaus 2021

Red Bull Art of Motion is back in 2021! The best tracers will gather again in

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to participate in the main international freerunning competition . The competition will take place in a new unexpected location - in the heart of

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, in the port of Microlimano, where participants will have to show their skills on board two huge sailing yachts. Judges: Participants: TOP-3 of AoM 2019 * Dimitris Kyrsanidis is injured. His place takes Joshua Malone. Online qualification (6 men & 6 women) * Yasin Hemati qualified but could not attend. Onsite qualification First Run * D - Difficulty E - Execution F - Flow C - Creativity OI - Overall Impression *Group 1 *Group 2 * Jarrod Luty got injured while performing. *Group 3 *Green color indicates athletes who have reached the final. Final Run * Didi Alaoui refused to continue performing after an unsuccessful jump.

Astypalea 2022

The new three-day contest format (June 9-12). Judges: Participants: *TOP-3 of AoM 2021 *Best Female of AoM 2021 *Invited Athletes *Greek Wildcard *Online Qualification

References

External links

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