Anthony Jeanjean
Anthony Jeanjean (born 13 May 1998) is a French
Anthony Jeanjean
cyclist who competes in the Freestyle BMX. He was a
bronze medalist at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Career
Jeanjean began riding BMX in Montpellier, aged 10.
He won the inaugural European freestyle BMX
Championship as well as French national BMX
freestyle gold in 2020.[1] He again became the French
national champion at the event held at the Olympic
Park in Montpellier in October 2022.[2] In November
2022 he won the bronze medal at the 2022 UCI Urban
Cycling World Championships in the Freestyle BMX
held in Abu Dhabi.[3]
Olympics Jeanjean in 2020
In June 2021, he was selected for the French team to Personal information
compete at the delayed 2020 Summer Games.[4] He Full name Anthony Jeanjean-Jones
placed forth in the seeding round. He scored 78.20 in Born 13 June 1998
the first final run and placed fifth provisionally, but he Béziers, France
couldn't improve in the second run and was overtaken
Sport
by two riders to finish seventh overall.
Country France
Jeanjean qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics via Sport Freestyle BMX, Dirt jumping
host quota. He advanced to the final with the fifth
Medal record
result among 12 competitors. In the first run he made
an early mistake scoring 3.22 which was the lowest Men's freestyle BMX
score of the event. In the second run Jeanjean Representing France
performed a double backflip to take provisional second Olympic Games
place with a score of 93.76 and was later overscored by 2024 Paris BMX freestyle
Great Britain's Kieran Reilly who had 93.91 on his
Urban World Championships
attempt.[5]
2022 Abu Dhabi Freestyle Park
European Games
Competitive history 2023 Kraków-Małopolska Freestyle Park
European Championships
All results are sourced from the Union Cycliste 2019 Cadenazzo Freestyle Park
Internationale.
2021 Moscow Freestyle Park
As of August 7th, 2024 2022 Munich Freestyle Park
2023 Krzeszowice Freestyle Park
Olympic Games 2024 Cadenazzo Freestyle Park
Event Freestyle Park
2020 Tokyo 7th
2024 Paris Bronze
UCI Cycling World Championships
Event Freestyle Park
2017 Chengdu 9th
2018 Chengdu 13th
2019 Chengdu 11th
2021 Montpellier 16th
2022 Abu Dhabi Bronze
2023 Glasgow 24th 2023
UCI BMX Freestyle Park World Cup
Season 1 2 3 4 Rank Points
MON BRU GOL
2022 2 2720
3 1 2
DIR MON BRU BAZ
2023 3 2890
18 2 1 3
ENO MON SHA
2024 1 2000
1 1
References
1. "Freestyle BMX prodigy Anthony Jeanjean Joins TSG" ([Link]
njean-joins-tsg/). 18 March 2020.
2. "Aude Cassagne and Alex Jumelin French BMX flat champions, Laury Perez and Anthony
Jeanjean titled in the park" ([Link]
assagne-et-alex-jumelin-champions-de-france-de-bmx-flat-laury-perez-et-anthony-jeanjean-t
itres-en-park/1358571). [Link].
3. "Urban Cycling World Championships 2022: Hannah Roberts wins fourth BMX freestyle
park title" ([Link]
-world-titles). [Link].
4. "JO Tokyo 2021 - La liste des Français sélectionnés - Sports Infos - Ski - Biathlon" ([Link]
[Link]/[Link]).
[Link] (in French). 11 June 2021.
5. "Olympic Games Paris 2024: BMX Freestyle gold for Argentina's Jose Torres Gil" ([Link]
[Link]/article/olympic-games-paris-2024-bmx-freestyle-gold-for-argentinas-jose-torres-gil/
72Br9ZbOIxnsFQ2KoQZEJi). Union Cycliste Internationale. 31 July 2024. Retrieved
8 August 2024.
External links
Anthony Jeanjean ([Link] at the X Games
Anthony Jeanjean ([Link] at Équipe de
France (in French)
Anthony Jeanjean ([Link] at [Link]
Anthony Jeanjean ([Link] at Olympedia
Anthony Jeanjean ([Link] on Instagram
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