Kevin Peraza

Kevin Peraza is an American BMX freestyle competitor who has represented both 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 2020 BMX Dirt
X Games Minneapolis 2019 BMX Park

His dad is an ex-BMX racing rider. His three brothers (Victor, David and Eddie) are BMX riders too.[2]

Career

Peraza won some medals at the FISE (in 2013, two 3rd place at Park and Spine. In 2014, a 3rd place in Park and in 2015, a 2nd place in Park).[3]

He is a Dirt rider with some good results. In 2014, he won the Red Bull Dirt Conquers. In 2015, he won a second place at the Mongoose Jam'15 Dirt.

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

He won two times the Simple sessions on BMX Park (2013 and 2016).[5][6]

He won in 2013 a 3rd place at the Play BMX Contest.[7]

In 2017, he won a third place at the X-Knights.[8] We won some medals at Ultimate X: a third place in 2016 and 2019.

Gradually he turns to the BMX street. He won some medals in Vans Pro Cup: (in 2017 a third place, in 2018 a fourth place and in 2019 he won a Best trick).

In 2019, he won some events for the leadearboards of the World cup and for the qualification of the Olympic. For example he won the C1 in Cary. [9]

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. "Kevin Peraza's official X Games athlete biography". X Games.
  5. "PERAZA TOPS PODIUM: SIMPLE SESSION '16 ROUND UP".
  6. www.redbull.com https://www.redbull.com/ch-fr/kevin-peraza-remporte-la-simple-session-2013. Retrieved 2019-08-22. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. Play BMX Contest, retrieved 2019-11-09
  8. X-KNIGHTS 2017 - FINAL BMX -ESTADIO NACIONAL COSTA RICA (Una gran producción de RPM), retrieved 2019-10-13
  9. "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.


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