Photography by: NIGHT of the JUMPs.

NIGHT of the JUMPs returned to Riga on Saturday night, bringing the longest running Freestyle Motocross series in the world to the Latvian capital. The eighth round of the 2016 Freestyle MX World Championships took place in front of a screaming audience in the Arena Riga. 

After their crash-related failures at the last round of the World Championship in Cologne, Remi Bizouard and Maikel Melero returned to competition against all odds, although Riga didn’t go down without it’s fair share of crashes too. Check out what went down in the highlights edit below.

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The overall results after the Riga World Championship round now have Maikel Melero in the lead with 140 points ahead of the newly second placed rider, The Metal Mulisha’s Rob Adelberg (110 points). Melero and Bizouard can now rest their injured hands for two weeks before the next round on the 29th and 30th of October, when the World Championships continue with the 9th and 10th rounds. The best FMX riders from NIGHT of the JUMPs will fly to China, where the two Chinese rounds will take place in the Shenzhen Football Stadium.

 

NIGHT of the JUMPs 2016 Riga | Round 8

 Final Results:

1. Maikel Melero ESP RFME KTM 390 Points

2. Rob Adelberg AUS MA Yamaha 379 Points

3. Petr Pilat CZE ACCR KTM 360 Points

4. Libor Podmol CZE ACCR Yamaha 336 Points

5. Brice Izzo FRA FFM Yamaha 322 Points

6. Pat Bowden AUS MA Yamaha 313 Points

Qualification Results:

1. Libor Podmol CZE ACCR Yamaha 357 Points

2. Maikel Melero ESP RFME KTM 327 Points

3. Petr Pilat CZE ACCR KTM 324 Points

4. Rob Adelberg AUS MA Yamaha 323 Points

5. Pat Bowden AUS MA Yamaha 307 Points

6. Brice Izzo FRA FFM Yamaha 299 Points

7. Marc Pinyol ESP RFME Kawasaki 287 Points

8. Hannes Ackermann GER DMSB KTM 183 Points

9. Nikolay Ivankov RUS MFR Yamaha 148 Points

10. Remi Bizouard FRA FFM Kawasaki 4 Points

LifeProof Best Whip Contest:

1. Kalvis Skrastins LAT Yamaha

2. Pat Bowden AUS MA Yamaha

Maxxis Highest-Air:

1. Massimo Bianconcini ITA PZM KTM 8,00 Meter

Libor Podmol CZE ACCR Yamaha 8,00 Meter

2016 FIM Freestyle MX World Championship Ranking (after 8th contest)

1. Maikel Melero ESP RFME Yamaha 140 Points

2. Rob Adelberg AUS MA Yamaha 122 Points

3. Remi Bizouard FRA FFM Kawasaki 106 Points

4. Petr Pilat CZE ACCR KTM 99 Points

5. David Rinaldo FRA FFM Yamaha 96 Points

6. Libor Podmol CZE ACCR Yamaha 70 Points

7. Brice Izzo FRA FFM Yamaha 59 Points

8. Luc Ackermann GER DMSB Husqvarna 55 Points

9. Pat Bowden AUS MA Yamaha 55 Points

10. Jose Miralles ESP RFME KTM 49 Points

11. Hannes Ackermann GER DMSB KTM 46 Points

12. Marc Pinyol ESP RFME Yamaha 33 Points