| Competitor |
Age |
Hometown |
Background |
Parkour Team |
Known For/Style |
Achievements |
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| Pip Andersen |
19 |
Taunton, England, UK  |
Parkour trickster |
Urban Freeflow |
Despite being one of the most skilled and strongest Parkour athletes in the world, he is known best for his sense of humor and clownish antics |
*One of 8 featured Athletes in MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge, *Finalist in 2008 World Barclaycard Championships, *4th Place, 2007 World Freerunning Championships, *Appeared in a commercial for Swatch watches, Models for clothing and apparel companies |
| Daniel Arroyo |
23 |
Tampa, Florida  |
Freerunner |
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*One of 8 featured Athletes in MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge, *Achieved YouTube fame as the inventor of the "Cast Bomb", a very high-risk move |
| King David |
26 |
Las Vegas, Nevada |
Freerunner |
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*Finalist, MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge, *Underground YouTube sensation, *Most respected in the U.S. Parkour community |
| Ryan Doyle |
25 |
Liverpool, England, UK |
Martial Artist |
Freerunner |
Explosive corkscrew flips, spins, and other acrobatic moves harvested from a background as a renowned martial arts champion. |
*1st Place, 2007 Redbull Art of Motion, the first ever international freerunning competition, *UK Martial Arts Tricking Champion for 4 years running, *Finalist, MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge, *Appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, *Appeared on Discovery Channel's Fight Science, *Appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Ellen DeGeneres' stunt double |
| Daniel Ilabaca |
22 |
Liverpool, England, UK |
Freerunner |
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*1st Place in MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge, *Raced against a Ferrari on German TV and won, *Appeared in numerous commercials for Toyota, Mercedes, & KSwiss, *One of the most watched freerunners, over 30 million YouTube views to his credit |
| Ben Jenkin |
19 |
Blackburn, England, UK |
Freerunner |
Urban Freeflow |
Nickname is "Jenx", a shortened version of his last name. Considered a protégé of fellow freerunner Daniel Ilabaca. Universally considered one of the next Parkour superstars. |
*3rd Place, 2008 Barclaycard World Freerunning Championships, *Taught a Parkour workshop at Camp Woodward in summer 2009. |
Brian Orosco
(only in 2009 competition) |
25 |
San Francisco, California |
Stuntman |
Team Tempest |
Nickname: "Nosole". His "superman flips" while freerunning a course. |
Featured as one of 8 featured Athletes of the 2009 premiere season of MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge. *Competed on several of Japan's popular athletic TV series Ninja Warrior competition on G4. |
| Tim Shieff |
21 |
Derby, England, UK |
Former professional breakdancer |
Urban Freeflow |
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*1st Place, 2009 Barclaycard World Freerun Championships, *Finalist, MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge, *2nd Place, 2008 World Freerunning Championships, *2nd Place, 2009 Red Bull Art of Motion Championships, *Appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, *Featured in the NY Daily News, *Collected over 3.5 million YouTube views in the last six months |
| Mike Turner |
20 |
Santa Barbara, California |
Hollywood stuntman |
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This all-American, 6'2" former soccer player is famous for his incredible "ups", high jumps, athleticism, and fantastic dexterity. |
*One of 8 featured athletes in MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge, *Master Instructor of the WFPF/Equinox Fitness Parkour Program, *Appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon |
| Oleg Vorslav |
22 |
Daugavpils, Latvia  |
Internet sensation |
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*Featured dancer and stuntman in Madonna's "Jump" music video, *Also performed with the pop superstar on her globetrotting world tour, *Most viewed parkour video "ever"—his "Russian Climber" had collected over 50 million views |
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