Australian BMX rider (b. 1993)
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Logan Martin OAM (born 22 November 1993) is an Australian professional Dirt and Park Freestyle BMX rider.[2] [3] [4] [5] In 2021, Martin won the gold medal in the inaugural Men's BMX freestyle event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo .
Martin was only 12 years old when he first tried Freestyle BMX at his local park.[6] In 2012 he traveled overseas for the first time and won his first international competition.[7]
Martin debuted at the X-Games by taking Park silver at Austin 2016—the first rookie to score a BMX Park medal since Brazilian Diogo Canina in 2008. In 2019, he built his own competition-sized (30 by 15-metre) BMX park in his backyard after his local training facility closed, at a cost of $70,000.[8] This meant that during the COVID-19 pandemic related lockdowns, he was able to remain training without leaving his property.[9]
In the 2022 Australia Day Honours Martin was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia .[10]
Career
2011
[11] [12] [13] [14] [15]
2011 Free Flow Tour – Jaycee BMX Park Leg: 1st[12]
2011 Free Flow Tour Finals – BMX Park: 2nd[13]
2012
2012 FISE X Paris – BMX Spine: 1st[16]
2013
2013 Play BMX Contest – Park: 2nd[17]
2013 FISE Montpellier – BMX Park: 1st[18] [19] [20]
2013 Vital BMX Game Of BIKE Winner[21]
2013 NASS – Park: 1st[22] [23]
2013 Simple Session – Finals: 6th[24]
2013 Big Air Triples – Miami: 3rd[23] [25]
2014
[26]
2014 FISE Montpellier – BMX Park: 1st[27]
2014 FISE Montpellier – BMX Air Spine: 3rd[28]
2014 FISE China – BMX Park: 1st[29]
2014 FISE Malaysia – BMX Park: 1st[30]
2014 FISE World Series: 3rd[31]
2014 BMX Cologne SuperBowl: 2nd[32]
2014 FISE Xpérience Marseille – 1st[33]
2014 Dew Tour Beach Championships – BMX Park: 4th[34]
2014 NASS – Park: 1st[35]
2014 NASS – Dirt: 3rd[35]
2014 Simple Session – Finals: 2nd[36]
2015
2015 FISE World Series – Malaysia 1st[37] [38] / China 2nd[39] / France: 3rd[40] – Overall Winner[41]
2015 FISE Montpellier – BMX Spine Ramp: 2nd[42]
2015 FISE Montpellier – BMX Park: 3rd[43]
2015 Mongoose Jam'15 Dirt: 3rd[44]
2015 NASS – Park: 1st[45]
2015 NASS – Dirt: 3rd[45] Note: qualifier position was used as final position due to rain.
2015 SPX – BMX Big Air Triples: 1st[46]
2015 Recon Tour PRO at The Kitchen Park: 1st[23] [47]
2016
[48]
2016 FISE Spine France: 1st[49]
2016 FISE (UCI) Osijek – Park: 1st[50] (2016 UCI BMX World Cup Pannonian – Park: 1st[51] ) as part of 2016 World Series.
2016 FISE (UCI) Montpellier – BMX Park: 6th[52] [53] Note: qualifier position was used as final position due to rain. Part of 2016 World Series.
2016 FISE (UCI) Denver – BMX Park: 6th[54] Part of 2016 World Series.
2016 FISE (UCI) Edmonton – Park: 1st[55]
2016 FISE (UCI) Chengdu – Park: 1st[56]
2016 FISE World Series – Park: 1st[57] [58]
2016 Nitro World Games – BMX Triple Hit: 2nd[59]
2016 X Games Austin – Park: 2nd[2]
2016 X Games Austin – Best Trick: 99th[2]
2016 NASS – Park: 1st[60]
2016 NASS – Dirt: 13th[60]
2017
[61] * 2017 Pannonian – BMX Park: 1st[62]
2017 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships – Park: 1st[63]
2017 X Games Minneapolis – Dirt: 2nd[2]
2017 X Games Minneapolis – Best Trick: 2nd[2]
2017 X Games Minneapolis – Park: 2nd[2]
2017 FISE Montpellier – Spine: 1st[64]
2017 FISE Montpellier – BMX Park: 1st[65] [66]
2017 FISE Budapest – BMX Park Demi Finale: 22nd & eliminated[67] [68]
2017 FISE Edmonton – BMX Park: 2nd[69]
2017 FISE (UCI) Chengdu – BMX Park: 2nd[70]
2018
[71]
2018 X Games Minneapolis – Dirt: 2nd[2]
2018 X Games Minneapolis – Best Trick: 2nd[2]
2018 X Games Minneapolis – Park: 1st[2]
2018 FISE Hiroshima – Did not play[72] [73]
2018 FISE Montpellier – BMX Park: 2nd[74] [75] Note: demi-final position was used as final position due to rain.
2018 FISE Edmonton – BMX Park: 1st[76]
2018 FISE Chengdu – Did not play, injured.[77] [78]
2018 FISE World Cup – 6th[79] [80]
2018 X Games Sydney – Dirt: 9th[2]
2018 Ultimate X Africa (Sun City) – Park: 2nd[81] [82]
2018 Nitro World Games – Park: 1st[83]
2019
[84]
2019 FISE BOTC – BMX Park: 2nd[85]
2019 FISE Hiroshima – BMX Park: 3rd[86]
2019 FISE Montpellier World Cup – BMX Park: 3rd[87]
2019 FISE (UCI) Chengdu World Cup – BMX Park: 4th[88] [89] Note: semi-final position was used as final position due to rain.
2019 FISE World Cup – 2nd[90] [91]
2019 Pannonian – BMX Park: 1st[92]
2019 X Games Minneapolis – Dirt: 1st[2]
2019 X Games Minneapolis – Park: 1st[2]
2019 X Games Minneapolis – Best Trick: 7th[2]
2019 World Urban Games – Park: 2nd[93]
2019 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships – Park: 2nd[94]
Australian National BMX Freestyle Park Championships: 1st[95]
2020
Australian National BMX Freestyle Park Championships: 1st[96]
2021
Personal life
In 2017, Martin moved to the Gold Coast [110] where he spent $70,000 to build a Freestyle BMX park in his backyard.[111] Martin had his first child, Noah Alexander, with partner Kimberley in 2019.[112]