Daniel Dhers
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| Daniel Dhers | |
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| Born | Daniel Dhers March 25, 1985 Caracas, Venezuela |
| Residence | Caracas, Venezuela |
Daniel Dhers (born March 25, 1985, in Caracas, Venezuela) is a professional BMX rider. He is currently sponsored by Red Bull, POC, DC Shoes, KHE Bikes, Albe's Mailorder, and Verizon. Dhers resides in Greenville, North Carolina, known as Protown USA because of the strong concentration of BMX riders that live there, including Dave Mirra.[1]
[edit] Career
Daniel started riding MTB when he was twelve, just to hang out with his friends. In 1998, he went to his first skate park and rode around. When he was sixteen he and his parents moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he really started riding in parks and with better riders. In 2003 he entered his first contest, and in 2006, he entered the Dew Action Sports Tour. In 2006, 2007 and 2008 Dhers has won the AST Dew Tour.[2][3] Daniel Dhers won gold medals at the X Games in 2007,[4] 2008,[5] and 2010,[6] and he was featured on several episodes of the American TV program Nitro Circus. Dhers is a very skilled rider and a lot of young riders look up to him. They wish to be just like him and to do so they look at his riding style and his choice of bike and decide to go get the same bikes and try to ride like he does.
[edit] References
- ^ Castleberry, Tony (2010-08-23). "Calling Protown Home". Greenville Daily Reflector. http://www.reflector.com/sports/calling-protown-home-45506. Retrieved 2010-08-24.[dead link]Dhers is a hero to a lot of young BMX riders. When they start riding they look at the way he rides and the type of bike that he rides and tries to copy it.
- ^ Thomas, Pete (2007-10-22). "White falls, but still wins trophy". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2007/oct/22/sports/sp-dewtour22. Retrieved 2010-07-08.
- ^ Ruibal, Sal (2009-06-26). "Dew Tour shines single spotlight on BMX". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/action/2009-06-26-dew-tour-bmx_N.htm. Retrieved 2010-07-08.
- ^ Sun, Victoria (2008-08-01). "Dhers embraces challenge at hand at X Games". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2008-07-31-xgames-dehrs_N.htm. Retrieved 2010-07-08.
- ^ Thomas, Pete; Arritt, Dan (2008-08-03). "To some, nothing super about superpark". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/aug/03/sports/sp-xgames3. Retrieved 2010-07-08.
- ^ BMX Freestyle Park Results
