Mike Spinner Takes Portland - Vans Invitational 2007 BMX Park
Aug 20 2007 / Portland, OR
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Mike Spinner has finally done it -- after breaking out in a big way last year in Portland at the Free Flow tour (which took place at the same time and location as the Vans Invitational) he came back one year later to win BMX Park after some close calls. In doing so he knocks off Daniel Dhers, who had won three contests in a row (dating back to last year). Dhers did have a fall that kept him from being finishing a killer second run, but he still ended up in third while legend Dave Mirra took second.
Spinner got the win thanks to landing the 1080, a huge trick that Spinner landed earlier this year in New Zealand. Thanks to that and other tricks, Spinner received a 94.00 on his second run. Dhers, whose first run received a 92.33 (which some people thought was actually less than it deserved), came back fighting in his second run until his fall on a 900 knocked him out of the running.
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It was a crazy contest, with six riders scoring in the 90s - the most ever to do so in a Dew Tour event finals (twice before five riders have accomplished the feat). Spinner's 94.00 score ranks as the third-highest in Dew Tour history, following Dhers' 96.75 (PlayStation Pro 2006) and Scotty Cranmer's 94.50 (Panasonic Open 2006).
Phenom Dennis Enarson, who won BMX Dirt on Friday and was No. 3 in Park at the Panasonic Open, missed the finals along with familiar faces like Morgan Wade and Josh Harrington. A total of 33 riders took part in the prelims earlier on Saturday, with only the top 12 advancing to the finals.
AST Dew Tour-Vans Invitational Results
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Portland, Ore.
BMX Park Finals
1st Spinner, Mike 94.00
2nd Mirra, Dave 93.50
3rd Dhers, Daniel 92.33
4th Cranmer, Scotty 91.00
5th Nyquist, Ryan 90.50
6th Canina, Diogo 90.17
7th Wallace, Ben 88.50
8th McCann, Steven 88.50
9th Reynolds, Garrett 88.33
10th Cooke, Allan 87.67
11th Harrington, Josh 87.00
12th Mackay, Colin 84.33
BMX Park Prelims
1st Dhers, Daniel 92.67
2nd Mirra, Dave 92.33
3rd Nyquist, Ryan 89.67
4th Canina, Diogo 89.67
5th Mackay, Colin 88.83
6th McCann, Steven 88.67
7th Spinner, Mike 88.17
8th Reynolds, Garrett 88.00
9th Cranmer, Scotty 87.83
10th Wallace, Ben 87.67
11th Cooke, Allan 87.33
12th Harrington, Josh 87.33
13th Enarson, Dennis 87.17
14th Whitton, Alistair 87.17
15th Darden, Rob 86.50
16th Coleman, Austin 86.50
17th Tooker, Marcus 86.00
18th Wade, Morgan 86.00
19th Gerber, Zachary 85.83
20th Foster, James 85.17
21st Mast, Craig 85.17
22nd Dillewaard, Dave 84.67
23rd Sieg, Dan 84.67
24th Warden, Zack 83.83
25th Kiraly, Kevin 83.67
26th Marks, Joey 82.83
27th Hunt, Brian 82.33
28th Wirch, Scott 82.17
29th McCoy, Dennis 79.33
30th Semling, Quinn 79.00
31st Laird, Mike 78.33
32nd Cleveland, Michael 74.33
33rd Fanberg, Jeremy 73.50
