Full name: Shaun Wood.
Age: 20.
From where: Summerland Point , Australia.
How long practising Freerun: 4 years.
Favourite techniques: Don’t have any in particular, I just enjoy moving.
Your ultimate goal: Just keep pushing myself and to never stop enjoying movement.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: ‘Competing’ in the World Champs gives me a chance to make my stance as a serious practitioner but also to show that maybe competing isn’t really that bad a thing. I like to relate Freerun with something like surfing where nobody is ever forcing you to compete. People will still take you seriously if you chose not to compete and do it just as you enjoying doing it.
Watch Shaun in action: By clicking here
Full name: Andrej ‘N-D’ Lisal.
Age: 16.
From where: Vienna, Austria.
How long practising Freerun: 2 years.
Favourite techniques: Sideflips.
Your ultimate goal: To stay healthy and meet lots of great people.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: To meet and compete against my heroes. Wow!
Watch N-D in action: By clicking here
Full name: Lukas ‘Luggi’ Steiner
Age: 24.
From where: Tyrol, Austria.
How long practising Freerun: 4 years.
Favourite techniques: I love every tech I´m able to do.
Your ultimate goal: To motivate everyone for sports and motion, especially for creative sports like freerunning.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: To meet the best freerunners from all around the world and to perform together with them.
Watch Luggi in action: By clicking here
Full name: Olivier Pitot.
Age: 22.
From where: Charleroi, Belgium.
How long practising Freerun: 6 years.
Favourite techniques: All moves from parkour, and some tricks too.
Your ultimate goal: I want to become a stuntman with my team.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: To meet other international freerunners, have fun and learn some new moves.
Watch Olivier in action with his Speeders team: By clicking here
Full name: Gaettan Bouillet.
Age: 21.
From where: Chastre, Belgium.
How long practising Freerun: 3 years.
Favourite techniques: Anything unusual or not considered as foundation.
Your ultimate goal: To give my opinion about Freerun/Parkour to the maximum amount of people and to be understood fully.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: To share my mind with so many people with a huge influence and high level in the world of Freerun and Parkour and to improve my own style and spirit.
Watch Gaettan in action with his Speeders team: By clicking here
Full name: João Flávio Baêta Vieira Lopes.
Age: 22.
From where: Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
How long practising Freerun: 4 years.
Favourite techniques: Any flips with a bar and the side flip.
Your ultimate goal: Develop myself and have as much fun as possible.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: A great opportunity to meet and learn with great freerunners of different countries!
Watch Joao in action: By clicking here
Full name: Pedro Thomas.
Age: 17.
From where: Brasília, Brasil.
How long practising Freerun: 3 years.
Favourite techniques: The difficult ones that look like they are done with ease.
Your ultimate goal: ‘Etre et durer’, which means ‘To be and to last’.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: Sharing this big love with people from all over the World that I have always been inspired by. To do this together like one big family, because what we do allows everyone of us to be winners.
Watch Pedro in action: By clicking here
Full name: Delian ‘Dido’ Dimitrov.
Age: 17.
From where: Sofia, Bulgaria.
How long practising Freerun: 3 years.
Favourite techniques: Anything unusual.
Your ultimate goal: To make the impossible possible.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: To have the opportunity to meet many cool athletes and have a great event together.
Honours: Joint first place in the 2008 World Parcouring Championships. Winner of ‘Sickest Trick’ at the 2009 Redbull Art of Motion event.
Watch Delian in action: By clicking here
Full name: Marwan ‘Majora’ Elgamal.
Age: 19.
From where: Cairo, Egypt.
How long practising Freerun: 2 years with a 12 year background in Judo.
Favourite techniques: My favourite trick would have to be the Wall Loser.
Your ultimate goal: To make use of all my skills/talents in a way, that when I look back I can be proud of my life.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: This is a chance to show the world who Marwan Elgamal is! I also love the experience itself. Having all the people you’ve watched around the world all under one roof and just tearing up the area with them inspires me to push myself even more.
Watch Marwan in action: By clicking here
Full name: Nicolas ‘Nico’ Bosc.
Age: 28.
From where: Avignon, France.
How long practising Freerun: 2 years but have been training in Parkour for much longer.
Favourite techniques: Anything where I can interact with walls. I also like roof jumps.
Your ultimate goal: Pushing the limits of ‘impossible’ as far as I possibly can.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: It means 2 things. First being able to jam with the best athletes in the discipline and second, because of this kind of event Freerun is getting a well deserved place in the World of extreme sports. Maybe one day we’ll see it in the X-Games and why not?
Watch Nico in action: By clicking here
Full name: Yoann ‘Zephyr’ Leroux.
Age: 22.
From where: Saint Michel Sur Orge,France.
How long practising Freerun: 9 years.
Favourite techniques: Precision gainer, Precision 360, Salto Misterio… and some surprises that I’ll unleash in London.
Your ultimate goal: Promoting Freerun in France, going around the world with the best people of the discipline, live my passion and share it with others and to teach Freerun.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: To share and spend the most beautifull moments in my life with the other competitors
and the very “hot” English public for whom I’ll set Trafalgar Square on fire, and maybe one day become part of the Urban Free Flow team. “Don’t speak just run………….”
Watch Yoann in action: By clicking here
Full name: Jason Paul.
Age: 18.
From where: Frankfurt, Germany.
How long practising Freerun: 4 years.
Favourite techniques: Creative fluid movements and combinations.
Your ultimate goal: To live a life you could base a really awesome movie on.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: The championship is a great opportunity to get all different influences from freerunners all over the world and to have a sexy time of course.
Watch Jason in action: By clicking here
Full name: Khoa ‘KoA’ Huynh.
Age: 20
From where: Mönchengladbach, Germany.
How long practising Freerun: I’ve been practising Freerun for about 3 years.
Favourite techniques: I don’t know, it depends on the obstacle but i like all the techniques wich I am able to do!
Your ultimate goal: My ultimate goal is very simple… to get better.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: It means to me that I can show my skills and show who I am. COWABUNGA!!!
Watch Khoa in action: By clicking here
Full name: Vincent Jamie Watson.
Age: 18
From where: Rotterdam, Netherlands
How long practising Freerun: 4 years.
Favourite techniques: I like wall tricks because they give me that incredible Matrix feeling.
Your ultimate goal: To keep pushing my limits and never give up on being an adrenaline junkie.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: I like to see the other free-runners from around the whole World because you can learn much form each other. Being surounded by people who share the same sport/passion is a special thing.
Watch Vincent in action: By clicking here
Full name: Andrejs ‘Djuxa’ Turanovs.
Age: 21.
From where: Riga, Latvia.
How long practising Freerun: 4 years.
Favourite techniques: Spining around, dancing with the obstacles.
Your ultimate goal: To come to a point where my body can do all the things my mind can come up with..
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: Learning from the best Freeruners in the world and also testing myself.
Watch Djuxa in action: By clicking here
Full name: Pavels ‘Pasha’ Petkuns.
Age: 16.
From where: Daugavpils, Latvia.
How long practising Freerun: 3 years.
Favourite techniques: When I move, I like to improvise, and not think about the moves I’m about to do, but just flow around in the way my body tells me.
Your ultimate goal: To do freeruning as long as I can because I can’t imagine my life without it. When I wake up, I go and watch freerun videos then I go and train, then I watch some more videos. Freerun is an addiction, it’s in my heart.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: A chance to meet all the people I watch and admire on youtube every day and to be able to train with them. A perfect opportunity to see a bit of the world too.
Watch Pasha in action: By clicking here
Full name: Tomas Gudenas.
Age: 21.
From where: Lithuania.
How long practising Freerun: 4 years.
Favourite techniques: Fluid movement is my favourite ‘technique’.
Your ultimate goal: To be strong, both physically and mentaly and to progress.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: To meet some of the best Freeruner’s in the world, share experiences and happines of participation in an event of this nature. It is really cool.
Watch Tomas in action: By clicking here
Full name: Erick ‘Daer’ Sanchez.
Age: 24.
From where: Mexico City, Mexico.
How long practising Freerun: 5 years, started in August 2004.
Favourite techniques: I have no favourite technique, I like going out and moving without thinking about doing certain techniques and just flow in the environment.
Your ultimate goal: Being better every day.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: It is a big chance to meet and share with people from so many other countries and an amazing opportunity to learn and grow as a freerunner/traceur.
Watch Daer in action: By clicking here
Full name: Sérgio Bödtker-Lund.
Age: 18.
From where: Estoril, Portugal.
How long practising Freerun: 2.5 years.
Favourite techniques: Flips from height and/or bar work.
Your ultimate goal: To remain injury free for as long as possible.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: A special opportunity to meet the best Freerunners in the World and to show off my skills too, all in London for a few days. Perfect!
Watch Sergio in action: By clicking here
Full name: Alejandro ‘Link’ Domarco.
Age: 19.
From where: Madrid, Spain.
How long practising Freerun: 4 years.
Favourite techniques: Any original moves, specially walltricks or inward flips.
Your ultimate goal: To keep my passion for movement and to be able to inspire many people.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: Being able to train and share some great moments with some of the best freerunners around the world, having fun, it’s also a perfect chance to show my skills to many people.
Watch Link in action: By clicking here
Full name: Filip ‘Flippad’ Ljungberg.
Age: 24.
From where: Helsingborg, Sweden.
How long practising Freerun: 4 years.
Favourite techniques: Big MASSIVE jumps! Wooaa!
Your ultimate goal: To do this forever, one way or another.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: As with every other competition, it is a great opportunity to meet my old friends, make new ones from all over the world and to cheer each other on while having great fun!
Watch Flip in action: By clicking here
Full name: Marcus ‘Zyrken’ Gustafsson.
Age: 20.
From where: Helsingborg, Sweden.
How long practising Freerun: 5 years.
Favourite techniques: It doesn’t matter to me. I just move.
Your ultimate goal: To be proud of myself and achievements when I’m old.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: To meet old friends and make new ones. Also to share inspiration and thoughts with everyone else there.
Honours: 3rd place in the 2007 Redbull Art of Motion event, Joint 1st place in the 2008 World Parcouring Championships and 3rd place in the 2009 Redbull Art of Motion event.
Watch Zyrken in action: By clicking here
Full name: George ‘G-Force’ Mayfield.
Age: 17.
From where: Cheltenham, UK.
How long practising Freerun: 4 years.
Favourite techniques: Big tricks.
Your ultimate goal: To improve the lives of others.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: It is an honour for me to compete alongside the best athletes in the world. I’m just going to enjoy every second and give my absolute all.
Watch George in action: By clicking here
Full name: Tim ‘Livewire’ Shieff.
Age: 21.
From where: Derby, England.
How long practising Freerun: 5 years.
Favourite techniques: Anything unusual or not foundation.
Your ultimate goal: To stay fit and healthy for as long as possible.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: Getting to move on the same obstacles as some of my heroes from all around the globe for one night only in front of thousands, it means everything!
Honours: 2nd place in the 2008 Barclaycard World Freerun Championship and 2nd place in the 2009 Redbull Art of Motion event.
Watch Livewire in action: By clicking here
Full name: Paul ‘Blue Devil’ Joseph.
Age: 27.
From where: Redditch, England.
How long practising Freerun: 6 years.
Favourite techniques: Kong vaults, giants and gainers.
Your ultimate goal: Simple, to be the absolute best that I can be.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: Competing in the Worlds is a chance for me to prove to myself that I can shine under pressure, and to show everyone what I can really do.
Honours: 1st place in the 2009 Redbull Art of Motion event.
Watch Blue in action: By clicking here
Full name: Victor ‘Showtime’ Lopez.
Age: Present.
From where: Bunny Ranch, Los Angeles, USA.
How long practising Freerun: Since the USA became a good soccer team.
Favourite techniques: The spring break air!.
Your ultimate goal: To inspire the world to live their life one quarter of a mile at a time.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: To go streaking with all my fellow big testicled youtube heroes. Showtime out!!!
Honours: 2nd place at the 2007 Redbull Art of Motion event.
Watch Showtime in action: By clicking here
Full name: Gabriel ‘Jaywalker’ Nunez.
Age: Quarter century.
From where: El Paso, USA.
How long practising Freerun: Since David Belle created it (or not).
Favourite techniques: Simply moving creatively.
Your ultimate goal: To impress you somehow.
What does competing in the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship mean to you: Friends, fun, freerunning……what more could it mean?
Honours: Sickest Trick award at the 2007 Redbull Art of Motion event and 1st place at the 2008 Barclaycard World Freerun Championship.
Watch Jaywalker in action: By clicking here
