Role Freestyle Current team YT Industries | Rider type Slopestyle, Freeride Children Ayla Zink | |
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Born 8 March 1986 (age 30)Reno, Nevada ( 1986-03-08 ) Discipline Freestyle Mountain Bikes Spouse Amanda Witherspoon (m. 2015) Movies New World Disorder 7: Flying High Again Similar Andreu Lacondeguy, Brandon Semenuk, Darren Berrecloth, Kelly McGarry, Danny MacAskill Profiles | ||
Cameron "Cam" Zink (born March 8, 1986) is an American professional freeride mountain bike rider.
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Zink is from Reno, Nevada. He started mountain biking at age 9 and when he was 16 won the junior national championship in dual slalom. He was signed by the Santa Cruz Syndicate team when he was 17. Until he was 20, he continued to race while also competing in Slopestyle.
Career
In 2010 he won Red Bull Rampage and was awarded best trick for an almost 40-foot 360 drop, and also won the FMB World Tour season title. In 2013 he won best trick for a 78-foot backflip, after having been forbidden by a doctor to ride. In 2013 he finished 4th Overall in Munich X-Games Slopestyle event. In 2014 he placed 2nd and again won best trick with the biggest 360 of the event.
On August 21, 2014, on Mammoth Mountain, he set the world record for the farthest backflip on a bicycle with a 100 foot, 3 inch flip. In 2006 and 2010 he won Crankworx Slopestyle (now Joyride) in Whistler, British Columbia.
In 2009 Zink founded Sensus, a company that manufactures bike grips.
