{"id":378345,"date":"2026-06-28T15:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T15:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/378345\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T15:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T15:47:11","slug":"2026-sacramento-x-games-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/378345\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Sacramento X Games Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n \t\tRyan Nitzen | June 28, 2026 \t<\/p>\n

The 2026 X Games is taking place this weekend in California\u2019s capital city of Sacramento for the first stop on the 2026 schedule. This is the first year of the new X Games League format which features four clubs battling for the top spot over three different rounds \u2013 Sacramento, Chiba, and New Orleans. Quarter Pipe High Air was cut from this year\u2019s schedule meaning Best Whip and Best Trick were the only two events for the Moto X athletes.<\/p>\n

\"2026-xgames-sacramento-best-whip\"Best Whip and Best Trick were the two Moto X events at this year\u2019s X Games in Sacramento, California. Photos: X Games
\nBest Whip<\/p>\n

The final competition of the opening day at MoonPay X Games Sacramento 2026 saw the Moto X Best Whip riders take center stage, with Belgium\u2019s Julien Vanstippen earning gold for his signature style and massively executed whips. This is Vanstippen\u2019s second gold medal in Best Whip after winning last year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n

\"2026-xgames-sacramento-best-whip\"Julien VanStippen won his second-consecutive gold medal in Best Whip.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverytime I win gold it\u2019s a different feeling,\u201d said Vanstippen. \u201cTonight, I\u2019m going to celebrate for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Best Whip Medal Runs<\/a><\/p>\n

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X Games veteran Tom Parsons of Citra, Florida claimed the silver medal, while Wyatt Fontanot of Opelousas, Louisiana earned his first-ever X Games medal with a bronze.<\/p>\n

\"2026-xgames-sacramento-best-whip-parsons\"Tom Parsons took the silver medal.
\n\"2026-xgames-sacramento-best-whip-parsons\"Parsons spots the landing.
\n\"2026-xgames-sacramento-best-whip-fontenot\"Wyatt Fontanot claimed his first X Games medal with a bronze.
\n\"2026-xgames-sacramento-best-whip-fontenot\"Upside down, yes. Backwards, also yes. Fontanot put his whip skills to the test.
\n\"2026-xgames-sacramento-best-whip-van-stippen\"\u201cEverytime I win gold it\u2019s a different feeling,\u201d said Vanstippen. \u201cTonight, I\u2019m going to celebrate for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moto X Best Whip Results<\/p>\n

1. Julien VanStippen Yam<\/p>\n

2. Tom Parsons Yam<\/p>\n

3. Wyatt Fontanot Yam<\/p>\n

Best Trick<\/p>\n

Patrick Evans traded Best Whip for Best Trick this year as his gold medal run delivered a winning score of 95.66. Evans is now a two-time X Games gold medalist and was the only rider competing on the electric Stark Varg during this year\u2019s event. His winning trick, a Nac-Nac no-hander front flip, has never been done before in competition.<\/p>\n

\"2026-xgames-sacramento-best-trick-evans\"Patrick Evans took the gold in Best Trick with a Nac Nac no-handed front flip.<\/p>\n

\u201cWinning Best Trick is a lot more meaningful than Best Whip because it\u2019s the gnarliest thing you can do, so I never thought I\u2019d have it,\u201d said Evans. \u201cIt hasn\u2019t sunk in yet. I really didn\u2019t think I\u2019d win, even if I stuck my trick. I thought someone else would have something gnarlier.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"2026-xgames-sacramento-best-trick-evans\"Best Trick podium: Evans, Richards, Adelberg.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s Ben Richards continued his breakout weekend by earning silver. Richards beat his older brother Tom, who finished just off the podium, by landing a Body Varial flip to double grab Hart Attack to secure his place among Moto X\u2019s elite.<\/p>\n

\"2026-xgames-sacramento-best-trick-richards\"Ben Richards claimed the silver medal with a body varial to double grab Hart Attack.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the podium was Richards\u2019 mentor, eight-time X Games gold medalist and defending Moto X Best Trick champion Rob Adelberg. The Australian veteran earned his fifth bronze medal and 21st X Games career medal and athlete narrowly missed becoming the first rider in history to win four consecutive Moto X Best Trick titles. He also attempted a never-been-done trick in competition but was unable to cleanly land his Frontflip Seatgrab-Shaolin.<\/p>\n

\"2026-xgames-sacramento-best-trick-adleberg\"Rob Adleberg\u2019s Front Flip Seatgrab-Shaolin was good enough for bronze.<\/p>\n

Moto X Best Trick Results<\/p>\n

1. Patrick Evans Sta<\/p>\n

2. Ben Richards Yam<\/p>\n

3. Rob Adleberg Yam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Nitzen | June 28, 2026 The 2026 X Games is taking place this weekend in California\u2019s capital…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-378345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}