Swatch Nines MTB Reveals Star-Studded Athlete Roster
The trailblazing Swatch Nines MTB event heads to Green Hill Bikepark from August 14-19, 2023, in conjunction with the brand-new BYND The Hill Festival.
Less than two months remain until the highly anticipated debut of Swatch Nines MTB at Green Hill Bikepark in Schmallenberg, Germany. In 2023, the event will bring together top international riders, innovative course design and an exciting new mountain bike festival. The result: a week-long celebration filled with memorable action at one of Europe’s up-and-coming bike destinations.
Here’s the latest news from the house of Swatch Nines:
Athlete Roster Announced. This year’s Swatch Nines lineup features top international talent from across the mountain bike spectrum, including a strong female presence. The categories of freeride, slopestyle and even downhill are all well-represented, with freeriders such as Veronique Sandler (GBR/NZL), Casey Brown (NZL) and Sam Reynolds (GBR), slopestyle riders like Erik Fedko (GER), Nicholi Rogatkin (USA) and Patricia Druwen (GER), and downhillers Jackson Goldstone (CAN), Vali Höll (AUT) and Tahnée Seagrave (GBR). See the full riders list below.
Become A Nine Contest. Ready to throw your hat into the ring for a chance to join this exclusive session? The Become A Nine video contest is now accepting entries until the 23rd of July. All contest information is available here: https://www.thenines.cc/ba9-mtb
Setup Design Workshop. Earlier this month, a select group of riders met with event organizers and course designers at the Swatch headquarters in Biel, Switzerland to plan this year’s Nines setup. Stay tuned for more details about the course layout, which will include innovative freeride and slopestyle lines as well as skate features—including a full skate bowl—continuing the event’s long tradition of pioneering feature design.
Public Days on the 18th and 19th of August, 2023. This year Swatch Nines will offer not one, but two chances for mountain bike fans to come and watch the madness in person. Each Public Day includes a three-hour session during which the invited riders will entertain the crowd to the fullest! Tickets are available now at the at the Green Hill Bikepark website, https://greenhill-bikepark.de/.
BYND The Hill Festival. For the first time, Swatch Nines will be accompanied by a full-on mountain bike festival! From the 18th to the 20th of August, 2023, the BYND The Hill Festival invites attendees to spectate the action at the Nines while partaking of bike tests, concerts, parties, movie premieres and much more. For more information on BYND The Hill, visit https://bynd-festival.de
Here’s what riders have to say:
Sam Pilgrim (GBR): “We are going to be at a new location, the Green Hill Bikepark, where we have a blank canvas to design the sickest course ever.”
Erik Fedko (GER): “For this year’s Swatch Nines MTB edition, we are looking for creativity in the course. We want to build some skate park features, some freeride features and slopestyle features.”
Casey Brown (NZL): “I think that one of the things that would be the best is having a good variety of features for everyone. There’s such a wide range of athletes, and it gives everyone the opportunity to try something that they haven’t tried before.”
For more information about the 2023 Swatch Nines MTB, visit www.thenines.cc/.
Full Riders List:
| SWATCH NINES MEN 2023 | |
| Bienvenido Aguado (ESP) | Kade Edwards (GBR) |
| Clemens Kaudela (AUT) | Lukas Schäfer (GER) |
| Erik Fedko (GER) | Szymon Godziek (POL) |
| Lukas Knopf (GER) | Dawid Godziek (POL) |
| Peter Kaiser (AUT) | Finn Iles (CAN) |
| Sam Pilgrim (GBR) | Sam Hodgson (GBR) |
| Sam Reynolds (GBR) | Tomas Zejda (CZE) |
| Thomas Lemoine (FRA) | Tom Isted (GBR) |
| Nicholi Rogatkin (USA) | Kaos Seagrave (GBR) |
| Matt Jones (GBR) | Tobey Miley (GER) |
| Tim Bringer (FRA) | Max Fredriksson (SWE) |
| Jackson Goldstone (CAN) | Elias Ruso (AUT) |
| Daniel Ruso (AUT) | |
| SWATCH NINES WOMEN 2023 | |
| Veronique Sandler (GBR/NZL) | Vali Höll (AUT) |
| Caroline Buchanan (AUS) | Tahnée Seagrave (GBR) |
| Casey Brown (NZL) | Alma Wiggberg (SWE) |
| Robin Goomes (NZL) | Vinny Armstrong (NZL) |
| Gemma Corbera (ESP) | Mia Moore (CAN) |
| Harriet Burbidge-Smith (AUS) | Natasha Miller (CAN) |
| Chelsea Kimball (USA) | |
