:Brett Rheeder
{{short description|Canadian cyclist}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Brett Rheeder
| nationality = {{flag|Canada}}
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| birth_date = February 16, 1993
| birth_place = Mount Albert, Ontario Canada
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| sport = Freeride/Slopestyle Mountain Bike
| rank = 4x Crankworx overall FMBA Slopestyle World Champion
| event = X Games, Crankworx, Red Bull Rampage, Red Bull Joyride
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Brett Rheeder (born February 16, 1993) is a professional freeride mountain bike rider from Mount Albert, Ontario.{{Cite web |last=Fitzpatrick |first=Christie |title=Brett Rheeder Announces Retirement From Competition |url=https://www.pinkbike.com/news/brett-rheeder-announces-retirement-from-competition.html |url-status=live}} Rheeder is an X-Games athlete and gold medalist winner of the 2013 Munich Slopestyle Mountain Bike event. He is often regarded as the greatest slopestyle rider in mountain biking. Rheeder is a 4x FMB World Tour Champion, the most in event history.{{cite news |first=David |last=L'Heureux |url=http://xgames.espn.go.com/xgames/events/2013/munich/article/9407467/x-games-munich-2013-brett-rheeder-wins-inaugural-x-games-mountain-bike-slopestyle |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306023612/http://xgames.espn.go.com/xgames/events/2013/munich/article/9407467/x-games-munich-2013-brett-rheeder-wins-inaugural-x-games-mountain-bike-slopestyle |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |title=Brett Rheeder wins Mountain Bike Slopestyle |website=X Games |publisher=ESPN |date=June 30, 2013 }} He's also a x7 Crankworx event champion, which includes his 2016 Red Bull Joyride win.{{cite web|title=Watch: The Brett Rheeder Story part three: what comes next?|url=https://cyclingmagazine.ca/mtb/brett-rheeder-story-3/|website=cyclingmagazine.ca}}
Career
In 2013, he won the first gold medal in Slopestyle at the X-Games in Munich, and in 2013 and 2014 he won the Vienna Air King.{{cite web |first=Rajiv |last=Desai |url=http://www.redbull.com/en/bike/stories/1331644135716/two-in-two-for-rheeder-at-vienna-air-king |title=Two in two for Rheeder at Vienna Air King |website=Redbull.com |date=April 7, 2014}} In 2014, he won the Bearclaw Invitational and came second at Red Bull Joyride in Whistler and Red Bull District Ride in Nuremberg.{{cite web |first=Ryan |last=Meyer |url=http://www.redbull.com/us/en/bike/stories/1331674026510/bearclaw-invitational-2014-slopestyle-results-video |title=Top MTB Riders Raise Bar at Bearclaw Slopestyle |website=Redbull.com |date=August 24, 2014}} In 2015, he won the Munich Mash,{{cite web |url=http://www.euronews.com/2015/06/28/brett-rheeder-wins-fmb-diamond-series-second-round/ |website=EuroNews |title=Brett Rheeder wins FMB Diamond Series second round |date=June 28, 2015}} and won the first two events in the Crankworx World Tour in Rotorua, New Zealand and Les Deux Alpes, France. In 2016, he won Red Bull Joyride in Whistler and in 2017 he won Crankworx Les Gets and came second at Crankworx Innsbruck. In 2018, he won Crankworx Rotorua and Red Bull Rampage on October 26, 2018, after five Rampages, as well as coming second at Red Bull Joyride and Crankworx Les Gets and Innsbruck.{{cite news |first=Gary |last=Hamilton-Irvine |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503436&objectid=11425181 |title=Crankworx: Brett Rheeder tames slope to win in style |newspaper=Rotorua Daily Post |date=March 30, 2015}}{{Cite web |date=2015-08-04 |title=Crankworx Les Deux Alpes 2015: Slopestyle Results - Dirt |url=http://dirtmountainbike.com/news/crankworx-les-deux-alpes-2015-slopestyle-results.html |access-date=2022-05-03 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150804102407/http://dirtmountainbike.com/news/crankworx-les-deux-alpes-2015-slopestyle-results.html |archive-date=4 August 2015 |url-status=dead}}{{cite news |first=Brian |last=McNair |url=http://www.yorkregion.com/sports-story/5769324-mount-albert-s-brett-rheeder-looking-for-triple-crown/ |title=Mount Albert's Brett Rheeder looking for triple crown |website=Yorkregion.com |date=August 5, 2015}} In 2019, he won at Crankworx Rotorua for a record third time and also won at Innsbruck, as well as placing second at Red Bull Joyride in Whistler and Red Bull Rampage. In October 2022 he placed first in Red Bull Rampage{{Citation|last=Red Bull Bike|title=Last Man Standing in Slopestyle MTB {{!}} FULL REPLAY Crankworx Rotorua 2019|date=2019-03-25|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDVcSTZOh58|access-date=2019-03-29}}{{Citation|title=Red Bull Joyride Crankworx – Whistler|url=https://www.redbull.com/int-en/events/AP-1Y7BGYZT91W11/live/AP-1YBJ8XSCH2111|language=en|access-date=2019-08-18}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.crankworx.com/2019/06/16/brett-rheeder-and-emil-johansson-face-off-in-epic-and-emotional-battle-for-slopestyle-supremacy-at-crankworx-innsbruck/|title=Crankworx » BRETT RHEEDER AND EMIL JOHANSSON FACE OFF IN EPIC AND EMOTIONAL BATTLE FOR SLOPESTYLE SUPREMACY AT CRANKWORX INNSBRUCK|website=Crankworx|language=en|access-date=2019-07-22}}
With Brandon Semenuk, Rheeder was part of the Trek C3 Project, which came first in the Freeride Mountain Bike Factory Team Rankings in 2014, 2015 and 2017.{{cite web |url=http://www.pinkbike.com/news/trek-c3-project-fmb-factory-team-champions-2015.html |title=Trek C3 Project: FMB Factory Team Champions 2015 |type=Press release |author=FMB World Tour |website=Pinkbike.com |date=November 18, 2015 }} In January 2022 it was announced that Brett Rheeder and Trek part ways.[https://www.pinkbike.com/news/brett-rheeder-and-trek-part-ways-after-9-years.html Brett Rheeder and Trek part ways] Later that year it became public that his new bike sponsor is Commencal Bicycles.[https://www.pinkbike.com/news/brett-rheeder-signs-with-commencal.html Brett Rheeder signs with Commencal Bicycles] In January 2023, Rheeder announced he was retiring from competitions, "focusing time on progressing [his] riding in new ways, creating new media, having fun with social media, and ... helping develop the next generation of slopestyle and freeride as a whole; its courses, its athletes, its training grounds, its products."https://pinkbike.com/news/brett-rheeder-announces-retirement-from-competition.html
Personal life
Rheeder is from Mount Albert, Ontario. He originally played hockey, then switched first to cross-country cycling and then to slopestyle.
In 2020, Rheeder announced that he would be temporarily stepping away from the Crankworx Freeride Mountain Bike World Tour. In an Instagram post Rheeder cited that regaining his creativity in slopestyle riding and stepping back from the stresses and injuries associated with competition would be the best option to preserve the longevity of his career.
Sponsors
Rheeder's bike sponsor is Commencal. His other sponsors include Kenda tires,[https://www.pinkbike.com/news/kenda-announces-partnership-with-brett-rheeder.html Brett Rheeder signs with Kenda] Clif bar, Shimano, cbdMD, and Smith Optics.