Anthony Jeanjean
Anthony Jeanjean is a French cyclist who competes in the Freestyle BMX. He is the reigning world champion having won the gold medal at the UCI Urban Cycling World Championships in 2025, and was a bronze medalist at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Career
Jeanjean began riding BMX in Montpellier, aged 10. He won the inaugural European freestyle BMX Championship as well as French national BMX freestyle gold in 2020. He again became the French national champion at the event held at the Olympic Park in Montpellier in October 2022. In November 2022 he won the bronze medal at the 2022 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships in the Freestyle BMX held in Abu Dhabi.In June 2021, he was selected for the French team to compete at the delayed 2020 Summer Games. He placed forth in the seeding round. He scored 78.20 in the first final run and placed fifth provisionally, but he couldn't improve in the second run and was overtaken by two riders to finish seventh overall.
Jeanjean qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics via host quota. He advanced to the final with the fifth result among 12 competitors. In the first run he made an early mistake scoring 3.22 which was the lowest score of the event. In the second run Jeanjean performed a double backflip to take provisional second place with a score of 93.76 and was later overtaken by Great Britain's Kieran Reilly who scored 93.91 on his attempt.
In November 2025, Jeanjean won the gold medal in the freestyle park at the 2025 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, scoring 94.4 for his second run, having fallen in his first.
Competitive history
All results are sourced from the Union Cycliste Internationale.''As of August 7th, 2024''