AUSTIN, Tex. – Poland’s Taddy Blazusiak added another Enduro X Gold medal to his collection with an exciting win at the inaugural Austin X Games. American Cody Webb passed two riders in the closing laps to take the silver medal. Spain’s Alfredo Gomez rounded out the podium on his Factory Husqvarna.

Blazusiak, the KTM Factory rider exchanged the lead a few times with Mike Brown on the opening lap and then opened a small gap after Brown went down. Colton Haaker on the Lucas Oil, Rockstar JCR Honda was closing rapidly when Blazusiak crashed allowing Haaker to close to his back wheel. The two riders battled back and forth for several laps and then Haaker made his move when Blazusiak got held up by a lapped rider but crashed as he tried to get around the outside. This allowed Gomez and Webb to close right up on Blazusiak and Webb moved past both Gomez and the downed Haaker in the same section.

Beta USA, GEICO backed Webb pushed hard to close in on Blazusiak on the last lap but came up just short. Haaker recovered to challenge Gomez for the final medal position but could not make the move.

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“I did not feel that great on this track and it seemed a little one lined so getting that start was important’ said Blazusiak. “Brown pushed me really hard on that first lap and then I got a good lead before that stupid crash. And I could hear Haaker behind me but just kept pushing to hit my lines and it feels great to get my fourth X Games Gold”.

In the Women’s class, KTM’s Kacy Martinez took her first ever X Games gold medal with a wire to wire win. Spain’s Sandra Gomez kept it close throughout on her Husqvarna and took the silver medal. Rachel Gutish, celebrated her recent high school graduation with a Bronze medal on her team RPM KTM.

“I felt amazing during my race that was the best I rode all day” said Martinez. “On the last lap, I was like, I can do this, I am going to get a gold medal and it felt amazing to cross the finish line with all those people cheering.”