Fabio Wibmer

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Fabio Wibmer Road cycling
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Full name Fabio Wibmer
Nickname Whipmer / Flipmer
Date of birth 30th June 1995 (age 25)
nation AustriaAustria Austria
discipline Trial and downhill
Driver type professional
Team (s)
since June 2017 Red Bull team
Most important successes

MaillotAustria.PNG Austrian Downhill Champion 2016

Last updated: June 20, 2018

Fabio Wibmer (born June 30, 1995 in Oberpeischlach , East Tyrol ) is an Austrian mountain bike rider and web video producer . As a cyclist, he is mainly active as a bike trial rider , but the downhill area is also part of his field of activity. In the mountain bike scene he is considered to be an “all-rounder” or “all-rounder”.

Career

Fabio Wibmer drove motocross races for twelve years in his youth. In 2009 he discovered the sport of bike trials through a YouTube video by Scottish trial superstar Danny MacAskill . The actual first contact with this sport finally took place in winter 2010 with his first own trial bike. In 2012, at the age of 16, he was invited to the Red Bull Wings Academy in Munich . Since 2014 he has been touring the world with other bike trial riders as a permanent member of the “Drop & Roll Street Trial Show” founded by MacAskill, partly internationally.

Fabio Wibmer has been an official Red Bull athlete since mid-2017. And since the beginning of 2020 he has been the official partner of the bicycle brand "CANYON". Among other things, he founded his own sportswear brand "Sick Series" together with Austrian downhill rider Elias Schwärzler.

On August 9, 2017, Fabio Wibmer was a guest on the RTL television program stern TV .

Sporting successes

Fabio Wibmer achieved his greatest sporting successes in 2015 as the winner of the Austrian Whip-Off Contest, and in 2016 as the Austrian Downhill State Champion and winner of the “Downhill Cup Innsbruck”. In 2016 and 2017 he also took first place in the “Whip Off Contest” of the Dirtmasters Festival in Winterberg .

Web video

YouTube

As the web video producer of his YouTube channel , he is causing quite a stir with his creative and spectacular mountain bike videos. With over 5.4 million subscribers and more than 800 million views of his videos, his channel is now known to a wide audience . His channel is currently number 2 of the most subscribed channels in Austria and 34th of the most popular sports channels worldwide.

In 2015 the video Wibmers “Paris Is My Playground” produced by aepic.tv was awarded the Germany Web Video Prize in the “Sports” category.

“Urban Freeride lives” from April 2017 is considered to be his most successful video. Within the first year, it received more than 22 million views, followed by a further 40 million views in the following year, and also attracted a lot of international attention. Now, three years after the video was released, the video has over 100 million views.

Filmography (selection)

date title place Remarks
February 2014 Paris Is My Playground Paris Web video award Germany in the Sports category
December 2014 East Tyrol Is My Playground East Tyrol Filmed by Hannes Berger ; Music by The Family Crest (The Headwinds & Love Don't Go) and Early Morning Rebel (Hold On)
December 2015 Fabiolous Escape East Tyrol Filmed by Hannes Berger
November 2016 Out of Mind Saalbach-Hinterglemm , Leogang Filmed by Manuel Nguyen
November 2016 Riding a bike on a 200 m high rail Kölnbreinsperre, Malta power plants Contribution to the GoPro Of The World Contest
April 2017 Urban Freeride Lives Salzburg Filmed by Hannes Berger
July 2017 Urban Freeride Lives in Vienna Vienna Filmed by Manuel Nguyen; Music by The Phantoms (Take The World & Can't Get Enough)
September 2017 Riding down the Dolomites Dolomites Filmed by Stephan Senfter ; Music by Here and Now (Energy)
April 2018 Fabiolous Escape 2 Saalbach-Hinterglemm Filmed by Alex Meliss ; Music from Audionetwork.com
September 2019 Wibmer's Law - Fabio Wibmer Austria Music by Sounds of Red Bull (Come Alive)
December 2019 Urban Freeride Lives 3 Lyon & Paris Filmed by Manuel Nguyen & Hannes Berger; Music by Oh The Larceny (Blood Is Rebel)
January 2020 Israel Is My Playground - Fabio Wibmer Israel Filmed by Aleksander Osmalek, Lukas Nahrungsmittelbacher, Ohad Nir and Hannes Berger
May

2020

Home office - Fabio Wibmer Austria Produced by Sick Cinema

criticism

On the other hand, his video "Riding down the Dolomites" was perceived controversially: The video shows Fabio Wibmer on his mountain bike downhill run on the mountain running route of the Dolomitenmann . The project supported by Red Bull was viewed rather critically in the mountain bike community and various bike forums. One point of criticism is the use of two helicopters for the purpose of transport and filming in the high mountains and, on the other hand, Wibmer's rather "rustic" driving style, which leaves clear traces in the alpine terrain.

The video "Israel Is My Playground - Fabio Wibmer", which, among other things, positively stages the culture and nature of Israel, caused some irritation and discussions in the comment area due to the political conflict between Israel and Palestine and received a relatively large number of dislikes, which Fabio Wibmer finally prompted a statement ("Guys, biking is not about politics! It's about having fun, no matter where in the world."), In which he expressed that, in his opinion, biking had nothing to do with politics, it's all about having fun - no matter where in the world.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c redbull.com: Fabio Wibmer
  2. ↑ a b rasoulution.com: Fabio Wibmer
  3. ↑ a b redbull.com: Fabio Wibmer
  4. ↑ Fabio Wibmer in an interview (July 19, 2017)
  5. ↑ mountainbike-magazin.de: Interview with Fabio Wibmer ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mountainbike-magazin.de
  6. ↑ prime-mountainbiking.de: Fabio Wibmer
  7. ↑ dropandrolltour.com
  8. ↑ prime-mountainbiking.de: Fabio Wibmer
  9. ↑ freeride-magazine.com: Fabio Wibmer
  10. ↑ stern TV
  11. ↑ stern TV: Video from the broadcast on August 9, 2017
  12. ↑ The 2016 downhill state champion comes from Kals am Großglockner!
  13. ↑ westafalenpost.de: Dirtmasters Festival 2016
  14. ↑ dirtmasters-festival.de
  15. ↑ youtube.com: YouTube channel Fabio Wibmer
  16. ↑ youtube.com: About Fabio Wibmer , Retrieved September 1, 2020
  17. ↑ socialblade.com: Top 250 YouTubers in Austria sorted by Subscribers
  18. ↑ socialblade.com: Top 250 YouTubers Sports Channels sorted by Subscribers
  19. ↑ wikipedia.de: Webvideopreis Deutschland 2015
  20. ↑ a b aepic.tv - Paris Is My Playground (Fabio Wibmer) on YouTube
  21. ↑ a b youtube.com: Urban Freeride lives - Fabio Wibmer
  22. ↑ Fabio Wibmer - Osttirol Is My Playground on YouTube
  23. ↑ Fabio Wibmer - Fabiolous Escape on YouTube
  24. ↑ Fabio Wibmer - Out Of Mind on YouTube
  25. ↑ Riding a bike on a 200 m high rail - Fabio Wibmer on YouTube
  26. ↑ Urban Freeride Lives in Vienna - Fabio Wibmer on YouTube
  27. ↑ a b Riding down the Dolomites - Fabio Wibmer on YouTube
  28. ↑ Fabio Wibmer - Fabiolous Escape 2 on YouTube
  29. ^ Israel Is My Playground - Fabio Wibmer. Retrieved February 24, 2020 .
  30. ↑ derstandard.at: The journey is the goal: Incorrect driving behavior destroys more than just trails (September 19, 2017)
  31. ↑ Wibmer's pinned comment in the comment section. In: Youtube.com. Retrieved February 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Wibmer, Fabio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mountain biker
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberpeischlach , East Tyrol