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Wibmer

Fabio Wibmer is an Austrian mountain bike and trial rider. As a cyclist he is mainly active as a bike trial rider, but downhill is also one of his fields of activity. He started bike trial sport at the age of 12 and was invited to the Red Bull Wings Academy at the age of 16. Since 2014, he has been touring the world with other bike trial riders, partly internationally, as a permanent member of the "Drop & Roll Street Trial Show" founded by Danny McAskill.

 

Fabio Wibmer is an Austrian mountain bike and trial rider. He is considered a "multi-talent" or "jack-of-all-trades" in the mountain bike scene. He has been an official Red Bull athlete since 2017. His sporting successes to date are: 2015 winner of the Austrian Whip-off Contest; 2016 Austrian Downhill State Champion and winner of the "Downhill Cup Innsbruck"; 2016 + 2017 winner at the "Whip Off Contest" of the Dirtmasters Festival in Winterberg. Fabio Wibmer has been running a YouTube channel since 2008 and frequently uploads videos of his stunts and tours on his mountainbike there. He currently has over 6 million subscribers and his videos have already been viewed over 1 billion times. His channel is currently the second most subscribed channel in Austria and the 34th most subscribed sports channel worldwide. Fabio is also studying on the side. He is enrolled at the University of Innsbruck, where he is studying Sport Management.

"Inspiration from other people was crucial in my childhood and youth. I grew up looking up to other people who were heroes to us. That's what drove me and made me keep going and not give up."

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