Red Bull Art of Motion returned for another year to the Greek island of Santorini with some of the world's best freerunners performing superlative moves over the hot roofs and off scorching white-painted walls in front of a capacity crowd.
Deploying their unique style in a demanding and natural track, the world class freerunners were competing against the course and themselves, presenting their own unique skills through their awesome tricks, runs and drops.
It was a winning run full of creative tricks and fluid movements from Kyrsanidis who gave a world-class performance above the whitewashed stone roofs of Santorini to impress the judges. A crowd of 1,500 spectators celebrated the 19-year-old winning the fourth edition of freerunning’s most celebrated title. The shock result saw two-time champion Pavel Petkuns pushed into second place.
Kyrsanidis started freerunning at the age of 12 and has been steadily building his reputation within the sport in recent years. Following victory in his native Greece it seems as though Kyrsanidis will be the man to beat for years to come.
The best trick of the day came from Alexander Baiturin who pulled off a great high bar combination that finished with a 2.5 metre diveroll at the end of the track. Luci Romberg claimed the women's award, as the American blew everyone away with her high level of performance.
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