Jamie Bestwick (born 8 July 1971) is a British BMX rider. He won 13 gold medals in the BMX Vert event at the X Games, and one gold medal for Vert Best Trick.
Bestwick started riding BMX with his friends at 10 years old. Jamie only competed in BMX events for fun. Riding his bike was just a way to hang out with his friends. After he finished school, his first priority was working as an engineer for Rolls-Royce in England and he thought that was going to be his career. However, he decided to quit his job and become a professional BMX rider.
Bestwick competed in his first X Games in 1996. He ended Dave Mirra's BMX three-year Vert reign in 2000, taking home the gold. He gradually became unbeatable. He won every single competition he entered in 2005. He won silver at X Games 2015, losing after winning nine years in a row
Bestwick has also won a Laureus World Sports Award for Action Sportsperson of the Year and been nominated for a Best Male Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award. In 2014, Bestwick spoke at Yale University alongside Ken Hill, Scott Russell, and Nick Ienatsch about motorcycle racing and success. In 2006 he performed in Cirque Rocks a charity circus held in New Zealand.
Bestwick acted as coach to Charlotte Worthington when she won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Declan Brooks when he won Bronze Medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
X Games competition history + GOLD (14) SILVER (5) BRONZE (1) YEAR X GAMES EVENTS RANK MEDAL 1996 Summer X Games II BMX Vert 3rd 1997 Summer X Games III BMX Vert 4th 1998 Summer X Games IV BMX Vert 5th 1999 Summer X Games V BMX Vert 6th 2000 Summer X Games VI BMX Vert 1st 2003 Summer X Games IX BMX Vert 1st 2004 Summer X Games X BMX Vert 6th 2005 Summer X Games XI BMX Vert 1st 2005 Summer X Games XI BMX Vert Best Trick 1st 2006 Summer X Games XII BMX Vert 2nd 2006 Summer X Games XII BMX Vert Best Trick 7th 2007 Summer X Games XIII BMX Vert 1st 2008 Summer X Games XIV BMX Vert 1st 2009 Summer X Games XV BMX Vert 1st 2010 Summer X Games XVI BMX Vert 1st 2011 Summer X Games XVII BMX Vert 1st 2012 Summer X Games XVIII BMX Vert 1st 2013 X Games Foz do Iguaçu 2013 BMX Vert 1st 2013 X Games Barcelona 2013 BMX Vert 1st 2014 X Games Austin 2014 BMX Vert 1st 2015 X Games Austin 2015 BMX Vert 2nd 2016 X Games Austin 2016 BMX Vert 1st 2017 X Games Minneapolis 2017 BMX Vert 2nd 2018 X Games Minneapolis 2018 BMX Vert 2nd 2019 X Games Minneapolis 2019 BMX Vert 2nd
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