Nate Adams

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Nate Adams (born March 29, 1984) is an American motocross rider and extreme sports athlete. A resident of Temecula, California, he attained national fame when he won the World Freestyle Motocross Championship in 2002.

Adams was born in Phoenix, Arizona and began riding when he was eight years old when his father bought him his first dirtbike. He graduated from Mountain Ridge High School in Glendale, AZ in 2002. While successful in local and regional circuits, he became well-known in freestyle motocross by winning his first freestyle championship at age eighteen in 2002. Since then, Adams has won the gold medal at the X Games in 2004, the Gravity Games in 2003, and has enjoyed top finishes on the Vans Triple Crown and Dew Action Sports Tour.

Among his contemporaries, Adams is known for inventing new tricks and shaking up national competitions. He is the first rider to execute a backflip with a no-hander landing in competition, and the first motocross rider to beat Travis Pastrana at a freestyle motocross event. He is the title character in his own cell phone video game.