Ailo Gaup

Ailo Gaup is a retired Norwegian freestyle motocross rider, born on 22 January 1979 in northern Norway, who invented the Underflip. He grew up in the north and later in Alta, took up motocross as a boy, and moved to Oslo at sixteen to study at the Norwegian College of Elite Sport. He began competing in freestyle motocross in 1999 and won the Norwegian championship, entered his first international contest in 2002 and finished second overall, and in 2003 became the first European to perform a backflip on a motorcycle. In November 2004 he invented the Underflip, a sideways flip. He was crowned World Cup champion in FMX in 2004 and again in 2007, the only rider to have won the world championship twice, and retired in October 2009.