Marin Ranteš

Marin Ranteš, born on 9 August 1995, is a Croatian BMX cyclist in the freestyle discipline and a bronze medallist of the 2021 Urban Cycling World Championships in Montpellier. He took part in the inaugural Urban Cycling World Championships in 2017, finishing 16th, and in 2018 achieved two podium finishes in the UCI BMX Freestyle World Cup and won the overall ranking. The following year he became European silver medallist, and after the pandemic break he won bronze at the 2021 world championships and the 2022 European Championships in Munich. He advanced to the finals of the World Championships in 2022 and 2023, won all Croatian national championships from 2019 to 2023, and secured a place at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris by placing sixth in the Budapest stage of the Olympic Classification Series, becoming the first Croatian cyclist to qualify in BMX freestyle.