Pat Casey was an American freestyle BMX rider, born on 26 December 1993 in Riverside, California, who turned professional at sixteen. In 2011 he became the first rider to land a decade backflip in competition, a trick in which the rider spins around the handlebars through a full turn during a backflip. He won gold at FISE Montpellier in 2011 and silver in Costa Rica in 2012, took five medals at the X Games between 2012 and 2022, hosted the park and dirt competitions at X Games California in 2021 and won the Red Bull Dreamline title in 2013. He died on 6 June 2023 at the age of 29 in a motocross practice accident in San Diego.
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