Cody
Webb
United States
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Enduro
Date of birth | May 31, 1988 |
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Birthplace | Watsonville |
Age | 37 |
Nationality | United States |
Career start | 2003 |
Disciplines | Enduro / Endurocross / Hard Enduro |
Hard Enduro has traditionally been dominated by European riders, but American ace Cody Webb is changing all that. The native of California has taken the fight to previously untouchable Europeans stars and proven himself to be their equal, establishing himself as a podium threat at any enduro race he enters now.
Like the majority of top Hard Enduro racers, Cody was bred on a diet of trials, winning two American national titles and scoring six silver medals before making the switch to enduro. That technical trials grounding has held him in good stead at the world's toughest Hard Enduro and Endurocross races, where's he's known as one of the most fluid and smooth racers.
Cody first began to make waves in the tight, frenzied confines of Endurocross courses, where he established himself with medals at the X Games and title-winning performances in the AMA Endurocross Championship in 2014 and 2015, but it's in the fearsome Erzberg quarry where Cody has shown his real Hard Enduro chops best.
Arriving at the 2016 Red Bull Hare Scramble – widely considered the toughest and most demanding race on the calendar – for the first time, Cody stunned the established Hard Enduro order when he stormed to an unexpected second-place finish, becoming the first American to score a podium in one of Hard Enduro's premier events.
The sport's best riders were put on warning following that result, and Cody has firmly established himself as a serious contender since. He scored his first-ever stage win during the 2017 Red Bull Minas Riders race in Brazil, where he again finished second, and then backed up his breakthrough Red Bull Hare Scramble result with another podium finish in the 2017 edition, this time a third.
In late 2019 Cody switched from KTM to the Sherco team, but his focus remains on finishing well at FIM SuperEnduro World Championship events and challenging the overall title. While 2020 unfolded in a way no one could predict, Cody still managed six podium finishes.
Cody added to his list of successes in 2022 when he took third place overall at the AMA EnduroCross championship, finishing just 12 points behind champion Jonny Walker.