Ryan Williams is 32, and on Saturday at Cal Expo he won gold in the Dave Mirra BMX Park Best Trick at X Games Sacramento 2026. Daniel Sandoval, 31, of Corona, California, took bronze. Williams is from Sunshine Coast, Australia.
Both riders are on the Monster Energy team, and they were far from the only ones. According to the company, its athletes collected nine medals on day two, three gold, four silver and two bronze, across six contest events.
Gold and silver across the park
Williams was not done after BMX Park. In the BMX Dirt final he finished second to his teammate Brady Baker, a 23-year-old from Toms River, New Jersey, who won gold with what Monster called a next-level run.
Arisa Trew, 16, from Palm Beach, Australia, defended her title in the Women’s Skateboard Vert Best Trick and matched a record. It was her second victory of this X Games.
Nyjah Huston, 31, from Laguna Beach, California, took silver in Men’s Skateboard Street. In Men’s Skateboard Park, 15-year-old Egoitz Bijueska from Bilbao, Spain, a Monster Army recruit, won silver in his X Games debut. Tom Schaar, 26, from Malibu, California, got bronze. The Moto X Best Trick silver went to Ben Richards, 25, from Wagga Wagga, Australia.
A new league opens
The event ran June 26 to 28. It was the first official stop of the MoonPay X Games League 2026 Summer Season. Monster Energy is a founding partner of the league, which describes itself as the world’s first year-round, team-based, co-ed league in action sports. City-based clubs and individual athletes earn points across the season for a shot at the championship.
