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By MTB Cycling Gear Team

Godziek Wins First-Ever Slopestyle Super League Title


Dawid Godziek scored 94.25 on Sunday to win the Slopestyle Super League Finals at Crankworx Mont-Sainte-Anne, and with it the first-ever Slopestyle Super League World Championship. Johanna Nussbaumer took the women’s title with an 89.00. Two new titles, a brand-new format, and Godziek did it on a pink Specialized P3 he’s been quietly building out since he left NS Bikes.

We’ve spent this Crankworx week on the bike underneath the win: Tegan Cruz’s Ari Superior Peak taking the DH final by 0.084 seconds, a direct-to-consumer frame nobody expected on the top step. Godziek’s story runs the other direction. He’s on a major brand now, after years riding for a scrappy Polish-owned outfit, and the win says more about a rider’s personal build than it does about any factory program. Slopestyle bikes don’t get the spec-sheet obsession that downhill and enduro do. This one’s worth a proper look.

Quick Take

WinnerDawid Godziek, Men’s Slopestyle Super League World Champion
Score94.25, ahead of Chance Moore (93.25) and Lucas Huppert (88.62)
Women’s winnerJohanna Nussbaumer, 89.00 — Shealen Reno 2nd (76.75), Lisa-marie Blanc 3rd (69.00)
BikePink Specialized P3, Industry Nine wheels, Title Components, Continental tires, RockShox suspension and drivetrain
VenueCrankworx Mont-Sainte-Anne, Québec — Sept 3-7, first-ever SSL Finals
Season sweepWins at Crankworx Rotorua (93.62) and Crankworx Whistler (94.50) before the MSA final
Best forRiders who assumed slopestyle bike checks were all still steel hardtails
Skip ifYou want a full geometry rundown — Specialized hasn’t published one for Godziek’s personal build

The Score That Won It

94.25 doesn’t sound dramatic next to Tegan Cruz’s photo-finish downhill margin from earlier in the week, and it shouldn’t. Slopestyle scoring isn’t a stopwatch. It’s five judges grading amplitude, execution, and difficulty on a 100-point scale, and a gap of a full point (Godziek’s 94.25 over Chance Moore’s 93.25) is a real, decisive margin at that level. Lucas Huppert took third at 88.62. Behind him: Axel Sparrman (86.00), Erik Fedko (85.81), and Ben Thompson (85.70), with Nicholi Rogatkin seventh at 82.81, according to Pinkbike’s results coverage.

That’s not a runaway. It’s a field packed tight from second through sixth, and Godziek still cleared all of it. Nussbaumer’s win had more daylight in it: 89.00 to Shealen Reno’s 76.75, a 12-point gap that’s closer to Mille Johnset’s dominant DH win than anything close.

Here’s the part that matters more than either score: this is the first time either title has existed. The Slopestyle Super League replaced the old FMBA World Tour points structure for 2026, and Mont-Sainte-Anne’s finals were the first time anyone got to call themselves SSL World Champion. Godziek already had a slopestyle world title to his name. He won the FMBA Crankworx World Championship outright in 2024, sweeping three Diamond-level events for the Triple Crown. This one’s different. It’s a new belt, and he’s the first to hold it.

What’s on Godziek’s Pink P3

Slopestyle bikes get talked about less than DH rigs on this site, mostly because there’s less to argue over: no suspension tune, no wheel-size debate. Godziek’s build is still worth breaking down, because it’s a personal setup built by a rider who’s been on it long enough to know exactly what he wants:

  1. Frame: Specialized P3, the brand’s aluminum dirt-jump platform, built up pink for Godziek’s personal spec.
  2. Wheels: Industry Nine (the same Asheville, North Carolina wheel builder we covered pushing 32-inch carbon rims into gravity racing this year), here on a much smaller, much simpler dirt jump hoop.
  3. Cockpit: Title Components, a small US machine shop better known in BMX and dirt jump circles than on the trail bike side of this site.
  4. Tires: Continental (the brand we wrote up expanding its Gravity range in August), though a dirt jump bike doesn’t need SuperSoft compound to hold a landing.
  5. Suspension and drivetrain: RockShox end to end, front and drive side both, on a bike where “suspension” means one short-travel fork doing a very specific job.

None of that is a spec sheet built for a magazine. It’s a rider’s personal bike, assembled from brands he trusts, and it happens to be pink because that’s what he wanted it to be. Specialized hasn’t published travel numbers, geometry, or a full parts list for this exact build. Treat the list above as what’s been confirmed and nothing more.

From NS Bikes to a Major Brand

Godziek isn’t new to any of this. He rode for NS Bikes, a Polish-owned company, for four years before he and his brother Szymon both left the team in 2024 and signed with Specialized that January. Szymon built up a Demo for big-mountain freeride lines. Dawid went the other way: a lightweight dirt jump platform for slopestyle and street, which is exactly what he’s still riding almost three seasons later.

That’s the detail that makes this win land differently than Jackson Goldstone’s stock V10 at DH Worlds or the Atherton S.170E.2 taking Bike of the Year. Those were stories about production bikes beating prototypes. This is a rider who switched brands, picked a platform, and stuck with it long enough to win a World Championship on a build he’s clearly comfortable on, not a rig assembled fresh for one race week.

The Season Godziek Swept

Mont-Sainte-Anne wasn’t a surprise. Godziek won at Crankworx Rotorua back in March, scoring 93.62 in a technically flawless second run, and he closed the regular season with a 94.50 at Crankworx Whistler’s Rhapsody Slopestyle event, ahead of Dane Folpp (92.50) and Timothé Bringer (89.75), per Canadian Cycling Magazine’s coverage. Those two results, plus everything in between, put him on top of the regular-season points table with 4,250 points, comfortably clear of Chance Moore (3,108) and Nicholi Rogatkin (3,104), the two riders who chased him into the finals.

The Whistler win should have been the easy headline of that week. Instead it got overshadowed. Rogatkin’s second run (a twister into a triple tailwhip, a scrambled recovery off a superman seat grab, and a double tailwhip closer off the surgeon’s table) scored 83.50, seventh place, and the crowd didn’t agree with the judges. Rogatkin didn’t either; he flipped off the broadcast camera live, and “Rogatkin got robbed” spread across social media before Godziek’s win had even finished being announced. None of that changes what happened at Mont-Sainte-Anne. Godziek beat Rogatkin there too, 94.25 to 82.81, in a final where the judging wasn’t the story.

What Is the Slopestyle Super League?

The Slopestyle Super League is Crankworx’s 2026 points series for competitive slopestyle, replacing the old FMBA World Tour structure. Riders earn points across a regular season of events (this year including Rotorua and Whistler) before the top finishers advance to a finals event, held for the first time at Mont-Sainte-Anne, where the season champion is crowned.

Who Should Care About This

Anyone shopping for a dirt jump or slopestyle setup. Godziek’s build isn’t a factory prototype. It’s a P3 with wheels, a cockpit, tires, and suspension a regular rider could actually order, assembled by someone who’s clearly logged real time on it.

Riders following the small-brand-versus-big-brand thread on this site. This one runs backward from Cruz’s Ari win and Goldstone’s stock V10: Godziek left a small, scrappy brand for a major one, and it’s working.

Anyone who watched the Whistler judging blow up online. The controversy didn’t cost Godziek anything. He beat Rogatkin by a wider margin at the actual finals than he did at Whistler.

Who Should Skip This

Anyone wanting a full geometry or suspension-tune breakdown of the P3. Specialized hasn’t published Godziek’s personal setup numbers, and neither has any outlet we’ve found. What’s confirmed above is confirmed. We didn’t guess at the rest.

Riders looking for downhill or enduro gear takeaways. This is a dirt jump hardtail built for slopestyle tricks, not descending speed. Little here translates to a trail or gravity bike buying decision.

The Bottom Line

Dawid Godziek won the first Slopestyle Super League World Championship the same way he won the regular season that got him there: clean scores, no drama, on a pink P3 he’s had dialed in since he left NS Bikes for Specialized back in 2024. Johanna Nussbaumer’s 89.00 was the more dominant ride of the finals weekend, 12 points clear of second. Between the two of them, Crankworx has its first Slopestyle Super League champions, and a new belt with exactly one name on it so far.


Reporting sourced from Pinkbike’s Mont-Sainte-Anne results coverage, Crankworx’s Slopestyle Super League page, Canadian Cycling Magazine’s report on the Whistler judging controversy, and Pinkbike’s report on Godziek’s move to Specialized. No test unit has been ridden by our team at time of publication.