Kenny Bartram is featured as one of the members of the cast in the CMT network’s reality television series Ty Murray’s Celebrity Bull Riding Challenge. He is a freestyle motocross rider who was born on August 23, 1978, and goes by the nickname “Cowboy.” Over the course of his career, Bartram has achieved a total of 57 wins. However, he has also been injured multiple times, with 22 broken bones, seven teeth knocked out, a damaged blood vessel in his brain, and a steel plate in his jaw.
Among the numerous awards that Bartram has garnered are the following: first place at the 2001 Summer X Games for Big Air, first place at the 2002 Vans Triple Crown for Freestyle, and the silver medal for the 2002 X Games Freestyle category. He was also the overall freestyle champion for both the 2002 IFMA and Vans Triple Crown competitions. Bartram was a gold medalist during the 2005 Gravity Games, a silver medalist for freestyle during the 2005 X Games, along with the fourth highest-rated trick, and in 2006 was Rally America’s choice for Two-Wheel Drive Overall National Driver Champion. He was also picked as Rally America’s 2006 Production Class National Driver Champion.
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