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RAM TOP GUN AWARD

To add to the excitement level of a world championship event, every year RAM rewards the contestant who earns the most money at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo.

The RAM Top Gun Award goes to the one athlete who wins the most money in any single event at the Wrangler NFR. It’s the only title that pits contestants in multiple events against each other. The winner receives a voucher toward the purchase of a RAM vehicle, a special Montana Silversmiths custom buckle and a RAM Top Gun-branded gun from Commemorative Firearms.

WRANGLER NFR

Winners of the RAM Top Gun Award: 2022 Zeke Thurston, SB $256,078

Won his third career world championship

2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011

Kaycee Feild, BB Hailey Kinsel, GB Clayton Biglow, BB Chase Dougherty, BR

$231,564 $270,615 $243,269 $209,058 $195,519 $213,218 $234,054 $175,466 $155,899 $146,941 $179,327 $211,509

won his sixth world championship, which was a PRCA bareback riding record

won the average and world championship won the average and world championship won the average at his first Wrangler NFR won both the average and world championship

Marcos Costa, TD

Tyler Waguespack, SW Steven Peebles, BB

won the world, the average and the RAM Top Gun Award in second appearance recovered from dire injury in July, broke single-event earnings record at NFR first rookie to win the award; broke bull riding Wrangler NFR earnings record broke two records en route to her fourth gold buckle and third average title won gold buckle and RAM Truck Top Gun at her first Wrangler NFR – at age 53

Sage Kimzey, BR Sherry Cervi, GB Mary Walker, GB Kaycee Feild, BB

won the average and world championship

2010*

Trevor Brazile, TR, TD

won TR average plus AA, TD and TR world championships

Top Wrangler NFR earners in single events before the RAM Top Gun Award existed 2009 Sherry Cervi, GB $146,100 won average title but not the world championship 2008 Lindsay Sears, GB $139,002 won the world championship but not the average 2007 Lindsay Sears, GB $119,255 won neither the average nor the world championship 2006 B.J. Schumacher, BR $142,644 won the average and world championship 2005 Lee Graves, SW $126,412 won the average and world championship 2004 Billy Etbauer, SB $117,745 won the world championship but not the average 2003 Janae Ward, GB $111,908 won the average and world championship 2002 Jason Jeter, BB $98,432 won the average but not the world championship 2001 Janet Stover, GB $126,934 won the world championship but not the average 2000 Brent Lewis, TD $103,585 won the average but not the world championship * In 2010, the inaugural year of the RAM Top Gun Award, money earned in multiple events counted in Top Gun standings. Starting in 2011, the RAM Top Gun Award has gone to the contestant who earns the most in a single event. Had that been true in 2010, bull rider J.W. Harris would have collected the RAM Top Gun Award in addition to his world and average titles.

NFR LOCATIONS

Location (SB, BB, BR, TD, SW) 1959-61...........Dallas, Texas (Dallas State Fairgrounds) 1962-64...........Los Angeles, Calif. (Los Angeles Sports Arena) 1965-78...........Oklahoma City, Okla. (Jim Norick Arena) 1979-84...........Oklahoma City, Okla. (Myriad Arena) 1985-2019......Las Vegas, Nev. (Thomas & Mack Center) 2020.................Arlington, Texas (Globe Life Field) 2021-22....Las Vegas, Nev. (Thomas & Mack Center)

2001-05...........Amarillo, Texas 2006-08...........Hobbs, N.M. 2009-13...........Guthrie, Okla. 2014-22...........Mulvane, Kan. Barrel racing 1959.................Clayton, N.M. 1960.................Scottsdale, Ariz. 1961.................Santa Maria, Calif. 1962-65...........Dallas, Texas 1966.................Fort Worth, Texas 1967-2022...... Same as NFR Breakaway Roping 2020.................Arlington, Texas 2021-22...........Las Vegas, Nev.

Team Roping 1959.................Clayton, N.M. 1960.................Scottsdale, Ariz. 1961.................Santa Maria, Calif. 1962-2022...... Same as NFR Steer Roping 1959-60...........Clayton, N.M. 1961.................Laramie, Wyo. 1962.................Douglas, Wyo. 1963-64...........Pawhuska, Okla. 1965-66...........Vinita, Okla. 1967-68...........McAlester, Okla. 1969-70...........Pecos, Texas 1971-72...........Pawhuska, Okla. 1973-83...........Laramie, Wyo. 1984-2000......Guthrie, Okla.

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