UCI BMX World Championships are the world championships for BMX racing held under the regulations of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the sport's international governing body.
Shanaze Danielle Reade is a British former bicycle motocross (BMX) racer and track cyclist whose prime competitive years began in 2002. She has won the UCI BMX World Championships three times. Reade is the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Irish mother.
The National Indoor BMX Arena is an indoor BMX racing facility, located in Sportcity, Manchester, United Kingdom. The arena was designed by Ellis Williams Architects and built by contractors Sir Robert McAlpine. It is situated next to the Manchester Velodrome and the buildings share a common entrance as part of the National Cycling Centre. The arena cost £24 million to construct, seats 2,000 spectators and was opened in 2011. It is home to British Cycling’s BMX programme, which has produced world champions Shanaze Reade and Liam Phillips and Olympic champions Bethany Shriever and Charlotte Worthington.
Dame Laura Rebecca Kenny, OLY is a British professional track and road cyclist who specialises in track endurance events, specifically the team pursuit, omnium, scratch race, elimination race and madison disciplines. With six Olympic medals, having won both the team pursuit and the omnium at both the 2012 and 2016 Olympics and madison at the 2020 Olympics, along with a silver medal from the team pursuit at the 2020 Olympics, she is both the most successful female cyclist, and the most successful British female athlete, in Olympic history.
Caroline Buchanan is an Australian cyclist who has won multiple world championships in BMX and mountain biking. She represented Australia at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's BMX event.
Mariana Pajón Londoño ODB OLY is a Colombian cyclist, two-time Olympic gold medalist and BMX World Champion.
Laura Smulders is a Dutch racing cyclist who represents the Netherlands in BMX. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's BMX event where she won the bronze medal.
Elinor Jane Barker is a Welsh road and track racing cyclist, who last rode professionally on the road for UCI Women's Team Drops. Representing Great Britain in international competitions, Barker is an Olympic champion, a two-time World champion and seven-time European champion in the team pursuit, as well as a three-time World champion in the points and scratch races, a two-time European Madison champion and one time European Elimination race champion. Representing Wales, Barker was also the 2018 Commonwealth Games Points race champion.
Katie Archibald, is an elite Scottish and British racing cyclist, specialising in endurance track cycling events in which she represents Great Britain and Scotland.
Niek Kimmann is a Dutch BMX racing cyclist. Kimmann is the reigning Olympic Champion BMX Racing, a three-time World Champion, one-time European Champion, three-time Dutch Champion, and two-time World Cup Supercross winner. He is also a two-time junior World Champion.
Priscilla Andreia Stevaux Carnaval is a Brazilian female BMX rider, representing her nation at international competitions. She has been part of the Brazilian team since 2010, and the following year she was sixth in the junior category of the 2011 UCI BMX World Championships. Carnaval has since competed in the Elite Women category of the UCI BMX World Championships in 2012, 2015 and 2016, and represented her country in the 2016 Olympics Brazil hosted.
Amelia Walsh is a Canadian female cyclist. She started as a BMX rider at age 15. She won several provincial championships before she began representing her nation at international competitions. She competed in the UCI BMX World Championships in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. Prior to that she competed in the 2009 World Junior Championships. She was the Canadian BMX Women's Champion title holder in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Saya Sakakibara is an Australian cyclist competing in BMX Supercross events.
Merel Smulders is a Dutch BMX rider.
Charlotte Worthington is a British cyclist and Olympic gold medallist who competes internationally in Freestyle BMX.
Kye Whyte is a British male BMX racer. He was a silver medallist at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He competed in the fourteenth series of Dancing on Ice in 2022.
Rebecca Petch is a New Zealand cyclist who competes in BMX Racing and track cycling. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's BMX race.
Axelle Étienne is a French cyclist who competes in the BMX.
Zoe Claessens is a Swiss BMX cyclist.
Simon M. Marquart is a Swiss BMX cyclist.
