Beth Shriever

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Beth Shriever
MBE
Bethany Shriever Tokyo Olympics.jpg
Shriever in 2021
Personal information
Full nameBethany Kate Shriever
Born (1999-04-19) 19 April 1999 (age 26)
Leytonstone, England
Medal record
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Women's BMX racing
Event1st2nd3rd
Olympic Games 100
World Championships 300
World Junior Championships 110
World Cup 011
World Cup rounds 632
European Championships 210
Total1363
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Tokyo BMX racing
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2021 Arnhem BMX racing
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Glasgow BMX racing
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2025 Copenhagen BMX racing
World Cup
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 BMX racing
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 BMX racing
World Junior Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Rock Hill BMX racing
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 Medellín BMX time trial
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Dessel BMX racing
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2025 Valmiera BMX racing
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2016 VeronaBMX time trial

Bethany Kate Shriever [1] (born 19 April 1999) is a British cyclist, competing as a BMX racer. A World Junior champion in 2017 and winner of the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup final event in Zolder in 2018. [2] In 2021, Shriever won both the Olympic and World titles, equalling the feat of Colombian Mariana Pajón, who won Olympic silver.

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In 2022, Shriever completed the full set of gold medals by winning the 2022 UEC BMX Racing European Championships; in doing so, she became the first BMX racing cyclist in history to hold Olympic, World and European titles simultaneously, and only the second, after Pajón in 2016, to hold a full set of World, Olympic and continental titles at once (Pajón having won gold at the Pan American Championships in 2016).

Shriever won further world titles in 2023 and 2025, and a further European title in 2025.

Early life

Shriever was born in 1999 and she began BMX when she was aged eight years old. [3] Thereafter she started training at her local club in Braintree and went on to start competing at weekends. [4]

Career

Shriever won the silver medal at the 2016 BMX European Cycling Championships [5] In 2017 she became the Junior World Champion. In 2018 she finished 17th in her maiden appearance as a senior at the World Championships in Baku [6] as well as winning the UCI BMX World Cup final in Belgium edging Judy Baauw and Laura Smulders into second and third. [7] In March 2020 Shriever dominated the National BMX Series in Manchester without dropping a lap. [8]

Shriever was chosen to be part of Great Britain's 26 strong cycling squad at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics where she won the Women's BMX racing gold medal. Whilst being interviewed on TV after her win she couldn't refrain from swearing in her shock. [9] [10]

She subsequently won gold at the 2021 UCI BMX World Championships and the 2022 European BMX Championships, and at the 2023 UCI BMX World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. [11] [12]

Having recovered from a broken collarbone in May 2024, she was selected for the 2024 Paris Olympics to defend her title. Shriever won all six of her races in reaching the final, but after being boxed in by the field finished in last place in the final. [13] [14]

She won the gold medal at the 2025 European BMX Championships in Valmiera, Latvia in July 2025. [12] The following month, she won her third world title in Copenhagen at the 2025 UCI BMX World Championships. [15]

Personal life

Shriever worked part-time as a teaching assistant in a nursery at the Stephen Perse Foundation [16] to cover some of her costs of training and travelling because UK Sport stipulated in its funding review after the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games that only male riders would be supported heading towards Tokyo 2020.[ citation needed ]

Shriever was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to BMX racing. [17] [18]

Major results

2016
2nd Silver medal.svg European BMX Championships
2017
1st Jersey rainbow.svg UCI BMX World Championships, Junior
2018
1st Gold medal.svg Stage 5, BMX Supercross World Cup, Zolder
2021
1st Gold medal olympic.svg BMX racing, Olympic Games
1st Jersey rainbow.svg UCI BMX World Championships, Elite
2022
1st Gold medal.svg European BMX Championships
2023
1st Jersey rainbow.svg UCI BMX World Championships, Elite
2025
1st Jersey rainbow.svg UCI BMX World Championships, Elite
1st Gold medal.svg European BMX Championships

References

  1. ↑ "Beth Shriever". Olympedia . Retrieved 30 October 2022.
  2. ↑ [the-uci-bmx-supercross-world-cup-chronicle-186154]
  3. ↑ "Like A Girl: World junior BMX champion Bethany Shriever". BBC Three. 10 August 2018.
  4. ↑ "Sponsorships". The Healing Zone. 9 August 2020. Bethany Shriever: Beth is looking forward to working with The Healing Zone on her journey to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
  5. ↑ "BMX Cycling - Bethany Shriever (Great Britain)". the-sports.org.
  6. ↑ "Beth Shriever: BMX rider turns to crowdfunding in 2020 Olympics bid". BBC Sport. 14 March 2019. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  7. ↑ "Shriever secures maiden UCI BMX Supercross World Cup win in Heusden-Zolder". Inside the Games . 12 May 2018. Britain's Bethany Shriever
  8. ↑ "Beth Shriever and Chad Hartwell take early leads as the 2020 HSBC UK | National BMX Series gets under way in Manchester". British Cycling.
  9. ↑ "Olympic Games: Team GB name Laura Kenny and Jason Kenny in 26-strong cycling squad for Tokyo". Sky Sports. 21 June 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2021. Women's BMX SX: Beth Shriever
  10. ↑ "Tokyo Olympics: Bethany Shriever & Kye Whyte win historic medals in BMX racing". BBC Sport . 30 July 2021.
  11. ↑ "Cycling World Championships 2023: Great Britain's Beth Shriever reclaims women's BMX title". BBC Sport. 13 August 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2025.
  12. 1 2 Stafford, Katie (12 July 2025). "GB's Shriever clinches European BMX gold in Latvia". BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 July 2025.
  13. ↑ "Beth Shriever loses Olympics BMX title as Kye Whyte taken to hospital after nasty crash". London Evening Standard. 2 August 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  14. ↑ Anderson, Jess (2 August 2024). "Shriever eighth after GB team-mate Whyte crashes". BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 July 2025.
  15. ↑ Poole, Harry (3 August 2025). "Britain's Shriever wins third BMX world title". BBC Sport. Retrieved 6 August 2025.
  16. ↑ "BMX World Cup victory for Beth Shriever". Stephen Perse Foundation. 14 June 2018.
  17. ↑ "No. 63571". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 2022. p. N25. Bethany SHRIEVER. For services to Bicycle Motocross Racing.
  18. ↑ "New Year Honours 2022: Jason Kenny receives a knighthood and Laura Kenny made a dame". BBC Sport. 31 December 2021. Beth Shriever (Olympic BMX rider), for services to BMX racing
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