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 25)
Leytonstone, England
Medal record
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Women's BMX racing
Event1st2nd3rd
Olympic Games 100
World Championships 200
World Junior Championships 110
World Cup 011
World Cup rounds 632
European Championships 110
Total1163
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
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
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2016 VeronaBMX time trial

Bethany Kate Shriever [1] MBE (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 all three titles simultaneously.

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] 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]

At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Shriever finished last in the final. [11]

Personal life

Shriever worked part-time as a teaching assistant in a nursery at the Stephen Perse Foundation [12] 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. [13] [14]

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

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