Declan Brooks

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Declan Brooks
OLY
Personal information
Full nameDeclan Brooks
Born (1996-07-10) 10 July 1996 (age 28)
Portsmouth, England
Sport
Sport Freestyle BMX
Medal record
Men's freestyle BMX
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2020 Tokyo BMX freestyle
European Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Kraków-Małopolska Freestyle Park
European Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2019 CadenazzoFreestyle Park
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2023 KrzeszowiceFreestyle Park

Declan Brooks OLY (born 10 July 1996) is a British Olympic bronze medalist winning cyclist who competes in Freestyle BMX.

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Brooks was born in Portsmouth and attended Cams Hill School and would practice at the Southsea skate park. He won a bronze medal at the European BMX Championships in Valmiera, and a silver in the freestyle World Cup in 2019, and achieved a tenth-place finish at the 2019 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships, in Chengdu. [1] [2]

In June 2021 he was confirmed on the Great Britain team for the delayed 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo. [3] On August 1 he won the bronze medal in the BMX Freestyle. [4]

Personal life

In 2017, Brooks appeared as a contestant on the ITV dating gameshow Take Me Out . [5]

Contest history

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References

  1. "Declan Brooks - Great Britain Cycling Team Rider Profile". Britishcycling.org.uk.
  2. ""Crazy tricks, crazy air time, loads of spins, almost like gymnastics with a bike." Declan Brooks on freestyle BMX's Olympic debut". Sportsgazette.co.uk. 20 January 2020.
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  4. "GB's Worthington wins thrilling BMX gold". BBC Sport.
  5. "DECLAN BROOKS: Appearing on Take Me Out". Rideukbmx.com.