Lauren Reynolds

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Lauren Reynolds
Personal information
NicknameLoza
Born (1991-06-25) 25 June 1991 (age 33)
Bunbury, Western Australia
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Team information
DisciplineBMX — Individual — Women
RoleRider
Amateur team
Bunbury BMX Club

Lauren Reynolds (born 25 June 1991) is an Australian cyclist. She represented Australia in the individual BMX event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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Personal

Nicknamed Loza, Reynolds was born on 25 June 1991 in Bunbury, Western Australia. [1] [2] [3] She attended Leschenault Catholic Primary School before going to Bunbury Catholic College for high school. [1] [2] Beyond cycling, she is also a surfer [2] and basketball player. [4] Lauren quit competitive basketball in 2003. [4] As of 2012, she lives in Perth, Western Australia. [1] [2]

Reynolds is 170 centimetres (67 in) tall and weighs 70 kilograms (150 lb). [5]

Cycling

Reynolds is a BMX cyclist, [6] competing in the individual event. [1] [2] She started riding a BMX bike by the time she was seven years old. [4] As a child, she did BMX riding in Bunbury, doing stunts such as launching herself off the Bunbury jetty and into the river. [4]

Her primary training base is on the Gold Coast of Queensland. [1] She was coached by Tony Hancox from 2006 to 2008. Wade Bootes became her coach in 2009. [1] [2] She is a member of the Bunbury BMX Club. [1] [2] She has a cycling scholarship with the Western Australian Institute of Sport and Queensland Academy of Sport. [1] [2]

Reynolds finished 2nd at the 2011 Australian Championships in Cairns, Australia. [1] [2] She finished 11th at the 2011 BMX World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark. [1] [2] She finished 3rd at the 2011 BMX Supercross #3 in London, Great Britain. [1] [2]

Reynolds finished 12th at the 2012 BMX World Championships in Birmingham, Great Britain. [1] She finished 15th at the 2012 BMX Supercross #3 in Papendal, The Netherlands. [1] She finished 20th at the 2012 BMX Supercross #2 in Randaberg, Norway. [1] She finished 2nd at the 2012 Australian BMX Championships in Mt Gambier, Australia. [1]

Reynolds was selected to represent Australia in the individual BMX competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics. [1] [3] [6] [7] [8] She was named to the squad on her twenty-first birthday. [4] [6] She was one of five Australian BMX riders selected to represent the country at the 2012 Games. [4] 2012 were her debut Games. [3] There she was left on the eighth place in her semifinal. Her overall standing was fifteenth. [9]

In the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she made the final, where she came in fifth place. [10]

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