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| Full name | Sasha Pardoe | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 January 2006 [1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Great Britain | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Freestyle BMX | ||||||||||||||
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Sasha Pardoe (born 19 January 2006) is a British cyclist who competes in Freestyle BMX. She won gold at the 2024 European BMX Championships.
From Stourbridge, she is coached by her father, Gavin, a former time trial road racer for Great Britain. [2] As a teenager she was in the Army Cadet Force. [3] In 2023, she was completing an apprenticeship to train as a chef. [2]
She competed in the Freestyle Park for Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2022 European Championships in her major championship debut, and placed sixth overall. [4] [5] That year, she finished second behind Charlotte Worthington at the British National Championships. [2]
Her second competitive senior international competition was the 2023 World Championships in Glasgow, in which she also qualified for the final. [2]
In July 2024, she became British national champion. [6] She won gold at the 2024 European BMX Championships in Cadenazzo, Switzerland in September 2024. [7]
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