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Full name | Simone Tetsche Christensen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Aarhus, Denmark | 10 February 1994|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | BMX racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Simone Christensen (born 10 February 1994) is a Danish female BMX rider, representing her nation at international competitions. She won the gold medal in the women's event at the 2015 European Games. [1] She competed in the time trial event and race event at the 2015 UCI BMX World Championships. [2] She won a silver medal in the 2018 European BMX Championships. [3] [4]
Shanaze Danielle Reade is a British former bicycle motocross (BMX) racer and track cyclist whose prime competitive years began in 2002. She has won the UCI BMX World Championships three times. Reade is the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Irish mother.
Events from the year 1994 in Denmark.
Caroline Buchanan is an Australian cyclist who has won multiple world championships in BMX racing and mountain biking. She represented Australia at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's BMX event.
Magalie Pottier is a French racing cyclist who represents France in BMX. She was selected to represent France at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's BMX event and finished in seventh place.
Denmark competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Danish athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games throughout the modern era, except for the sparsely attended 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis. The Danish team consisted of 120 athletes, 79 men and 41 women, across sixteen sports. Before the start of the games, DIF sat an official medal goal of 10 medals for the Rio games.
Belgium competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's official debut in 1900, Belgian athletes had appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, with the exception of the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis. The Belgian team consisted of 108 athletes, 70 men and 38 women, across nineteen sports.
Simone Consonni is an Italian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Lidl–Trek. He rode at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. In August 2018, he was named in the startlist for the Vuelta a España. In May 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Giro d'Italia. In August 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Tour de France. He won the gold medal in the team pursuit at the 2020 Summer Olympics held at Tokyo in 2021, setting a new world record.
Sylvain André is a French male BMX rider, representing his nation at international competitions. He competed in the time trial event at the 2015 UCI BMX World Championships. He won the silver medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the Men’s BMX racing event.
Romain Mahieu is a French male BMX rider, representing his nation at international competitions. He won gold in the time trial event at the 2023 UCI BMX World Championships. He achieved a bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the Men’s BMX racing event.
David Graf is a Swiss male BMX rider, representing his nation at international competitions. He won the bronze medal at the 2015 European Games. He competed at world championships, inclusive the 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2015 UCI BMX World Championships, winning the bronze medal in the 2015 men's race.
Viesturs Morozs is a Latvian male BMX rider, representing his nation at international competitions. He competed in the time trial event at the 2015 UCI BMX World Championships. In the 2016 UEC European championships he became European vice-champion. He finished 5th in the 2018 UCI BMX World Championships. In 2018 Morozs won the UEC European Cup overall ranking in Men 25+ category. He is representing Stay Strong World Team colours. His nickname on the European tracks is "The Giant".
Amelia Walsh is a Canadian cyclist. She started as a BMX rider at age 15. She won several provincial championships before she began representing her nation at international competitions. She competed in the UCI BMX World Championships in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. Prior to that she competed in the 2009 World Junior Championships. She was the Canadian BMX Women's Champion title holder in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
The 2018 European Championships were the first edition of the European Championships. It was a multi-sport event which took place in Berlin, Germany, and Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom from 2 to 12 August 2018. Around 1,500 athletes competed at the European Athletics Championships in Berlin, whilst at the same time more than 3,000 took part in the other championships in Glasgow. Each European Championship was organised by the respective federation and host city.
Russia competed at the inaugural 7 sports 2018 European Championships held in Berlin, Germany, and Glasgow, United Kingdom from 2 to 12 August 2018. It competed in 5 sports with no athletes in the Athletics and Golf events.
Norway competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the nation's debut in 1900, Norwegian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, except for two occasions: the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis and the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, due to the country's support for the United States-led boycott.
Latvia competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Games and twelfth overall in Summer Olympic history.
Saya Sakakibara is an Australian cyclist competing in BMX racing events.
Bethany Kate Shriever 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, in 2021 Shriever won both the Olympic and World titles, equalling the feat of Colombian Mariana Pajón, who won Olympic silver.
Merel Smulders is a Dutch BMX racing rider.
Iveta Miculyčová is a Czech BMX cyclist. In 2022 she became the European Champion in Freestyle Park and won the bronze medal at the 2022 World Championships.