Venue | Heusden-Zolder, Belgium |
---|---|
Date(s) | 21–25 July 2015 [1] |
Events | 8 |
The 2015 UCI BMX World Championships were the twentieth edition of the UCI BMX World Championships, which took place in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium, and crowned world champions in the cycling discipline of BMX.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's events | |||
Men's race | Niek Kimmann Netherlands | Jelle van Gorkom Netherlands | David Graf Switzerland |
Men's time trial | Joris Daudet France | Niek Kimmann Netherlands | Connor Fields United States |
Women's events | |||
Women's race | Stefany Hernández Venezuela | Caroline Buchanan Australia | Simone Christensen Denmark |
Women's time trial | Mariana Pajón Colombia | Alise Post United States | Sarah Walker New Zealand |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's junior events | |||
Men's junior race | Nicolás Torres Argentina | Collin Hudson United States | Romain Racine France |
Men's junior time trial | Shane Rosa Australia | Brandon Te Hiko Australia | Collin Hudson United States |
Women's junior events | |||
Women's junior race | Axelle Étienne France | Svetlana Admakina Russia | Kelsey Van Ogle United States |
Women's junior time trial | Axelle Étienne France | Ruby Huisman Netherlands | Natalia Afremova Russia |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | France (FRA) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
2 | Netherlands (NED) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
3 | Australia (AUS) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
4 | Argentina (ARG) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Colombia (COL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Venezuela (VEN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
7 | United States (USA) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
8 | Russia (RUS) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
9 | Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
New Zealand (NZL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (11 entries) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 |
Manchester Velodrome is an indoor Olympic-standard cycle-racing track in Manchester, England, which opened in 1994. Part of the National Cycling Centre, the facility has been home to British Cycling since 1994, coinciding with the nations rise to track cycling dominance at World and Olympic level. The velodrome was also home to UCI ProTeam Ineos Grenadiers, formerly known as Team Sky between 2010 and 2019, a period when the team won 6 Tour de France, 2 Vuelta a Espana and 1 Giro d'Italia with Great Britain riders.
The Circuit Zolder, also known as Circuit Terlamen, is an undulating 4.011 km (2.492 mi) motorsport race track in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium.
Lee Valley VeloPark is a cycling centre in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London, England. It is owned and managed by Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, and it was opened to the public in March 2014. The facility was one of the permanent venues for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Jamie Alan Staff MBE is an English racing cyclist and coach, formerly on BMX and later on the track. A World and Olympic champion, he has also won numerous other medals at World Championships, World Cups and at the Commonwealth Games.
UCI BMX World Championships are the world championships for BMX racing held under the regulations of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), sport's international governing body.
Liam Peter Phillips is a BMX racing cyclist representing Great Britain. In 2013 he won the UCI BMX World Championships, his first.
Sarah Louise Walker, is a New Zealand BMX racer. A competitor at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, she won silver in the Women's BMX at the latter event. Missing out on selection for the 2016 Summer Olympics due to injury, she was elected onto the IOC Athletes' Commission during those Games. In 2022, she was elected as its second Vice-Chair.
Caroline Buchanan is an Australian cyclist who has won multiple world championships in BMX and mountain biking. She represented Australia at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's BMX event.
Santini Cycling is a cycling clothes brand of the Italian clothing production company Santini Maglificio Sportivo. This company was founded by Pietro Santini in 1965 and is based in Bergamo, Italy.
Cycling at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics was held from August 17 to August 24. The events took place at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center and Laoshan National Forest Park in Nanjing, China.
The 2014 UCI BMX World Championships were the nineteenth edition of the UCI BMX World Championships and took place in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and crowned world champions in the cycling discipline of BMX.
Niek Kimmann is a Dutch BMX racing cyclist. Kimmann is the reigning Olympic Champion BMX Racing, a three-time World Champion, one-time European Champion, three-time Dutch Champion, and two-time World Cup Supercross winner. He is also a two-time junior World Champion.
Trent Jones is a New Zealand male BMX rider, representing his nation at international competitions. He competed in the time trial event at the 2015 UCI BMX World Championships.
Tre Whyte is a British male former BMX rider. In 2014 he claimed bronze in the 2014 UCI BMX World Championships after having to self-fund his attendance due to not being selected by the British Cycling World Championship team. He competed in the time trial event at the 2015 UCI BMX World Championships. He was not selected for the 2016 World Championships, despite being the British National Champion, and was unable to self-fund his attendance due to rule changes. He retired from competition in 2020. During his career he was supported by the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust. Following his retirement from BMX, Whyte took up scooter racing. His brother Kye White also competes for Britain.
Felicia Stancil is an American female BMX rider. Stancil has won 14 UCI World Titles including the 2012 UCI BMX World Championships titles for Junior Women and the Junior Women Time Trial in Birmingham, United Kingdom. A year later she successfully defended both titles at the 2013 UCI BMX World Championships in New Zealand. At the 2015 Pan American Games, Stancil won gold in her first international win as a professional. The win resulted in the first gold medal won by the United States at the 2015 games. After reaching the final in all ten races on the 2019 UCI BMX Supercross World Cup series, Stancil finished out the year 2nd in the overall standings. Adding on to her successful 2019, Stancil was awarded the 2019 Golden Crank Pro of the Year Title by Pull Magazine.
Amelia Walsh is a Canadian female 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.
Madison Janssen is an Australian cyclist. She is a world champion, multiple national champion and a world record holder. In May 2016 she was named as part of the Australian cycling team as the sighted pilot for Jessica Gallagher for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, where they won a bronze medal in the Women's 1000m time trial.
The 2017 UCI BMX World Championships was the 22nd edition of the UCI BMX World Championships, and took place at the Novant Health BMX Supercross Track in Rock Hill, South Carolina, United States from July 25 to 29, 2017.
Logan Martin is an Australian professional Dirt and Park Freestyle BMX rider. In 2021, Martin won the gold medal in the inaugural Men's BMX freestyle event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
This article contains lists of achievements in major cycling competitions according to first-place, second-place and third-place results obtained by cyclists representing different nations. The objective is not to create combined medal tables; the focus is on listing the best positions achieved by cyclists in major international competitions, ranking the nations according to the most podiums accomplished by cyclists of these nations. All major World Championships organized by Union Cycliste Internationale are covered, as well as cycling events at the Olympic Games.