Bethany Kate Shriever (born 19 April 1999) is an elite British cyclist, competing as a

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. A World Junior champion in 2017, and winner of the

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final event in

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in 2018, in 2021 she became the first British BMX racing cyclist in history to win both the

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and

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titles in the same year. In 2022 Shriever completed the full set of gold medals by winning the 2022 UEC BMX Racing European Championships.

Life

Shriever was born in 1999 and she began BMX when she was aged nine years old. Thereafter she started training at her local club in Braintree and went on to start competing at weekends. Shriever won the silver medal at the 2016 BMX European Cycling Championships In 2017 she became the Junior World Champion. In 2018 she finished 17th in her maiden appearance as a senior at the World Championships in Baku as well as winning the UCI BMX World Cup final in Belgium edging

Judy Baauw Judy Baauw (born 12 February 1994) is a Dutch BMX rider. Her best achievement to date was a bronze medal at the 2018 UCI BMX World Championships. Baauw achieved her first podium place in the World Cup circuit in Papendal in April 2017. A year l ...

and

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into second and third. In March 2020 Shriever dominated the National BMX Series in Manchester without dropping a lap. Shriever was chosen to be part of Great Britain’s 26 strong cycling squad at the postponed

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where she won the Women's BMX racing gold medal. Whilst being interviewed on TV after her win she couldn't refrain from swearing in her shock.

Personal life

Shriever worked part-time as a teaching assistant in a nursery at the

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to cover some of her costs of training and travelling because

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stipulated in its funding review after the

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that only male riders would be supported heading towards Tokyo 2020. Shriever was appointed

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(MBE) in the

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for services to BMX racing.

Major results

;2016 : 2nd Silver medal

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;2017 : 1st Jersey rainbow

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, Junior ;2018 : 1st Gold medal

Stage 5, BMX Supercross World Cup,

;2021 : 1st Gold medal olympic

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: 1st

, Elite ;2022 : 1st Gold medal

References

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* * * * * 1999 births Living people BMX riders English female cyclists English track cyclists English Olympic medallists Olympic cyclists of Great Britain Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in cycling Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Members of the Order of the British Empire Cyclists from Greater London UCI BMX World Champions (elite women) {{UK-cycling-bio-stub