Merel Smulders (born 23 January 1998 in

Horssen Horssen is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is a part of the municipality of Druten, and lies about 10 km northwest of Wijchen. Horssen was a separate municipality until 1984, when it was merged with Druten. History It wa ...

) is a Dutch

BMX BMX, an abbreviation for bicycle motocross or bike motocross, is a cycle sport performed on BMX bikes, either in competitive BMX racing or freestyle BMX, or else in general street or off-road recreation. History BMX began during the earl ...

rider.

Career

She was the silver medal winner at the

2018 UCI BMX World Championships The 2018 UCI BMX World Championships was the 23rd edition of the UCI BMX World Championships and took place at the BMX VeloPark in Baku, Azerbaijan from 5 to 9 June 2018. Just as at the 2017 edition, four medal events were held. Medal summary El ...

behind her sister

Laura Smulders Laura Smulders (born 9 December 1993) is a Dutch racing cycle sport, cyclist who represents the Netherlands in BMX racing, BMX. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's BMX, women's BMX even ...

. Prior to this became junior World Time Trial Champion at the

2016 UCI BMX World Championships The 2016 UCI BMX World Championships was the twenty-first edition of the UCI BMX World Championships, which took place over 25–29 May 2016 in Medellín, Colombia to crown world champions in the cycling discipline of BMX. Medal summary Med ...

. At the 2020 Summer Games BMX Race she won the bronze medal.

Personal life

She is the younger sister of

, who won bronze in BMX at the 2012 Olympics.

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* * * * * * Living people 1998 births BMX riders Dutch female cyclists Olympic cyclists of the Netherlands Olympic medalists in cycling Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Cyclists from Gelderland Sportspeople from Nijmegen 21st-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-cycling-bio-1990s-stub