Aussie champs Willoughby and Buchanan head world class BMX field on Gold Coast
The Gold Coast will host one of the first national sporting events of the new year with 600 entries expected for round one and two of BMX Australia’s National Series in Nerang this Friday and Saturday (January 2 and 3). Elite riders from the United States, Japan and New Zealand will join Australia’s world number one pair Sam Willoughby and Caroline Buchanan, Gold Coast based Olympic contenders Bodi Turner and Melinda McLeod and a host of young local riders for the two day event hosted by the Nerang BMX club.
Buchanan will headline the Probikx women’s elite field, where she will take on American world number four Brooke Crain and Australian teammates McLeod, 2013 world championships silver medallist Lauren Reynolds and rising star Rachel Jones.
In the elite men’s event, Australia's world champion Willoughby has been confirmed as a late starter for the second day of competition (Saturday) where he will be joined by fellow South Australian and US-based Anthony Dean (world number four),
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