Elite Results Dutch National BMX Championships 2016
Elite Men:
1 Dave VAN DER BURG NED 23 30 30
2 Joris HARMSEN NED 24 20 20
3 Martijn JASPERS NED 29 15 15
4 Raymon VAN DER BIEZEN NED 29 10 10
5 Jordi SCHIPPERS NED 21 8 8
6 Mitchel SCHOTMAN NED 20 6 6
7 Jordy VAN DER HEIJDEN NED 28 4 4
8 Niek KIMMANN NED 20 2 2
Elite Women:
1 Laura SMULDERS NED 23 30 30
Canada Cup series 2016 round 2:
Elite Men:
1 James PALMER CAN 22 50 50
2 Gaby MALENFANT CAN 19 45 45
3 Jared ENNIS CAN 20 40 40
4 Alex WRIGHT CAN 19 35 35
Elite Women:
1 Daina TUCHSCHERER CAN 19 50 50
Danish National Championships 2016:
Elite Men:
1 Niklas LAUSTSEN DEN 24 30 30
2 Jimmi therkelsen DEN 25 20 20
3 Klaus Bogh ANDRESEN DEN 29 15 15
4 Andreas WOEHLK DEN 21 10 10
5 Emil PAULSEN DEN 20 8 8
Japanese National BMX Racing Championships
Elite Men:
1 Jukia YOSHIMURA JPN 23 30 30
2 Yoshitaku NAGASAKO JPN 23 20 20
3 Akifumi SAKAMOTO JPN 34 15 15
4 Masahiro SAMPEI JPN 26 10 10
5 Yuto HASEGAWA JPN 19 8 8
6 Tomoya ISHII JPN 19 6 6
7 Tatsumi MATSUSHITA JPN 25 4 4
It's time for Norway to step things up in the Elite class on the BMX track. Tore Navrestad and Hegen Haga claimed the 2016 Norwegian BMX titles but Tore only had 3 competitors to beat and Hegen only had to roll in to become Norwegian national champion in Elite Women BMX. It's time for at least two girls to roll down that hill in 2017 to make the podium complete.
Norwegian National Championships (NOR/NC) results:
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36 years (!) ago I found myself on the back seat of my dad's Open Kadet. We were on our way to my first BMX race in Schijndel, organized by FCV dun Urste. It was cold and muddy but it got around 300 bicycle motocross riders together for the first race of the year. 355 was on my green number plate and two strong men were holding on to each side of the starting gate and dropped it around the "go" moment to pick it back up for the next moto. Just imagine how sore they must have been doing this hundreds of times on one day. Fast forward to last weekend and I was on my way to the same town looking for the BMX track. The location has changed and also the way there is lots different now, but the BMX signs got me to the track. On arrival I did not see Leon Walravens do wheelies with a cigarette in his mouth like I did 36 years ago. BMX has become an olympic discipline and the camper of 2012's bronze medalist Laura Smulders that was parked at the entrance was larger than life. But lots of things haven't changed. People gather around the track with their coolbox of food and drinks. The racers battle it out on the track and the vendors try to sell whatever they have brought
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.