When you make it to the National BMX racing Team having a dialled bike comes with the position. You've earned it by that point but you're also stuck with what your team decides which parts to run. The program needs to be financed and running certain parts from certain companies is the answer. But, usually these are the better brands anyway. For 2014 Laura Smulders was running a Meybo frame with Box components and Tioga tires, built up by National BMX Team mechanic Willy Meyer
The official track for the 2015 UCI BMX World Championships at Heusden-Zolder, Belgium, has been completed. Located on the former Formula 1 track Circuit Zolder, the Supercross track even bears certain resemblances to a car racetrack: as well as being big and fast, its three corners have been given names. The inspiration? Three of the fastest women BMXers in the world.
After flying down the 8m start hill, riders will tackle the first corner, the Buchanan Bend, named after Australian rider and World Champion in 2012 and 2013 Caroline Buchanan.
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),
ELITE FINALS BMX Indoor St. Etienne, France.
Elite Men
1 Kyle Evans (GBR)
2 Vincent Pelluard (FRA)
3 Niklas Laustsen (DEN)
4 Renaud Blanc (SUI)
5 Antoine Dumain (FRA)
6 Tre Whyte (GBR)
7 Joris Daudet (FRA)
BMX Australia is fully committed to the fight against doping in sport and has a major obligation to protect and maintain the integrity of BMX Racing as well as the health and well being of athletes. BMX Australia has adopted a revised Anti-Doping Policy that will come into effect on 1 January, 2015.
The BMX Australia Anti-Doping Policy is fully compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code 2015, and the obligations as established by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) Act, Regulations and National Anti-Doping Scheme.
ASADA approved the Policy on December 3 and the Board adopted the policy on December 5.
Final Men:
1 Joris DAUDET
2 Kyle EVANS
3 Sylvain ANDRE
4 Edžus TREIMANIS
5 Damien GODET
6 Tre WHYTE
7 Niklas LAUSTSEN
8 Liam PHILLIPS
Final Women:
1 Mariana PAJON
2 Felicia STANCIL
3 Mathilde DOUDOUX
4 Eva AILLOUD
5 Magalie POTTIER
6 Laëtitia LE CORGUILLE
7 Simone CHRISTENSEN
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