Bart de Jong
Rio Olympic hopeful Caroline Buchanan has won the second round of the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup, her second consecutive victory for the 2016 series and third on the trot in Manchester, the win coinciding with the naming of the Australian BMX world championships team. Manchester has become a happy hunting ground for former women’s world champion Buchanan, who capitalised on a costly error from USA national champion Alise Post to deliver on race day, saying that it was tough day but pleasing to win in front of an energetic crowd,
American riders earned three podium results over the weekend at round two of the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup in Manchester. Alise Post (St. Cloud, Minn./Redline USA) won the women’s Time Trial Superfinal on Saturday and Brooke Crain (Visalia, Calif./Hara Bikes/Dans Comp) was third in the Supercross final on Sunday. Corben Sharrah (Tucson, Ariz./Dalight Cycle Co) earned silver for the USA in the men’s Time Trial Superfinal.
On Saturday, Post clocked 31.884 to take her first Time Trial Superfinal gold medal while Crain was sixth in the time trial. Then on Sunday, Post and Crain both won their semifinal rounds to advance to the main where Caroline Buchanan (AUS) took the win ahead of silver medalist Simone Christensen (DEN). Crain finished third for the bronze with Post right behind her in fourth.
Sharrah’s time of 28.871 earned him the silver medal in the
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