Beth Shriever

Bethany Shriever MBE (born 19 April 1999) is an elite British cyclist, competing as a BMX racer. A World Junior champion in 2017, and winner of the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup final event in Zolder in 2018,[1] in 2021 she became the first British BMX racing cyclist in history to win both the Olympic and World titles in the same year.

Bethany Shriever
MBE
Personal information
Full nameBethany Shriever
Born (1999-12-25) 25 December 1999
Leytonstone
Medal record
Women's BMX
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
2020 Tokyo Women's BMX racing
World Championships
2021 Arnhem Women's BMX
World Junior Championships
2017 Rock Hill Women's BMX
2016 Medellín Women's Time Trial
European Championships
2016 Verona Women's Time Trial

Life

Shriever was born in 1999 and she began BMX when she was aged nine years old.[2] Thereafter she started training at her local club in Braintree and went on to start competing at weekends.[3] Shriever won the silver medal at the 2016 BMX European Cycling Championships[4] In 2017 she became the Junior World Champion. In 2018 she finished 17th in her maiden appearance as a senior at the World Championships in Baku[5] as well as winning the UCI BMX World Cup final in Belgium edging Judy Baauw and Laura Smulders into second and third.[6] In March 2020 Shriever dominated the National BMX Series in Manchester without dropping a lap.[7]

Shriever was chosen to be part of Great Britain’s 26 strong cycling squad at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics where she won the Women's BMX racing gold medal.[8][9]

Personal life

Shriever worked part-time as a teaching assistant in a nursery at the Stephen Perse Foundation to cover some of her costs of training and travelling because UK Sport stipulated in its funding review after the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games that only male riders would be supported heading towards Tokyo 2020.[10]

Shriever was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to BMX racing.[11][12]

Major results
2016
2nd European BMX Championships
2017
1st UCI BMX World Championships, Junior
2018
1st Stage 5, BMX Supercross World Cup, Zolder
2021
1st BMX racing, Olympic Games
1st UCI BMX World Championships, Elite

References
  1. [the-uci-bmx-supercross-world-cup-chronicle-186154]
  2. "Like A Girl: World junior BMX champion Bethany Shriever". BBC Three. 10 August 2018.
  3. "Sponsorships – The Healing Zone".
  4. "BMX Cycling - Bethany Shriever (Great Britain)". www.the-sports.org.
  5. "Shriever to crowdfund 2020 Olympics bid". BBC Sport. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  6. "Shriever secures maiden UCI BMX Supercross World Cup win in Heusden-Zolder". www.insidethegames.biz. 12 May 2018.
  7. "Beth Shriever and Chad Hartwell take early leads as the 2020 HSBC UK | National BMX Series gets under way in Manchester". British Cycling.
  8. "Olympic Games: Team GB name Laura Kenny and Jason Kenny in 26-strong cycling squad for Tokyo". Sky Sports. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  9. "Shriever & Whyte win historic BMX medals" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  10. "BMX World Cup victory for Beth Shriever - Stephen Perse Foundation".
  11. "No. 63571". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 2022. p. N25.
  12. "New Year Honours 2022: Jason Kenny receives a knighthood and Laura Kenny made a dame". BBC Sport. 31 December 2021.


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