Beth's Profile

Having discovered BMX racing at the age of nine, Bethany Shriever started training with local club Braintree BMX at the beginning of a career that saw her crowned junior world champion in 2017. That victory, in Rock Hill, South Carolina in the United States, was an early highlight in a promising career which later saw her make history when she won take gold at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics. This summer, she aims to retain her title in Paris, as part of the Team GB BMX racing squad.

Shriever first burst onto the international stage in 2016, with a number of strong performances at junior level; form she continued into the next season with victories in the UEC BMX European Cup junior races in Zolder, Belgium, and Erp, Netherlands.

In July 2017, at the junior world championships, Shriever won all five of her motos on the way to the final,  before timing a late burst to perfection to claim the rainbow jersey ahead of Australia's Saya Sakakibara.

The 2018 season saw Shriever move up to senior elite level where she was instantly competitive, capping a solid debut season with her first world cup victory, in Zolder, Belgium, in May. Making her first appearance in the senior world championships, Shriever finished 17th a month later in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Shriever improved that world championship position by two places in 2019 in Zolder as she continued to gain valuable experience and encouraging results at European and world levels. This led to her selection for the GB squad at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Shriever stunned on her Olympic debut claiming the gold medal to become Olympic champion which she followed up just a few weeks later becoming world champion at the UCI BMX World Championships in Papendal, Netherlands, to cap an incredible year of success.

Since then, Shriever has continued to go from strength to strength as part of the GBCT programme, racking up victories in UCI BMX Racing World Cup rounds in 2022 and 2023, and adding more medals to her collection. In 2022, she won gold at the UEC BMX Racing European Championships in Dessel, Belgium, and in 2023, she achieved a huge goal when she won the UCI BMX Racing World Championships on UK home soil in front of her family in Glasgow, reclaiming the rainbow jersey. 

Shriever was unable to defend her world title at Rock Hill, USA in May 2024 when, despite winning her first two races, she crashed on the final straight in the semi-final and was unable to qualify further.

This summer in Paris, Shriever will aim to defend the title she won in Tokyo, and with the support of her family and the confidence from her consistently strong performances over the past three seasons, she will go into the race as one of the favourites to take gold.

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