He’s back on the bike and he’s back on the podium. But on June 17 last year, the prospects for Tauranga BMX ridder Jakub Bourke being in either of those places were not good.
From the gallery, Olympic BMX silver medallist Sarah Walker watched on, as the document she had spent 12 months creating was raised in front of international sports’ most prominent figures.
With the recent release of a UCI Regulation update, there has been a lot of discussion and questions about clip pedals, with who can and can’t use them in recent days.
Records tumbled on BMX time trial day at the Aims Games. In the third year of this sport at the tournament, fastest times were set in three of the four divisions – Year 7 boys and girls, and Year 8 boys.
The track record for Jessie Smith and Cailen Calkin is proving unstoppable. The Hamilton BMX riders won their Junior Women and Junior Men divisions at the FIRST BMX Championship Nationals.
They leave early for school so they can ride the pump tack a few times before class, and after school the BMX pump track in Parton Road is swarmed, and stays busy until nightfall.
Sarah Walker has competed around the world at the highest level – but she took that to the extreme today with a historic ride around Auckland’s iconic Sky Tower.
Jaydah-Lily Lees and Kiera Waite secured their targeted silverware when they defeated Australia at the BMX New Zealand North Island Titles event last weekend.