UCI BMX World Championships 2021 | NL

UCI BMX World Championships 2021 | NL. TUE AUG 17 2021 AT 08:00 AM TO SUN AUG 22 2021 AT 10:00 PM UTC+02:00

Three time BMX Freestyle World Champion and Buchanan high school alum- Hannah Roberts is headed to Tokyo to compete in the sports Olympic debut! bmx worlds live

Roberts grew up playing every sport under the sun. Soccer, Basketball, football but Roberts said she wasn't a fan of relying on her team for success.

At the age of 8, she was watching TV with her parents when a BMX competition came on and it was love at first sight.

Roberts immediately fell in love with the freedom of the sport.

She entered her first competition at the age of 12 and it didn't take her long to become one of the best.

In 2017, she became the first ever BMX Freestyle World Champion at the inaugural UCI World Championships in China.

She placed third the following year before taking the title again in 2019.

Roberts had a perfect 2019 World Cup season to claim the series title, and went on to win the Pan Am Championships. bmx worlds live stream

Roberts is projected to win gold in the BMX Freestyle as it makes its Olympic debut.

"There are a lot of firsts. Yeah, I was the, I was the first ever World Champion in 2017, I won the first gold for Pan American Games, I won the first national and continental championships," Roberts said. "So it's just, it's a lot, and you know I like to think that I'm a very consistent rider and you know, coming home with an Olympic gold obviously would be incredible and a lot, you know, bigger than I could imagine right now. "

BMX Freestyle will compete Saturday July 31st and August 1st.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has awarded the 2021 Trials World Championships to Spain, with the event due to take place in Vic during September.

The city is located in Catalonia, around 70 kilometres north-east of Barcelona.

The trials event has formed part of the UCI Urban Cycling World Championships since 2017, featuring on the programme alongside the BMX freestyle park, BMX freestyle and cross-country eliminator.

China held the last three editions of the Urban Cycling World Championships, but the 2020 event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. live stream UCI BMX Worlds

The pandemic also led to this year’s Urban Cycling World Championships in Montpellier being unable to stage trials competition, with the event running from June 4 to 8.

This led to the UCI arranging a separate Trials World Championships.