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| Photo is from the 2016 Rio Olympics Website |
We are only a few weeks away until the Rio Olympics! Not sure about you, but I’m super excited! BMX racing is still a relatively young sport, which only became a medal sport at the 2008 Olympics. Since then, the top female medallists include Anne-Caroline Chausson and Mariana Pajon with a gold medal each, and Sarah Walker with silver. Within the top three, Mariana Pajon is the only competing racer – will she break the gold medal tie?
The numbers between competing women to men is half, with only 16 women in total competing vs the 32 men. This includes:
– Alise Post (United States)
– Brooke Crain (United States)
– Lauren Reynolds (Australia)
– Caroline Buchanan (Australia)
– Mariana Pajon (Columbia)
– Amanda Carr (Thailand)
– Laura Smulders (Netherlands)
– Merle Van Benthem (Netherlands)
– Elke Vanhoof (Belgium)
– Manon Valentino (France)
– Stefany Hernández (Venezuela)
– Yaroslava Bondarenko (Russia)
– Simone Christensen (Denmark)
– MarÃa Gabriela DÃaz (Argentina)
– Nadja Pries(Germany)
– Priscilla Carnaval (Brazil)
Who will be the top podium finishers? Vote to the side.
SCHEDULE
Wednesday August 17th 13:30 – 15:25: Men’s and Women’s BMX Seeding Run (CB001)
Thursday August 18th 13:30 – 14:35: Men’s Quarter-finals (CB002)
Friday August 19th 13:30 – 15:45: Men’s and Women’s Semi-finals, Finals (CB003)
Full schedule with other sports: https://www.rio2016.com/en/schedule-and-results
Check out the track: Olympic BMX Centre
