Beth Shriever

{{Infobox cyclist

| name = Beth Shriever
MBE

| image = Bethany Shriever Tokyo Olympics.jpg

| caption = Shriever in 2021

| full_name = Bethany Kate Shriever

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1999|4|19}}

| birth_place = Leytonstone, England

| show-medals = yes

| medaltemplates =

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|World Championships|2|0|0

|World Junior Championships|1|1|0

|World Cup|0|1|1

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|}}

}}

Bethany Kate Shriever{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/142974 |title=Beth Shriever |work=Olympedia |access-date=30 October 2022}} (born 19 April 1999) is a 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.[the-uci-bmx-supercross-world-cup-chronicle-186154] In 2021, Shriever won both the Olympic and World titles, equalling the feat of Colombian Mariana Pajón, who won Olympic silver.

In 2022, Shriever completed the full set of gold medals by winning the 2022 UEC BMX Racing European Championships; in doing so, she became the first BMX racing cyclist in history to hold all three titles simultaneously.

Early life

Shriever was born in 1999 and she began BMX when she was aged eight years old.{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/clip/ed6673e1-558a-48c8-abc9-0b299328b804 |title=Like A Girl: World junior BMX champion Bethany Shriever |date=10 August 2018 |website=BBC Three}} Thereafter she started training at her local club in Braintree and went on to start competing at weekends.{{Cite web |url=https://www.the-healing-zone.co.uk/sponsorships/ |title=Sponsorships |work=The Healing Zone |date=9 August 2020 |quote=Bethany Shriever: Beth is looking forward to working with The Healing Zone on her journey to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics}}

Career

Shriever won the silver medal at the 2016 BMX European Cycling Championships{{Cite web |url=https://www.the-sports.org/bethany-shriever-bmx-cycling-spf433892.html |title=BMX Cycling - Bethany Shriever (Great Britain) |website=the-sports.org}} 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{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/47569674 |title=Beth Shriever: BMX rider turns to crowdfunding in 2020 Olympics bid |work=BBC Sport |date=14 March 2019 |access-date=5 June 2021}} as well as winning the UCI BMX World Cup final in Belgium edging Judy Baauw and Laura Smulders into second and third.{{Cite web |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1064994/shriever-secures-maiden-uci-bmx-supercross-world-cup-win-in-heusden-zolder |title=Shriever secures maiden UCI BMX Supercross World Cup win in Heusden-Zolder |work=Inside the Games |date=12 May 2018 |quote=Britain's Bethany Shriever}} In March 2020 Shriever dominated the National BMX Series in Manchester without dropping a lap.{{Cite web |url=https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/britishbmxseries/article/20200312-bmx-Beth-Shriever-and-Chad-Hartwell-take-early-leads-as-the-2020-HSBC-UK---National-BMX-Series-gets-under-way-in-Manchester-0 |title=Beth Shriever and Chad Hartwell take early leads as the 2020 HSBC UK | National BMX Series gets under way in Manchester |website=British Cycling}}

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. Whilst being interviewed on TV after her win she couldn't refrain from swearing in her shock.{{Cite web |title=Olympic Games: Team GB name Laura Kenny and Jason Kenny in 26-strong cycling squad for Tokyo |url=https://www.skysports.com/cycling/news/15234/12337323/olympic-games-team-gb-name-laura-kenny-and-jason-kenny-in-26-strong-cycling-squad-for-tokyo |website=Sky Sports |date=21 June 2021 |access-date=21 June 2021 |quote=Women's BMX SX: Beth Shriever}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/58022309 |title=Tokyo Olympics: Bethany Shriever & Kye Whyte win historic medals in BMX racing |work=BBC Sport |date=30 July 2021}}

She subsequently won gold at the 2021 UCI BMX World Championships and the 2022 European BMX Championships, and at the 2023 UCI BMX World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/66488297|website=BBC Sport|title= Cycling World Championships 2023: Great Britain's Beth Shriever reclaims women's BMX title

|date=13 August 2023|accessdate=12 July 2025}}

Having recovered from a broken collarbone in May 2024, she was selected for the 2024 Paris Olympics to defend her title. Shriever won all six of her races in reaching the final, but after being boxed in by the field finished in last place in the final.{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/sport-olympics/kye-whyte-crash-hospital-bmx-olympics-b1174546.html|title=Beth Shriever loses Olympics BMX title as Kye Whyte taken to hospital after nasty crash|date=2 August 2024 |publisher=London Evening Standard|accessdate=9 August 2024}}{{cite web|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/c9r3rder707o |title= Shriever eighth after GB team-mate Whyte crashes|accessdate=12 July 2025|website=BBC Sport|date=2 August 2024|first=Jess|last=Anderson}}

She won the gold medal at the 2025 European BMX Championships in Valmiera, Latvia.{{cite web|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/articles/c78nljnydjno|website=BBC Sport|accessdate=12 July 2025|date=12 July 2025|title= GB's Shriever clinches European BMX gold in Latvia|first=Katie|last=Stafford}}

Personal life

Shriever worked part-time as a teaching assistant in a nursery at the Stephen Perse Foundation{{Cite web |url=https://www.stephenperse.com/news/?pid=0&nid=83&storyid=4697 |title=BMX World Cup victory for Beth Shriever |work=Stephen Perse Foundation |date=14 June 2018}} 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.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}

Shriever was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to BMX racing.{{London Gazette |issue=63571 |supp=y |page=N25 |date=1 January 2022 |quote=Bethany SHRIEVER. For services to Bicycle Motocross Racing.}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/59828368 |title=New Year Honours 2022: Jason Kenny receives a knighthood and Laura Kenny made a dame |work=BBC Sport |date=31 December 2021 |quote=Beth Shriever (Olympic BMX rider), for services to BMX racing}}

Major results

;2016

: 2nd 15px European BMX Championships

;2017

: 1st 20px UCI BMX World Championships, Junior

;2018

: 1st 15px Stage 5, BMX Supercross World Cup, Zolder

;2021

: 1st 15px BMX racing, Olympic Games

: 1st 20px UCI BMX World Championships, Elite

;2022

: 1st 15px European BMX Championships

;2023

: 1st 20px UCI BMX World Championships, Elite

References

External links

[https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/gbcyclingteam/bio/Beth_Shriever Beth Shriever] at British Cycling
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{{Olympedia|name=Beth Shriever}}
{{UCI BMX rider|name=Bethany Shriever}}
{{Cycling Archives|name=Bethany Shriever}}
{{Olympics.com profile|name=Bethany Shriever}}
[https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/bethany-shriever_1912553 Beth Shriever] at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics