Kye Whyte
{{short description|British male BMX rider}}
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{{Medal|Competition|Olympic Games}}
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{{Medal|Silver|2022 Nantes|BMX racing}}
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Kye Whyte (born 21 September 1999) is a British male BMX racer. He was a silver medallist at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He competed in the fourteenth series of Dancing on Ice in 2022.
Early life
Whyte started riding BMX at the age of three at Brixton BMX Club in Brockwell Park, south London. Later, alongside his brothers Daniel and Tre Whyte he attended Peckham BMX Club as a youngster. The club was co-founded by the brothers' father Nigel.{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/cycling-from-peckham-tokyo-whyte-flying-flag-bmx-mad-family-2021-07-29/ |title=Cycling-From Peckham to Tokyo, Whyte flying flag for BMX-mad family |last=Herman |first=Martyn |date=29 July 2021 |editor-last=Navaratnam |editor-first=Shri |website=reuters.com |access-date=30 July 2021}} Tre and Kye would both become members of the Great Britain Cycling Team, with Kye becoming the eighth member of the Peckham club to do so.{{Cite web |url=https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/gbcyclingteam/bio/Kye_Whyte |title=Kye Whyte - Great Britain Cycling Team Rider Profile |website=British Cycling}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.bmxweekly.com/2018/05/bio-kye-whyte/ |title=Bio – Kye Whyte – bmxweekly.com}} Kye suffered a crash shortly after first joining the British Cycling talent group, spending five days in an induced coma and unable to ride for a year.
File:Kye whyte for bmx gold Peckham.jpg supporting Kye in the 2020 Olympics]]
Career
He won a European championship silver medal behind teammate Kyle Evans in Glasgow in 2018. A first UCI BMX Supercross World Cup victory came in Manchester in April 2019.{{Cite web |url=https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/bmx/article/20200109-bmx-Kye-Whyte-ready-to-embrace-Manchester-return-0 |title=Kye Whyte ready to embrace Manchester return |website=British Cycling}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/cycling/48086946 |title=GB's Whyte wins first BMX World Cup race |work=BBC Sport}}
At the 2019 UCI BMX World Championships Whyte again looked to be continuing his form on his way to the final, but his hopes of a medal were ended as he was caught behind a crash, eventually finishing fifth.{{Cite web |url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/news/kye-whyte-flying-the-family-flag-in-pursuit-of-olympic-glory |title=Kye Whyte: Flying the family flag in pursuit of Olympic glory |website=Tokyo 2020 |access-date=22 June 2021 |archive-date=29 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210729060449/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/news/kye-whyte-flying-the-family-flag-in-pursuit-of-olympic-glory |url-status=dead}}
On 20 June 2021, he was named in the British team for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where he won a silver medal in a close contest with the Netherlands' Niek Kimmann.{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/57548663 |title=Kennys among GB Olympic cycling squad |work=BBC Sport}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/58022309 |title=Shriever & Whyte win historic BMX medals |work=BBC Sport}}
At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Whyte crashed in the semi-finals.{{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}}
Outside of BMX racing, he was announced to take part in the fourteenth series of Dancing on Ice.{{Cite web |url=https://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/olympian-kye-whyte-signs-dancing-ice-2022 |title=Olympian Kye Whyte signs up to Dancing on Ice 2022}}
Major results
;2018
::2nd Men's BMX racing
;2021
::2nd 15px BMX racing
;2022
: 2022 UCI BMX World Championships
::2nd Men's BMX racing
: 2022 European BMX Championships
::1st Men's BMX racing
References
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External links
- [https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/gbcyclingteam/bio/Kye_Whyte Kye Whyte] at British Cycling
- {{UCI BMX rider}}
- {{CycleBase}}
- {{Team GB}}
- {{Olympedia}}
- {{Olympics.com profile|kye-whyte}}
- [https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/kye-whyte_1912573 Kye Whyte] at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
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Category:English male cyclists
Category:British male cyclists
Category:Olympic cyclists for Great Britain
Category:Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
Category:Olympic silver medalists in cycling
Category:English Olympic competitors
Category:Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Category:Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Category:Black British sportsmen
Category:Cyclists from the London Borough of Southwark
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)