{"id":315560,"date":"2025-08-03T21:46:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T21:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/315560\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T21:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T21:46:26","slug":"beth-shriever-wins-third-world-title-at-bmx-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/315560\/","title":{"rendered":"Beth Shriever wins third world title at BMX World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Great Britain&#8217;s Beth Shriever won her third BMX world title as she triumphed at the 2025 World Championships in Denmark.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shriever, Olympic champion in Tokyo four years ago, crossed the line in 35.614 seconds to finish ahead of Australian Saya Sakakibara and Dutch rider Judy Baauw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsa Rendall Todd took silver in the junior final in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having recovered from a bad start in her semi-final, Shriever led into the first corner in the final and pulled away to finish more than a second clear of Paris 2024 gold medallist Sakakibara.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It feels absolutely incredible,&#8221; said Shriever, 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been a mad, mad day of racing. I scraped through the semi and just said this is all or nothing now. I&#8217;m gassed to take home the win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shriever finished last in the Olympic final last summer but won her second European title this year before completing her world title treble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British team-mate Rendall Todd, 17, crossed the line in 38.401 secs for silver in the women&#8217;s junior final, closely behind New Zealand&#8217;s champion Lily Greenough, who clocked 38.130.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But there was disappointment for Kye Whyte, the Tokyo Olympic silver medallist, after he was eliminated after finishing fifth in his quarter-final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great Britain&#8217;s Beth Shriever won her third BMX world title as she triumphed at the 2025 World Championships&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-315560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114967031672890583","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}