Beth Shriever

Bethany Kate Shriever (born 19 April 1999) is a British BMX racing cyclist who won the women's BMX racing gold medal at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She began BMX at eight, trained at her local club in Braintree, took silver at the 2016 European championships, and became Junior World Champion in 2017. In 2021 she won both the Olympic and the Elite World titles, and in 2022 she added the European title, becoming the first BMX racer to hold Olympic, World and European championships at the same time. She won further world titles in 2023 and 2025, and was appointed MBE in the 2022 New Year Honours. At the 2024 Paris Olympics she won all six of her races to reach the final but finished last after being boxed in.