Sarah Walker

Sarah Walker, born on 10 July 1988, is a New Zealand BMX racer who competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. She was ranked number one in the world by the UCI in 2008 and finished fourth in Beijing, and on 25 July 2009 she won the BMX World Championship in Adelaide in both the Elite Women and the Elite Cruiser Women events. At London 2012 she took the silver medal in the women's BMX with a time of 38.644. A broken arm in training in February 2016 cost her selection for the Rio Games, but she was elected onto the IOC Athletes' Commission during those Games and, in 2022, became its second vice-chair.