Shanaze Reade

Shanaze Reade is a British former BMX racer and track cyclist, born in Crewe, Cheshire, on 23 September 1988. Her prime competitive years began in 2002, and she won the UCI BMX World Championships three times. As a junior she took three world, eight European and five British BMX titles, and in July 2007 she became the Women's Senior UCI BMX World Champion. In the same year she turned to the velodrome and, after only six weeks of training, won the women's team sprint at the UCI Track World Championships with Victoria Pendleton. She was named the sole woman member of the British BMX Olympic team for the sport's first Games in 2008 and returned for London 2012, where she finished sixth in the final.