Zoé Claessens is a Swiss BMX racing cyclist born on 28 April 2001. She started racing BMX at the age of seven, her father founded the Echichens BMX Club in Switzerland, and two of her brothers also raced BMX. In 2018 she received the Female Young Talent award from the Swiss Sports Aid Foundation. She was selected for the Swiss team in the women's BMX racing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and, shortly before it, became European champion in Heusden-Zolder in June 2021. She is coached by former World Champion and British Olympian Liam Phillips. She won silver at the UCI BMX World Championships in 2022 and again in 2024, was runner-up in the 2022 UCI BMX Racing World Cup, and won bronze at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, the first Swiss BMX racer to do so.
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is a Swiss BMX racing cyclist.
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Her father founded the Echichens BMX Club in Switzerland
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is a Swiss BMX racing cyclist.
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She was selected in the Swiss team for the Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Competed In: 2024 Summer Olympics, Lead, 2024 Olympics
Claessens won bronze at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris
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In 2022 she won silver at the UCI BMX World Championships.
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is a Swiss BMX racing cyclist
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