UCI BMX World Championships
3 June 2008
New Zealand’s Sarah Walker has won the bronze medal in the UCI BMX World Championships in China in the weekend.
Walker, the world number one ranked rider, finished third behind Great Britain’s Shanaze Reade and Anne-Caroline Chausson (France) in the final in Taiyuan.
The BikeNZ rider, who drew the middle of the front line in the final, had to recover after a collision in the all-important first corner.
While defending champion Reade and Chausson went clear, Walker was pushed back to fifth but forced her way to the bronze medal after narrowly avoiding a crash ahead of her coming out of the final corner.
BikeNZ high performance rider Victoria Hill (New Plymouth) was fifth in the junior women’s elite final.
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