Where's New Zealand's Sarah Walker been?
SarahWalker, Elite Women's BMXer from New Zealand ended up a DOUBLE WORLD CHAMPION at the 2009 UCI BMX World Championships in Adelaide, Australia, and then due to bad injury to her hand at the South Africa round of the UCI SX World Cup missed the end of the UCI BMX Supercross season, in which she...
Double World Champion - Sarah Walker
Worlds: Build Up Training leading up for the Worlds went really well with the small exception of a flu a few weeks out. After racing in Europe for a month, I got back to New Zealand and got some really good track sessions in at Rotorua and also improved a lot in the gym over the two months leading...
Sarah goes on 'What Now'
It's been a while since my last update but here are the last few. I was on What Now this morning and had heaps of fun. 'What Now' - 21st June What a huge morning! Up at 5.30am to head down to the studio for hair and make up quickly followed by having the mic and ear piece on. As that was...
Sarah Walker Reports on the Supercross from Denmark
Well the weather hasn't been great but it was nice to us all and the rain held off this afternoon for scheduled practice. The Men's A Group was first with Marc, Matt and Kurt. By the looks of how they were flowing through the track, it was going to be good. As girls practice rolled around, we were...
ABD wins in Italy
Another weekend over, another double podium. 3rd May, 2009 Had a fairly good day today with a 3rd in the final. Had a late start like last weekend (all European Rounds are run with the same format/times apparently). So chilled out for the morning at the hotel before riding down to the track. Had...
NZ BMX Nationals
So Nationals are all wrapped up for another year with some awesome racing and a fun track – fast first straight, jumping second straight, rhythm third straight and a last straight where you have to stay focused until the finish line. We left on Thursday morning to make the trip up in the...
Chula Vista Update - Sarah
As you may know, I went down to Wellington, the night before I flew out to USA for the opening of the new BikeNZ building. I arrived in the afternoon where I went to the NZOC to meet some people there. While I was there, I did an interview in the new Olympic Museum with a TV One crew for the...
BMX World Champs - Sarah
Came away with third today but personally would have liked a couple of places better. There were only 10 girls entered for cruiser this year but not a lack of competition. I had the "easier" moto and won all three moto's easily and qualifying for the final with the fastest time. By the time the...
BMX Rider Sarah Walker Update
We have been in Phoenix, Arizona (America) for the past few days training here between the last Supercross and the World Champs. It’s been super hot everyday so far with the exception of a random storm that lasted about an hour. So far we have been to two of the four tracks around here. The...
Update from Denmark - Sarah
This morning, we headed out to the track to check out the track and its condition. It was better than yesterday with some parts of the track changed and the some of the soft stuff managed to be fixed up. The guys practice and time trials were run between 9am and 1pm before the girls got on the...
