Merel Smulders
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Born | 23 January 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | BMX racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Merel Smulders (born 23 January 1998 in Horssen) is a Dutch BMX racing rider.
Career[edit]
She was the silver medal winner at the 2018 UCI BMX World Championships behind her sister Laura Smulders. Prior to this became junior World Time Trial Champion at the 2016 UCI BMX World Championships.[1][2] At the 2020 Summer Games BMX Race she won the bronze medal.[3]
Personal life[edit]
She is the younger sister of Laura Smulders, who won bronze in BMX at the 2012 Olympics.
References[edit]
- ^ "BMX Cycling - Merel Smulders (Netherlands)". www.the-sports.org.
- ^ "BMX rider Merel Smulders battles for Olympic ticket". 8 May 2021.
- ^ Friday 30 July 2021 21:16, UK (30 July 2021). "Tokyo Olympics: Team GB's Beth Shriever wins gold in women's BMX racing | UK News | Sky News". News.sky.com. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
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External links[edit]
- Merel Smulders at UCI
- Merel Smulders at UCI BMX Supercross World Cup
- Merel Smulders at Cycling Archives
- Merel Smulders at The-Sports.org
- Merel Smulders at Olympedia
- Merel Smulders at Olympics.com
Categories:
- Living people
- 1998 births
- Dutch BMX riders
- Dutch female cyclists
- Olympic cyclists for the Netherlands
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists from Gelderland
- Sportspeople from Nijmegen
- 21st-century Dutch women
- Dutch cycling biography, 1990s birth stubs